PHP Engineer

Summary

Join our team at Axxess, a leading healthcare technology innovator, as a PHP Engineer. This full-time, remote position offers the opportunity to develop and maintain cutting-edge web applications. You will contribute to the design and implementation of user-friendly interfaces, databases, and external web portals. A Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field and 3+ years of PHP development experience are required. We offer a competitive compensation package, professional development opportunities, and a collaborative work environment.

Requirements

• Hold a Bachelor’s degree in computer science, MIS, or related discipline
• Have 3+ years PHP development experience
• Be proficient in recent versions of PHP (7.x preferred)
• Have experience with relational database setup and use (MySQL 5.6 or later)
• Possess hands-on front-end development skills utilizing HTML, CSS (or SCSS/SASS/LESS), client-side JavaScript and jQuery
• Have Git version control knowledge and experience
• Have experience with RESTful API usage and implementation

Responsibilities

• Develop new web applications using customized, open-source, and off-the-shelf applications and components
• Maintain and enhance existing web applications and all internal integrated systems
• Deliver new functionality and change requests for existing applications
• Participate in the ongoing development of applications that meet the needs of our customers
• Design and implement user-driven templates, databases and interfaces (for ease of use)
• Develop database-driven web interfaces for rapid, real-time information sharing
• Develop external web portals allowing users to input and retrieve accurate information
• Troubleshoot issues with web server, database, security, network, and web technologies
• Customize, compile, install, configure, monitor and debug server instances, especially on NGINX
• Create and enhance in-house tools for website operations, support hardware & software issues

Preferred Qualifications

• Have experience with Redis (or other NoSQL key-value store)
• Have server and site performance optimization experience
• Be a full-stack developer (willing to mentor on needed areas)
• Have experience with Laravel 5.x framework (or other similar MVC)
• Have knowledge and use of Single Page Application design and implementation, including use of front-end tools such as CanJS, Vue, Aurelia, or Angular JS
• Have experience with queues/workers in a distributed workload system (e.g. Beanstalkd, RabbitMQ, Iron.io, Amazon SQS)
• Have experience with Composer, NPM, Gulp, Grunt, or other tools in the build pipeline
• Have experience with WordPress, Hooks, Theming and Plugins
• Have experience with Reporting, maintenance, and test automation tools in PHP (e.g. PHPUnit)
• Have experience with customer & end-user support of online products; web, graphic and usability design

Benefits

• Casual Friday, Everyday
• Competitive Compensation Package
• Professional Development for Career Growth
• 20 PTO (Paid-Time-Off) Days + Holidays + Birthdays off
• Monthly Happy Hours
• Holiday and Employee Celebrations
• Game On! Xbox, Pool, Chess and more
• Genuine respect for work-life balance
• Respect and Collaborative team environment