Remote Job
Senior PHP/Laravel Engineer
Pallo- Posted : 2 years ago
Headquarters: Manchester, England, United Kingdom
URL: http://www.pallo.com
The Role
- Lead design and development of critical system data structures and data models for optimal data storage and retrieval via MySQL/REST API
- Identify slow queries and data performance bottlenecks in existing API services requiring optimisation
- Utilize backend integration services and contribute to increasing & maintaining existing application services API
- Work closely with Designers, Frontend engineers and our exceptionally talented backend engineers to create a world class fintech application
- The role is completely remote with daily stand-up meetings and weekly knowledge sharing
- Experience in data modelling, high volume transaction processing, issue identification and resolution in support of product development and release
- Drive continual improvement in the codebase to enhance stability and performance (error handling and knowing when to refactor)
- Provide training, mentorship, and support to other members on the team
Requirements
Essential
- PHP/Laravel Skills (current versions) with 4+ years' experience on projects
- In depth knowledge of object-oriented PHP and Laravel 8 PHP Framework
- MySQL skills with 4+ years' experience on projects requiring query optimisation and performance enhancements
- Hands on experience with MySQL schema design and query optimization to support REST API's
- Experience working remotely in a collaborative way within and across product teams
- Strong GitHub experience collaborating on development projects
- You embrace continuous learning as an essential part of being a modern developer
- Team player. Comfortable working in a small company environment and "hands-on" in the sense of doing what needs to be done in a small organisation
Desirable:
- Creative and efficient problem solver
- Understanding of Redis and Queues for scaling/optimising data processing
- MySQL performance monitoring and alerting for identifying performance issues
- Experience with Azure Managed MySQL desired but not essential
- Data Security / Privacy best practices for structured data
- AWS S3 secure storage and information retrieval for unstructured data (documents, images etc)
- Feature switches/toggles (i.e., LaunchDarkly)
Benefits
- Competitive Salary
- Opportunity to participate in equity
- Fully remote
- Ability to have your voice heard with input on major product / engineering decisions
- You'll be working with a senior team (CTO former exec at Microsoft)
Skills
- php
- laravel
- aws
- redis
- azure
