Backend PHP Developer - Region Erembodegem - VK022

For one of our clients, active in de Gaming and Entertainment sector, we are looking for a PHP Developer. As Back End Developer you are assigned to one of the development squads and responsible for building and maintaining a functional and stable software platform, as well as for contributing to the development of various online applications that our customers use to access our very popular entertainment products. 
 

Your responsibilities: 

• You translate functional requirements into high-performance code, building new or optimizing existing functionalities and features of applications; 
• you deliver clean, reusable and clearly documented code; 
• you continuously optimize the performance of your code and conduct UI tests; 
• you work according to SOLID principles and utilize design patterns; 
• you review the code of peers and are open to feedback about your own code; 
• you collaborate closely with technical analysts, product owners, other developers, QA and site reliability engineers (devops). You report to your dedicated squad lead; 
• you work according to Agile principles (Scrum framework), effectively starting your days with a stand up and contributing to biweekly sprints; 
• you contribute to the overall software development lifecycle, this includes helping to define design requirements and supporting QA and deployment activities; 
• you keep abreast with new technologies and actively contribute to our guilds. 

Your profile: 

• You obtained a higher degree in Computer Sciences, ICT Engineering or similar; 
• you have several years of professional experience in building and implementing back end technology, ideally in the e-commerce or game development industry; 
• you are an effective communicator who uses appropriate language at all levels -both spoken and written- in English and (ideally) Dutch; 
• you have a solid expertise in PHP (e.g. Symfony) and (ideally) in Node.js, or you are driven to get started in coding in Node.js; 
• you are experienced in testing your own code (phpspec, phpunit, codeception); 
• you are experienced in using several of the following: MySQL, GIT, REST, MicroServices architecture, Atlassian stack (JIRA, Confluence, Bitbucket); 
• you are (ideally) experienced in using some of the following: Redis, RabbitMQ, ElasticSearch, Docker and Kubernetes; 
• you are (ideally) experienced in writing code according to SOLID principles and utilizing design patterns (e.g. CQRS); 
• you are experienced or have a strong interest in HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript.

• Open to freelancers or employees
• Long term projects
• Interesting environment, that keeps up with the latest IT developments