Symfony (PHP) Developer

United States Digital Space LLC; United States; Hybrid; USD 61,000 - 88,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Casual dress

Work from home

Job summary

The Company in London is looking for a Symfony developer to join our app development studio. You will help create back-end APIs and services for consumer-facing apps used by 100,000s of users. We emphasize high quality, maintainable code, PHP 8.5, Symfony 8.0 and static analysis.

Our office is in central London with hybrid days and remote work options. You will join a collaborative team and contribute to exciting projects across multiple industries.

Qualifications

• Symfony development experience, minimum 1 year.
• Database design and Doctrine ORM usage with performance focus.
• REST API design principles and modern PHP coding.
• Git version control proficiency.

Responsibilities

• Turn product designs and specs into APIs used by front-end apps.
• Follow internal processes, standards and coding practices.
• Refactor and maintain existing projects as needed.
• Participate in project planning and report progress.
• Investigate and resolve bugs reported by users or clients.
• Submit work as Pull Requests and respond to reviews.
• Provide feedback to improve processes and practices.

Skills

Symfony development

Database design

Doctrine ORM

REST API design

PHP coding

Git version control

Performance optimisation

Tools

API Platform

Docker

AWS

Terraform

Kubernetes

Doctrine ORM

Job description

We are looking for a Symfony developer to join our app development studio. You will be helping to create back-end APIs and services for the apps we produce. Our clients range from new startups to established businesses, and you will get to play a key part in contributing to exciting consumer-facing apps with 100,000s of active users. See some of the apps we've developed at https://www.the company.com

At the company, we take pride in writing high quality, performant, and maintainable code. We stick as close as we can to the latest technologies (PHP 8.5, Symfony 8.0, etc.), developments and best practices in the ecosystem (e.g. heavy use of static analysis).

Experience Needed

• Symfony development (minimum 1 year).
• Database design and Doctrine ORM usage, including understanding of performance optimisation.
• REST API design principles.
• Writing modern PHP.
• Git version control.

Preferred Experience (not essential)

• API Platform (Symfony library)
• Infrastructure/deployment: Docker, AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes.

Other Requirements

• Excellent written and verbal communication.
• A passion for building things, and learning / expanding skills.
• Great care for quality of work produced and attention to detail.

Key Responsibilities

• Working as part of a team to help turn product designs and specs into APIs used by the apps our front-end developers build.
• Following the development team's internal processes, best practices, coding standards, etc.
• Performing routine maintenance, updates and refactoring to existing projects.
• Participating in the team's project planning processes, and clearly reporting back progress in our project management software.
• Investigating and resolving bugs or issues reported by users or clients.
• Submitting work as Pull Requests, and responding to code review comments by the team.
• Providing feedback to help improve our processes and best practices used across our projects.

Office

• Our office is located walking distance from London Bridge, Borough, Southwark, Waterloo and Blackfriars stations.
• Many great restaurants, shops and attractions within easy reach, such as Borough Market and Tate Modern within a 5 minute walk.
• Our office is inside the Metal Box Factory, a vibrant and recently renovated former factory, containing many communal spaces and facilities.
• Our collaborative days in the office are Monday, Tuesday and Thursday, with the others flexible to work from home (but of course you're welcome to work from the office on those days too).

Why Us?

• Join a friendly team who appreciate the need for work-life balance.
• Keep things interesting by working on innovative consumer-facing products spanning a wide range of industries.
• A budget for professional training.

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Pay: £45,000.00-£65,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Casual dress
• Work from home

Ability to commute/relocate:

• London SE1 0HS: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in London SE1 0HS