Senior Backend Engineer, PHP

Apryse
Gent, Belgium
about 2 months ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Experience required
5 years minimum
Working hours
Regular working hours
Job source

Tech stack

PHP (Programming Language) Microsoft Windows Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud Amazon S3 Software as a Service Cloud Computing Software Quality Code Review High-Level Architecture MySQL Scrum Methodology Software Engineering
+5 more
Symfony Backend Amazon Relational Database Service Information Technology Docker

Job description

We are looking for a talented Senior PHP software engineer with a winning combination of skills and experience to join our team. You will be developing for the eSign solution: Xodo Sign, creating innovative new features, and maintaining our existing codebase. As a software engineer at Apryse, you will be involved in all aspects of the software development process and encouraged to provide input on future projects and the company’s direction. We strive to use new technology and techniques, so a love of learning new things is a must.

Responsibilities:

  • Work as part of the Scrum product development team, implementing new features and improving existing functionality of the Xodo Sign platform.

  • Engage in all stages of development, from requirements gathering and analysis to high-level design, implementation, testing,and maintenance.
  • Conduct research and prepare technical proposals and demonstrations for new projects and product enhancements.
  • Perform code reviews to ensure code quality, consistency, and adherence to best practices.
  • Collaborate closely with fellow engineers,offering support, knowledge sharing, and problem-solving as needed.
  • Champion and promote engineering best practices across the team to drive continuous improvement.

Requirements

Do you have experience in Windows?, Do you have a Master’s degree?, * 5+ years of experience and strong proficiency in modern PHP, MySQL, and RESTAPIs.

  • Experience with securing, benchmarking,optimizing, and scaling high-availability applications.
  • Proficiency in Docker.
  • Solid understanding of software development methodologies, tools, and processes.
  • Strong analysis and problem-solving abilities.
  • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, both written and verbal.
  • Solid experience with AWS Cloud (EC2, S3, RDS)
  • Experience with the Symfony framework is an asset.
  • Experience with SaaS is a plus.
  • A degree in computer science or computer/software engineering is a plus.

Benefits & conditions

  • Competitive salary commensurate with experience & qualifications.
  • A comprehensive extended benefits package.
  • A great team environment and resources, supporting you to do the best work of your life and providing unlimited career growth potential.
  • Highly autonomous and entrepreneurial environment.
  • On going support for learning development so you can continue to master your craft.
  • Work with the hardware you’re most comfortable with (Windows or Mac)
  • Diverse and inclusive workplace where we all learn from each other.
  • Excellent work-life balance with a flexible remote work environment.

About the company

As the industry-leading provider of document software development (SDK) technology powering everything from traditional desktop software to innovative web and mobile applications, at Apryse we are committed to delivering cutting-edge technology solutions that empower our clients to achieve their goals. With a broad international portfolio of combined companies, products, and leading technologies, we are actively changing the way the world works with documents to make work better and life simpler.

Customers like IBM, Autodesk, DocuSign, Boeing, Microsoft (and many more!) come to us to realize their web and mobile strategies for document management, editing, and collaboration as the #1-ranked commercial document SDK of choice for companies worldwide. As a result, you can find our document technology in thousands of solutions, including those of household names, used by millions across virtually every industry. Our XODO app alone has 25M unique installs - and counting - and the highest ratings among PDF productivity apps on the largest online app marketplaces.

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