Position: Senior PHP Symfony Backend in Portugal
Company: Nearshorefriends GmbH
Category: PHP
Experience required: 2y
English level: upper

**ABOUT THE CLIENT:**
Our client is a German comparison portal, which offers private customers free comparisons in the areas of shopping of different products, that are tested as the best ones in the certain period of time. In this way they create transparency that pays off for the customers directly through favorable prices. They are a part of the leading German online company. As such, they reward performance and offer flat hierarchy and an early assumption of responsibility. 

They live the claim to digital leadership every day! With rapid dynamism and customer-centered innovations, they create excellent service solutions.

**YOU WILL:**
Develop and deliver new platforms and features
Communicate effectively to technical and non-technical members of the company
Research, vet, learn, and deploy bleeding-edge technology and best practices on an ongoing basis
Work closely with QA Engineers to ensure and enforce software quality
Troubleshoot and debug applications
Ensure on-time delivery of software and features
Promote software engineering best practices via code reviews, building tools and documentations
Architect and develop backend features, services, and API’s on our core platform
Deploy new versions of platforms into pre-live and/or live environments

**YOU NEED:**
Professional MySQL experience
Understanding principles of OOP
Working knowledge of RabbitMQ
Experience using Redis
Knowledge of Symfony and Doctrine or other similar PHP framework
Solid grasp of MVC
Demonstrated ability to work with Backend
Strong proficiency with API
Strong command in REST
Strong interpersonal skills
Strong analytical and critical thinking skills

**WOULD BE A PLUS:**
Demonstrated track record as a team player
Good project and time-management skills
Ability to stay focused and provide attention to detail
Willingness to learn, you don’t know all but actively search for it.
You give constructive feedback to your team mates

**WE OFFER: **
With more than 10 years of success in the market, we offer you the stability of an established online company – and we are hiring for an unlimited permanent position
Possibility to work remotely from home (“home office”)
Active product design by contributing your own ideas
We celebrate successes together at numerous events