Key skills
PHPMySQLREST API architectureAgile valuesprinciplesDesign patternsModular/Pluggable architectureTesting frameworkSOLID principlesKISS principleDRY principleScalability issuesSecurity issuesRace conditionsCode reviewREST APIAgileCommunication
About this role
Higher Logic is an industry-leading, human-focused engagement platform delivering powerful online communities and communication tools. The Senior PHP Developer will focus on back-end development while collaborating with cross-functional teams to build and maintain features.
Responsibilities:
- Work in a multidisciplinary agile team to build and maintain features
- Write code with proper testing and review code of fellow teammates
- Triage and fix bugs
- Work closely with our front-end developers (web and UX), designers and product manager to build thoughtful and polished features
- Use modern technologies and the latest web standards that scale to serve millions of users and perform well on all kinds of devices and platforms
- Work primarily within the scope of your team, but you’ll also belong to the guild of your craft to enhance the quality and understanding of it through mentorship and sharing experiences
- Guilds are a great place to propose new or updated coding practices, suggest improvements to the architecture and otherwise empower people with knowledge to improve their everyday work
Requirements:
- Agile values and principles
- SOLID. KISS. DRY
- Design patterns. DI. Singleton. Decorator. Chain-of-responsibility
- Dealing with race conditions (Database, Cache, Filesystem)
- Dealing with scalability issues
- Dealing with security and vulnerabilities issues
- Dealing with MySQL query optimization
- 5+ years of experience working with PHP with a major OOP framework
- MySQL
- Modular/Pluggable architecture
- REST API architecture
- Testing framework (PHPUnit or similar)