Position: Senior PHP Developer
Company: Che IT Group
Category: PHP
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper

**About position**

As a Senior PHP Developer, you will be a key member of a top-shelf engineering team with lots of growth potential. You'll work closely with the product team to develop new features for the platform. And you will participate in mentoring team members and setting a high bar for quality.

You will also play a critical role in advancing our platform and expanding its scope. Our team is starting work on a next-generation, enterprise system that will offer fully-automated, fully-integrated solutions for our customers. Here's your chance to get in at the early stage of an exciting new initiative. If you've designed or worked with service-oriented architectures, message queues, or similar, then we'd love to talk to you!

**Responsibilities**

- Design, estimate, and code new features. This is primarily a coding position.
- Architect new applications, and expand existing ones.
- Collaborate on enterprise architecture with other teams at Internet Brands.
- Investigate and fix production issues.
- Define, document, and enforce engineering standards.
- Perform code reviews of your team members' work.
- Mentor junior engineers.
- Participate in software design discussions.
- Participate in sprint planning and other project management meetings.
- Ensure all code that goes to production is of top quality.
- Ensure existing applications are scaled to meet expected demand.
- Identify and fix gaps in system reliability, such as production monitoring.
- Continuously improve the software infrastructure, such as the deployment process.

**Required Experience**

- 5+ years with object-oriented programming in PHP.
- 3+ years with front-end technologies such as JavaScript, HTML, and CSS.
- Complex SQL queries and database schema design.
- MVC frameworks (Zend, Symfony).
- Working in a collaborative team environment using tools like JIRA and Git.
- Consuming and creating web services.
- Stable work history and an ability to collaborate effectively.

**Nice to have**

- Scrum, Kanban, or other agile methodologies.
- Collaborating with engineering teams in multiple locations.
- Systems integration.
- Distributed systems.
- Service-oriented architecture.
- Other programming languages such as Java, C#, Perl, Python, or Ruby.
- Unit testing.
- Load testing.
- Page load optimization.
- Responsive design. 

If this vacancy is about you, do not hesitate to apply!