Unravel Studios – PHP Developer

Company Introduction

Unravel Studios is a digital marketing and software engineering firm. Our company culture prizes itself on candid feedback and communication, casual wear (but covered footwear), and a complete ban on toxic behaviour – no politics and no ‘business people’ clashing against developers. We are nothing without our talents, and we strive to give everyone a good working environment. Did I also mention that we love our developers very, very dearly, and give them full reign to architect their solutions without handholding? Our offices are built in a co-working manner – if you need anything from anyone, they are just a few desks away from you! If this arrangement interests you, please look through the job description below!

Job Description

We are looking for a PHP Developer responsible for managing back-end services and the interchange of data between the server and the users. Your primary focus will be the development of all server-side logic, definition and maintenance of the central database, and ensuring high performance and responsiveness to requests from the front-end. You will also be responsible for integrating the front-end elements built by your co-workers into the application. Therefore, a basic understanding of front-end technologies is necessary as well.

Responsibilities

• Integration of user-facing elements developed by front-end developers
• Build efficient, testable, and reusable PHP modules
• Solve complex performance problems and architectural challenges
• Integration of data storage solutions (databases, key-value stores, blob stores)

Skills And Qualifications

• Strong knowledge of PHP web frameworks (Laravel, Yii)
• Understanding the fully synchronous behavior of PHP
• Understanding of MVC design patterns
• Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3
• Knowledge of object oriented PHP programming
• Understanding accessibility and security compliance (SSH, Google Cloud Console Security Management)
• Strong knowledge of the common PHP or web server exploits and their solutions
• Understanding fundamental design principles behind a scalable application
• User authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments
• Integration of multiple data sources and databases into one system
• Familiarity with limitations of PHP as a platform and its workarounds
• Creating database schemas that represent and support business processes
• Familiarity with SQL/NoSQL databases and their declarative query languages

It would be GREAT if you can do/have:

• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git
• Server-side management tasks (creating scripts that do automated backups, screening for bugs and errors)
• Graduated from university. Preferably a CS/IS degree.
  
  However, it honestly doesn’t matter that much even if you don’t have that. We hire for heart and a good base skillset. 🙂

Best regards,
Gilbert
Innovation Lead at Unravel Studios