Position: Senior PHP Developer
Company: Kilo.Health
Experience required: 3y
Category: PHP
English level: upper
Published: 2022-02-01T00:00:00+02:00

ABOUT THE COMPANY AND PRODUCTS
A product company with an internal R&D department and offices in Vilnius, Kaunas, Klaipeda, Berlin, and Kyiv. Founded 7 years ago, it has established a strong position in the global app marketplace with applications in health&wellness, fitness&innovation categories (exercise tutorials, running apps, nutrition, health condition management, etc.). Generally created about 20 mobile and web applications aimed at health with 4 million customers in over 200 countries. The whole team consists of about 500 employees (office and remote), though each product is being developed by a dedicated team. 

The candidate will work on the company's internal product in accordance with the held experience. A hiring manager will tell about a possible team the candidate might join after passing the interviews.

ADVANTAGES OF THE COMPANY/PRODUCTS
🔸 Received awards like #1 in the health & fitness category worldwide and #3 in the AppStore US free category.
🔸 Cutting-edge technologies and approaches.
🔸 Flexible culture and Silicon Valley vibe with no strict rules; 
🔸 Focused on employees’ well-being, happiness, and development.

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR
Senior PHP Developer with 4-5+ years of experience in PHP development and 1+ years of experience with Laravel or Symfony. 
 
ABOUT THE TEAM
🔸 Agile team (up to 10 people) including Developers, Product Manager, and optionally a Scrum Master.
🔸 Close cooperation with the mentor during the probation period. Then – close cooperation with a Tech Lead.
🔸 Separate DevOps and QA teams. 
 
WHY THE POSITION IS OPENED
Scaling of the development team.

WHAT ENGLISH LEVEL IS EXPECTED
Upper-Intermediate English (all the team communicates in English).

REQUIREMENTS FOR THE POSITION
🔸 4-5+ years of experience in PHP development. 
🔸 1+ years of experience with Laravel or Symfony. 
🔸 Experience and knowledge of RESTful APIs (or GraphQL).
🔸 Knowledge of MySQL, PostgreSQL, or similar RDBMS.
🔸 Solid background in building scalable distributed products, practical experience with caching.
🔸 Readiness to constant code reviewing and refactoring.
 
THE COMPANY OFFERS
🔸 Contract with a private entrepreneur (in Ukrainian: ФОП), coverage of taxes, and accounting services. 
🔸 Full remote position and the ability to work all over the world.
🔸 Flexible schedule with fixed team meetings.
🔸 20 working days of paid vacation + 5 paid days of sick leave; Ukrainian public holidays are days off.
🔸 Possibility to work from an office in Kyiv. 
🔸 Compensation for professional education, conferences.
🔸 “Workations” (joint working trips) and “welcome trip” to the company office are possible (when it becomes easier with COVID-19).

SELECTION AND INTERVIEW STAGES
🔸 Interview with our partner in Ukraine;
🔸 A short call with a company’s HR (15 minutes).
🔸 Technical interview (60 minutes).
🔸 Test day in the company (remotely).