Our client is looking to hire a PHP/MySQL Software Developer.
Project duration: 6+ months
I have listed below a detailed job description for your review.
If you have the required experience and interest, please email me a current resume, along with your responses to the following questions:
*** How much experience in years do you have with PHP?
*** How much experience in years do you have with MySQL?
*** How much experience in years do you have with MVC Framework (such as Laminas/Zend, Laravel, or Symfony)?
*** How much experience in years do you have with Software Debuggers (such as XDebug?
*** How much experience in years do you have with AWS SQS, Eventbridge, and other distributed work queue systems?
*** How much experience in years do you have with AWS?
*** How much experience in years do you have with Docker/containerization and CI/CD pipelines?
*** How much experience in years do you have with Git?
*** How much experience in years do you have with RDBMS?
*** How much experience in years do you have with query optimization with MySQL, PostgreSQL, MSSQL?
*** What is your desired hourly rate?
*** Where do you currently reside (city, state)?
*** What is your availability to start a new project?
Thank you!
Steven Edelman
Pivotal Solutions, Inc.
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Job Description Overview:
As a Sr. Software Developer , you will work in our agile development environment and add new features, enhance current functionality, and fix bugs in our order management systems. Our systems and services are comprised of several different technologies, but this position will center around PHP/MySQL. This role will also interact with other organizations and teams within the company and will have the opportunity to interface with other internal APIs and systems.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
Software Development
- Work in an Agile environment to collaborate, analyze, design, develop, deploy, and support applications to meet business and technical needs and requirements.
- Write well-designed, testable code with containerized deployments and continuous integration testing approaches.
- Help break down, estimate, and provide just-in-time design for small increments of work.
- Provide direction and share knowledge with team members.
- Participate in weekly sprint cycles
- Keep stakeholders informed of your progress using the issue management system.
Systems Support
- Work with the e-commerce team to support and enhance the day-to-day operations of the applications and systems you will be working on.
- Collaborate with end-users to find innovative solutions to problems.
- Resolve critical production downtime issues.
EDUCATION AND FORMAL TRAINING:
- Bachelor's degree from a four-year College or University plus at least three years of related experience; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITY:
Technical skills requirements:
- PHP (8.x)
- An MVC framework such as Laminas/Zend, Laravel, or Symfony
- Familiarity with test-driven development; Unit and Integration Testing using PHPUnit/Pest/Cypress/Playwright
- Experience with software debuggers like XDebug
- Experience using AWS SQS, Eventbridge, and other distributed work queue systems
- Experience developing solutions in a cloud environment (AWS preferred), including ECS, Lambda, and infrastructure-as-code with Terraform
- Experience with Docker/containerization and CI/CD pipelines (Buildkite or similar) for automated builds and deployments
- Familiarity with Git
- RDBMS experience with query optimization with MySQL, PostgreSQL, MSSQL
- Familiarity with Monday/Linear for task management
- Experience working with distributed services and microservices
- Familiarity with front-end frameworks (Vue, TypeScript) for customer-facing experiences is a plus
- Comfortable with AI assisted development (Claude Code/Codex)
Additional Preferred skills:
- Automated deployment/system maintenance
- Adaptability and ability to pick up new techniques quickly.
- Good interpersonal and communication skills
- Keep up to date with technology advances in your field and how this affects the business environment.
- Excellent organizational skills and ability to prioritize.
- Effective written and verbal communication skills.
- Capable of presenting technical information clearly and concisely.
- Ability to multi-task while also reassessing priorities on a continual basis.
INTELLECTUAL DEMANDS:
- Must be opinionated and willing to ask questions to fully understand issues and tasks.
- Must be self-disciplined and able to work independently when needed.
- Must be approachable and responsive to a variety of cross-functional teams and issues.
- Must be able to resolve problems, handle conflict and make effective decisions.
- Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of production employees, peers, executives, and vendors.
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