Remote PHP-Laravel Developer

Summary

The job is for a PHP Developer who will maintain, improve, and further develop websites built with Laravel while ensuring clean, well-structured code. The role involves triaging issues, increasing test coverage, and developing new features. Experience in modern PHP, Laravel or Symfony, git, AWS, and EC2 management is required.

Requirements

• At least 3 years of experience in modern PHP Development
• Solid understanding of writing testable code and adding test coverage in a clean and effective manner
• A strong understanding of modern PHP (PHP 8 and newer) including object-oriented programming, exception handling and logging, and security best practices
• Demonstrable experience coding in Laravel or Symfony including following best-practices, effectively using the ORM to write efficient queries
• Advanced proficiency with git including rebasing, resolving conflicts, cherry-picking, and writing clean yet informative commit messages
• Familiarity with AWS and EC2, and managing server resources
• Skills working in the shell environment via SSH to quickly resolve issues with code or the server

Responsibilities

• Maintaining, improving, and further developing websites built with Laravel while maintaining a clean, well-structured codebase
• Triaging issues and hotfixes on production to keep the tool running as we encounter issues
• Increasing test coverage for critical areas of the application where they may be missing
• Helping to develop new features with a focus on cleaning up the codebase along the way and refactoring where needed

Preferred Qualifications

Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field