Job Description

The Role

Company is looking for someone who understands just how flexible the PHP programming language can be, and enjoys, neh, is proud that the majority of the internet uses the PHP language.

The ideal candidate will have experience in PHP frameworks such as WordPress, Symfony, Drupal, CodeIgniter but also has been involved with big single PHP files with inline CSS/HTML/(My)SQL/PHP. Company is looking for an advocate of best practices and someone who is willing to be opinionated about what they believe in when it comes to building successful programming projects.

Company is a fully distributed company so you can work from anywhere, but we ask that you be able to commit to at least 5 hours of overlap with New York time (ET), Monday through Friday.

What you’ll do:

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  Review and analyze existing PHP sites for ways to improve and/or provide advice on how to migrate off antiquated monolith systems. Implement analyses from start to finish.
  


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  Work with clients to communicate how and why existing PHP code works or doesn’t.
  


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  Create and maintain product roadmaps, feature backlogs and product documentation, and user stories.
  


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  Understand who the end user of a project is and how to build and/or suggest front-end interfaces to help them accomplish their tasks as simply and practically as possible.
  


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  Participate in team and company retrospectives to help define and refine working agreements and processes to help us work more effectively together as a team.
  

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  A proven track record of leading the delivery of digital products and services that delight customers.
  


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  3+ years of similar experience in a digital agency, consultancy, or equivalent setting where you were accountable to several client engagements.
  


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  An obvious drive to grow and learn from the highly-skilled team around you
  


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  Experience with large-scale open source web technologies (such as Drupal, WordPress, and React).
  


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  Experience and/or a desire to work remotely.
  


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  Ability to work efficiently, sometimes under tight deadlines
  

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  Front-end framework experience like ReactJS/AngularJS/VueJS
  


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  Relational database experience and understanding of how to improve DB performance
  


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  Server administration and/or setups like Apache/NodeJS/Nginx and a general comfortability in the Linux environment
  


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  Familiarity with Atlassian tools, such as Jira and Confluence.