PHP Backend (Platform) Developer

Job Description

Role & responsibilities About you Experience of PHP at scale through frameworks such as Symfony /Laravel Experience of distributed cloud systems, and specifically Amazon Web Services Enterprise Software design patterns and their implementation in real-world enterprise systems Experience of message queuing and/or streaming systems such as SQS, ActiveMQ, Apache Kafka, AWS Kinesis, AWS Firehose Understanding of relational database technologies and their cloud versions (e.g. AWS MySQL Aurora) Experience with DataDog, Prometheus or similar observability tools A positive and proactive attitude to problem solving A team player, willing to muck in and help others when needed, driven personality who asks questions and actively participates in discussions Core responsibilities Develop core platform components to aid reusability and stability of the system Work with Head of Platform Engineering/SRE to identify and progress platform improvements related to stability, scalability, and performance Work with the QA automation framework to ensure functionality is delivered to a high quality Work with DevOps Engineers to understand application impacts and system performance and stability, and work with engineering teams to rectify Assist in incident response and resolution, and subsequent post-mortems and retrospectives Contribute to the platform code base and framework which is used by Product Engineers across Engineering Preferred candidate profile Bonus skills Past experience with enterprise solutions running at scale Familiarity with Scrum methodology or other agile development processes Experience with Docker and containerization Experience with AWS or other Cloud Infrastructure Familiarity with software best practices such as Refactoring, Clean Code, Domain-Driven Design, Test-Driven Development, etc.