PHP Developer

HeyBlu is a Romanian e-money licensed fintech company that aims to provide financial services to customers and merchants operating in the e-commerce space. Our vision is to increase the financial power of e-commerce buyers & sellers, making a positive impact in their everyday lives. We do this by extending the purchasing power of retail shoppers in easy and convenient ways, while also helping e-commerce merchants with the capital needed to grow their business.

Being part of eMAG group, the largest e-commerce player in Romania, HeyBlu is focusing on building a financial offering for customers and merchants operating within the eMAG ecosystem by implementing an “embedded finance” approach. As part of the global Prosus group, we share the same purpose: “Improving everyday life for billions of people through technology”. In the HeyBlu team we are building an entrepreneurial, results-driven, agile, and collaborative culture based on the core values we share across the group: ownership, accountability, innovation, adaptability and customer focus.

What you’ll have to do:

• Code Development: Create high-performance, reliable, and maintainable code while having a broader architectural vision.
• Application Design and Implementation: Design, implement, and support multiple applications across various platforms.
• Proactive Improvement: Maintain a proactive mindset, staying updated with the latest technologies and best practices. Identify areas for improvement and propose viable solutions.
• Collaboration: Work collaboratively with other technical team members to design, implement, troubleshoot, and resolve critical issues.

How we’d like you to be:

Required Skills and Experience:

• With PHP Expertise: 3+ years of experience in a PHP environment.
• With Object-Oriented Programming experience (OOP): Experience with OOP, including the use of namespaces, traits, and interfaces, with a strong understanding of encapsulation, abstraction, inheritance, and polymorphism.
• With Design Patterns knowledge: Knowledge of design patterns such as Dependency Injection, Factory, Builder, Observer, and Facade.
• With Solution Architecture experience: Experience with scalability, service-oriented design, and application configuration (parameter ranges, number of rounds, skill chances).
• With PHP Frameworks knowledge: Symfony or Laravel.
• With Automated Testing experience: Experience with automated testing tools like PHPUnit.
• With Database Management knowledge: Proficiency in MySQL and NoSQL databases (e.g., MongoDB, Couchbase).
• With Messaging and Parallel Processing knowledge: Understanding of AMQP (e.g., RabbitMQ) and parallel processing in PHP.
• With Version Control experience: Experience with Git/Stash.
• With Environment Management knowledge: Knowledge of Linux and Docker.
• With API Development experience: Experience with REST APIs and documentation tools (e.g., Swagger).
• With Soft Skills: Flexible, communicative, and a real team player. Ability to manage multiple simultaneous projects and adapt to a fast-evolving environment.

Preferred Qualifications:

• With Payment Integration experience: Experience with payment-related projects (e.g., PayU payment service).
• With Domain Driven Design (DDD) experience: Experience with DDD projects.
• With Advanced Testing Tools knowledge: Familiarity with Cypress, Testcafe.
• With Agile Environment experience: Experience working in an Agile Scrum environment.
• With Performance Monitoring experience: Use of performance, monitoring, and logging tools (e.g., Kibana, NewRelic).
• With Automation Tools experience: Experience with automation tools (e.g., CloudFormation, Terraform, Puppet, Ansible).
• With Cloud and Container Orchestration experience: Experience with cloud services and container orchestration (e.g., Amazon Web Services, Kubernetes).

Curious to find out more about the next step in your career? Apply now and if your experience is relevant for the role you wish, we will give you a call for more details!