Senior PHP Developer (Laravel) at Interaction Design Foundation (IxDF)

What you will be doing

You will join our team as our Senior PHP Developer (Laravel) and your main responsibilities will be to:

• Help develop the interaction-design.org website, which is a mix of a classic multi-page application with a REST API for PWA:

  • Write clean and maintainable back-end code (we always use the latest stable Laravel and PHP versions).

  • Constantly increase test coverage (we use PHPUnit, Laravel Dusk, cypress.io, and love TDD).

  • Participate in refactoring and eradicating technical debt — with the goal of ultimate developer experience.

  • Optimize infrastructure for better scalability (we use AWS, CDNs, Nginx, Redis for caching, Laravel Forge, GitHub actions + Deployer for CI/CD).

  • Improve our components and Design System in collaboration with our front-end team (we use Blade components, Web components and Vue.js for PWA).

  • Review code from your colleagues (we love PR reviews as a great way to share knowledge and find optimal solutions for any challenge).

  • Keep code quality optimal (we use GitHub workflows with PHPCS, Psalm (error level 3), Rector, PHPCPD, Deptrac and other tools to help you).

• Contribute to open-source projects and external packages (our own and the ones we use).

• Help yourself, and the whole team, get better and better. For example, by improving our handbook at https://handbook.interaction-design.org. Or use our library of evergreen literature on back-end and front-end subjects to broaden your horizon.

• Actively participate in planning and standup video calls (we have 3 meeting-free days per week for ultimate focus time)

• Regularly ship your code (we usually deploy a few releases per day: zero downtime, just a few clicks, no sweaty palms).

What you will get

• Expert-level colleagues who contribute to the Laravel framework and packages from its ecosystem.

• Zero-effort development environment based on Docker.

• Battle-tested guidelines for PHP, JS, CSS and Laravel code.

• Up to date domain, product and project documentation.

• Great library of books and courses to keep your knowledge and skills at peak level.

• Smooth and well-organized workflows for collaboration with other teams.

• The chance to work on a popular and industry-leading product with an enormous, global community — as well as a worthy mission.

About you

• You have expert knowledge of PHP.

• You have expert knowledge of Laravel or Symfony.

• You have 6+ years of experience working professionally with OOP.

• Your work is based on a solid foundation in computer science fundamentals from data structures and algorithms to design patterns.

• You are an engineer by mindset and always try to understand how things work under the hood.

• You love to learn through doing. You’re ready to put in some hard work to expand your skills.

• You speak and write acceptable English – not perfect English, just acceptable – since you will be working with people from the US, England, Canada, Denmark, Belarus and Australia among others.

• You are a team player and you don’t bring your ego to work.

• You are self-motivated and self-disciplined and thus work well in a flat hierarchy with lots of freedom.

• You love to have creative freedom, make independent judgments and live up to the responsibility that comes with that freedom.

• You love to create tangible results—every hour and every day.

• You love to make a positive impact on the world and the lives of others.