PHP Developer - fully remote

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

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

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