PHP (backend engineer) - Toronto (Hybrid / Contract)

Role: PHP (backend engineer)

Location: Canada (Toronto /Edmonton) – Hybrid role

Duration: 6+ months

Scheduling Interviews

Skills:

• 5+ years of hands-on experience in IT industry with good experience in JAVA/J2EE and restful web-services development.
• Significant coding experience with object-oriented PHP and any modern PHP framework is highly preferred. Otherwise, candidates must possess a demonstrated ability to onboard onto new languages rapidly.
• Strong backend experience is critical to this role and security expertise is a plus.
• Comfortable working with and improving upon legacy systems and code as you are building new features and applications.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.
• Experience with databases directly, particularly MySQL and PostgreSQL, and how they are addressed by the application.
• Experience with injection frameworks like Spring, Spring Boot is a must.
• Must have solid experience with Java stack and build tools like GIT, tools for code quality and coverage.
• Should have experience working on AWS cloud environments.
• Experience developing new and enhancing existing features as well as investigating and resolving defects.
• Experience in Designing and developing web-based applications and backend services.
• Adhere to internal coding standards, development processes, and design best practices.
• Ensure quality by performing thorough testing and leveraging peer reviews for your work and the work of others.
• Experience with unit testing & Test-Driven Development (TDD).
• Experience with Agile development process and Scrum methodologies using JIRA.
• Solid communication and written skills: ability to explain complex technical issues to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Must Have skills:

• Strong PHP/java skills, security management, session management and performance of web applications.