Since its founding in 2012, Scribbr has evolved from a side-project
in an unexplored market to one of the fastest-growing businesses in
Europe with more than 35 employees and 100,000+ customers from all over
the world.
We're looking for a Senior PHP Developer that can help us improve our
current services and strengthen our development team as we prepare to
launch into new and exciting markets with huge growth potential.
Our tech stack: PHP 7.1, Symfony 3, Doctrine, Vagrant, Redis,
Selenium, Scrutinizer, PHPStan, PHPUnit, Git, Heineken, TDD, DDD and
CI/CD.
What application/codebase will you be working on?
The Scribbr application is split into two components: our super
high-traffic marketing website, which is built in Wordpress, and our
Symfony order management system called Houston. You will be working on
the latter ;-)
Houston is used by students, the support team, the marketing team and
the management team to run Scribbr smoothly. We are improving Houston
every day to automate more of our processes and to improve the services
we deliver.
Some Houston features:
-Automatic Word-document analysis to track and assess the performance of our freelance editors.
-Multi-currency and multi-language operations; students from all over the world use our services.
-Automatic assigning of new orders to our pool of editors.
-Complete CRM-system to help all students.
-Plagiarism-detection software.
What are we looking for?
-At least 5 years experience with OOP PHP.
-Actively using SOLID principles.
-Domain Driven Design knowledge is a plus.
-Have experience with Symfony 3 or similar frameworks.
-Eager to take on complex tasks.
-Experience with improving code and architecture. You know what to improve first, how and when.
-Eager to learn about the business. Having a business/entrepreneurial mindset is a big plus.
-Experience with SCRUM/Agile.
-Passion for understanding emerging technologies with pragmatic
insight into where those technologies can be integrated into business
solutions.
What do we offer?
-A competitive salary.
-Complete autonomy for the dev team. Do we need to refactor? Go for it!
-A high performance laptop, two screens and whatever extra hardware you need.
-A generous tech budget to upgrade your gadget collection.
-A fun, ambitious, informal work environment that embraces the latest technologies.
-An office with a view in the center of Amsterdam.
-25 paid holidays.
-A supportive team enabling you to foster your own development.
-The chance to join one of the fastest-growing startups in the Netherlands
