Back-end Developer (PHP, Laravel) to $1700 (offline)

IMPORTANT! Relevant as of August 15, 2024, 2 months Company Bootcamp period. 

We are looking for a PHP Developer with 2+ years of experience.

Would you like to work with TOP technical stack? Would you like to learn from colleagues with broad expertise? Do you want to get off the treadmill and develop your skills? So, complete the test assignment, pass a couple of interviews and go through a two-month Company Bootcamp period and you’ll open the door to new opportunities. It is not going to be easy, we require employees to work hard and develop their skills at a fast pace.

Complex and interesting projects and our experienced and friendly team are waiting for you in our company. All our clients are foreign companies (EU/US/etc.), that’s why (at least) basic English knowledge is required. We specialize in development of custom web applications, websites and browser extensions.

You will work closely with other back-end developers, front-end developers, QA engineers, designers, PMs and other employees. Our PM will make every effort to make you feel comfortable working in the company. The company has introduced an PDP (Personal Development Plan) for each employee. Our full-time English teacher will provide support and improve your English skills.

By clicking on the link (company name) in the vacancy header, you can find brief information about our company, video, photos, contacts of the HR manager and a link to our website.

Why we're seeking new team members:

Due to our company's growth and the successful conclusion of new contracts for the year 2025, we are actively searching for talented and motivated professionals ready to join our team. Currently, 1 vacancy is open.

Test assignment

• Implement a simple REST API server (1 POST and 2 GET requests) as defined in the API documentation.
• The Company may, at its sole discretion, not provide applicants with the reason for being rejected and technical details of the test completed.
• Once getting to the 3rd stage of the interview, the candidate will have the opportunity to receive feedback from a technical specialist regarding your test assignment including technical details.
• Link to the test assignment is sent by request.

Our working conditions

• Our offices are well equipped for power outages: gasoline generator, EcoFlow Delta portable power station provides electricity for devices and standby lightning, Fiber optic internet provider, Starlink provide access to the internet;
• First 2 months will be a paid Company Bootcamp;
• Company Bootcamp period paid as fixed monthly payment in UAH;
• Always stable and on time salary;
• We work officially (Private Entrepreneur by contract);
• Salary is calculated in $/h, with loads of 160 to 200 or more hours per month (all spent time is paid);
• Additionally: company pays Bench as 75% from rate and FuckUp pays as 50% from rate
• Revision of the hourly rate every six months up to +50% (according to company regulations);
• Quarterly bonus, project performance based;
• English classes 2 times per week (groups of two people, after work hours);
• MacBook Pro 14/16, 4K monitor, stand, mouse, keyboard, headphones, comfortable chair, company branded T-shirt and mug;
• Working day from 8:00 to 17:00 (The plan for the day is made at the stand-up meeting and must be accomplished (considering common sense) within the day according to the checkpoints. After accepting the work, the PM finalizes the working day);
• Breakfast, lunches and other things in the kitchen at the expense of the company (coffee, tea, cookies, sweets, yogurts and drinks in the refrigerator);
• Work in one of 5 our offices (5-15 minutes walking distance from metro station): 
  • К1 (М) Pozniaky
  • К2 (М) Lukianivska/Kontraktova Square
  • К3 (М) Taras Shevchenko
  • К4 (М) Osokorky
  • К5 (М) Slavutych

Opportunities/benefits

• Personal Development: Employees develop their Personal Development Plan (PDP), focusing on skills and knowledge enhancement;
• Regular Salary Review: Salaries are reviewed biannually based on PDP accomplishments and other performance indicators;
• Opportunity to learn/improve skills in NodeJS, modern frontend frameworks like Vue/React or browser extensions development as part of the PDP (personal development plan) program;
• Depending on your PDP direction and (if you like to) you can switch later to fullstack developer role, pure frontend developer role or browser extension developer role;
• Complex and interesting, sometimes non-trivial, or large-scale projects with modern architecture and technology. We do not work with Wordpress and other CMS as a matter of principle;
• Team Support and Collaboration: Work alongside experienced colleagues and project managers who provide guidance and assistance with complex tasks;
• Technically savvy PMs who do task decomposition and know how to work with both the client and developers. No broken telephone game and no estimates handed down from the top;
• Code review: Mandatory peer code review, efficient QA process and task acceptance procedures;
• Learning New Technologies: Employees are encouraged to systematically explore and learn new technologies in the field (s) relevant to their roles;
• Kanban Methodology for Task Management: The company uses «Scrumban» (our own flavor of Kanban system with Scrum elements) for effective planning and execution of daily tasks.

Requirements 

• 2+ years of commercial experience;
• Strong knowledge of  LAMP/LEMP: PHP 7+ (preferably PHP 8);
• Experience with modern PHP frameworks (preferably Laravel);
• Strong knowledge of SQL;
• Knowledge of GIT;
• Ability to quickly search for information on the internet («googling»).

Nice to have

• Basic understanding: HTML5/CSS3, Bootstrap/AMD, Javascript/Typescript, Vue/Angular/React;
• Experience in writing REST API documentation (OpenAPI/Swagger/RAML);
• Experience in writing automated tests;
• UX (usability) and interface testing experience.

Current Technology Stack

• PHP projects: LAMP/LEMP, Laravel 5−8+;
• NodeJS: NestJS, TypeORM, etc.;
• Other technologies: PostgreSQL, MongoDB, RabbitMQ, Redis, Elasticsearch, InfluxDB, Kubernetes, Bitbucket Pipelines, ArgoCD, etc.;
• Hosting: Digital Ocean, AWS (including serverless services like Lambda, SQS, SES, API Gateway, etc),Heroku, GCP/GKE, Cloudflare, etc.;
• Local development: Docker.