Position: Middle PHP Developer
Company: Ciklum
Experience required: 3y
English level: intermediate

**About Project: **

We were born in 2011 as a result of a handful of entrepreneurs who not only had a knack for entertaining others but also an affinity with the iGaming industry. They teamed up and went about building an industry leader, setting the bar to an all-new high. Now in just ten years we now offer over 5,300 games from over 160 different game providers and we are set to keep on growing! Naturally, we can't do all of this as well as all the exciting things we have lined up for the years to follow without the living legends that make our business the success it is today.

As a Backend Developer, you will be working on our in-house projects: designing features, writing code, performing code reviews, solving problems, tracking down bugs, and delivering stable and well-written solutions. You will form part of a cross-functional development team where the team owns and drives the continuous improvement of our products using agile methodologies.

Our backend is powered by a LEMP stack, GraphQL and we rely on Vue.js for our frontend. We are inherently a curious team and are always on the lookout for new technologies that could potentially be incorporated into our stack.

**Responsibilities:**

- Design and develop new Backend features
- Perform functional requirements analysis
- Write high-quality code and documentation
- Work closely with other developers, QA, and product teams
- Apply analytical skills and be committed to quality
- Help track requests, issues, work progress, and any other changes using our project management tools
- Provide estimates and technical documentation on request
- Write code with performance, reliability, and maintainability in mind
- Manage individual project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables
- Work in collaboration with external partners when required
- Manage code changes using our version control system
- Perform code reviews
 

**Requirements: **

- Experience in software development for more than  3 years
- Excellent knowledge in Computer Science, Computing Theory:
- Paradigm & Principles (OOP, SOLID)
- Database theory (RDBMS)
- Code testing practices
- Design Patterns
- Security patterns, Common attacks types (OWASP)
- Understanding of network interactions:
conventions (e.g. REST, RPC)
authentication and authorization flows
- Excellent knowledge and experience in PHP (more than 2 years)
- Practical commercial experience with:
REST API development
Web application frameworks (e.g. Symfony, Laravel) (more than 2 years)
Testing frameworks (e.g. PHPUnit, Codeception, Behat, Dusk) (more than 2 years)
ORM (e.g. Doctrine, Eloquent) (more than 2 years)
RDBMS (e.g MySQL/MariaDB, PostgreSQL, MS SQL) (more than 2 years)
Key-value storages (e.g. Redis, Memcached)
Version control systems (GIT)
Docker
Builders
- Experience with:
Creation of complex applications, platforms, microservices solutions
Agile software processes and technologies
Code Review process
Refactoring process
- Fluent or Upper-Intermediate English
 

**Desirable:**
 
- Certifications on:
Zend PHP
- Practical commercial experience with:
GraphQL
NoSQL (e.g. MongoDB, ElasticSearch, CouchDB)
Experience with Search Engines (e.g. ElasticSearch, Azure Search, Apache Solr)
- Provisioning tools (e.g. Terraform, Ansible)
- Quality tools (e.g. SonarQube)
- Cloud computing platforms (e.g. AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure)
- Continuous Integration tools (e.g. Gitlab Pipeline, Jenkins, TeamCity, Bamboo)
 

**What's in it for you:**
- Close cooperation with the client
- A constant flow of new projects
- Dynamic and challenging tasks
- Ability to influence project technologies
- Projects from scratch
- Team of professionals: learn from colleagues and gain recognition of your skills
- European management style
- Continuous self-improvement