Position: PHP Developer
Category: PHP
English level: fluent
Years of experience: 4


For the most of my career I have worked at a e-commerce project focusing on its backoffice and procurement parts. As part of my job I have maintained a Yii2 application, helped move another Yii2 application to Symfony 3.4, participated in creating a new Symfony 4 application.
The applications mentioned use MySQL (via Yii2 AR, Doctrine ORM) and MongoDB (via Yii2 AR and then Doctrine ODM) as storage engine, RabbitMQ as a message broker. 
I have participated in integration with a number of third parties which included creating an API for them to use, using an API provided by the party and setting up XML based message communication.
I had a fair balance of having to deal with legacy code and freedom to build new features under supervision of experienced Tech Leads.
What also fell on my neck was maintenance of a Backbone.js based frontend. That being said I would like not to deal with frontend on my future job.
I was working as part of mid-sized SCRUM team closely collaborating with 2 other SCRUM teams. Because of having superior grasp of the application functionality and business logic I often led or majorly contributed to troubleshooting efforts when the Tech Leads were not available when issues appeared.
I have accumulated quite a lot of practical experience related to e-commerce and web-development in general. I am happy to continue with this sub-field or try out a new one. I had quite good opportunity to improve my soft skills and now I would like to focus on improvement of my hard skills while having an opportunity to have more responsibility than just writing the code.
Following that I was working in another company in online ticketing  industry. Unfortunately this collaboration had to serve as a lesson to me, being used to know all ins and outs on my previous job I did not manage to fully get used to the new place and I have failed to communicate what problems I was experiencing which gradually snowballed beyond the point of no return. That said any experience is an experience, now I know the importance of better communication, as well as I could still get some new hands on experience with some further Symfony stack as well as take a closer look at DDD.
Flexible working schedule was what I have always considered to be a huge plus, now, given that I am in Kyiv, which is not the most unsafe but also not the safest place possible, I would like not to have to worry about being online only at certain hours, as long as I do the job. I would also prefer 0.5 FTE, rather than full-time. The expected sallary I have in my profile is for 1 FTE though.
I would like NOT to deal with Wordpress, Magento, Drupal and the like.
I would like to have little to no involvement with frontend.
If you have an interesting volunteer position, I am open to hear about it, but I do already have my own involvements and commitments so cannot promise you I jump on board.