Lead Software Developer

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SAM Learning is a leading EdTech (online learning) package, mainly for English Secondary Schools.

You will lead a small development team and help the business to maintain the existing solutions as well as specify, develop and roll out new features and software components.  Reporting to Product / General Manager.

100% Remote - Working from home - with periodic team meetings.

40 Hours per week - 8 am to 5 pm plus on call for urgent fixes.  (Annual leave as per handbook).

Your responsabilties and tasks

Translate business requirements into technical specifications and help manage project priorities and timelines.

Coordinate the testing and release cycle

Oversee server maintenance and monitoring

Control the architecture during the extension of the existing and creation of the new software components

Activity oversight and support towards other developers in the team

Code reviews and enforcement of the code style and code quality

Hands-on development of the critical software components (backend/frontend)

Take care of the system security, performance and uptime

Assist in case of an emergency and system failures

Set up and administer the internal development tools: VCS, Continuous Integration, Issue Tracking

Current technical stack

CentOS, docker

Backend: PHP 7, Zend Framework 1, Slim Framework

Frontend: jQuery, React

MySQL, Redis, Memcached, Sphinx

AWS EC2, RDS

Your desired qualities

5+ years of development experience with PHP and Javascript

Experience with Unix/Linux server administration, good console shell skills

Good knowledge of RDBMS and MySQL in particular, experience with query optimization and dealing with big data amounts

Experience with technologies listed in the Technical Stack is a plus in particular: React, Sphinx, Memcached and Redis

Very good spoken and written English