Senior PHP Engineer

Gfinity Plc

London, UK

3 years ago

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Headquarters: London, UK
URL: https://gfinityplc.com

We are Gfinity! A leading international Esports business created by gamers for the world’s 3.2bn gamers!

We are looking for an experienced Symfony 4 and REST API developer to join our very talented team. We build community and esports-centric products that impact millions of people worldwide. As an API engineer, you will play an integral role and have an immediate impact on the experience of over 14 million gamers each month.

Our team has a passion for building amazing tech for the gaming world. Our primary focus is in the emerging esports industry where we innovate and push boundaries to build amazing experiences for our partners and clients.

This role is based remotely but ideally, you will be able to accommodate an 8 am – 5 pm Eastern US time.

Key Responsibilities

Work as part of our team developing REST API microservices powering our esports, competition, and community platforms
Contribute to architecture and planning for our technology stack and our products
Write extensive PHP unit tests, aspiring for 100% code coverage
Write clean, maintainable PHP code which follows best practices
Support our operations teams during key activations

Technical Requirements

Minimum 6 years experience working with PHP
Minimum 2 years experience working with Symfony 4 and/or 5
Minimum 2 years experience building REST APIs
Familiarity with queue systems such as RabbitMQ and Amazon SQS
Familiarity with MySQL, Redis, and Mongo / DocumentDB
Strong, demonstrated experience writing PHP unit tests
Deep understanding of class abstraction and interfaces
Familiarity with Docker
Understanding of event-driven architecture, microservices patterns and JSONAPI standards

Other Requirements

Strong written and verbal communication skills
Ability to think and work independently
Willingness to share on-call duties and work some weekends, sometimes including late hours, as needed

Bonus Experience

Prior experience with esports or gaming
GraphQL experience
Javascript experience
AWS technologies including EC2, ELB, RDS, Lambda, ElastiCache, S3, ECR
NGINX
Ansible
Bitbucket Pipelines

We are striving to create a diverse and inclusive environment. We encourage all applicants to apply for our roles and not for a moment think that anything will make us discriminate against them. We value and actively seek diverse talent!

Location: Remotely based

Get to know us a bit better:

https://www.gfinityplc.com/

To apply: https://weworkremotely.com/remote-jobs/gfinity-plc-senior-php-engineer