Senior Backend Engineer Offline

Requirements:

6+ years building production-grade PHP applications

4+ years working with Laravel & PostgreSQL (or MySQL)

Written tests in PHPUnit with moderate code coverage (pragmatically speaking, ~70% is good enough)

Integrated with social media APIs such as Facebook, Instagram, YouTube (or other third-party API integrations)

Collaborated with a team on the same codebase using Git

Worked in a multi-tenant environment that involved several codebases (e.g. microservices or similar multi-tenant examples where you juggle more than one codebase)

Used Docker for development

Worked in an agile environment

Nice to have:

R

Go

Redis

Neo4j

RabbitMQ

Skills

Understand, discuss and implement technical specifications in the form of written text and visual diagrams

Write and maintain efficient, reusable, tested, clean code.

Design patterns are your cup of tea; SOLID is an anthem rather than an acronym to you

Think ahead and communicate design decisions prior to implementation.

Provide task estimations with eagerness to deliver on time at a very low risk for delays

Eagerness to learn new programming languages and tools.

SCORECARD:

Core: At least Advanced English

Core: 6+ years of experience building PHP applications

Core: 4+ years working with Laravel & PostgreSQL (or MySQL)

Core: experience with third-party API integrations. If it's social media APIs, even better.

Core: experience working with more than one codebase/multitenant environments

▼NICE TO HAVE/OTHER SKILLS ▼

Docker experience

Writing tests in PHPUnit with 70% code coverage

Experience working with SOLID pattern (a design pattern)

Bonus: experience with R, Go, Redis, Neo4j, or RabbitMQ

OTHER QUESTIONS:

Overlap with Eastern European time (4-5 hours max is OK)

If they have positions lasting less than 1 year, or gaps in the CV, ask them why