Lead PHP Developer

PeakActivity is a fast-paced environment, with incredible customers, providing an unbeatable opportunity for someone who wants to learn and grow in their career. Our client is a leading digital performance-based marketing company and they are looking for a Lead PHP Developer. You will be a part of an innovative, high-performance team that is committed to delivering applications using cutting-edge technologies in a dynamic and agile environment.

Onshore candidates only

• Are you accountable for your work and have a sense of urgency to deliver a great product
• Do you care about making sure you are doing a great job - not just pushing out crap code?
• Are you capable of seeing "around the corner" as you are writing code to anticipate things that will be coming up or to make things better?

If you answered yes to all of the above, we want to speak with you.

Responsibilities

• Developing new functionality within our software applications to meet our customer and internal needs, based on tickets.
• Performing development, integration, test, and documentation duties of the work, to ensure transparency in the work, and completion of tickets to be worked on for the Sprint Goal.
• Ensure that the application meets performance standards for stability and resource utilization.
• Write clean code that follows best practices and the team's standards.
• Follow the accepted standards for developers that include writing unit tests, performing peer code reviews, design reviews with the team, and determining test plans.
• Work as part of a Scrum or Kanban team on a project and will be actively involved in our process.
• Attend our Sprint Planning Meetings, as we work to determine the work we will commit to in our next sprint.
• Be part of the Daily Scrums as we "Walk the Board" to determine our progress for the next 24 hours.
• Work with the team to determine estimates for Product Backlog Refinement.
• Communicate and work with the team as issues arise.
• Ability to multitask and prioritize multiple incoming requests.
• The above is a list of the responsibilities that best represent our working conditions today. The job responsibilities can change over time as we adapt to changes needed by the business and our software development process.

Requirements

• At least 5-7 years of active Software Development as a Developer.
• At least 4 years of PHP development experience, and is current with Best Practices
• At least 2 years of experience with at least one PHP Framework (ie: Laravel, Codeigniter, Zend, Symfony, Yii, etc)
• Experience with React and Node.js is a plus
• A solid understanding of Object-Oriented Programming, and a good knowledge of Design Patterns
• Experience with building, and consuming Web Services (GraphML, REST, XML Feeds, SOAP, etc).
• Leadership and people management skills.
• Organized with attention to detail.