Position: Back-end Developer (PHP, Laravel)
Company: abz.agency
Category: PHP
Experience required: 1y

IMPORTANT! Relevant for 15 of March 2023. 1 position vacant.

Would you like to work with TOP technical stack? Would you like to learn from colleagues with broad expertise? Do you want to get off the treadmill and develop your skills? So, complete the test task, pass a couple of interviews and go through a month traineeship period and you’ll open the door to new opportunities. It is not going to be easy, we require employees to work hard and develop their skills at a fast pace.

Test assignment implement simple REST API server (1 POST and 2 GET requests) as defined in the API documentation (1).
Link to the test task by request.

Complex and interesting projects and our experienced and friendly team are waiting for you in our company. All our clients are foreign companies (EU/US/etc.), that’s why (at least) basic English knowledge is required. We specialize in development of custom web applications, websites and browser extensions.

You will work closely with other back-end developers, QA engineers, designers,front-end developers, PMs and other employees. Our PM will make every effort to make you feel comfortable working in the company. The company has introduced an PDP (Personal Development Plan) for each employee. Our full-time English teacher will provide support and improve your English skills.

By clicking on the link (company name) in the vacancy header, you can find brief information about our company, video, photos, contacts of the HR manager and a link to our website.

**Our working conditions**
- Our offices are well equipped power outages: gasoline generator, EcoFlow Delta portable power station provides electricity for devices and standby lightning, Fiber optic internet provider, Starlink provide access to the internet;
- First two month will be a paid traineeship period;
- Always stable and on time salary;
- Hourly rate is set in $;
- Official employment (by contract);
- Traineeship period paid as fixed monthly payment in UAH;
- Full work load of 160−200 hours per month and hourly rate ensuring all (extra) hours are paid;
- Revision of the hourly rate every six months by 5−50% (see more details in the «Opportunities/benefits» section below);
- Quarterly bonus, project performance based;
- English classes 2 times per week (groups of two people, after work hours);
- MacBook Pro 13/16, 4K monitor, stand, mouse, keyboard, headphones, comfortable chair, company branded T-shirt and mug;
- 75% of the salary is also paid for «bench». «Bench» means standby time — when you don’t have project and you work on your PDP or other personal/internal tasks to improve your knowledge and skills;
- Working day from 8:00 to 17:00;
- Breakfast, lunches and other things in the kitchen at the expense of the company (coffee, tea, cookies, sweets, yogurts and drinks in the refrigerator);
- Work in one of our offices: 7 minutes from Osokorki metro station or 8 minutes from Lukianivska metro station or 15 minutes from Kontraktova Square metro station / 7 minutes from Taras Shevchenko metro station, metro station Nyvky 5 minutes (office opening March/April).

**Opportunities/benefits**
- Each employee has a mentor and together with him develops an PDP (Personal Development Plan) to improves skills and knowledge in different areas;
- Revision of the hourly rate happens every six months and depends on the implementation of the PDP and other performance indicators;
- Opportunity to learn NodeJS, modern frontend frameworks like Vue/React, iOS/Android React Native apps development or browser extensions development as part of the PDP (personal development plan). After that you can participate in our projects also as a NodeJS developer, frontend developer, React Native developer and/or browser extension developer;
- Complex and interesting, sometimes non-trivial or overwhelming projects with modern architecture and technologies. We purposely do not work with Wordpress and other CMS;
- Experienced colleagues ready to help with complex tasks. Technically savvy PMs who do task decomposition and know how to work with both the client and developers. No broken telephone game and no estimates handed down from the top;
- Mandatory peer code review and test coverage of important functionality, efficient QA process and task acceptance procedures;
- Opportunity to study related areas/technologies (frontend, browser extensions, nodejs) — not abruptly, but systematically as if working on a complete mini-project; being guided by a mentor and according to a plan drawn up with a mentor, with the tasks accepted by a QA, etc.

**Requirements**
- From 1 year on commercial projects experience;;
- Experience with LAMP/LEMP stack: PHP 7+ (PHP 8 preferred);
- Experience with modern PHP frameworks, preferably Laravel;
- Experience working with SQL;
- GIT knowledge;

**Would be a plus**
- Basic understanding of: HTML5/CSS3, Bootstrap/AMD, Javascript/Typescript, Vue/Angular/React;
- Experience in writing REST API documentation (OpenAPI/Swagger/RAML);
- Ability to quickly search for solutions (googling);
- Experience in writing automated tests;
- Experience in UX (usability) and interface testing.

**Current Technology Stack**
- PHP projects: LAMP/LEMP, Laravel 5−8+;
- NodeJS: NestJS, TypeORM, etc.;
- Other technologies: PostgreSQL, MongoDB, RabbitMQ, Redis, Elasticsearch, InfluxDB, Kubernetes, Bitbucket Pipelines, ArgoCD, etc.;
- Hosting: Digital Ocean, AWS (including serverless services like Lambda, SQS, SES, API Gateway, etc),
- Heroku, GCP/GKE, Cloudflare, etc.;
- Local development: Docker.

(1) The Company may, at its sole discretion, not provide applicants with the reason for being rejected and technical details of the test completed.

(2) The plan for the day is made at the stand-up meeting and must be accomplished (considering common sense) within the day according to the checkpoints. After accepting the work, the PM closes the working day.