PHP Development Engineer

Essential skills

• Understanding of strict typing, OOP patterns, and modern language features
• Practical experience with PSR-15 middleware, PSR-7 HTTP messages and Dependency Injection
• Awareness of web application security concerns
• Debugging code using Xdebug
• Mastery of dependency injection, decoupling techniques, and clean code principles
• Proficiency in writing automated tests using PHPUnit and its native mocking framework
• Raw SQL writing skills
• Experience with templating system and separating view logic from PHP backend processes (preferably Smarty)
• Understanding of CSS, JS and HTML
• Git – commit, merge, rebase, deal with conflicts
• Docker – start and stop
• Composer

Desirable skills

• Experience with Mezzio and Laminas ecosystem

• Refactoring existing code for better readability and simplicity

• Asynchronous programming (Swoole, AMPHP, etc)

• Static analysis – psalm/phpstan

• Smarty  PHP templating systems

• Webpack

• Bootstrap 3.4 and 5.3

• jQuery and Bootstrap 5.3 JS

• LESS and SCSS

• Working in macOS/Linux terminal

• JIRA

• Bitbucket and PR workflow

• Track record of contributions on GitHub or similar

Responsibilities

• Implementing new functionality
• Modifying existing functionality to meet new requirements
• Developing integrations with other services
• Refactoring existing code
• Writing tests to cover any code changes
• Follow industry best practices
• Effectively convey all task progress, evaluations, suggestions, schedules along with technical and process issues
• Document processes, architecture, and functionality
• Communicate efficiently with other team members
• Work towards the deadlines in order to meet them
• Organise the tasks according to the priorities established with the Project Management team
• Take responsibility for all scheduled development work and ownership of thorough quality control
• Take responsibility for delivering on targets agreed with Project Manager and notify immediately of delays and changes
• Meet objectives established by business