Full Stack PHP Engineer

We grow epic careers in software development and this Full Stack PHP Engineer wonder woman (or superman) will be a driving force behind our London development teams continued success. Its going to be extremely fast paced so the role is suited to someone with energy and enthusiasm who can really own this pivotal role that is crucial to our company’s global growth plan. We require a self starter that sets the tone, not one to need micro managing and is comfortable with hefty responsibilities like monitoring our AWS environment while the mothership in New Zealand gets some sleep!

Initially you'll be tasked with learning the intricacies of ezyVet. Get up to speed with the environment quickly and you’ll have a variety of responsibilities working with an epic team of web developers like: migrating our entire frontend to ReactJS, from our legacy PHP.

We have multiple core parts of ezyVet built using ReactJS together with Redux. Your challenge is to continue to refactor and build simple yet scaleable solutions for complex workflows that involve juggling multiple priorities using agile practices adding new functionality along the way.

You'll have freedom to focus on your strengths and develop your interests but the truth is you'll be challenged like you've never been before. This is a huge opportunity for a budding Full Stack PHP Engineer to growth at the same break neck pace as ezyVet is growing.

A bit about our stack
Our legacy public API is written in PHP with Lumen framework and is currently used by more than 100 partners (and a mountain of others lining up to integrate) as well as our 5 internally built mobile apps, which are built in React Native (3 of these exciting apps are currently being migrated from Swift to React Native). This API is currently being replaced with a full Laravel stack. This allows us to build APIs for our partners, for the new ReactJS frontend as well as for our mobile apps.

Auckland HQ is where the bulk of our engineering horse power is based but our London operation is the turbo charger and both continue to grow. We run a pod structure (currently 7 across London & Auckland), follow an agile methodology, and collaborate on all aspects of the development stack to produce elegant code.

What your typical day would look like?

• Start the day with with some light banter with your team. In normal times looking out over SW15 from our open plan Zeeta House office above Putney Station.
• Flex those fingers, warm up that mechanical keyboard and get ready to code your heart out. We're talking perfectly structured framework objects, building beautiful code, refactor and repeat
• Stand up – we value collaboration here
• Tackle that coding problem, find solutions and work on transferring legacy features to an API that will be consumed by a brand new UI framework, partners and our mobile apps
• Grab some lunch and kick back in the office maybe head down to the local gym or check out the local eats at your door step.
• Tackle some more problems...
• Afternoon coffee top up, or tea if you fancy
• Spend the afternoon in GitLab, reviewing fellow coder's code, coach some junior team members in best practice and keep collaborating!

Could you be who we’re looking for?

• Solid web development experience
• Proven delivery and action orientated
• Experience with PHP | MySQL | AWS
• Experience with unit testing (PHP Unit)
• Strong OO design patterns, modular design
• Experience building and consuming APIs (JSON, SOAP)
• Scrum master experience is a bonus ensuring the team executes agile principles and follows the processes and practices
• Ideally we're looking for: PHP/Laravel 7+ (can be interchanged for C/C++,C#,Java, other OOP languages depends on ability) javascript (any)

Nice to have: ReactJS, Typescript, AWS or other cloud architecture

Bottom line is we're looking for drive, passion, and a willingness to learn – if we’re preaching what your practicing, we’d love to hear from you but you'll need the right to live and work in the UK for this to have wheels.