Position: Backend (PHP/Laravel) Software Engineer (Full-stack experience would be great)
Company: United Software
Category: PHP
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper
Published: 2022-12-01T00:00:00+02:00

Join the Nutrameg product team -  a healthtech startup developing patented nutrition technology for weight management and fitness used by millions of people worldwide

If you are here, the chances are, you are a brilliant developer. You would love to work at a health tech on patented technology, you would like to learn from the best and the brightest (apply for an interview, you will be surprised what we can offer). We are working to make healthcare similar to video games – as engaging and fun, but at the same time – medically justified and deeply helpful to the user. Developing healthcare apps for millions of people around the world – does that sound interesting enough to you? Yes, we are Nutrameg. That's what we do every day. Except for when we party on Mediterranean islands or elsewhere. Apply now, and you will always be at the top of the technology game.

**Responsibilities for a backend developer:**

- Create and maintain our internal and external API's
- Write a clean codebase based on modern web development principles, such as SOLID, Cleancode, etc.
- Suggest improvements to the existing codebase

**Qualifications for the backend developer:**

- 5-6+ years of experience in software development
- Strong proficiency in PHP 8.x+
- Thorough understanding of the Laravel framework
- Understanding of PostgreSQL and its core principles
- Experience with Laravel's Queues and Events
- Familiarity with RESTful API's
- Ability to integrate with 3rd party RESTful API’s
- Familiarity with Git and GitHub
- Your code is efficient, aware of patterns and anti-patterns, properly structured, easily understandable and well documented, and backed up by automated tests (PHPUnit)
- Familiarity with modern front-end and backend build pipelines and tools
- Ability to understand business requirements and goals and translate them into technical requirements

**Desirable:**
- Working knowledge of payment gateways
- API platform experience / Building RESTful API’s
- Have experience/awareness in Agile application development
- You are an independent operator, working with a large amount of autonomy
- Experience with system architecture or leading a software team is a strong advantage
- You’re a clear communicator with the ability to explain, argue, and convince stakeholders about your ideas and solutions.

**Stack:**

- PHP 8.1
- Laravel 8/9
- PostgreSQL 13 / PostgreSQL 14 Serverless
- Kubernetes / AWS serverless
- Docker
- Jira and GitHub
- Apple ecosystem

**...and of course, your benefits:**

- Working for the customer directly, ownership culture
- 20 working days of vacation and 15 sick leaves (all Ukrainian public holidays as well)
- Health Insurance (after trial)
- Fitness membership (after trial)
- Company legal and accounting support
- Flexible working hours without time trackers
- Corporate Events