PHP Developer (remote)

Kharkiv Office of a fast-growing Internet Marketing Agency located in Boston, USA, has an opening for a responsible, independent, and easy going expert in PHP development. A successful candidate will become a part of the team working on Campaign Management Platform development in a highly Agile environment.

REQUIREMENTS:

Back-end skills:

• MySQL: maintenance, optimization, knowledge of complex queries (JOIN, UNION, subqueries), understanding of InnoDB engine; experience in working with large databases is desirable (over 10 million records);
• PHP: deep understanding of OOP (classes, objects), MVC models and ORM techniques, Laravel or Symfony experience is a big plus, ability to work with other developers' code;
• Experience with building REST API and using JSON is desirable;
• Expertise in building scalable real-time applications would be a good plus;
• Experience with inter-process communication, caching and message queues, knowledge of Redis could be a plus;

Front-end skills:

• Strong experience with JS (Javascript) and familiarity with modern ECMAScript specifications is a MUST;
• Understanding Asynchronous Javascript programming;
• Basic knowledge of one of the modern JS frameworks i.e React, Angular2;
• Experience with VueJS is a plus;
• NodeJS basics is REQUIRED;
• HTML/CSS: basics.

Other skills:

• Experience in working in a team using Version Control Systems (GIT preferred);
• Linux/Unix: SSH/SFTP, bash commands, cron, Nginx/Apache web server;
• English proficiency: technical writing level is sufficient.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Optimize existing Contacts Database;
• Write complex requests for extracting data;
• Write complex, clean, well-documented, reusable code;
• Protect good performance and stability of the system;
• Develop different components of Leads Verification Platform;
• Improve User Interface and User Experience;
• Apply bugfixes and improvements based on users and QA reports;
• Allocate tasks and priorities for the team;
• Understand project goals and convert them into clear tasks for developers.

JOB LOCATION OPTIONS: remotely from home.

WORKING HOURS: aligned with the U.S. Holidays and Eastern Standard Time business hours (Boston), from to (Ukrainian time) incl. 30 min break.