Position: Senior FullStack PHP Developer for IT Documentation Tool
Company: Brightgrove
Category: PHP
Experience required: 3y
English level: intermediate
Published: 2021-01-01T00:00:00+02:00

About the customer:

Our customer is a well-known German tech company that provides various startups and enterprises with professional software to handle the requirements of modern IT operations and IT service management. Their product has an open-source version and a community of dedicated end-users and contributors. The product is top-rated in Europe within well-established companies of different sizes and branches, making it now a leading software tool in the field of IT documentation, configuration management databases (CMDB), and security.

About the project:

In a nutshell, it’s an application for IT documentation and a full-fledged CMDB that allows users to collect all their knowledge about the IT infrastructure (both software and hardware) they’re dealing with within their companies. By using this product, users obtain the “point of information” for all their internal IT processes. All the data that has to be documented is centralized in one single spot – easy-to-navigate and user-friendly. The application provides both automatic and manual updates, which proves that the product has a scalable structure able to adapt to each user’s particular needs/requirements.
This software combines both the classic structures of IT asset management and peculiar features of a CMDB and CMS defined by ITIL. Now, our customer prepares the next big version of the product – 2.0. It’s going to present a significant change of tech stack and the overall project’s architecture. Basically, it’s a new, almost from scratch, project, with defined scope and requirements from a currently existing product.

About the team:

For now, the team consists of 4 senior developers. There is no dedicated Team Lead within a development team. In Brightgrove, there are a couple of technical teams that interact with each other:
- Development
- Support (Customer Care)
- Product
- Testing

Every team handles its own tasks and responsibilities. There is no direct subordination, but there are particular experts responsible for the project/parts of the project who assign tasks and control their status.
Our team is pretty flat and friendly – everyone can freely express his/her opinion, and everyone is welcomed to share their own ideas for the project. We guarantee a pleasant working atmosphere and supportive teammates. Your scope of work for this project is to be fully involved in the development of the product’s 2.0 version.

What you do with us:
You will be part of a seven-person development team, working on a new version of our existing software, which is being developed for both SaaS and on-premise operation
We consistently rely on PHP 7.x and Symfony, in combination with Maria/MySQL for  the backend development
You will expand and improve the common results every day, in terms of quality, modularity and software paradigms
You will be  part of the agile development process (Dailies, Retrospective Refinements, Sprint planning and Reviews)
We help each other: We will support you in your daily work. This means with code reviews within the development team, as well as modern development techniques and processes  

Responsibilities:
- Participate and contribute to the development process
- Provide status and estimation of the tasks
- Participate in the conceptual meetings
- Participate in the daily status call
- Backend development of the project
- Frontend development of the project
- Writing tests for developed components
- Participating in the code-reviews

Required Skills:
- At least 3-5 years for coding with PHP
- Backend: PHP 5.6+, MySQL, Symfony 3+, Doctrine2
- Frontend: EcmaScript 5+, React, Redux, SASS
- Experience in writing unit tests.
- English -Intermediate

Nice to have skills: 
Experience in type-safe development with PHP7+ and EcmaScript+Flow/TypeScript, Symfony Flex.

What you should bring with you:
- A successfully completed study in IT study, corresponding training in the Computer Science field or the equivalent professional experience
- Experience in Sagas, reusable component design, SCSS, Storybook and Jest-Testing
- Very good experience in object-oriented programming with PHP 7.x using Symfony and Doctrine ORM