Senior Full Stack Developer

The role

• Participate in planning & designing of new customer-facing features.
• Design and build UI interactions in JavaScript and make them beautiful with CSS/SASS.
• Take part in the design of APIs and data models.
• Own the backend business logic and take good care of the data.
• Participate in code reviews and peer testing of the new functionality.
• Automate testing of your code and participate in fixing bugs.
• Improve and refactor our platform to keep it performant and scalable.
• Work closely with our product, design, and business teams to build rich web applications.
• Take ownership of what youre working on.

What you need to be successful:

• Solid knowledge in OOP PHP, PHP frameworks and RESTful APIs.
• Understanding of the internals of a modern web framework (MVC, ORM, DI, queueing) and current
• PHP ecosystem (Composer).
• Know the difference between spaghetti code and a well-architected PHP application.
• Experience with SQL, efficient querying, common data structures and caching.
• Strong understanding of modern JavaScript, TypeScript and experience with recent JS versions.
• Experience with component-based JavaScript frameworks (Vue.js, React or Angular).
• Strong CSS skills, from creating layouts (Flexbox, CSS Grid) to ability to build custom UI elements,
• controls and widgets with our look and feel.
• Solid experience with asynchronous JS: from callbacks to promises to async/await.
• Good grasp of managing and centralizing application state (Vuex, Redux, etc.)
• Ability to debug complex issues, identifying performance bottlenecks and memory leaks.
• Great communication and problem-solving skills, good command of spoken and written English.

Bonus points for:

• Ability to design, document, build and evolve services, APIs and data models.
• Exposure to working with large volumes of data, both relational and unstructured.
• Knowledge of cross-browser compatibility standards, behaviors, and quirks. No more IE, but there's more than Chrome.
• Prior exposure to UI design and wireframing tools like Figma, Sketch or Invision.
• Have worked with end-to-end testing and browser automation tools like Cypress or Puppeteer.

Our tech stack:

• Backend: PHP (custom MVC based on Laravel and Symfony components), Node.js (Express).
• Persistence: MySQL, Redis.
• Frontend: Vue 3, jQuery.
• Deployment: AWS, Terraform, Docker & Kubernetes.
• Tools: JetBrains and Atlassian Suite (PhpStorm, WebStorm, VS Code, JIRA, GitHub etc).

Dev.environment: Linux, containers.