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

**Description**

On behalf of Ciklum Digital, we are looking for a Middle PHP Developer to join our team on a full-time basis.

**Project description:**

Our client is in top-5 largest retailers in the world. We are honored to be a partner to build brand-new eCommerce Marketplace platform and make our client #1 digital eCommerce provider in Europe. We start from 20 mln visitors per month, 10 mln items in catalog in 1500+ product categories, 30 mln product content articles, high demand for search engine optimization and visibility, support of both B2B and B2C, web and mobile, dynamic best-price offering algorithms and so much more capabilities to offer the best user experience.

Our client has incredible expertise in physical sales, as well as successful eCommerce business in Germany. New commercial platform is part of strategic roadmap to bit global marketplace providers like Amazon/eBay and leverage strong world-wide branding, 20+ millions of existing offline clients, dedicated field-force sales in Europe and well-established logistics, delivery and client-support network.

The platform assumes to host 10+ high-load cloud-hosted product applications, managed end-to-end by dedicated teams.

We offer you an agile environment with startup mentality, no bureaucracy, flat hierarchies as well as courage and trust to evaluate new approaches. We value personal interaction so project presumes frequent client visits to Kiev, as well as business trips to Germany for Development team, not just managers.

As a Middle PHP Developer you proactively develop the marketplace platform and internal services. You regularly collaborate with colleagues of all disciplines in cross-functional teams and together you create great digital products. You use modern technologies and agile methodologies in order to reach your goals. Because of your experience and knowledge, you strive for continuous self-improvement in terms of methodology, quality, knowledge as well as support for your teammates and colleagues.

**Responsibilities**

- Back-end development to meet customer’s business needs and implement components according to modern software development environment
- Taking part in the decision-making process in application code design, solution development, code review
- Develop and review feature design documents and provide inputs/update to specifications for the solution
- Design and implement a set of various types of tests (unit, integration, functional, etc)
- Proactive position in solution development, processes improvements
- Working in an international distributed team in an Agile environment
- Communicate with PMs, engineers, Architects, QA and other colleagues and stakeholders
- Delivering the product roadmap and plannings
- To use high coding standards, software best practices and write highly testable, automatable and performant code over the whole SDLC

**Requirements**

- Experience in software development for more than 3 years
- Strong knowledge in Computer Science, Computing Theory:
- Paradigm & Principles (OOP, SOLID)
- Database theory (RDBMS)
- Code testing practices
- Design Patterns (GoF)
- Understanding of network interactions:
    authentication and authorization flows
    standards and practices (e.g. oAuth, JWT)
- Strong knowledge and experience in PHP (more than 2 years)
- Practical commercial experience with:
     REST API development
- Web application frameworks (Symfony) (more than 1 year)
- Testing frameworks (PHPUnit) (more than 1 year)
- ORM (Doctrine) (more than 1 year)
- RDBMS (e.g. MySQL/MariaDB/Percona/PostgreSQL) (more than 1 year)
- Version control systems (GIT)
- Docker
Experience with:
- Agile software processes and technologies
- Code Review process
- Refactoring process
- Upper-Intermediate English

**Desirable**

Experience with:
- Troubleshooting, profiling and debugging applications
- Microservices
Practical commercial experience with:
- Key-value storages (e.g. Redis, Memcached)
- Messaging systems (e.g. RabbitMQ, AWS SQS, Google Pub/Sub)
- Cloud solutions (Google Cloud Platform)
- NoSQL (e.g. MongoDB)
- Search Engines (e.g. ElasticSearch)
- Quality tools (e.g. SonarQube)
- Continuous Integration tools (e.g. Gitlab Pipeline, Jenkins, TeamCity, Bamboo)
- Builders

**What's in it for you**

- Career growth opportunities
- Realization of your innovative ideas in building new Ciklum Solutions and Services
- Friendly collaborative teams and enjoyable working environment
- Professional skills development and training programs
- Variety of knowledge sharing, training and self-development opportunities
- State of the art, cool, centrally located offices with a warm atmosphere which creates really good working conditions