Backend Developer

About the position

Our client is looking for a talented and highly motivated backend software developer with a strong interest in backend development and a desire to work with large complicated systems.

Requirements:

• Engineering / IT degree or similar
• 2+ years' industry experience - PHP 8, MySQL/MariaDB, GIT source control
• Experience in designing databases, planning, and coding backend systems, and
  efficiently working through debugging and refactoring jobs.
• Writing automated tests and proficiency at documentation.

Advantageous:

• Elasticsearch (or related no-SQL DB experience)
• REDIS (or other in-memory DB/caching solutions)
• Automated testing/TDD
• Linux
• Amazon Web Services
• Microservice design and architecture
• CD/CI pipelines, Java, C++, Kotlin, Swift, JavaScript, HTML/CSS

Responsibilities:

• Contribute opinions and make decisions as a team.
• Be kind and considerate to opinions and needs of team members.
• Work with product developers to design new features.
• Help to formulate and write specifications.
• Rapidly design, build, test, and iterate features.
• Design and build new microservices.
• Take personal responsibility for their work.
• Research and test new technologies.
• Interact directly with clients for feedback.
• Ask questions and offer constructive criticism.
• Have as much fun doing all the above as possible.

Desired Skills:

• PHP
• Git
• MariaDB
• MySQL
• CD/CI
• HTML
• CSS
• Backend Development

Desired Work Experience:

• 2 to 5 years Software Development