Position: Backend Engineer (PHP/Symfony)
Company: Svitla Systems
Experience required: 5y
Category: PHP
English level: intermediate
Published: 2023-01-01T00:00:00+02:00

Svitla Systems Inc. is looking for a Backend Engineer (PHP/Symfony +) for a full-time position (40 hours per week) in Ukraine/Turkey. 

Note: The position is for 3 months with the potential to become permanent.

Our client is a digital health company that was founded in 2015 and will change the healthcare system for the long term. The company currently offers a wide range of DNA and blood tests. A few drops of blood or saliva are enough for them to provide customers with tailored nutrition and action recommendations to help them achieve their health goals. With the product, the company is active in innovative and exciting fields, such as personalized nutrition and personalized medicine.

**Requirements:**
4+ years of experience with PHP/Symfony framework;
Experience with AWS services (lambdas);
Familiar with Linux containers and container orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes;
Good communication skills;
**Spoken English is a must!**

**Responsibilities:**
Working in a cross-functional team in an Agile setup;
Taking ownership of a number of microservices, written in Golang, and a(well-maintained) monolithic application written using PHP and Symfony;
Writing reliable, performant code, both delivering new functionality and maintaining existing features while keeping laser-focused on our customers’ experience;
Taking ownership of the architecture, design, development, deployment, and operations of the microservices you and your team develop, using DevOps practices, pair programming, and other cutting-edge methodologies;
Actively contributing to improving our product, collaborating with Frontend and Mobile engineers, Product Owners, and Designers to build something our users love to use;
Debugging production issues across all levels of the stack, and helping other engineers do so by sharing your knowledge and tooling;
Writing documentation, proactively communicating changes to those who need to know, and turning repetitive tasks into repeatable runbooks or automation.

**Will be a plus:**
Experience with Golang;
Experience with Terraform.