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Senior PHP Developer
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Modern Tribe is looking for a Senior PHP Developer with advanced PHP experience to join our agency.
This role will offer you the opportunity to become a leader at Modern Tribe. You will be helping to build and inspire an awesome dev team working on innovative and large scale Laravel and WordcPress installations. We are looking for a backend developer that is already actively working in PHP on a day-tso-day basis. We want you to be as excited and as passionate as we are about what we are creating with PHP.
Please note: This is not an entry-level position. Experienced PHP developers with team leadership experience only!
If this sounds like an exciting opportunity to you, read on!
Responsibilities
While we’re looking for exceptional technicians, the right team member also contributes to the overall success of the team. This is what we’re looking for beyond lines of code.
Collaborate
Collaborate with the project strategist and other developers to articulate the best technological solution for the problem at hand
Analyze
Analyze user story acceptance criteria to ensure technical feasibility and point out potential issues
Lead
Lead a team of developers to make sure we can deliver on time, on budget and on scope
Architect
Architect and develop new features, custom functionality and frontend integration
Quality
Write high quality code with readability, efficiency and maintainability in mind
Develop
Develop and maintain complex Laravel and WordPress based applications. Implement complex features using modern PHP code and patterns
Who You Are
We love working with each other because we have built a culture that suits us well. We work primarily with freelancers and coordinate their talents for large projects. To be on our team, you must be:
- Happy: Where there is a will, there is a way. Having a positive disposition allows us to achieve great things and to support each other.
- Helpful: Always looking for ways that you can help others.
- Curious: It is essential that you have a passion for learning. Technology changes daily, and life has a way of constantly raising the bar.
- Accountable: Our clients expect us to get the right thing done on budget and on time. Communicating expectations and meeting them is the cornerstone of success.
Specific skills and proficiencies
You will use your deep knowledge within PHP to solve both simple and complex challenges, across a variety of applications and websites. When paired with your understanding of best practices in accessibility, performance, and architecture, you ultimately produce code and experiences that are scalable and delightful.
We know not everyone is an expert in everything. Your foundational knowledge is important, paired with the ability to learn and improve over time.
Personal Competencies
- sroach to all tasks
- Ability to prioritize workloads and meet deadlines
- Ability to work on multiple projects at the same time and complete tasks in a timely manner
- Ability to work remotely with little-to-no supervision is a must
- Excited to be part of a team with the potential for a long term relationship
- Skilled at clearly conveying technical concepts to both technical and non-technical team members through verbal and written communication
- Experience working in an agency and/or as a contractor
- Fluent English speaker
Knowledge & Experience
- 5+ years experience working as a backend PHP developer on production sites
- 2+ years focused on leading the technical direction of a team and mentoring development team members
- Extensive experience implementing complex WordPress websites and Laravel applications
- Skilled at crafting modern PHP (for example: autoloading, dependency management, dependency injection, templating libraries, automated testing, OOP, and/or frameworks like Symfony or Laravel, etc)
- Excellent understanding of OOP and better practices
- A comprehensive understanding of what it takes to write secure and performant code
- Experience working with at least one automated testing framework
- Thorough knowledge of MySQL
- Thorough understanding of the software development life cycle (i.e. seeing a project through from spec to completion)

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