Senior PHP Backend Engineer

These are the kinds of things you’ll be doing in your role. We’re a startup so this is not an exhaustive list. We’re keen to know how you can help us in other ways too.

• Design and implement APIs
• Develop software and automated testing for our EV Charging components
• Keep track and ensure compliance with industry specifications and standards
• Enjoy working in a cross-functional agile team
• Help us maintain our CI infrastructure and build for observability and resilience.
• We’re relied upon to drive critical infrastructure, so security is at the heart of what we do
• Triage and troubleshoot operational and customer issues

Requirements

These are some of the kinds of things you may have done, it’s not an exhaustive shopping list, but if you’ve done some of the things on this list then this role could suit your skills.

• Experience working with PHP, Symfony, PostgreSQL, and the various AWS services for over 5 years
• Design and develop scalable API-driven services in PHP. Experience developing mobile applications using React Native is a plus
• Experience of leading technical development of a product and proactively helping the team with technical challenges
• Experience of product development
• Building on AWS using serverless and containers like Lambda, API Gateways, and ECS or Docker
• Datasource experience such as PostgreSQL and Redis
• Experience of EV charger solutions and standards such as OCPP
• Security-driven processes such as DevSecOps
• Working with Agile/Kanban methodologies
• Quality and testing initiatives such as Unit testing, TDD, and BDD and associated frameworks. Building for observability and monitoring solutions such as CloudWatch and Sentry
• Infrastructure and deployment management using Terraform, CloudFormation, etc.
• IoT or Connected Device experience
• Excellent communication and teamwork skills

We’re looking for a Senior PHP Backend Engineer to help us work on our cloud-based platform to deliver the future of Smart, Intelligent EV charging. You will be thinking ahead on our technical roadmap, ensuring the features we are building will enable us to scale the product to as many users and clients as possible. You’ll be thinking about how features and modules can be built in a maintainable and reusable way while finding the right balance to deliver features quickly. You’ll mentor and advise other engineers in the team, and encourage knowledge sharing and a collaborative environment to work in. You’ll be driven in developing your own skills, evaluate new technology trends, and identify how to leverage these to improve the ways we work.