Senior PHP Developer

The Opportunity

Modern Tribe is looking for a Senior PHP Developer with advanced PHP experience to join our agency.

This role will offer you the opportunity to become a leader at Modern Tribe. You will be helping to build and inspire an awesome dev team working on innovative and large scale Laravel and WordPress installations. We are looking for a backend developer that is already actively working in PHP on a day-to-day basis. We want you to be as excited and as passionate as we are about what we are creating with PHP.

Please note: This is not an entry-level position. Experienced PHP developers with team leadership experience only!

If this sounds like an exciting opportunity to you, read on!

More than code

Responsibilities

While we’re looking for exceptional technicians, the right team member also contributes to the overall success of the team. This is what we’re looking for beyond lines of code.

Collaborate

Collaborate with the project strategist and other developers to articulate the best technological solution for the problem at hand

Analyze

Analyze user story acceptance criteria to ensure technical feasibility and point out potential issues

Lead

Lead a team of developers to make sure we can deliver on time, on budget and on scope

Architect

Architect and develop new features, custom functionality and frontend integration

Quality

Write high quality code with readability, efficiency and maintainability in mind

Develop

Develop and maintain complex Laravel and WordPress based applications. Implement complex features using modern PHP code and patterns

Who You Are

We love working with each other because we have built a culture that suits us well. We work primarily with freelancers and coordinate their talents for large projects. To be on our team, you must be:

• Happy: Where there is a will, there is a way. Having a positive disposition allows us to achieve great things and to support each other.
• Helpful: Always looking for ways that you can help others.
• Curious: It is essential that you have a passion for learning. Technology changes daily, and life has a way of constantly raising the bar.
• Accountable: Our clients expect us to get the right thing done on budget and on time. Communicating expectations and meeting them is the cornerstone of success.

Specific skills and proficiencies

You will use your deep knowledge within PHP to solve both simple and complex challenges, across a variety of applications and websites. When paired with your understanding of best practices in accessibility, performance, and architecture, you ultimately produce code and experiences that are scalable and delightful.

We know not everyone is an expert in everything. Your foundational knowledge is important, paired with the ability to learn and improve over time.

Personal Competencies

• Strong communication skills
• Experience working as part of a remote team
• Self-motivated, detail-oriented
• Strong organizational skills
• A methodical approach to all tasks
• Ability to prioritize workloads and meet deadlines
• Ability to work on multiple projects at the same time and complete tasks in a timely manner
• Ability to work remotely with little-to-no supervision is a must
• Excited to be part of a team with the potential for a long term relationship
• Skilled at clearly conveying technical concepts to both technical and non-technical team members through verbal and written communication
• Experience working in an agency and/or as a contractor
• Fluent English speaker

Knowledge & Experience

• 5+ years experience working as a backend PHP developer on production sites
• 2+ years focused on leading the technical direction of a team and mentoring development team members
• Extensive experience implementing complex WordPress websites and Laravel applications
• Skilled at crafting modern PHP (for example: autoloading, dependency management, dependency injection, templating libraries, automated testing, OOP, and/or frameworks like Symfony or Laravel, etc)
• Excellent understanding of OOP and better practices
• A comprehensive understanding of what it takes to write secure and performant code
• Experience working with at least one automated testing framework
• Thorough knowledge of MySQL
• Thorough understanding of the software development life cycle (i.e. seeing a project through from spec to completion)

Bonus Points

• Experience with continuous integration and automated deployment pipelines
• Experience with JavaScript application frameworks
• Experience with server technologies like Redis or ElasticSearch

About Modern Tribe

At Modern Tribe, we’re remote-first, people-first, and built around the belief that amazing work comes from happy teams. We’re part of Liquid Web’s family of brands, which means we offer the creative freedom of an agency with the backing and stability of a tech powerhouse. You’ll work on exciting projects that make a difference, alongside a crew that values craftsmanship, transparency, and humor. We’re serious about shipping great work and about enjoying the ride along the way.

Modern Tribe is committed to a culture that embraces diversity and inclusion. We foster an environment of collaboration, open engagement, fairness and respect regardless of differences in age, race, ability, national origin, gender identity, religion, sexual orientation or veteran status.

Location

Work from anywhere and join our distributed team working across the globe. If your timezone is outside of US business hours, but you work at least 3-4+ hours of overlap each day, let’s chat. You should be fluent in English and just need a computer and a strong wifi signal to support daily video chats with the Tribe.