Position: Middle PHP Developer for Yoopies
Company: Ciklum
Experience required: 3y
English level: upper

We’re looking for a PHP Developer who has a passion for creating, testing and delivering world-class products, to join our awesome Tech team. This is a high profile role with the opportunity to make a significant impact across the business.

You will work on our main application driving your ideas and technical approaches into the development of our product.

You’ll leave every day knowing you made a difference.

About Client:

We were founded in 2012 and recently raised 4M€ to build a more robust and senior organization. We did acquire find a babysitter in the UK and want to continue our expansion across Europe. We are now established in 15 countries, helping people and companies to find well-being services. We also help professionals to find a job and provide a great experience to our consumers.

As there’s much to come like: launching new countries, extending our services to provide a 360 experience, launching a new B2B digital offer to revolutionize traditional-boring Employee Assistance Program, offering new care services; we continue to invest a lot in Technology.

Our Tech Team came from 15 to 30 persons in less than 8 months and we plan to recruit more and more. We have multi-disciplinary jobs in our great Technology team: Data, Design, Product, Developers, QA and Dev-Ops giving us the capacity and authority to quickly experiment with our ideas. We are Customer-Centric and our Customer Success Team is also based in our HQ in Paris (next to Tech). This is helping us in providing a top-notch customer experience on daily basis. We know what is a feedback-loop ?

Finally, we are an open-minded team of 70 with strong values, all going in the same direction. We work hard to make everyone feel comfortable, sharing ideas and trying out new things. We care about our users and we care about our People.

Product

Our Vision: Improving the well-being of people, from A to Z.

Our Mission: Make well-being affordable and accessible for the many, not the few building trusts not constraint.

Our Ambition: Become the European Leader of well-being, for the individual as well as companies.

Who are the people that come to Yoopies to find a babysitter, book a Childminder, find someone to help their elders? What do they need? What can we do to make their experiences better? Our Technology department is revolutionizing the way people interact together. Our team also collaborates with other internal departments to make sure our products and tech are tailor-made from top insights and industry expertise.

Our technical stack
- PHP7, VueJS, MariaDB, ES, Redis, Varnish hosted on AWS stack.
- Symfony 3.4, Node.js, Socket.io, Docker, RabbitMQ and more.
- We’re currently switching from a REST API to a GraphQL API.
- Scrum with classic Product process (from Grooming, Planning/Prio, Daily stand-ups, Demos, QA, Release, Follow-up, Retro).
- Event oriented platform with Dataviz on Tableau, Metabase, GA.

Responsibilities
- PHP Developer, you and your team will be responsible for looking after the continuous integration and delivery processes best practices. These best practices, when implemented, will be used to facilitate product delivery and allow developers to deploy code in a reliable way.
- Work closely with Product Managers to ensure that delivery and quality expectations are clearly understood.
- Become the trusted authority in Tech matters, with a strong evidence-based case for why a release is ready to ship.
- Be able to execute tests in an effective manner, balancing the need for some documentation with the need for delivery in a small team.
- Clarify ambiguous scope; you should be one of the team members who can spot requirements that are open to different interpretations.
- Ensure that your releases have the right level of test coverage, including unit, functional and performance tests.
- Product Definition – contributes to the definition of product features, getting involved in workshops with other engineering teams and Product Managers.
- Technical Ownership – consistently produces high-quality software that fits the team’s expectations and best practices.
- Continuous improvement – ensures continuous improvements by proposing and implementing new processes, designs and engineering practices that make the team more effective.
- Tracking Progress – tracks the progress being made towards the wider goals of the team, and transparently communicates this with the team, our Tech Ops Lead, and CTO.
- As a member of a team, you’ll need to demonstrate the following principles:
- No limits, just opportunities: Design and build great software, look beyond the limits.
- Caring matters: Help, support, coach and empower your teammates.
- Faster, Better, Simpler: Move fast with confidence, Secure, Stable, Scalable, fast and reliable platform.
- Share everywhere: Share ideas, concepts, information, pitch, stand.
- Build together: Empower your colleagues, build Trust, Keep control and offer Transparency.
- Work as a game: Scale efficiency in a great working atmosphere.
- Learn to learn: Stay in touch with the next technologies and trends.

Requirements
- 3+ years as a PHP Developer.
- Hands-on experience in fast-growing product development.
- Strong LAMP Stack experience: PHP, MySQL, Nginx, Linux.
- Strong Symfony 3+ experience (or any other MVC frameworks).
- Experience working with legacy code.
- Knowledge of modern design patterns.
- Understanding REST principles.
- Good knowledge of GIT.
- Curiosity and desire to learn new technologies.
- Product-oriented mindset and customer satisfaction as the first objective.
- Good in English and Good Communication.

Desirable
- AWS.
- Docker
- GraphQL.
- Experience in refactoring.
- JavaScript and any modern framework.

What's in it for you

We’ll believe and trust in you and your abilities. So you and your team will have the authority to make the technical decisions you need to meet your responsibilities to the rest of the platform and company.
- The opportunity to become an authoritative voice within the engineering team of a successful and still fast-growing company.
- An environment in which good, evidence-based arguments are always listened to, and will win out. Pick your metric, set a hypothesis and prove it.
- An open, innovative, friendly and fun environment; we have a relaxed dress code and regular social events.
- Ability to open source code that you work on.
- An open-minded approach to development practices. We work asynchronously and use the tools we have effectively, keeping you in the zone for as long as possible.
- All the hardware you need to get your job done.
- The option to use open-source code to solve problems. Do not reinvent the wheel.
- A balance between adding product features and improving the codebase. We hate technical debt.
- Join a fast-growing company with a lot of ambition.
- This job opportunity is located in Paris, France or Kyiv, Ukraine ?