JOB PURPOSE:

As a Senior PHP Developer:

• Join the production team to build new and innovative products for the company.
• Plan engineering sprints to meet the objectives of the Product team.
• Deliver production-ready solutions

As a DevOps engineer:

• Build, test, and maintain the infrastructure and tools to allow for the speedy development and release of our SaaS products.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

Main Task 1:As a Senior PHP Developer, you are tasked to join the production team to build new and innovative SaaS products.

You’ll need to focus on 2 main areas

Technical Design

• Work alongside architecture team to design technical solutions
• Hands-on software engineering – 70%+ of your time in the code for this task
• Peer review other developers code and provide feedback on improvement and compliance with acceptance criteria
• Champion and adhere to – test-driven development
• Help develop and adhere to – software engineering guidelines and standards
• Identify architectural, technical debts and devise the action plan
• Review and ensure the products’ scalability to meet the market growth challenges

Product Development

• Work with Product Team to interpret and understand product goals
• Provide insight and feedback on the product development process
• Work with the product management team to interpret and communicate product goals
• Facilitate technical task breakdown and estimating
• Participate in showcases – demonstrate how your work achieves the goal
• Participate in retrospectives – ensure we are always learning and adapting to challenges and change

Main Task 2: Your second role at DMSpro is as a DevOps engineer. You are tasked to:

• Build and set up new development tools and infrastructure to meet SLAs
• Work on ways to automate and improve development and release processes
• Set up security scanning to test and examine code written by others and analyze results
• Ensure that systems are safe and secure against cybersecurity threats
• Identify technical problems and develop software updates and fixes

JOB REQUIREMENTS:

Education:

• Bachelor or College degree in IT or Software Engineering
• Azure DevOps Engineer Certificate or any professional DevOps certification is desirable

Experience:

• At least 5 years of backend engineering experience
• At least 3 years in senior or development lead role
• At least 2 years working within a truly agile development process
• At least 1-year hands-on experience working on a SaaS software product
• Able to use Git and follow git flow workflow
• Familiar with CI/CD build and deployment processes
• Experience working in a DevOps culture
• Experience building REST based APIs – from design through to implementation and integration support
• Understanding of microservices/Service Oriented Architecture design
• Experience in one or more backend languages (PHP, Javascript, Golang)
• Experience with MYSQL DB Design/optimization.
• Experience with DevOps services (Azure is preferred)

Technical skills:

• Write high quality, maintainable code.
• Write automated tests that align with the product requirements.
• Spend time reviewing peers work and have your work peer reviewed.
• Document your solutions to support other engineers that need to interface with your work.
• Your solutions are designed to scale both with traffic and data.
• Manage your time effectively
• Communicate with your team and product managers to estimate and plan features

Soft skills:

• Highly positive – even in the face of adversity
• Highly supportive – always available to those that you need to support
• Highly professional – keep calm under pressure, hear all aspects, collect all facts and make the best call
• Adaptive – if the situation changes, you shape your team to fit
• Communicative – breaking down business context for developers