Sr. Backend PHP Engineer

About the Job

As part of a multinational team, we are looking for teammates who would be excited to work as a Backend Engineer in PHP to contribute to the continuous advancement and maintenance of our Billing and Payments platform which is responsible for processing 100 million transactions per year.

Technical Skills

• BSc. or higher degree in relevant science, technology, engineering, or math field is a must
• 8+ years of software development experience
• Proven backend development experience
• Ability to provide innovative solutions for complex problems with loosely defined requirements
• Experience working in teams of around 10+ people, and leading large-scale, complex projects
• Excellent knowledge of PHP, including the weak and strong points of this language
• Rich experience in relational databases and SQL, preferably MySQL
• Understanding of how to optimize and fine-tune backend applications that use external data sources and dependencies
• Basic understanding of hardware and network capacity planning
• Good understanding of distributed systems and database infrastructure, including caching, sharding, replication and reliability
• Knowledge of *nix console environment

Personal Skills

The best candidates for this position will need to have strong harmony and a culture fit within Orion Innovation.

They will need to be comfortable working in challenging and dynamic environment.

Additional personal qualities are:

• Team-player
• Self-motivated
• Very strong written and verbal communication skills
• Fluent in spoken English
• Flexible to work per changing priorities