PHP Developer - £80,000 - Hybrid (3x week in Watford)
Overview:
I am currently recruiting for a PHP Developer for one of my clients who are a global digital marketing and technology agency specialising in online gaming. We are looking for a skilled developer who possesses strong technical skills in PHP, JavaScript and AWS and is comfortable working in a face paced, high transactional environment.
Role Responsibilities:
- Create effective solutions (inc. software designs) from product requirements
- Produce well structured, testable code
- Apply best practices (industry and internal standards)
- Make sure Solutions are performant and observable in the context of a high complexity, high throughput systems via metrics and monitoring
- Balance technical solutions with commercial constraints
- Provide technical mentorship to less experienced members of the team
- Own the technical solutions end-to-end including in production
Essential Skills and Experience:
- Commercial use of a modern PHP 8+ with experience in development frameworks such as Laravel / Symfony desired
- Proficiency in developing in JavaScript/TypeScript working with NodeJS frameworks like NestJS and frontend frameworks like React.JS
- Experience in building platforms using event-based architecture and CQRS
- Experience of working with AWS Services such as Aurora, MSK Kafka, ECS, EMR.
- Writing automated unit/integration tests for solutions
- Excellent practical understanding of SOLID principles and design patterns
- Hands-on experience with one or more DevOps tooling platforms
- Hands on experience engineering on high availability, high throughput OLTP platforms
- Good understanding of relational databases and MySQL and writing efficient database queries
Package:
- £80,000
- Free Gym membership
- On-site Chef provides free breakfast and lunch
- Free Parking
- Hybrid (3x week in Watford)