Summary

As a Senior Senior PHP Developer with extensive experience on Symfony(primarily)/Laravel at Deerhold, you’ll design, build, and maintain scalable web applications with a focus on PHP and Symfony Framework. You'll optimize performance, integrate RESTful APIs, and work closely with UX/UI designers to ensure responsive, user-friendly interfaces. Additionally, you’ll contribute to code quality through reviews, mentor junior developers, and stay updated on new technologies to drive efficiency and reliability in our applications.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain APIs using Symfony, ensuring adherence to best practices and scalability requirements.
• Optimize API performance by managing caching, data handling, and implementing efficient queries.
• Develop and execute unit and integration tests using PHPUnit to ensure reliability, functionality, and maintainability of APIs.
• Write clean, modular, and testable code, adhering to industry best practices.
• Develop and maintain comprehensive software documentation.
• Create technical documentation for APIs, including specifications, data schemas, and guidelines for third-party developers.
• Stay up-to-date with the latest front-end technologies, tools, and best practices, and evaluate their adoption for project needs.
• Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to improve development efficiency.
• Work on bug fixing, performance tuning, and improving application reliability.
• Collaborating with other developers (front-end, back-end, mobile app, etc.) and project managers to move the software projects faster

Requirements

• 5+ years of software development experience in PHP
• Experience writing backend server code using PHP
• Experience with PHP development frameworks such as Symfony
• Familiarity with frontend development using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
• Familiarity with RESTful API creation, integration and best practices for working with backend services.
• Experience working with MySQL or another RDBMS
• Strong problem solving, debugging, and troubleshooting skills
• Experience with modern version control systems like Git
• Strong communication and collaboration skills