PolitAnalytics AG
Symfony / PHP Senior Backend Engineer & Data Acquisition, f/m...
Remote | $35K - $48K
Qualifications
- have multiple years of experience in PHP as your main programming language
- have in-depth knowledge of Symfony (understand inner workings of main Symfony components)
- have an in-depth knowledge of ORMs you worked with (Doctrine, …) and the way they interact with different databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, …)
- know REST API (follow patterns, design and optimize APIs)
- know how to test code in PHP (PHPUnit, Behat, …)
- know Git (CLI branching, rebasing, merging, conflict resolution, cherry-picking, …)
- have a completed (or well advanced) education in computer science, programming, or applied informatics (university, technical college or similar) OR are self-educated with high theoretical knowledge (design and architectural patterns, computational complexity, software development workflows, communication protocols, …)
- understand the concepts behind the libraries you use and would be able to re-engineer them to a usable level, if needed
- have an eye for elegant code
- have independent working habits and a good working environment (excellent internet connection…)
- and a very good command of English as our main working language
- Important: You must be based in Europe / within CET (max
- ± 2h) timezone, and have to be either EU citizen or own a long-term Schengen visa to settle & travel freely
- have knowledge of standard git branching workflows like Git Flow
- provide experience with cloud services (AWS, Google Cloud, …), Kubernetes and ElasticSearch
- Knowledge of frontend development (JavaScript, React, …)
- Experience in Test-driven development and open-data projects
- are keen on working with Open Government Data or have experience in GovTech projects
- submitted PRs to open source projects (Symfony…)
- worked on projects that either scrape, ingest, manage and/or provide large amounts of data
Responsibilities
- building a best in class regulatory monitoring platform (“RegTech”, “GovTech”)
- understanding European political systems inside and out, both from a data as well as from a functional perspective
- digesting and managing large amounts of – often unstructured – data
- modeling powerful and flexible data structures
- performantly aggregating structured data for APIs
Benefits
- You are invited to our one-week team retreat at least once a year
- You will join us in attending the annual Symfony Conference and/or PHP International Conference
- You can work flexibly from home or wherever you like
