Position: Mid Symfony Developer
Company: Polcode
Experience required: 2y
English level: intermediate

**Important:**
This position requires relocation to Poland.

**Hi, Polcode here!**

We’re a global, people-first software house matching ambitious developers with challenging projects. Our team of over 150 professionals helps build and improve digital businesses, software platforms, eCommerce stores, websites, apps, and everything in between. And they’re good at it. 

**Currently, we’re looking for Symfony Developers** to join our team and drive modern software delivery, release quality code, and collaborate across forward-thinking teams. We value soft skills as well as coding chops, and all our projects take an agile approach to development.

**Get ready to:**

- Work with the latest releases of frameworks and libraries (we like being up-to-date)
- Apply your PHP 7+ knowledge to real-world enterprise software solutions
- Build and maintain custom-built, cutting edge applications (Symfony 4/5 based)
- Have a meaningful impact on projects – analyze requirements, functional specifications, and recommend improvements
- Bring innovation to the projects, refactor existing codebase to drive up code quality, and ease future functionality (Wind of change vibes? Yes, please!)
- Work with ambitious, amazing teams across organizational boundaries (business, DevOps, QA, PM) – you can really learn from everyone here!
- Work in line with the highest coding standards, release quality code backed by proven testing techniques
- Drive processes that improve software delivery and cost efficiency while reducing risk
- Be at the heart of the project, provide daily problem solving and estimations of work

**If you have…**

Essential

- At least 2 years of experience in creating and maintaining object-oriented PHP7-based systems
- Working knowledge of the Symfony framework 
- An understanding of the MVC approach to development
- Experience in working with MySQL (we’re using v8 currently)
- Great knowledge of web technologies including HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and Ajax
- Experience in using version control systems (such as Git) as a part of the team
- Excellent communication skills – you must be able to describe technical issues to a non-technical audience
- Knowledge of English at least at a B2 level
- A passion for adhering to coding standards and clean code

Desirable

- Working knowledge of the Doctrine ORM
- Experience in creating and maintaining RESTFul APIs.
- Experience in automated testing (e.g. PHPUnit, Behat)

**…let us know!**

We’re flexible with requirements, so if you are a candidate who has a majority match, but does not meet 100% of the requirements, that’s OK! We’d still love to hear from you.

**Perks of being a #Polcoder:**

- You can fully focus on your project – no bureaucracy, no ridiculous rules
- Clear promotion and pay raise procedures
- Competitive salary with up to 20 paid days off (B2B) and personal development budget
- We respect your private life – no overtime, no weekend jobs, the work-life balance only, promise! Work at times that suit your daily rhythm, from the place of your choice
- Professional onboarding process
- Opportunity to play the role of Tech Leader in projects and decision-making (Senior role)
- Develop your interests: become a speaker at prestigious conferences and workshops, publish on our blog, evaluate candidate’s skills or, at the senior level, act as a project leader or mentor
- Your work is appreciated  – we believe in the power of feedback, also the one you give us
- You can work on projects tailored to your core technologies or develop new interests* within the company (*can also mean interest in applied memeology at our work chat)
- Team integration events where you will see why our employees appreciate working at Polcode, and how friendships made with us last for years
Multisport card, private medical care, life insurance, free English lessons, and meaningful gifts to celebrate important days

**About the project:**

Do you want to build Symfony 4/5-based web applications for UK’s number 1 kitchen designer, manufacturer and retailer that operates online and through over 100 showrooms across the UK & US?
You are staying in front of the exciting opportunity to join the IT team that is at the heart of our client’s operations and won the ‘Project of the Year’ award at the Real IT Awards 2020. Sounds interesting?

If so, read on. You’ll work as a member of a multidisciplinary agile development team, build and develop new features using Object-Oriented (OO) PHP, MySQL, HTML5 and JavaScript in an environment that encourages learning and the advancement of your technical skills as a developer.
You’ll contribute to improvements, new features and maintenance of our client’s Symfony 4/5-based web applications. You’ll be involved in all phases of the development lifecycle, and work with senior developers and business stakeholders to understand and deliver the scope of a project.

**Join us to take a big leap in your career!**

We strongly believe that putting people first makes our work better, so we encourage you to develop your career and follow your passion. We wanna do great things with you!