PHP Developer (Remote) - Global innovative company

We are looking for an experienced PHP Engineer (senior or mid-senior level) who wants to make an impact in a growing SaaS-based company. You will work with a team of experienced developers, taking care of several PHP applications and improving their speed, usability, and stability. Our "bread and butter" is working on our core services which run company jobs, import/export data, manage our storage databases, and perform all the comnpany magic.

The team primarily communicates in Czech/Slovak, but you must be able to converse with other teams in English. For onboarding, you will receive a set of training materials and descriptions of the technologies we use and will participate in a Keboola onboarding program.

About Project

• You will work for company, that built a team culture based on learning, innovation and most importantly trust. As they  grow, they continue to embrace the startup vibe and foster a fast-paced and challenging environment - everyone has a voice and is welcomed to use it. Company is global, and has offices and team members spanning across Europe and North America. Gartner has recognized company as a Data Operating Systems organization.
• You can work fully remotely, but once a month we meet in person at the office.
• We are interested in long-term cooperation.

Come One, Come All 
This company  provides equal employment opportunities to all employees, consultants, and applicants for employment. They do not discriminate on any basis. Here’s the thing: They don’t care what color you are, who you pray to, what gender you identify with, if you have tattoos or your hair is blue. They hire based on skill and culture fit. It really is that simple.

More About Company: 

Company which every day connects data, systems, and people to do their best work all in one place. They are hybrid, multi-cloud data platform that reduces your day-to-day complexity with data by streamlining and automating your data processes and systems, creating a scalable data structure that works best for you, and aligns business and IT in a secure environment so they can do meaningful work together. The company has offices in Chicago, Vancouver, London, and Prague. 

What will you do

What we do and you'll do

• Improve, maintain, and extend our existing features.
• Brainstorm and design new features in collaboration with our product team.
• Refactor our legacy services and enhance the quality of our codebase to support a cloud-agnostic architecture across AWS, GCP, and Azure.
• Test our code and provide code reviews for other team members.
• Actively participate in the design of technical features (participate in design documentation and RFCs).
• Share knowledge and experience in new areas and technologies with individuals outside your team.
• Assist your closest peers.

What do we use

• PHP with frameworks like Symfony and Zend1 (yes, really).
• MySQL and ElasticSearch to store our data.
• Docker for running our apps.
• Cloud services from GCP, Azure, and AWS.
• Terraform for the management of resources of our services.
• GitHub for storing code and Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions for running our build and deploy pipelines.
• OpenAPI an Apiary for specifications of our APIs.
• Scrum best practices for organizing our work.
• Snowflake or BigQuery as analytical databases (as our storage backends).

What we look for and what are the skills you need to have

• 3+ years of experience as a PHP engineer running production services.
• Experience with software engineering concepts and problem-solving.
• Familiarity with large codebases and experience with refactoring.
• Ability to use and build web services (REST).
• Awareness of Twelve-Factor App principles (so you will know whether or not a service features best practices).
• A technical understanding of concepts and how they fit into the "big picture."

And also basic soft skills like:

• An orientation towards results, and the drive to complete a task from beginning to end if needed; a willingness to take ownership.
• Patience and a keen eye for details.
• Being a bug hunter, but knowing what is enough.
• A readiness to ask for help.
• A team player, not an independent worker (We work as a team).
• Self-organization and self-discipline.
• Effective problem management.

A little bit more about the opportunity

• Autonomy within your position. We are focused on outcomes, not micromanaging everything that you do. We love free company movement.
• Work with great brands both locally and worldwide. Ask us who we were working with!
• Work with new industry-leading data technologies.
• The opportunity to create the job you want that fits in with the life you want. We know there is life outside of work, and think fulfilment is achieved when all areas of your life fit together.
• We believe the best people are a bit weird and have an inner engine that drives them.
• We strive to push people for career development.

What we need

• Language requirements:
  • Czech
  • English (spoken and written)

What we can offer

• We are interested in long-term cooperation. We offer you development, not only on the project, but also during educational events, meetups, etc. We want to get to know you as well as possible and work with you individually according to your needs.
• Our IT courses with discounts
• Convenient mobile tariffs
• Possibility to order a Multisport card
• Car sharing
• Possibility to rent work equipment - laptop, mobile phone
• Possibility to use our Hub
  
  
• A little bit more what company offer: 
• Autonomy within your position. company is focused on outcomes, not micromanaging everything that you do
• We are remote first but we also would like to see you in person time to time (once a month or so).
• Work with great brands both locally and worldwide.
• Work with new industry-leading data technologies.
• Work life balance being part of DNA.
• Career development