Mid-Senior PHP Developer - Symfony

About MeritStory

At MeritStory, we design and develop high-quality custom software products for our clients across a wide range of industries.

We are a small but growing group of individuals who take pride in performing quality work. We see each project not only as an opportunity to apply our accumulated experience but also as a learning process. We constantly modify and improve our workflow based on feedback loops, aiming to develop software with fewer defects while keeping productivity high at a sustainable pace.

Position

As a software engineer at MeritStory, you will be joining a cross-functional team of experienced individuals.

You will spend most of your time producing high-quality code backed by tests for our clients' projects. But since the process is an ever-changing one, you will also be welcome to participate in planning, workflow improvement, retrospection, research, and technical design activities.

Our typical project takes anywhere from 3 to 12 months, so you will have the opportunity to widen your knowledge by touching on a multitude of business problems while working alongside the same colleagues.

Requirements

Ideally, a candidate for this position should meet the following requirements:

• 2 years of professional work experience in this field.
• Attention to detail and high personal standards of quality.
• Open-mindedness and willingness to question current practices and learn new things.
• Passionate about producing efficient, well-structured, and understandable code covered with tests.
• Experience with modern PHP (PHP7 and later) and MVC frameworks (like Laravel, Symfony, Zend, or Yii2).
• Experience with designing and developing RESTful APIs.
• Experience with handling relational databases (e.g. MySQL, MariaDB, or PostgreSQL).
• Proficient communication in English.

Bonus points for:

• Experience with DDD.
• Experience with deploying to cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or other).
• Experience with automated testing.
• Familiarity with DevOps and the 12 factor app architecture.

Why MeritStory?

• Join a small group of motivated individuals where engineers make actual decisions and where everyone, including the founders, participates in hands-on software development.
• Participate in various meaningful projects: make healthcare more intelligent, accounting processes more efficient, and financial transactions more trustworthy.
• Flexible working schedule.
• Competitive salary up to 6,500 EUR gross before taxes (depending on experience).

Apply now!

• Please send us your resume with an optional cover letter to [email protected] or reach us here via LinkedIn, and we will get back to you in a few days.