Software Engineer- 3 To 5 years (PHP)

Role & responsibilities Approach work from an Agile mindset applying practices and principles wherever possible Attend and participate in all Sprint events to achieve desired outcomes, taking a leading role where required to ensure events have a good outcome Collaborates closely with all team members to take a shared responsibility for the sprint backlog and their success Maintain broader code quality through peer code reviews Identify improvement opportunities and agree on actionable improvements Be available, on a best endeavors basis, to support the resolution of Severity 1 and 2 incidents for applications owned by your team between 7am and 10pm local time on local working days as well as providing retrospective feedback Preferred candidate profile Role Requirements E=essential, P=preferred E - Demonstrable experience of mentoring other more junior Engineers E - Bachelors Degree in a relevant field of work or equivalent professional qualification or experience E - Strong hands on technical skills across some or all of the Microsoft Stack and other key technologies: PHP MS Azure Javascript / Typescript (React preferable) MySQL PHPUnit Elasticsearch GIT XML, JSON E - Excited by technology, with up to date understanding of latest technologies E - Ability to learn new languages and technologies quickly E - Familiarity and good experience with Agile development methodologies and the complete product lifecycle from inception to delivery E - Good understanding of software architecture, issues and design E -Good understanding of data and databases E - Proven track record or working as part of a team to deliver software solutions to meet customer needs E - Thorough and detailed approach with the ability to identify appropriate user/business solutions E - Some experience of code reviews and coding standards E - Excellent communication skills - both written and verbal E - An analytical mind