Position: PHP Engineer with Leadership Skills
Company: Speed & Function
Category: PHP
Experience required: 3y
English level: upper

**Attractions:**
- A significant amount of autonomy, which allows engineers to implement their vision. 
- An amazing team that everyone enjoys working with. 
- Unrestricted growth opportunities. 

**Challenges:**
- Proactivity and objectives-focused approach required. The client organizations are "chatty" and require advanced collaboration skills. Our ideal candidate would be able to understand the objectives quickly and push hard to achieve them, communicate frequently and efficiently. People with below-average communication skills haven’t been able to stay on for longer than a few months.  
- High quality, but legacy PHP code. 

**Required Technical Skills:**

- 3+ years in PHP development.
- Deep experience with at least one of the popular PHP frameworks, such as Yii, Laravel, or Symfony.
- Amazing debugging skills.
- Understanding of OOP, design patterns, refactoring techniques.

**Major activities:**

- Refactoring of legacy code.
- Develop new features in the core.
- Extend an existing team. 
- Contribute to a global community of technology enthusiasts. 

**Other Skills Required:**

- Consultant-grade communication best practices, fluent English.
- Ability to maximize overlap with US Eastern time zone business hours (New York).
- Proactivity. 
- Developmental mindset: an open mind, open heart, curiosity, humility, feedback.