Portfolio Company Positions

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Develop work estimates for projects.
• Utilize your outstanding problem-solving skills and attention-to-detail to participate in the analysis and design of integrated solutions.
• Assist in the gathering, review, and analysis of requirements, both from business users and from teams responsible for other application systems.
• Create and maintain functional and technical design specifications and solutions to satisfy project requirements.
• Participate in code and design reviews and technical presentations to cross-functional staff.
• Identify and implement appropriate testing strategies.
• Develop and maintain REST APIs using Symfony framework.
• Write clean, maintainable, and efficient PHP code.
• Implement API endpoints following REST principles and best practices.
• Collaborate with the team on code reviews and documentation.
• Work with Docker containers for development and deployment.
• Manage dependencies using Composer.
• Troubleshoot and debug applications in Ubuntu environment.
• Write unit tests for new features.
• Participate in agile ceremonies and sprint planning.
• Identify and drive improvements to current development processes, architectures and infrastructures.
• Propose framework & opportunities for system enhancements to improve performance and overall user experience.
• Support changes and enhancements from initial development to product deployment.
• Participate in a self-directed, multi-disciplinary team environment.
• Mentor new team members as needed to advance their ability to contribute.
• Collaborate with project team members and SQA representatives on all aspects of development, particularly as concerns documentation, customer satisfaction and security requirements.
• Accurately repair and document changes to applications as assigned.
• Research new technologies as time permits.
• Respond to inquiries from internal users and technical support personnel regarding functions and operations of software programs.
• Create and maintain end-to-end, integration, and unit tests for React components and applications.
• Collaborate with developers to implement testing best practices and improve code coverage.
• Debug failing tests and provide detailed feedback to the development team.
• Develop and maintain testing documentation and standards.
• Monitor and optimize test execution performance.
• Identify and implement opportunities for test automation improvement.
• Required to attend mandatory meetings and trainings, work scheduled overtime with minimal notice, and perform other duties as assigned per business needs.

Qualification Requirements –

To perform the job successfully, an individual should demonstrate the following:

• Must be at least 18 years of age.
• Able to read, write and speak English.
• Successfully pass and maintain acceptable background checks and security clearances.
• Bachelor’s degree from a four-year college or university plus 3 years of PHP experience or equivalent combination of education and experience required.
• Working knowledge of Symfony framework.
• Experience building REST APIs.
• Proficiency with Composer package manager.
• Familiarity with Docker containers and basic commands.
• Experience with Ubuntu or Linux environments.
• Understanding of Git version control.
• Knowledge and understanding of computer networking principles.
• Exceptional communication skills, with the ability to effectively articulate and communicate technical information (verbally and in writing) to the development team.
• Strong understanding of SDLC tools, techniques, methodologies, and best practices.
• Excellent critical thinking and problem analysis skills.
• Experience with performance testing and monitoring.
• Strong problem-solving and debugging skills.
• Focus on managing and resolving issues in alignment with SLAs.

Certificates and Licenses:

• No certificates or licenses needed.

Computer Skills:

• Experience with API documentation tools (Swagger/OpenAPI).
• Knowledge of API security best practices.
• Familiarity with microservices architecture.
• Experience with PHPUnit testing.
• Basic JavaScript/Frontend knowledge.
• Understanding of CI/CD principles.
• Knowledge of design patterns and SOLID principles.
• Experience with message queues (RabbitMQ, Redis).