Envision Employment Solutions, LLC is currently hiring Software Engineers - Back-End for a well-known multinational company located in New Cairo, Egypt.
Job Summary:
We are looking for a PHP Engineer who is a talented ninja PHP programmer and is interested in being part of a platform that handles millions of requests per day. You will participate in conceiving, designing and delivering the most complex products and pushing the boundaries of perfection. We are a team of 4,000 ambitious and curious people who are building trading platforms that are used by hundreds of millions of people every month to buy and sell almost anything.
Responsibilities:
- Hit the ground running Gather up-to-date and in-depth understanding of the company’s code base and technologies stack within weeks;
- Actively participate in planning sessions around new product features, deliver detailed roll-out and roll-back strategies for releases;
- Research and apply industry trends as part of your daily work;
- Create unit tests in accordance with our established standards to cover assigned work;
- Write and maintain exemplary code by following best programming practices;
- Actively contribute in post-release maintenance issues;
- Develop elegant solutions for complex problems;
- Pioneer reliability and efficiency of our current code base, platforms and/or core systems;
- Impact on the direction and scope of the company’s technical vision within your stream;
- Contribute in defining the architecture of your product steam;
- Gain a detailed understanding of the complete architecture of our product and the position of your product stream in it;
- Participate in peer-programming sessions and provide guidance on tasks, irrespective of complexity or scale;
- Code review all major pull requests, defining programming standards and providing constructive feedback;
- Provide and share a broad knowledge of technologies and architectures and function as a mentor within the scope of your product stream and outside of it when required;
- Capacity to push back requirements when incomplete;
- Ability to handle the entire software development end to end life cycle;
- Liaise with the other back end engineers within your product stream, QA team, design team and your Tech Team Lead;
- Liaise with other tech teams to share innovations from your stream;
Requirements:
- 5+ years of professional back-end software engineering experience;
- Experience working on high-traffic and large-scale web products;
- Experience with web infrastructure, distributed systems, performance analysis and search infrastructure;
- Driven to gain insight into different new and old technologies;
- Been on at least one death march and know exactly why some things are to be avoided;
- 5+ years of experience in analysis, design, coding and implementation of next generation web applications in PHP;
- 2+ years of experience in API based architectures e.g. SOA;
- Ability to prioritize tasks and quickly and adjust in a rapidly changing environment;
- Maintain and ensure optimal software quality within the assigned product;
- Being actively involved in forming a product vertical team of excellent back end engineers that deliver high-quality code;
- Passionate about making a difference, a self-starter who takes initiatives and follows through them.
Perks & Benefits includes
- Basic Salary (negotiable based on experience)
- Dynamic & innovative environment
- Medical Insurance
- Social Insurance
- Life Insurance
- 15% Annual Bonus
Envision Employment Solutions is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace dedicated to pursuing and hiring a diverse workforce. Come join us!