Senior PHP Web Developer - Paris, France - emagine Consulting

Description

Project Information:

We are looking for a talented Web Developer who has extensive experience with PHP, WordPress, and SQL databases to join our team. The ideal candidate will collaborate with our team on maintaining and enhancing features for our sports vertical products. You will engage with central and product teams, contributing innovative ideas aligned with performance objectives and business needs. Testing and debugging code to ensure production readiness, as well as fostering teamwork, are integral aspects of this role.

As a Web Developer you are expected to:

• Crafting clean, well-documented, and sustainable code

• Developing custom WordPress themes and plugins

• Adhering to standards aimed at optimizing Google Core web vitals

• Ensuring overall site performance.

• Extending popular WordPress Plugins using hooks & filters

• Creating and managing technical documentation for applications

• Collaborating with UX/UI designers, developers, and test engineers in an Agile environment

• Share and implement ideas, best practices, and processes towards the improvement of the products

• Abide by industry and company software development standards

• Conduct code reviews and give feedback to other developers

• Collaborate with third-party service providers to integrate their services into the applications

• Participate in sprint planning, estimation, and retrospective meetings

• Work independently on tasks and test your own code.

• Work in close partnership with cross-functional teams and management

Success in this role means:

• Contributing to a collaborative team effort aimed at enhancing the user experience and optimizing application performance for both users and bots.

• Writing DRY, clean, maintainable, and scalable code. This code should be well-documented, allowing other team members to understand and work on it independently.

• Participating in the development of processes aimed at validating hypotheses and identifying the need for mobile applications across our product range.

• Demonstrating strong communication skills in English, particularly through effective collaboration within the team.

Job Requirements:

• Tech degree or equivalent experience (minimum 5 years)

• Proven software development experience in PHP

• OOP programming - comfortable with classes, building code that can be modular and reusable.

• Good understanding of the SDLC

• PHP 8+, MySQL/MariaDB, AJAX, GIT, GitLab flow

• Experience with Docker

• JavaScript + CSS/SASS + HTML

• Experience with Tailwind CSS

• Experience in Agile workflows

• Passionate about self-improvement and web technologies

• Strong English communication skills (written & verbal)

• Ability to address change with a positive attitude and a willingness to learn new ways

• Available to work +/- 2 CET

Nice to have:

• Experience with Roots/Sage

• Experience with CI/CD systems

• Experience with building/consuming REST APIs

• Basic understanding of SEO

• Understanding of Core Web Vitals