Position: Senior PHP Developer
Company: BXGI
Category: PHP
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper

Our client is looking for a bright Senior PHP Developer to join their development team as a remote contributor to design, estimate, and code new features, architect new applications or expand existing ones, and to collaborate on enterprise architecture with other teams. This position is a long-term contract with an American media company working remotely from home. We are open to candidates located anywhere in Ukraine.

Our client is a forward-thinking American media company based in California, that operates online media, community, and e-commerce sites in vertical markets. The company also develops and licenses internet software and social media applications.

Responsibilities:

* Design, estimate, and code new features.
* Architect new applications, and expand existing ones.
* Collaborate on enterprise architecture with other teams.
* Define, document, and enforce engineering standards.
* Perform code reviews of your team member’s 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:

* BS or MS in Computer Science or related field.
* 5+ years with object-oriented programming in PHP.
* 4+ years with front-end technologies such as JavaScript, HTML, and CSS3.
* Complex SQL queries and database schema design.
* Experience with modern server components (Memcache, Redis, ActiveMQ, Solr).
* MVC frameworks (Laravel, Zend, Yii etc.).
* Upper intermediate+ spoken and written English is required
* Working in a collaborative team environment using tools like JIRA and Git.
* Knowledge of consuming and creating web services.
* Knowledge of common web security vulnerabilities such as SQL Injection and XSS.
* Stable work history and an ability to collaborate effectively.