Position: Backend PHP Engineer for Honestly
Company: UAtalents
Category: PHP
Experience required: 2y
English level: upper

**You'll be in charge of:**
- Collaborating with the product management to define product requirements and deliverables for solutions that create true customer value and are simple
- Introducing new changes based on product requirement while ensuring scalability, reliability, and performance.
- Getting things done: Taking ownership over changes and moving them to the finish line and making sure they work out for the customer
Implementing security measures to protect our SaaS product and its users' data from unauthorized access and cyber threats.
- Debugging and troubleshooting technical issues, working closely with the cs team to ensure timely resolution of customer issues.
- Participating in code reviews, sharing knowledge and best practices with other team members, and contributing to the company's engineering culture (in retros, while working)
- Staying up-to-date with the latest trends and technologies in backend engineering, and applying them to improve our SaaS product and its architecture.
- Communicating to the rest of the team what the team is working on

**Our ideal candidate brings:**
- Problem-solving skills that start with a clear and accurate understanding of the context, that help you to decompose tricky problems and work towards a clean solution, by yourself or with teammates
- Good communication skills and team mindset: Articulating of issues and blockers. Helping others.
- Experience with modern PHP programming
- Fluent English language skills
- Proficient understanding of clean code principles & automated testing frameworks
- Lives in the vicinity of cologne to have a shared office day once a week

**How we enable you to do your best:**
- You will be an integral part of a growing profitable start-up in the heart of our beautiful Cologne. With maximum flexibility, freedom in project design and comprehensive scope of duties, you will have the unique opportunity to get your hands dirty and grow development.
- We offer a salary within the range of 40k - 60k, 30 vacation days, an ambitious, lovely and international team and a meaningful product with a great vision. On top of that, there are all the benefits, like free drinks, weekly team lunch, foosball matches, rooftop barbecues and other regular team events.

**Our Tech stack:**
- Backend based on PHP 8 with Symfony 6 with 95% test coverage. Around 30% of the codebase is still in legacy, but moving quickly away from it
- Frontend based on Vue 3
- We design our code according to the principles of Clean Code and Clean Architecture
- We use Gitlab for CI/CD, automatic deployment to prod takes 3 minutes
- Infrastructure is in AWS, and is completely IaC, managed by Terraform Dev environment is completely dockerized

**Processes & Tools:**
- We operate in biweekly sprints with refinement, planing and retrospective where we check on what went good and what could be improved
- Sourecode is managed in git where we follow the github flow Bugs are tracked in a central place
- Roadmap & backlog prioritizing happens in accordance with our business OKRs by our PM Features are spec'd

**Working together:**
Togetherness is one of our core values that can in our view best achieved in person. For this we have set up one day in the week when the whole team meets at the office and works together. The rest of the week can be worked from home.
It's important that everyone on the team can work as productive as possible

**About us:**
Don’t you wish you had a job that made the world a better place?
Honestly is a fast growing HR-Tech company that specializes in employee engagement. We believe that employees have a right to be heard, and that it is in the interest of every organization to listen. This is why our solution “Honestly Engage” is designed to kickstart the dialogue between employers and employees. Our app allows companies to measure their culture through regular cycles of anonymous feedback. Our own culture is focused on everyone taking responsibility, flat hierarchies and making important decisions as a team! We are growing fast and to help us scale to the next level, we are looking for talents like you!