Position: Junior PHP Developer
Company: Giftcards Group
Category: PHP
Experience required: 1y
English level: upper

We’re looking for a PHP Developer with knowledge of PHP 7, MySQL and has an intermediate level of English. That’s quite a list right? But for this, you will receive a lot in return!

Start your journey at Giftcards Group as a PHP Developer!

As a junior PHP developer, you will start a 3-year education program to take your skills to the next level. At Giftcards Group you will start intensive training — you could compare this to a traineeship. The program looks like this: in the first 2 months you will do a lot of learning and after this you’re welcomed in our development team.

This first year’s focus will be: on improving your skills and making you comfortable working in a professional environment. For example, you will do pair programming for 2 days every sprint. This way you can learn directly from our middle and senior programmers. And you will have

monthly 1-on-1 talks with our CTO and team leader. After the first year, you can call yourself a middle programmer.

The second and third years are focused on improving your hard and soft skills. After the third year, you will be able to call yourself a Senior PHP programmer!

So your tasks summed up:

Maintaining our processing/management system
Building new features
Creating new API’s for the ReactJS team
Improving your programming skills
Working together with the development team located in Ukraine
Working together with the PO’s located in Amsterdam
What’s in it for you?

Gross salary between $ 2.000,- and $ 2.500,- each month
First 2 training months between $ 1.500,- and $ 2.000,- each month
Educational program
Unlimited sickness days
21 vacation days per year
Friendly and helpful team
Opportunity to work in an international team
Where will you be working?

Giftcards Group, was founded on the kitchen table. Our founder was thinking of a gift for a friend of his. A gift card for jewelry was the original idea. And now a couple of years later Giftcards Group is working to become the biggest gift card provider in the Netherlands. The daily operations are based in the Netherlands, but the in-house development team is located in Ukraine. Slowly but steady we’re also busy expanding our specialism over to the United Kingdom, Belgium and many more European countries.

Working hours

Your training program will be 40 hours a week with flexible working hours.

What are we expecting from you?

Experience in PHP 7
Experience in MySQL
The motivation to learn and receive feedback to make your programming skills better
At least an intermediate level of English verbally and written
If you have any experience in JS, Jira, Git, Linux, Docker, Drupal or Symfony then you have an advantage!