Senior PHP Developer (Architecture Focus)

Sr. PHP Developer (Architecture Focus)

100% REMOTE (LATAM)

The work is in the Toronto time zone (Canadá)

FULL TIME POSITION

We’re looking for candidates who are eager to work on a live application with real users, and who want to contribute to both the technical and business requirements. Ideal candidates will be proactive in innovating solutions for technical challenges and driving the evolution of our platform.

The Ideal Candidate Will:

• Have strong knowledge of the PHP language and have experience with frameworks like Laravel, Symfony, or similar. • Experience implementing and using RESTful APIs in a microservice architecture.

• Have usable understanding of front-end technologies.

• Understand the concepts of object-oriented programming.

• Have familiarity with optimizing interactions with backend storage, such as MySQL.

• Have experience developing in a largely distributed environment.

Architecture Experience and Work for this Role:

In addition to PHP development and backend responsibilities, the Senior Developer will also contribute significantly to the system architecture and design. This includes:

• System Design & Architecture: You will be responsible for leading the design and implementation of the overall system architecture. You will work on designing microservices, API integrations, and data flows to ensure optimal system performance.

• Cloud Infrastructure and Deployment: Experience with AWS or similar cloud platforms is critical.

• High-Availability and Reliability: You'll design systems to ensure high availability, fault tolerance, and redundancy. This includes working with distributed architectures, load balancing, and managing distributed databases to ensure the application can handle traffic spikes and recover from failures seamlessly.

• Performance Optimization: As part of your architectural role, you will actively engage in performance analysis, identifying bottlenecks, and optimizing system performance. You'll be responsible for tuning database queries, refactoring code for scalability, and implementing caching solutions.

• API Design & Integration: You will provide input on the design of RESTful APIs to integrate with external systems and services. This includes ensuring API performance, security, and flexibility, as well as adhering to best practices in API versioning, documentation, and testing.

• Data Architecture & Modeling: You will contribute to decisions about database structure, data storage, and schema design. This includes optimizing complex queries, implementing indexing strategies, and managing data across relational databases and NoSQL systems.

• Security Architecture: You will ensure that security considerations are embedded throughout the system design and development. This includes implementing encryption strategies, securing APIs, handling sensitive data securely, and ensuring compliance with security best practices.

Expert Level Skills Required In:

• PHP (7+ years) • MySQL (4+ years)

• OOP Concepts (3+ years)

• JSON

• Remote Processing

• Advanced level of English (oral and written)

Intermediate Level Skills Required In:

• Linux-based systems administration

• Knowledge of open-source solutions like AWS

• Proficient understanding when committing code to Git, Branching, and Merging code

• Integration of multiple data sources and databases into one system

• Payment Gateway Integration

Additional Skills Preferred:

• Large volume email dispatching

• React • Javascript

• HTML5

• CSS3

• RabbitMQ

• Elasticsearch