Position: Senior/Middle Backend Engineer (PHP)
Company: LQD Technology
Category: PHP
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper

**Ukraine, Albania, Spain or Portugal**

For our  client, for ecommerce platform, focused on dark store operators in dense urban environments and not warehousing,  we are looking for a **Senior/Middle Backend Engineer (PHP) **


**Responsibilities** 

Build well-architected, customer-friendly, intuitive, and beautiful software 
Design and development of server-side logic, definition and maintenance of the databases, and ensuring high performance and responsiveness to requests from the front­end
Integration ​​with various external APIs and efficient handling of data (e.g. asynchronous processes, caching, error handling, batch processing, secure transmissions)
Actively help to improve code quality, application speed and scalability architecture and automatization across all projects
Design packages and components to be reused across projects
Collaborate with other team members and stakeholders, such as our Frontend and Backend Engineers, DevOps Engineers and Product Managers to design, build, and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable code across all of our projects
Help to further improve the Software Engineering practices and tooling, and automate reasonably many things to make them more efficient
Refine technical standards and propagate them into the software engineering teams

**Requirements**

4+ years of experience with building modern, sophisticated PHP backend solutions
Solid knowledge of PHP web frameworks (such as Laravel and Symfony)
Understanding the fully synchronous behavior of PHP
Basic knowledge of the common PHP or web server exploits and their solutions
Familiarity with SQL/NoSQL databases and their declarative query languages
Familiarity with concepts of OOP, MVC, Mocking, ORM, continuous integration, microservices, and RESTful
Understanding fundamental design principles behind a scalable application
Experience with Cloud Functions / Serverless architectures and popular cloud platforms like AWS
Experience with Docker-based development workflows
Profound understanding of tools like GitHub and JIRA
Reliable, organized, communicative, customer-oriented
Intrinsic high-quality standard and motivation to constantly learn and improve
Ability to think from a customer-oriented perspective
Upper-Intermediate+ level in English


**We offer**

A competitive reward for your skills, experience, input, and results
Regular team events and activities
Work in a team with experienced specialists
Conditions of professional development — we invest in the training of our employees (online courses, training events with external and internal speakers, offline and online library)
Remote first client with distributed team across multiple countries
Position open to residents of Ukraine, Albania, Spain or Portugal