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

About the project: 
A system that pulls data from different data sources and provides structured content for consumers.

Required Technical Skills:
- 3+ years in PHP development
- Deep experience with at least one of the popular PHP frameworks, such as Yii, Laravel, Symfony, etc
- Amazing debugging skills
- Good understanding and experience of working with OOP, design patterns, refactoring techniques 
- Understanding of SOLID, DI, YAGNI, KISS, DRY principles.
- Experience with MySQL or PostgreSQL or MariaDB
- Code debugging experience 
- Experience with “pure” PHP (without CMS or Framework usage) will be plus

Major activities:
- Develop new features and fix bugs 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.

What’s Important for Us? 
Responsiveness and communication. Stay online, respond to questions, have reports and blockers ready for standups and other Scrum events; be ready to hop on Video conference calls and screen-share. 
Engineering excellence. Understand the project paradigm -- both on technical and business sides -- and make sure you can support it, while also testing all your work to minimize defects; achieve high code quality. 
Self-management excellence. Ramp up on Agile best practices, especially Scrum framework. Collaborate with colleagues both internally and externally: internally with other engineers, QA, and managers; externally with engineers, designers, and managers on the client-side. Track all your activities in a time tracker. Pick your hours to be available for collaboration during your colleagues and your client’s work hours, which typically span from 5 am to 5 pm Eastern (New York). Collaborate with your lead to develop your growth plan. 

What we offer:
High enough compensation enables you to get the benefits you need.
Full-time remote with occasional get-togethers in various locations across North America and Europe.
Unusually fast career track based on concepts of meritocracy.
Competitive above-market salary. 
Flexibility: work as many hours/week as you want and you’ll get paid (at least 30h/week)