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Lean Library is a scale-up that provides online services to academic institutions across the globe. Our clients include Harvard, NTU and Cambridge.

We are a remote-first cross-functional team of 15 based across the globe with a goal to advance student learning and academic research by amplifying the voice of the library – that’s a fancy way of saying we build great tools to help researchers and higher education students access the research they need.

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR

We are looking for a Senior PHP Engineer with Laravel who can write clean code to help us achieve this.

We need a self-motivated team player who can bring their experience in problem-solving on busy applications while applying best practices by writing clean code. We are interested in someone who can help build a kind and motivated engineering culture at Lean Library.

Job requirements

Ideally, you will bring at least 6+ years of commercial experience in PHP (or another OO language but with recent PHP experience)
Experience in Laravel, Elasticsearch, MySQL, caching in Redis
Understanding the challenges of building scalable applications using caching and building and interacting with APIs
Able to work with both in-house and external development teams providing code reviews and constructive feedback
Able to write reusable and maintainable code
Able to apply coding practices with a good understanding of decoupling e.g. SOLID. The goal here is to create maintainable, adaptable and fun systems to work on!
Able to share knowledge, communicate issues and proactively find solutions to engineering problems
Able to understand issues that occur when working within a team and how to overcome them to deliver on time
Able to work with others in transitioning systems to a more modern framework

SKILLS, QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE

PHP 7+
Laravel
Git
MySQL/MariaDB
Elasticsearch
Docker
REST APIs
Web stuff (HTTP, CORS etc…)
Comfortable with the Linux CLI
Nginx
6+ years of commercial experience
Experience with API based integrations
Decoupled code with an understanding of SOLID principles
Unit testing
Experience working within an agile development team with code reviews providing honest feedback and best practice
High level of communication and interpersonal skills

Nice to have:

Experience with AWS and Kubernetes
Experience with Redis
Experience with GitLab CI