Lead PHP Engineer

Serial number: 01020010

Company profiles:

Founded in 2012, Our client is now Europe’s leading car trading platform. As an independent multi-brand platform, The group is aimed primarily at the used car trade. Company size: 2000+.

Location: Berlin

Our PHP engineers play a central role in the development of a variety of products, overcoming a range of various challenges. Taking full ownership for products: you are designing it, you are building it, you are running it, you are monitoring it. We are on the state that quality is the most important for us. We are actively testing code and performance, daily improving our environment  by increasing automation and introducing new tools.

We are developing a micro services every week following hexagonal architectural pattern. We admit that we have legacy code, but in 90% of cases we extract business domain and migrating to new shiny microservice. We are fully dockerised on development and production (infrastructure as a code, thanks to Terraform). We are following of DevOps practices thats allow us to have a few deployments per day.  More about us: php 7.*, newest Symfony, fully on AWS. EC2, ECS, SQS, SNS, S3, Lambda, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis, ELK stack, Jenkins and more.

What you will do:

  • Lead an agile team of senior crossfunctional developers, always aiming to bring our diverse tools to excellence
  • Design software architecture and implement critical software tools for our different platforms
  • Constantly improve yourself by learning new technologies and concepts following best industry practices
  • Create efficient, testable, and reusable PHP modules, including responsibility for clean and reusable code
  • Take technical responsibility for projects within an international environment

What you will learn:

  • How to deal with an expert team, building technical solutions and confronting them with production traffic
  • How to work in a high scalable environment and with complex code, with a world-wide team
  • Deliver features end-to-end, from product decisions until deployment to live production

What you should bring:

  • A Computer science degree (or similar) or relevant professional experience in web engineering
  • 5+ years of work experience with PHP backend development, OOP and MVC frameworks, like Symfony
  • First experience of leading a team of at least 6 developers
  • Passion for “clean code” and quality standards, like SOLID principles and design patterns
  • Good English communication skills

What you will get:

  • Colleagues striving for excellence while using the latest technologies
  • Relocation support to Germany which includes assistance with visa, apartment search and refund of moving costs
  • A beautiful and modern office in the heart of Berlin (Kreuzberg, Bergmannkiez) with free drinks & fruits
  • Team and company events like Hackathons, International Nights, Annual Company Parties, Football, Team Nights and more
  • Attractive discounts on different services like gym, public transport, car purchases and others
  • Flexible working hours
  • Annual salary reviews weaved into our feedback cycle
  • German Language courses for free, in the office

You can send your resume to our mailbox: traumhoffnung.it.talent@gmail.com
Or leave us a message on the website. Our professional consultants will contact you as soon as possible.