PHP Engineer

Summary

Join Axxess, a leading healthcare technology innovator, as a PHP Engineer and contribute to cutting-edge solutions for millions of patients worldwide. This full-time, remote position offers the opportunity to develop and maintain web applications, design user interfaces, and build database-driven systems. You will collaborate with a team of talented engineers in a supportive and collaborative environment. The role requires a Bachelor's degree in a related field, 3+ years of PHP development experience, and proficiency in various technologies. Axxess provides a competitive compensation package, professional development opportunities, and a positive work-life balance.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, MIS, or related discipline
• 3+ years PHP development experience
• Recent versions of PHP (7.x preferred)
• Relational database setup and use (MySQL 5.6 or later)
• Hands-on front-end development utilizing HTML, CSS (or SCSS/SASS/LESS), client-side JavaScript and jQuery
• Git version control knowledge and experience
• Experience with RESTful API usage and implementation; experience creating/documenting an API is a plus

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

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Redis (or other NoSQL key-value store) is a plus
• Server and site performance optimization experience is a plus
• Preferred full-stack developer, but willing to mentor on needed areas
• Laravel 5.x framework (or other similar MVC)
• Knowledge and use of Single Page Application design and implementation, including use of front-end tools such as CanJS, Vue, Aurelia, or Angular JS
• Experience with queues/workers in a distributed workload system (e.g. Beanstalkd, RabbitMQ, Iron.io, Amazon SQS) is a plus
• Experience with Composer, NPM, Gulp, Grunt, or other tools in the build pipeline
• Experience with WordPress, Hooks, Theming and Plugins
• Troubleshoot issues with web server, database, security, network, and web technologies
• Customize, compile, install, configure, monitor and debug server instances, especially on NGINX
• Reporting, maintenance, and test automation tools in PHP (e.g. PHPUnit)
• Create and enhance in-house tools for website operations, support hardware & software issues
• Experience with customer & end-user support of online products; web, graphic and usability design

Benefits

• 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