Mid-Senior PHP Full Stack Developer, 100% Onsite - R

Next Step Systems - Grand Rapids, MI

Full-time - Mid Level

Onsite - Grand Rapids, MI

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

We are seeking a passionate and skilled Mid-Senior PHP Full Stack Developer to join an expanding team. The ideal candidate will have a strong proficiency in PHP, JavaScript, CSS, MySQL, and RESTful Web Services, and will be willing to work on-site at the Grand Haven, Michigan location. This position is 100% Onsite in Grand Haven, MI and not open for Remote.

Responsibilities

• Architect, develop, and optimize Full-Stack web applications.
• Work on bug fixing and improving application performance.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features.
• Decompose product requirements into technical tasks with estimations.
• Work with various tech stacks including Symfony, Laravel, Node JS, Angular.
• Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency.
• Communicate changes in focus, goals, priorities, and estimations.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent work experience.
• Experience with LEMP stack (Linux, Nginx, MySQL, PHP).
• Experience with PHP 8.2+ and PHP frameworks (Symfony, Laravel).
• Experience with WordPress Plugin Development.
• Experience with modern CSS, Bootstrap, and Tailwind CSS.
• Experience with Data Stores (MySQL/MariaDB, Redis, OpenSearch).
• Experience with RESTful APIs and their best practices.
• Experience with Cloud Services (AWS).
• Experience with Monitoring (Grafana).
• Experience with Agile development methodologies.
• Understanding of Security best practices.
• Experience with building client applications.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Positive and flexible attitude, innovative, and driven to build the best products.

Nice-to-haves

• Advanced PHP Programming (OOP, Error handling, Debugging, Security, Composer and Packages, PHP internals).
• Expertise in JavaScript and relevant frameworks (Typescript, Node.js, Angular, React, Qwik).
• Expertise in RESTful API standards and development.
• Expertise in Root Cause Analysis.
• Proficiency in Responsive Web Design.
• Proficiency in LEMP stack configuration.
• Proficiency with Infrastructure (AWS, Docker, Nginx, Redis, OpenSearch).
• Proficiency with Unit Tests and Test-Driven Development.
• Proficiency with External Integrations (Google, Facebook, Twilio, Mandrill, LinkedIn, etc.).
• Proficiency with performance optimization at various levels of the OSI model.
• Proficiency Mobile App Development.