Company Description:

Apexon is a digital-first technology services firm backed by Goldman Sachs Asset Management and Everstone Capital. We specialize in accelerating business transformation and delivering human-centric digital experiences. For over 17 years, Apexon has been meeting customers wherever they are in the digital lifecycle and helping them outperform their competition through speed and innovation.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Responsible for designing, developing, testing, operating and maintaining products using PHP frameworks.
• Takes full stack ownership by consistently writing production-ready and testable code.
• Consistently creates optimal design adhering to architectural best practices; considers scalability, reliability and performance of systems/contexts affected when defining technical designs.
• Makes sound design/coding decisions keeping customer experience in the forefront.
• Takes feedback from code review and apply changes to meet standards. Conducts code reviews to provide guidance on engineering best practices and compliance with development procedures.
• Accountable for ensuring all aspects of product development follow compliance and security best practices.
• Exhibits relentless focus in software reliability engineering standards embedded into development standards.
• Embraces emerging technology opportunities and contributes to the best practices in support of the bank’s technology transformation.
• Contributes to a culture of innovation, collaboration and continuous improvement
• Reviews tasks critically and ensures they are appropriately prioritized and sized for incremental delivery. Anticipates and communicates blockers and delays before they require escalation.

Basic Qualifications:

• 6-8 years of experience with PHP
• Utilizes technical expertise and leadership skills to resolve issues, ensure product goals are met, and serve as a mentor to coach and support junior engineers to continue to raise the engineering bar across the organization.
• Works to drive both high level and detailed technical designs, conducts technical reviews and define solution requirements and technical implementation approaches.
• Proficient understanding of algorithms, data structures, architectural design patterns and best practices.
• Solid proficiency in PHP and Laravel
• Knowledge of modern authorization mechanisms, such as JSON Web Token
• Able to communicate processes and results with all parties involved in the product team, including engineers, product owner, scrum master, third party vendors and customers.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.

Required Skills:

• Advanced PHP and MySQL knowledge
• version control (git)
• Unix commands
• Strong understanding of the MVC pattern, OOP
• Laravel Repository Pattern
• Experience in Unit testing (PHPUnit)
• Experience building, optimizing, and utilizing REST APIs
• Extensive knowledge of coding standards and best practices
• Experience with such code versioning tools as GIT
• Mentor more junior colleagues
• Agile work experience
• Bonus: Redis, Docker, AWS, Swagger
• Full software life-cycle experience working on complex products within Agile environments

Disclaimer:
If you feel that this is a good match for your skillsets, please submit a current word version of your resume along with a cover letter describing your skills, experience and salary expectations. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE). You can read our job applicant privacy policy here .