Senior PHP Software Engineer

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We are looking for a senior PHP engineer to ensure good coding practice throughout the team, including code reviews, documenting code and choices and knowledge sharing with other team members.

This job is ideal for someone looking to become a knowledge leader in their team and for the next step in their career!

The right candidate will be responding to time critical issues, understanding how to balance delivering projects on time, finding good/better solutions when building software with the ability to be "technology agnostic" and testing out different solutions to find the best fit for every challenge.

Responsibilities:

Our environment is data driven, you’ll be working on data processing, learning different ways of extracting and structure data.

Write CLI code (Crawlers, Extractors etc.) and high performance APIs, libraries and frameworks that support large, complex, high volume data processing pipelines (thousands of documents processed per second)

Essential:

Commercial experience in the PHP Stack and strong object-oriented skills (experience using modern frameworks preferable)

Understanding of NOSQL Databases (MongoDB preferred), Redis/Memcache

Exposure to Command Line / Console Applications using PHP

Exposure to building large scale APIs

Exposure to Xpath and Regular Expressions

Familiar with the linux command line, as well as configuring and maintaining linux servers

Experience with VCS (GIT/SVN)

Desirable:

Knowledge of Search Technologies: ElasticSearch/SOLR

Queuing systems: RabbitMQ / Kafka

Vagrant / Docker

Behat / codeception

PHP 7.x

TDD / BDD

Continuous Integration (Jenkins)

Contribution to Open Source projects

Qualifications:

Degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience

Excellent understanding of algorithms, software architecture and design

Ability to collaborate within an Agile team and communicate effectively

The successful candidate will be an excellent team player and have:

Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a high attention to detail

 A hunger for knowledge, always keen to learn new technologies and new tools

About DHI Group, Inc.

DHI Group, Inc. (NYSE: DHX) is a leading provider of specialized websites and services for professional communities including technology and security clearance, financial services, energy, healthcare and hospitality. Our mission is to empower professionals and organizations to compete and win through specialized insights and relevant connections. Employers and recruiters use our websites and services to source and hire the most qualified professionals in select and highly-skilled occupations, while professionals use our websites and services to find the best employment opportunities in and most timely news and information about their respective areas of expertise. To learn more about our brands please visit www.dhigroupinc.com.

In addition to a competitive salary, annual bonus and salary reviews, we offer:

Opportunity to work in a motivated, fast-moving team

Explicit commitment to high quality software engineering

 A great opportunity to learn and acquire new skills in frameworks and technologies including AWS

Real opportunity to apply your knowledge, skill and expertise to the team

Group Pension scheme

Group Life insurance

Private health coverage and half price Virgin Active gym membership/gym membership contribution

25 days of annual leave per year; summer hours

Childcare vouchers

Interest free season ticket loans

Cycle to Work Scheme and on site shower facilities

A great office (complete with games, ping pong, foosball and weekly social and wellness events) in the heart of Shoreditch

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Please note only successful applicants will be contacted. The successful applicant must have the right to work in the UK upon starting the role.