What you'll do:

• Work in an agile environment completing User Stories authored by professional Product Managers
• Architect highly scalable/transaction-heavy web/API applications
• Collaborate with front-end team members (in addition to backend PHP) through projects in React Framework, Socket.io, and server-side NodeJS.
• Work with QA and Application Support teams to triage bugs.
• Work with DevOps to automate the deployment and monitoring of applications with Datadog.
• Design and develop Restful APIs using Symfony/API framework and design patterns.
• Design JSON payloads and various payload contexts.
• Convert complex business rules and workflows from User Story requirements into bespoke Salesforce-type CRM applications.
• Work with monolithic legacy codebases, along with design patterns in newer repositories.
• Work with large database schemas of 500+ tables.
• Write complex queries, efficiently joining upwards of 20 tables, some containing +10m rows, in T-SQL or Doctrine ORM.
• Integrate 3rd party platforms via APIs and call-backs.
• Write unit tests and documentation.

What makes you a great fit:

• 3+ years of expert hands-on experience in PHP 8 and above with OOP concepts and design patterns like factory, observer, adapter, strategy & decorator.
• APIs & web-based applications development experience in the Symfony framework along with the integration of unit test cases (via PHP Unit, etc.).
• Strong working experience with RDBMS, preferably with MS SQL Server (but also MySQL, Postgres, etc.).
• Experience with NoSQL (Cosmos DB/MongoDB).
• Experience in solving scaling problems with caching (Redis), message brokers (RabbitMQ), and search (Elastic Search), etc.
• Prefer experience designing fault-tolerant architecture on cloud deployments (load balancing, clustering, reducing/eliminating single points of failure, etc.).
• Understanding of branching, merging, pull requests, and conflict resolution in Git (Bitbucket or GitHub).
• Proficiency in working with CLI on Linux Servers with commands like awk, grep, and other important networking tools – netstat, iptables, nslookup, curl, wget, etc.
• Experience working with cloud technologies (Azure, AWS, GCP) with services like IAM, S3, EC2, VMs, SQS, Elastic Beanstalk, etc.
• Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes, and other important DevOps tools like Jenkins, Travis, or Circle CI, SonarQube, Snyk, Ansible, Maven, Gradle.
• Experience in Microsoft Azure Cloud Technologies.
  
• Previous experience in tools like Microsoft Teams, Outlook, WSL2, VS Code, etc.
• Experience crafting architecture diagrams in draw.io or Lucid Chart.
• Experience in building CI/CD pipelines from scratch or improving them.
• Problem-solving skills and a proactive work style.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
• Self-motivated engineering professional with solution-oriented thinking.
• Regularly updated with technological advancements and excited to explore them.