Lead PHP Developer based in dubai at Global {M}

Job description

Introduction

Come and help kick start a PHP revolution in one of the most exciting eCommerce companies in the region.

Are you a talented super ninja programmer? PHP has no secrets for you and you have used it with MySQL as well as NoSQL databases? Do you see potential for optimization at every corner? Interested in being part of a platform that handles millions of requests per day? Continuous integration, auto-scaled rolling releases and cross-service communication are all part of the daily gig. Our clients Software Engineers write and maintain clean, high-caliber code. They are the engineering brain behind our web product that is reliable, user friendly, responsive and loved by its many users.

Responsibilities

• Gather up-to-date and in-depth understanding of the code bases and technology stack and actively contributing to product development within a month of joining
• Coach and mentor a team of up to 30 developers.
• Be up-to-date and passionate about new technologies. Evaluate their potential for the company to continuously drive change.
• Ensure and improve performance, reliability, flexibility and maintainability of the company's PHP applications.
• Support test-driven development, continuous integration and continuous deployment.
• Collaborate with and provide technical consultation to Product Owners, Frontend Developers, Technical Account Managers and Business Intelligence Analysts.
• Foster continuous knowledge transfer between front & backend developers.
• Gain a detailed understanding of the complete architecture of our products and services and the position of your product stream in it
• Develop elegant solutions for complex problems
• Research and apply industry trends as part of your daily work
• Write and maintain exemplary code following the companies programming practices;
• Actively advocate best practices on a companywide level and ensure the cleanup of suboptimal code
• Create unit and feature tests of your own work and expand existing test for their existing codebase
• Contribute to the reliability and efficiency of our current code base
• The People Team
• Liaises with the other back end and front end engineers within your product stream, the QA team, the design team and your Tech Team Lead.
• Leaders
• The Leaders of this company are some of the most pioneering eCommerce business minds in the world.

Knowledge

• Mastery of PHP in-depth knowledge of one PHP web framework of your choice; ? Mastery of database management technologies such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis, Riak, and Solr
• Strong knowledge of different caching layers and strategies
• Strong knowledge of Git version control system, including cherrypicks, merge strategies, bisect, rebasing and reverts
• Strong knowledge of scalability and high availability systems
• Strong understanding of build process management and continuous integration and continuous deployment
• Strong algorithms and data structure background
• Solid understanding of testing methodologies (feature unit tests, component tests, integration tests, etc.)
• Good understanding of REST, API design, optimization
• Understanding of provision tools like Docker
• Strong background of Agile Methodologies such as Kanban, Scrum and XP. Ability to act as a Scrum Master within a team
• Ability to be a technical mentor within the team of front end and back end engineers
• Working knowledge of JavaScript, jQuery and Vanilla JavaScript as well as working knowledge of Rich Internet application frameworks like Angular JS

Benefits

• Great salary
• Constant sun ;-)
• Flexible working hours
• No stupid meetings
• Work with the latest technologies
• Fun environment and brilliant atmosphere
• Awesome product