Experienced PHP Engineer

Compucorp ,
London, Greater London

Overview

Job Description

About Us: Our mission is to enable digital transformation in organisations that deliver social good. We work with Charities across their digital stack helping organisations to rebuild their processes using flexible open source tools. We help organisations reimagine the way they work so they can focus on impact. We're a bootstrapped startup that has grown to over 35 in the team based solely on word of mouth from the work we've been producing. We're a distributed team, with staff in over 15 countries and a head office in Shoreditch, London. We offer flexible hours and a real "team" mentality, working together to make things better. Uniquely, all our solutions are open source, helping our work to have the greatest possible impact. Our clients include Charities such as Wikimedia, Farm Africa and Amnesty International, but also companies, trade associations and government bodies too. The role We are seeking a talented and experienced PHP engineer to work with us on a range of high impact open source projects for the not for profit sector. Compucorp is split into product teams. As a key member of one of these teams, you'll be involved in the entire development process, from the specification phase through to release. Your principal focus will be on developing new functionality as extensions and modules for projects using CiviCRM and Drupal (7 and 8), but there's a lot going on at Compucorp so expect to be exposed to other technologies too! The platforms we build are business process focussed for the not for profit sector, so expect to be working on functionality to help support ecommerce, marketing and payment processing but with a not for profit fundraising twist. As an Experienced PHP Engineer you'll be responsible for: * Applying software development best-practices and keeping a clean and easy to maintain codebase * Maintaining documentation * Writing technical specifications * Sharing knowledge with and supporting other members of the team * Participating in planning meetings where priorities and new features development are discussed * Code Reviews Work type : UK / Remote Requirements * Experience writing modern PHP code the right way ( * Excellent database / SQL skills, including performance optimisation and normalisation * Experience writing tests and with testing processes like TDD * Be skilled with Git, including rebases, squashing commits and using bisect to find where bugs were introduced * Experience with Linux and the command line Bonus points: * Exposure to Drupal 7 and/or 8 * Exposure to business applications such as ERP, CRM or HR systems; preferably for the not for profit sector * CI/CD setup and management * Experience with front-end technologies like Javascript, React, AngularJS, TypeScript and Sass * Experience with the Symfony or Laravel frameworks * Experience with CiviCRM