Senior PHP Engineer Remote Working - London, United Kingdom - Kpler group

Description

Founded in 2014, our goal is to help over 10,000 organisations by offering the best intelligence on commodities, energy, and maritime through a single platform.

Working at Kpler means you'll be a key player in turning complex data into strategic resources for our clients.

Your role involves creating data-driven stories that empower clients in their industries.
Your expertise helps Kpler navigate markets successfully. Join our team of 500+ talented people from 35+ countries worldwide.
The engineering division is composed of many crews who are either business or data oriented.

Within this, our teams in Athens are responsible for scaling our MarineTraffic platform, which provides real-time and historical data on ship movements around the world.

Leveraging a network of Automatic Identification System (AIS) receivers located primarily along coastlines, it tracks the positions of ships, offering a broad view of marine traffic globally.

Work in project teams to grow the existing products and support the latest features that we have in development
Contribute your insights across the team to help us re-architect existing systems for scale and extensibility
Test your code to assure quality of new and existing functionality.
Maintain visibility, monitoring and alerting mechanisms to guarantee SLAs and SLOs
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent field.

Minimum of 5 years of hands-on experience in PHP software development, ideally with frameworks such as CakePHP, Symfony, Laravel.

Excellent command of written and spoken English
Proficiency in building and consuming RESTful APIs
Proficiency in Unit Testing
Knowledge of relational database systems (MSSQL, PostgreSQL)
Familiarity with CI/CD concepts, GitLab pipelines, quality monitoring tools such as SonarQube etc
Familiar with Clean code, SOLID principles and software design patterns
Knowledge of non-relational database systems (e.g. Experience with other technologies like Python and/or Typescript
Experience working with a Cloud environment such as AWS or GCP
Familiarity with K8s and AWS EKS
We offer competitive compensation & benefits including work from home allowance, medical and life insurance, training and development allowance, paid volunteer work and more

• You'll get to work in a truly global work environment, with offices in 7 countries (UK, France, Belgium, Austria, US, Dubai and Singapore), we come from more than 50 countries and speak more than 20 languages
• We have truly embraced the new age of workplace flexibility where you can chose to work fully remote, hybrid or onsite
• You will get a company laptop and you can choose between Windows, Mac, or Linux
• Global maternity (extended leave), parental, festival and compassionate leave policies aligned to the contemporary needs of the family, and individual choices

And you REALLY want to join our Engineering team because...

• This means we build real algorithyms and there's some serious software engineering at work here
• We frequently tackle brand-new business areas which means there's always everything to build and always an interesting problem to sink your teeth into
• We are at the cross-road of Software Engineering, Commodity, Energy and Finance

Recruiter Screen:
30 minute video interview with a recruiter from hiring team
Hiring Manager Interview: 45 minute video interview with the hiring manager, technical deep dive

Technical Exercise :
Task completed at home, 30 minute debrief with Senior Engineers to discuss
Meet the Team: 30 minute video interview, an opportunity to see the fit and get to know your potential future team
We foster relationships and develop creative solutions to address market challenges with cool features and solutions.
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Research shows that women and people of color are less likely than others to apply if they feel like they don't match 100% of the job requirements.

We believe that different perspectives lead to better ideas, and better ideas allow us to better understand the needs and interests of our diverse, global community.