Senior Full Stack Developer

at  Searchlight Cyber Ltd

WHO ARE WE?

Searchlight Security is proven as the world’s leading provider of dark web intelligence and tools to protect society from the threats of the dark web. We are used by the world’s most advanced government agencies and businesses, providing them with relevant, actionable intelligence to identify and prevent criminal activity. Our proprietary technology provides actionable data that was previously unobtainable; delivering insights and situational awareness that helps keep our customers keep one step ahead of the criminals.
Our mission is simple - protect society from the threats contained within the dark web.
Building on our proven law enforcement foundation, today we help government, law enforcement, enterprise, and managed security services provider customers around the world to illuminate deep and dark web threats and prevent attacks.
We can’t shout about all of our successes, but our products have directly contributed to securing convictions for criminals of all types; protecting people and businesses around the world.

WHAT ARE WE LOOKING FOR?

• In depth experience with PHP using the Laravel framework, and REST API-driven architecture
• In depth experience with Vue, knowledge of React would be useful also
• Experience with MySQL, including database performance optimizations
• Experience writing unit & integration tests with tools such as PHPUnit and/or Vitest
• Familiarity with Git and version control systems
• An understanding of containerization technologies like Docker and Kubernetes
• Confidence working in Linux and the command line
• Experience with ElasticSearch or large document-based storage solutions
• Experience working in an Agile methodology
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills
• Experience mentoring and supporting junior developers, guiding them and supporting their work if needed
• A problem solving mindset, always looking for ways to do things better

As a Senior Full Stack Developer you’ll be responsible for developing and maintaining our dark web products - the role is a broad one, you’ll be closely involved with planning new features, improving existing ones and fixing issues if they arise. You’ll also be involved with improving performance across the platforms.
You’ll deliver code from end to end - from taking a requirement (whether bug fix or new feature) and develop well thought out, secure code, conduct relevant tests before working with our QA and Infrastructure teams to push the code into production.
You’ll be working in a vibrant team where everyone helps each other learn and develop, and work on products that make a real difference to society. We work in sprints including standups, retrospectives and work closely with the Product team to plan and develop new features and enhance existing ones.