CW | PHP Engineer

• Hands-on development: Write, review, and maintain high-quality, scalable and secure backend code primarily in PHP using Symfony frameworks.
• Backend architecture mastery: Define and advocate for coding best practices, microservices architecture guidelines, API design principles, testing strategies, and maintainability principles across teams.
• Microservices development: Design, build, and maintain microservices that are resilient, observable, and performant. Champion service-oriented architecture principles and distributed system best practices.
• Database expertise: Design and optimize database schemas, queries, and data models across various database technologies. Ensure data integrity, performance, and scalability.
• AWS cloud infrastructure: Leverage AWS services to build scalable, cost-effective solutions. Work with services like EC2, RDS, Lambda, S3, API Gateway, and other relevant AWS offerings.
• API design & integration: Create and maintain RESTful APIs and integrate with third-party services. Ensure APIs are well-documented, versioned, and follow industry standards.
• Security champion: Advocate security and privacy best practices across backend applications, from secure API endpoints to safe handling of sensitive data and proper authentication/authorization mechanisms.
• Observability & monitoring: Implement comprehensive logging, monitoring, and alerting using analytics tools. Build observable systems that provide insights into performance, errors, and business metrics.
• Agile methodology: Work effectively in sprint-based development cycles. Participate in sprint planning, daily standups, retrospectives, and deliver features within sprint commitments.
• Tech mentorship: Guide engineers through informal mentoring, code reviews, and pairing in writing secure, maintainable and well-tested backend codebase. Elevate engineering thinking through high-quality feedback and modelling best practices.
• Department-wide engagement: Present technical decisions, demos, or initiatives to the broader engineering department and advocate for backend improvements company-wide.
• Proactive improvement: Identify and drive improvements to tooling, architecture, and developer experience before being asked.
• Polyglot mindset: Comfortably pick up and evaluate new tools, libraries, or frameworks where appropriate. Understand when and why a new technology is (or isn't) a good fit.

Core Technical Skills:

• You're a highly experienced backend engineer with expertise in PHP, specifically Symfony framework.
• Strong experience with microservices architecture and distributed systems design.
• Extensive working knowledge of databases (e.g. MySQL, PostgreSQL, NoSQL databases).
• Proven experience with AWS cloud services and infrastructure as code.
• Solid understanding of RESTful API design principles and best practices.
• Good English communication skills (both verbal & written), especially in the global software development environment.

Quality & Security Focus:

• You care deeply about shipping high-quality, robust, and secure backend systems.
• You have a deep understanding of backend security principles (authentication, authorization, data encryption, secure coding practices) and how to implement them.
• You've worked on large-scale backend applications and know how to balance pragmatism with scalability. 

Integration & Automation:

• Strong knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and deployment strategies.
• Familiarity with analytics and monitoring tools for system observability such as DataDog.

Collaboration & Leadership:

• You're a strong communicator and can influence across squads and disciplines.
• You're comfortable navigating ambiguous requirements and creating clarity for others.
• You regularly lead by example through clean, simple, and extensible code.
  

System Thinking:

• You've built observable backend systems — you know how to instrument code for metrics that matter, and how to use them to debug and optimize performance.
• You proactively improve systems, not just code – advocating for better testing, observability, and deployment strategies.
• You're a strategic thinker who can align backend architecture with broader business goals.
  

Continuous Learning:

• You're constantly learning and exploring how emerging backend technologies might be
  applied to real business problems.
• Experience working in agile/sprint-based development environments.
  

Nice to Haves:

• Experience with containerisation technologies (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Familiarity with message queuing systems (SQS).
• Knowledge of caching strategies and technologies (Redis, Memcached).
• Experience working in a product-led company or SaaS environment.

Due to the large number of applicants, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

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