Job Description
Senior PHP Developer
Time Commitment
Part-time
Start date
As soon as possible
Location
Remote
Client Country & Time Zone
United States
America/Los AngelesMeeting time
9:00 am
Client company description
The client is a company with 10 years of experience building software tools for HR departments. They are now looking to migrate their existing Payroll Application to a more modern stack.
Expected contract duration: 3-6 months
It is likely that they will need someone long-term beyond that to maintain and extend the application.
Overview
You will be collaborating with the back-end team with migrating their existing Payroll app to a modern PHP stack.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Migrate our existing payroll API from Java to PHP
- Recommend a PHP framework (e.g. Symfony or Laravel) supporting libraries
- Set up automated deployment and CI/CD
- Optimize SQL queries that currently have performance issues
- Implement logging and monitoring tools to run health checks
- Create and write a suite of automated tests
- Coach the existing developers on the new tech stack and processes
The client uses Jira for task management and Slack for daily communication.
GitLab will be used for source control.
Relationships: Who you’ll be working with
You will be reporting to the CTO who is managing the project and you will also be working with a Front-end Developer and Back-end Developer.
Preferred Regions
The client's preference is for candidates to be located in Latin America, Canada or Europe
Notes
The client is flexible on the geographic location of the developer. Could be Latin America, Eastern Europe, Asia, etc.
