Senior PHP Developer

at  ClearCourse

DESIREABLE ATTRIBUTES AND EXPERIENCE:

• 5+ years as a software engineer focussed around web technologies
• Great communication skills and design detail focused
• Proven experience of modern engineering principles, practices and processes such as SOLID, OOP, MVC, REST, CD/CI, TDD, BDD and DDD.
• Proven experience delivering large-scale web solutions and strong commercial experience utilising major frameworks (we use Symfony).
• Extensive experience in optimising for performance (topics such as Core Web Vitals and similar).
• Extensive experience in web security (CSP, CSRF, XSS, etc.).
• Experience of Version Control software (we use a mix of Subversion and Git).
• Experience in automated testing tools and frameworks (e.g. Selenium, Puppeteer, Bhat, PHPUnit, PHPSpec).
• Experience integrating RESTFUL API’s, Payment Gateways and third-party services.
• Good knowledge of SQL databases (we use PostgreSQL, MS-SQL and Oracle).

• Leading the design, delivery and maintenance of web solutions
• Work with architects, designers and engineers to ensure smooth progress from concept to implementation
• Leading and overseeing back-end work and owning the application of good practice
• Oversee and execute process improvements and the development of policies, procedures, methods, and tools in support of delivery.
• Working with, and leading, the wider team to deliver a product that meets technical and quality criteria
• Leading the team to support pre-sales processes and working with sales and account management professionals to win new business; proposal review and refinement; recruiting and staff development.
• Support limited legacy systems short term
• Dotted-Line management, coaching and mentoring of other engineering team members