Software Engineer- 3 To 5 years (PHP)

Role & responsibilities

• Approach work from an Agile mindset applying practices and principles wherever possible 
• Attend and participate in all Sprint events to achieve desired outcomes, taking a leading role where required to ensure events have a good outcome  
• Collaborates closely with all team members to take a shared responsibility for the sprint backlog and their success 
• Maintain broader code quality through peer code reviews  
• Identify improvement opportunities and agree on actionable improvements 
• Be available, on a best endeavors basis, to support the resolution of Severity 1 and 2 incidents for applications owned by your team between 7am and 10pm local time on local working days as well as providing retrospective feedback 

Preferred candidate profile

Role Requirements E=essential, P=preferred 

E - Demonstrable experience of mentoring other more junior Engineers 

E - Bachelors Degree in a relevant field of work or equivalent professional qualification or experience 

E - Strong hands on technical skills across some or all of the Microsoft Stack and other key technologies: 

• PHP 
• MS Azure 
• Javascript / Typescript (React preferable) 
• MySQL 
• PHPUnit  
• Elasticsearch 
• GIT 
• XML, JSON 

E - Excited by technology, with up to date understanding of latest technologies 

E -  Ability to learn new languages and technologies quickly 

E - Familiarity and good experience with Agile development methodologies and the complete product lifecycle from inception to delivery 

E - Good understanding of software architecture, issues and design 

E -Good understanding of data and databases 

E - Proven track record or working as part of a team to deliver software solutions to meet customer needs 

E - Thorough and detailed approach with the ability to identify appropriate user/business solutions 

E - Some experience of code reviews and coding standards 

E - Excellent communication skills - both written and verbal 

E - An analytical mind