Position: Senior PHP Symfony developer
Company: StarOfService
Category: PHP
Experience required: 5y
English level: intermediate

StarOfService is a worldwide Marketplace for Services. Our product is adopted in 140+ countries worldwide. Our ambition is to build the largest marketplace for services in the world. We know we can only achieve it by providing the best User Experience, delivered through the best Product and the Best Technology.

We are looking for a Senior PHP Symfony developer
We are looking for a passionate Sr PHP Symfony developer at building something great; in terms of user experience, code quality, best practices and best technologies.

This will be a full-time long term remote freelancing contract,
A good level of English is important and required to work in a multicultural team,
Ready to jump in the mission ASAP.

You will be working mostly with PHP (in Symfony) and MySQL, but there will be many opportunities to work on other technologies. As we are transitioning to a microservices-oriented architecture, our technology stack has become quite varied:

Languages: PHP 7+ (mostly) with Symfony (from v1 to v5), Python, Javascript (NodeJS)
Databases: MySQL (mostly), PostgreSQL, MongoDB, DynamoDB, ElasticSearch, Redis
Microservices: Kubernetes, Docker
Cloud: we run everything in AWS, so you will use S3, SQS, SNS, etc.
APIs: JSONAPI, GraphQL
Git: we use both Gitlab and Github, with code reviews on all pull requests
TDD: phpunit
Other tools: Jenkins, Slack, Basecamp, JIRA, Confluence, Postman

Besides of technical knowledge, having following qualities will be definitely a BIG PLUS:

Positive mindset
Willingness to learn new technologies
Collaborative team player
Responsibility and independence
Readiness to share your experience with less experienced developers
Eagerness to improve processes of any kind
Qualification and Expertise
As an experienced Sr PHP Symfony developer, we expect that:
PHP / MySQL native speaker - 5+ years of experience
Already implemented a standard REST API
Good knowledge of Symfony
Mastery of GIT
Good knowledge of OOP and Design Patterns
Solid knowledge of automated testing best practices - both unit and functional
Knows how to work with Docker / Docker Compose
Good experience with Twig and PHP templating
Experience with Kubernetes

Terms of the offer and advantages
StarOfservice recruits the best engineers, product designers and builders, and offers the best conditions for making people enjoy their work, and deliver effectively.
Paid vacations and sick leaves
By joining us, you will access 25 days of paid vacation / year, and paid sick leaves.
Trial period validation bonus
After 3 months at the company, you will receive an exceptional $1000 bonus as a recognition of your trial period validation.
Education and growth
Shipping value is not enough,  and we know growth is a part of what every company should offer. For our people - and for the company - we offer the condition for growing:
By setting every year personalized Personal Development Plans with every employee,
By proposing a training budget for supporting every employee’s growth.


Our recruitment process is simple:
Human Resource interview with StarOfService HR Manager,
Technical Interview with our Back-end Team Lead,
Final Interview with StarOfService CTO/CPO.

More about StarOfService
StarOfService has been funded by famous VCs (Point Nine Capital, Kima Ventures, etc.) from all around the world. The company is also part of TheFamily, the most notorious European Start-Up network.