Our client, a US-based company, is looking for a Lead PHP Developer to be a part of our Kyiv-based Engineering Office.

Founded in 2006, this is a powerful survey and data insights platform that empowers business professionals to make informed decisions. As SaaS application software, it offers user-friendly data collection tools for understanding customers, markets, and employees in real time and communicating this information across an organization. It provides data insights in over 205 countries, with 50K new surveys created and 5M responses collected every week.

The company has tremendous opportunity to continue this growth, based on current market size and the potential for more sophisticated product positioning and a robust sales and marketing engine.

This position will be a part of our continually growing and evolving Engineering team, helping to develop the next generation of our platform and expand our capabilities with new integrations, additional data analytics capabilities, and machine learning. Our platform, built on AWS, is evolving with new MicroServices and VueJS front end apps.

The team works with a host of AWS Services, Docker, ElasticSearch, MySQL, Redis, PHP, Laravel/Lumen, Node.js, Express, Vue, Jest, ES6, scss, Webpack and more. Join our collaborative and fun team of web application developers and help us build the future of insights software!

Requirements:

• 8+ years of professional experience – preferably in a SaaS company 
• Programming experience using a variety of technologies, languages and tools 
• Experience with high-level scripting languages, preferably Python
• Understanding of Amazon Web Services and Web Application Security 
• The ability to self-manage their time, tasks, and priorities 
• Confident humility. Use their knowledge to collaborate with others 
• Prior experience working within a Monolithic codebase
• Experience building microservices
• Experience in PHP, MySQL, JavaScript
• Good communication skills in English

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with a team of developers to architect, build and maintain features to enhance our existing platform
• Work within our agile process; a hybrid of lean, kanban, and scrum
• Follow our branching strategy and process, utilizing git for code versioning
• Write tested, high quality, performant, and efficient code that follows best practices (test-driven development of code that meets compliance and security standards)
• Perform code reviews, share knowledge, and grow your technical knowledge
• Provide insight into milestones and breakdown requirements into actionable tasks 
• Ensures that all stakeholders are fully informed about the progress of each project 
• Communicates regularly with information, updates, and challenges
• Mentor and grow team members by freely sharing standards and best practices to ensure high-quality output

What we offer:

• Interesting and challenging work with a US-based company
• Ability to work on exciting projects involving the newest technologies
• Flexible work schedule remotely. Core hours 12-18
• Diverse and friendly team with great corporate culture
• Paid vacation, holidays, and sick leave
• Modern and comfortable office facilities in Kyiv