Senior/Middle Backend Engineer (PHP8/Laravel) Offline

For our client, the largest independent corporate venture builder in Europe, who over the last five years have developed a solid and comprehensive framework for corporate innovation, we are looking for a Senior/Middle Backend Engineer (PHP/Laravel) to join the dynamic team of top-notch experts and to help building new digital ventures from scratch and/or adding new features to one of existing platforms.

 

 

About the Company

 

A team of 90+ exceptional venturers collaborating from Munich, Zurich, Kyiv, London and now growing in Valencia and Abu Dhabi. The Company builds prototypes and MVPs to test and iterate business ideas quickly in the market. Later, the team scale and grow the most promising ones to let them become leading solutions on the market. They are full stack – from analytically sound investment theses over rapid MVPs to sophisticated deep-tech solutions. There are a lot of start-up projects ahead of them in several exciting verticals, such as FinTech, PropTech, Digital Health, Food and Beverage or MarTech. Among all corporate venture builders, they are the “strategic” one - have a comprehensive view on strategy and governance questions around corporate venture building.

 

 

Responsibilities

 

Build well-architected, customer-friendly, intuitive, and beautiful software

Design and development of server-side logic, definition and maintenance of the databases, and ensuring high performance and responsiveness to requests from the front­end

Integration ​​with various external APIs and efficient handling of data (e.g. asynchronous processes, caching, error handling, batch processing, secure transmissions)

Actively help to improve code quality, application speed and scalability architecture and automatization across all projects

Design packages and components to be reused across projects

Collaborate with other team members and stakeholders, such as our Frontend and Backend Engineers, DevOps Engineers and Product Managers to design, build, and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable code across all of our projects

Help to further improve the Software Engineering practices and tooling, and automate reasonably many things to make them more efficient

Refine technical standards and propagate them into the software engineering teams

 

 

Requirements

 

Written and verbal fluency in English is a must

Collaborative, self-motivated, curious, and humble attitudes

4+ years of experience with building modern, sophisticated PHP backend solutions

Solid knowledge of PHP web frameworks (such as Laravel and Symfony)

Understanding the fully synchronous behavior of PHP

Basic knowledge of the common PHP or web server exploits and their solutions

Familiarity with SQL/NoSQL databases and their declarative query languages

Familiarity with concepts of OOP, MVC, Mocking, ORM, continuous integration, microservices, and RESTful

Strong test-driven mindset to ensure high software quality. Able to implement testing (Codeception is a plus)

Understanding fundamental design principles behind a scalable application

Experience with integrating 3rd-party services such as Stripe or SES

Experience with Docker-based development workflows

Profound understanding of tools like GitHub and JIRA

Reliable, organized, communicative, customer-oriented

Passion for startups

Doer/achiever

Intrinsic high-quality standard and motivation to constantly learn and improve

Ability to think from a customer-oriented perspective

 

 

Would be plus

 

Experience with Cloud Functions / Serverless architectures and popular cloud platforms like AWS

Possibility to work outside of the traditional boundaries of a backend engineering role and find ideal solutions for IT operations / DevOps, speed of delivery and security

Experience with an additional, mature programming language (e.g. Java, C++, C# or similar)

Contribution to open source projects

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We offer

 

A great office space in central Kyiv, but we’re also a remote-friendly company allowing for home office or remote work. Results are what counts most

A respectful atmosphere in which everyone feels comfortable to speak up freely

A competitive reward for your skills, experience, input, and results

Opportunity to work in dynamic team of top-notch experts

Awesome team challenger events and a lot of fun

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Job unpublished on 15 March 2022

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