Senior PHP (Symfony) Software Developer at ELEKS

ABOUT THE PROJECT

– Our client is a French company that aims to revolutionize digital payments in Africa.
– The customer’s team is ambitious and hard-working, consisting primarily of senior-level specialists.
– We develop innovative solutions for Guinea that help them with money transfers and cashless payments.
– The app is constantly in top positions in its category on the marketplace with over 10K installations per day.

REQUIREMENTS

– Strong experience with PHP 8.3/8.4
– Proficiency with Symfony 6.4 / 7.x
– Deep knowledge of PostgreSQL 13+
– Practical experience with Redis
– Experience with RabbitMQ
– Experience with AWS services (ECS/Fargate, EC2, Auto Scaling, Secrets Manager)
– Experience building CI/CD pipelines with GitLab and Docker
– Practical experience with PHPStan, PSR-12, ECS
– Experience with PHPUnit and Foundry
– NICE TO HAVE Experience operating services on FrankenPHP/Caddy and Nginx + FPM
– Experience with Codeception
– Knowledge of of DDD, modular architectures, and boundary enforcement (Deptrac)
– Experience with microservice architectures or asynchronous workflows
– Familiarity with event-driven systems, DLQ/ACK/NACK mechanics, routing, and the outbox pattern
– Understanding of high-concurrency patterns (race conditions, data consistency, audit trails)
– Experience working with feature flags (Unleash)

RESPONSIBILITIES

– Develop solutions and algorithms according to technical specifications or other requirements documentation; use standard algorithms in the applicable cases
– Write program code according to the defined application architecture
– Possess knowledge of software development methodologies (Waterfall, Agile, etc.)
– Structure and format the source code, comment and mark up the code, as well as name variables, functions, classes, data structures, and files according to the company conventions and industry best practices
– Implement code refactoring and optimization methods. Post refactoring and optimization results to the collective knowledge base as the best practices
– Modify existing software code and test its availability. Analyze software code compliance with readability and performance standards
– Use version control systems to track code optimization progress, as well as to merge or split code entities. Commit changes according to version control rules
– Perform analysis, verification, and debugging of the software code at the level of application units
– Develop procedures to test code availability, collect diagnostic data, generate test data sets with desired characteristics; examine the required software characteristics etc.
– Reproduce defects logged in the defect database, establish their causes, and modify code to eliminate defects
– Determine software product compliance with the technical requirements
– Collect and analyze results of software tests. Deliver correct interpretation of diagnostic data; analyze the significance of the obtained software characteristics; can document test results. Assess software product availability
– Develop, document, and edit programming interfaces, software modules and components assembling procedures, software deployment and update procedures as well as data migration and transformation (conversion) procedures
– Assemble software modules and components into software product; connect software product to the external environment. Test availability of software product versions
– Analyze variants of software requirements implementation; evaluate their time-consumption and workload. Conduct assessment and justification of the solutions recommended for software requirements implementation
– Approve technical requirements for software with stakeholders. Evaluate and justify terms of task completion. Assign tasks to developers, monitor task implementation. Provide training on the project
– Have valid competence-related certifications
– Participate in conducting of internal staff testing (“matrix”), organization of lectures, seminars, developers’ talks, knowledge sharing sessions, and other forms of trainings for developers
– Participate in conducting of external training (Academies) for students and staff from regional offices etc.

WHAT WE OFFER

– Close cooperation with a customer
– Challenging tasks
– Competence development
– Ability to influence project technologies
– Team of professionals
– Dynamic environment with low level of bureaucracy

COMPENSATION & BENEFITS

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