**Role(s) Required**:Senior PHP Developer
**Location**:Remote (Canada/US or South America)
**Required Start Date**: ASAP
**Required End Date**: 12 months + renewable every year
**Type**:Contract
**Total Hours Approved Per Role**: 40h/week
**Rate**:$39/hr (approx $6,240 CDN/month, $4,500 USD/month)
**End Client Location**: US/Canada
**Sr. Developer (PHP Programmer)**
A boutique web development and new media marketing company seeking talented **Senior PHP Developers**.
- Have strong knowledge of the PHP language and have experience with frameworks like Laravel, Symfony or similar.
- Experience implementing and using RESTful APIs in a microservice architecture
- Have usable understanding of front-end technologies.
- Understand the concepts of object oriented programming.
- Have familiarity with optimizing interactions with backend storage, such as MySQL.
- Have experience developing in a largely-distributed environment.
- Have prior experience working with the design and integration of online payment gateways such as PayPal. Stripe, PayU, Square, Visa or others
- Be eager to make an impact on the organization.
**Responsibilities**
- Solve complex, as well as basic, technology issues as they arise.
- Timely communication of issues and status information to Team Leads concerning system development activities.
- Provide architectural input for modifications to existing systems, as well as creating new systems from the ground up.
- Working closely with the project manager and senior staff to ensure stated business objectives are met.
- Other duties as may be assigned by management.
**Expert Level Skills Required In**:
- PHP (7+ years)
- MySql (4+ years)
- OOP Concepts (3+ years)
- JSON
- Remote Processing
- Prior experience working with billing/invoice/financial software components
**Intermediate Level Skills Required In**:
- Linux-based systems administration
- Knowledge of open source solutions like AWS.
- Proficient understanding when committing code to Git, Branching and Merging code.
- Integration of multiple data sources and databases into one system.
- Payment Gateway Integration.
**Additional Skills Preferred**:
- React
- Javascript
- HTML5
- CSS3
- RabbitMq
- Elasticsearch
**Joining Period: Immediate**
**Note** : Excellent written and oral English communication skills needed, as the team is dispersed all over the globe and English is the common language.
- Some clients are located in Canada/US, so being flexible to work on EST hours at times is key
