Senior PHP Engineer at goodlord

Job Description:

About the role:

No two days are ever the same at Goodlord so what you’ll be up to will vary. The pace we move at also means priorities will change and you’ll need to be comfortable with this (we’ll support you!). But these are the things that will be core to your role and will keep you busy.

We're a PropTech scale-up who have created a revolutionary, cloud-based software platform to bring together agents, landlords and tenants online and process all the paperwork electronically. Our small, self-organising squads build the platforms and tools to help us achieve our mission. We're disrupting an industry, so there's plenty of thorny, real-world problems to solve on behalf of the agents, landlords and tenants that use our system.

If you want to develop new skills, there'll be plenty of opportunities: many of our current team joined as back-end or front-end developers, and are now working across the full stack.

We are keen advocates of agile delivery; we work closely with our stakeholders and use Kanban to iterate quickly on customer feedback. You'll be learning every day, from the team around you and senior members of the team who you'll have daily exposure to.

Visit our careers in tech page to find out more about the team and the way we work.

Our Tech Stack:

The application comprises a PHP (7.4) app that communicates with a number of internal (Scala) and third party services via HTTP.

Our UI is a mixture of jQuery and React (using Typescript) and we’re actively pushing to have everything in React.

The app and all services are deployed in Docker containers running in a Kubernetes cluster on AWS.

We use Github for version control and Circle CI for building, testing and deploying code to the staging and production environments. All data is persisted in a MYSQL (AWS Aurora) database.

Our small, self-organising squads build the platforms and tools to help us achieve our mission. We're disrupting an industry, so there's plenty of thorny, real-world problems to solve on behalf of the agents, landlords and tenants that use our system.

If you want to develop new skills, there'll be plenty of opportunities: many of our current team joined as back-end or front-end developers, and are now working across the full stack. We are keen advocates of agile delivery; we work closely with our stakeholders and use Kanban to iterate quickly on customer feedback. You'll be learning every day, from the team around you and senior members of the team who you'll have daily exposure to.

Responsibilities:

• Work with Product Managers, business stakeholders and other Engineers to understand end user problems and implement appropriate solutions
• Migrate legacy implementations of the code base to use more modern approaches Address issues raised within the application that prevent users from achieving their goals
• Identify bottlenecks in the development process and suggest/implement improvements Continuously improve the code base to make it easier to understand and more fun to work with
• Perform self defined tasks geared towards your personal and professional development

Requirements:

• Willingness to learn new technologies and engineering practices
• Demonstrable commercial experience in building complex web applications using - Symfony, Laravel or other modern web framework
• Ability to write good, clean and well-tested code
• Experience working in an agile team with a delivery focus and a keen eye on what the customer needs.
• Any experience with the following would be a bonus: Typescript, React, Functional Programming, Test automation, AWS, DevOps. We're also happy for you to learn these on the job.

About you:

• You want to work in an environment where your input is valued and you can make a real impact
• You’re a pragmatic craftsperson who strives to find the right balance between - quality and delivery
• You have a passion for solving end user problems, big or small
• You understand the challenges and rewards that come with working in a startup environment and look forward to taking them on

Company Benefits

Why you'll love being a Goodlordian: Aside from the role, the people, our culture and our mission, we have some other things that make Goodlord a pretty awesome place to be. Here’s a few favourites amongst Goodlordians (check out our careers page for more info):

• 🚀Grow with Goodlord: Your development is important to us. Have a goal in mind? Share it with us and you can use your £1000 annual development fund to support it. We guarantee you’ll learn loads and develop both personally and professionally at Goodlord too!
• ❤ Your well-being matters: Bi-weekly coaching with Sanctus to provide Goodlordians with a safe place to talk and support your mental health.
• 🌴 Unlimited holiday and flexible time off: We encourage Goodlordians to make use of their unlimited time off to enjoy the world, recharge and reboot. We also offer time off for volunteering and training, so you can give back to the community and - pursue your passions.
• 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦Supporting your family: We offer Goodlordians of all genders a generous 3 months of fully-paid time off to look after their new arrivals.
• 🍾 Our team: We’re an energetic, sociable and talented bunch who are super passionate about what we do and determined to make a difference. We’re all in it together, we learn from each other, we’re genuine and we don’t have time for politics.
• 🐶 Four-legged friends - We have plenty of these... dogs are allowed in our lovely new office - so whether you love a Miniature Daschund, Miniature Schnauzer or if Whippets and Cockapoo's are more your thing then we have them all (not all at once mind!). We also fully embrace diversity and Fritz the cat has made more than one appearance!

Interview Process

Our interview process is extremely slick and typically done over the course of two!

• Have a screening call (Google Hangout) with one of our Tech Leads, this will be more of a "get to know" call that allows both parties to ask questions and make sure everyone is aligned. (45min call)

• This is split into two parts although can be done on the same day: coding exercise&values session (2 hours total)

  After this unless there are any questions either party would like to firm up then an offer will be presented if successful! :)