PHP Laravel Developer at Vascon Solutions

PHP/ Laravel Developer

We’re looking for a PHP programming rock star… We have an amazing application, a great team of developers and a growing need for even more skills to help us build more. If you are a strong PHP developer (preferably using a framework like Laravel), we should talk. We seek a leader, team player and a programmer who can roll up sleeves and crank out great work. Help us manage our resources, define a great product roadmap and scale our business to higher levels.

Key Responsibilities

• Interface with clients and the business team to determine business requirements
• Identify and manage project work structure, tasks, deliverables, milestones and dependencies
• Work with software developers to create plans, tasks, time estimates and timeline for delivery
• Provide day to day project management of team to achieve the project goals for their assignments
• Integrate user-facing elements developed by front-end developers
• Build efficient, testable, and reusable PHP modules
• Solve complex performance problems and architectural challenges
• Monitor project implementation process
• Manage and organize project documentation
• Ensure that all project work is reviewed and meets quality & accuracy requirements
• Analyze & manipulate data from client and provide feedback
• Advise management on human resource requirements
• Analyze project success vs. challenges to improve on processes to make each new project more successful than the last
• Think outside the box! Identify workarounds to achieve our goals

Experience Requirements

• 2+ years of PHP application development, preferably in Laravel, Zend, Code Igniter or similar framework
• Experience with TDD in Laravel; unit testing in phpunit and/or phpspec (unit testing and testing driven practices to front of line)
• Excellent communication skills
• Self-starter mentality
• Organized and highly technical
• Responsible and driven to succeed
• Creativity and innovation is a key success factor
• Experience with setting up testing automation (e.g., Selenium) moves you to the top of the stack

Behavioral Requirements

• Integrity is fundamentally important to you
• Authentically curious, you love learning and improving yourself
• A desire to do brilliant things!
• You are naturally entrepreneurial
• You are street wise
• Team player with good collaborative skills
• Ability to quickly adapt to change
• Enjoys a fast-paced, dynamic, challenging work environment

Required Education:

• University degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent preferred