Senior Backend Developer PHP (Symfony)

Kafoodle (https://kafoodle.com) is a London based award-winning B2B FoodTech startup (founded in 2015) on a mission to digitise commercial kitchens within hospitals, care homes, schools, corporate catering, restaurants, high street and retail. Our products are: recipe and menu management, labelling, meal planning, stock & ordering, online meal ordering and more.
Our clients include Compass Group, OCS, Metropolitan Pub Company, and Havering Council. 

Tech stack:

• back-end: PHP 8, Symfony 4.4, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, MySQL
• front-end: Typescript 4.1, Redux, React-Redux, React 16.13, React-router, CSSModules, Babel, Eslint, Stylelint, Webpack
• Autotests: js/ts, cypress
• common: teamcity, Github, AWS

Why work with us?

• We have been working remotely since the very first day and we know how to properly build an operational process.
• We use the best development tools and do not terrorize employees with excessive reporting and other bureaucracy. 
• We live in startup mode (in a good sense) – we don't have a long hierarchical chain of managers, the opinion of each team member is important and affects the product. 
• Competitive salary in £. 
• Flexible working hours, paid vacations and sick leaves.

Job Description

• Participate in the entire system lifecycle, focusing on coding and debugging
• Write clean code to develop functional web applications
• Backend development and support of the existing applications (new features, bugfixing, refactoring, performance optimization, localization, etc)
• Develop new products/modules from scratch
• Contribute to application architecture development
• Implement unit tests
• Implement Rest API
• Work with databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL)
• Collaborate with front-end developers to integrate user-facing elements with server side logic
• Build reusable code and libraries for future use
• Liaise with product, project leads, designers to understand requirements for new features
• Follow emerging technologies and stay up to date with current best practices

Skills & Experience

• 7+ years of experience as a Backend developer on PHP
• Participation in at least 2 projects at Senior Developer position
• Experience developing in PHP 8 + Symphony 4
• Experience in Rest API design and development
• Experience in development with Docker, Cloud based services (AWS, GCP, etc.) and Git
• Experience working with MySQL and PostgreSQL databases
• Good understanding of front end development - Javascript+vue.js (preferred)
• Experience managing deployments and releases 
• Hands-on programming, coding, debugging and monitoring 
• Able to quickly switch between different projects
• Previous experience of working in a startup (preferred)
• Experience participating in localization projects (preferred)

In the cover note: 1) provide a link to the full CV (if it is incomplete in there) 2) provide examples of projects implemented (can be the link to Github) 3) Telegram contact for a quick communication (preferred)