PHP Developer / Engineer II

As a PHP Developer / Engineer II, you are responsible for developing high-quality applications and writing code daily. You will be responsible for both back-end and front-end development including the implementation of WordPress plugins, site integration, and security updates. This includes heavy collaboration with product managers, architects, and other software engineers to build best-in-class software using modern technologies and an agile development process.

You will also:

• Develop high-quality applications that provide a delightful user experience and meet business expectations
• Develop clean, reusable, well-structured, and maintainable code following best practices and industry standards
• Develop elegant, responsive, high-performance, cross-platform solutions
• Develop, debug, and modify components of software applications and tools
• Write automated unit, integration, and acceptance tests as appropriate to support our continuous integration pipelines
• Generate WordPress plugins.
• Support and troubleshoot data and/or system issues as needed
• Actively contribute actionable and valuable feedback in code reviews
• Participate in system architecture and design reviews
• Participate in user story creation in collaboration with the team
• Work with team members to develop prototypes as necessary and validate ideas with a data-driven approach
• Be an active participant in all Agile team events

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field such as Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Applied Mathematics, or Applied Sciences - OR - equivalent experience
• 2-4 years of progressive software development experience.
• Solid experience with PHP and PHP frameworks such as CodeIgniter.
• Experience with JavaScript and related frameworks such as Vue, jQuery
• Experience with HTML5/CSS3
• Experience generating WordPress plugins.
• Proficient in building and integrating with web services and RESTful APIs and formats (JSON, XML)
• Experience with writing optimal MySQL database queries
• Experience working in an agile development environment.
• Experience writing unit, automated, and integration tests.
• Comfortable working with debugging tools like Firebug, Chrome inspector, etc.
• Knowledge of how to interact with RESTful APIs and formats (JSON, XML)
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools (Git, SVN)
• Experience with responsive and adaptive design is strongly preferred

A plus if you also have:

• OOPs concepts, C#, Solid Principles, ASP.Net, ASP.Net MVC, Web API