We are looking for a PHP Developer responsible for managing back-end services and the interchange of data between the server and the users. Your primary focus will be the development of all server-side logic, definition and maintenance of the central database, and ensuring high performance and responsiveness to requests from the front-end. You will also be responsible for integrating the front-end elements built by your co-workers into the application. Therefore, a basic understanding of front-end technologies is necessary as well.

Responsibilities

• Coding and implementation using best practices to produce high performing/scalable/secured modules
• Proactively analyze, design, simplify, code, debug, and unit test software, including features, defects, ad refactoring
• Provide estimates, review existing delivery dates and work requirements with current knowledge set, analyze possible alternatives and communicate options and their affects, both technical and upon delivery date
• Participate in code reviews
• Generate technical documentation that meets organizational standards
• Experience in creating front and back-end applications
• Other activities deemed essential to the success of a project/customer delivery

• Understanding the fully synchronous behavior of PHP
• Knowledge of object-oriented PHP programming
• Understanding of different design patterns used in web technologies
• Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3
• Understanding accessibility and security compliance
• Strong knowledge of the common PHP or web server exploits and their solutions
• Understanding fundamental design principles behind a scalable application
• User authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments
• Integration of multiple data sources and databases into one system
• Familiarity with limitations of PHP as a platform and its workarounds
• Creating database schemas that represent and support business processes
• Familiarity with SQL/NoSQL databases and their declarative query languages
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git