PHP developer

November 29, 2022

Package

Dependent on experience but generous.

The role

As a key member of the tech team you will:

  • Lead all PHP initiatives, drive adoption of best practices and help us build up PHP expertise. 
  • Be a tech and product advocate for our owner platform.
  • Be willing to expand horizons, with interesting in practicing a bit of Ruby/Rails, Golang/Scala, a bit of data analysis, a bit of devops and much more.
  • Get to carve your own niche reporting directly to our Principal Developer and working closely with the CTO and Head of Product.
  • Work with your partners in crime, our product team, you’ll come up with quick ways to test features before we build out to production.
  • Work on scaling out our big product changes.

The person

We’re looking for:

  • Multiple years experience in PHP.
  • Experience of vanilla PHP with templating and also PHP Frameworks.
  • Solid MySQL knowledge.
  • Github and version control.
  • Competency of dev, deploy and release cycle on AWS or Heroku.
  • Experience of integrating with APIs, bonus points for GraphQL.
  • Experience of exposing data as feeds or APIs.
  • Competent with JS and CSS.
  • Interest in Ruby (or past experience) with a view to developing this knowledge more in the future as you get more involved with other products.
  • Willing to learn up Ruby / Rails and help with technology migration.
  • Eager to use the latest technologies but also get their hands dirty.
  • Embracing responsibility, everything you do will have an impact and we’re data driven so we can measure the difference we make.
  • Pragmatic as well as opinionated.

Bonus points:

  • Polyglot (any of Go, Scala, Java, Python etc).
  • Experience in any of the following (we use them all): REST, GraphQL, mongoDB, Golang, Scala/Play, Elasticsearch, Redis, Heroku, AWS, messaging, Presto, Data ETL / analysis, Docker - show us your awesome github profile.
  • Already playing with side projects? If there are one or two you’re proud of and want to show us we’d love to take a look.
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Why the Snaptrip Group?

"It's a very fun place to work where you are encouraged to make your own decisions in your field. The company is lean and focused on growth which makes each year very exciting, with new projects to work on all the time."