PHP Symfony Developer

PHP Symfony Developer - Leeds - Hybrid (£38k - £50k)

This is an excellent opportunity to join an established, award winning eCommerce development company, work on their own proprietary ecommerce platform, gain experience working with Amazon Lambda and work in a structured Test-Driven Development environment.

THE COMPANY:

For over 18 years, this Leeds based, award winning software company has been providing eCommerce solutions to its long-standing clients, the likes of which include Marks & Spencer's and Europe's largest automobile parts supplier. Not only do they deliver tailored Shopify and BigCommerce based solutions, but they have also created their own headless eCommerce platform on Symfony.

As one of the very few companies with a 4.6 out of 5 rating on Glassdoor, along with their long-term employee tenure and benefits (listed below), you can be sure that you will be happy there.

• Commuting allowance (£20 - £40 a week)
• Personalised training and development along with reserved professional development days.
• Regular performance-based salary reviews, clear KPI's and career progression
• Performance awards
• Hybrid remote working (1 day a week in office)
• Flexitime - 9.30am - 4pm, and the option to take a 2hr lunch when needed.
• New MacBook Pro
• Balanced, well managed workload (each of the 5 teams have their own dedicated PM and QA's)

THE ROLE:

You will be working on the next version of their eCommerce platform, moving it to a serverless environment using Amazon Lambda, and building end points to be consumed by the frontend, as well as creating and supporting high-performing and complex eCommerce stores.

This will entail:

• Designing, developing and maintaining secure, scalable and high-quality web applications
• Create new, innovative, secure and scalable features for existing web applications
• Troubleshoot, debug and optimise applications
• Work with QA team to implement appropriate testing and mitigate regression
• Provide backend development resource to the wider business
• Build reusable code and libraries to improve efficiency and maintainability

REQUIREMENTS:

Essential:?

• Experience working in backend web development.
• Minimum of 4 years using PHP
• Solid understanding of Symfony (at least 3 years)
• Use of ORMs such as Doctrine (and ideally SQL knowledge)
• Working regularly with APIs and Web Services (REST, SOAP, etc)
• Ability to switch context and focus regularly

Desirable:

• Working knowledge of payment gateways
• Familiar with the use of Docker / Composer

Interested? Contact Philip Boltt at Lorien Global

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