About the job - PHP Backend Developer (Senior level)
AirportLabs provides a complete suite of products that drive efficiency in aviation. Our products and solutions help major airports, airlines, and ground handlers worldwide solve the hardest operational problems, improve efficiency, and develop the value of their services.
We are expanding our development team and we are looking for someone passionate about programming, software products, and development and eager to learn about aviation.
We are looking for:
- Backend developer (main technologies: PHP [Laravel], Typescript, or Golang)
Key data for you to consider:
- 2500-4500 GBP gross salary per month, depending on role fit and experience level according to our internal standards
- Yearly profit share
- Various performance and behaviour-based bonuses
- In-office or hybrid (partial office & partial remote)
- Office location: Cluj-Napoca
- Contract based on SRL or PFA with our UK entity
- Paid holidays
Ideal candidates for this developer role must have:
- Background in writing good and reliable applications
- An appetite for technology and for delivering quality software products
- Curious about the business and the uses of development work
- A passion for building strong & qualitative software products using up-to-date tools and best practices from a technical point of view.
Responsibilities:
- Produce & document quality code
- Follow coding best practices, i.e. leave code better than you find it & write unit tests
- Perform code review according to our internal checklist
- Work on assigned user stories
- Debug and resolve technical issues
- Follow-up on implemented solutions
- Understand the team’s product strategy
Skills & Qualifications:
- At least 3 years of work experience in software engineering. Experience with other technologies or frameworks (frontend, backend, full stack) is appreciated.
- Relevant education and/or certifications in Computer Science
- A solid and in-depth understanding of the full lifecycle of web application development processes (from the layout/user interface to database structures)
- Understanding how data is stored, and how to write and query that data. For example, using MongoDB in the backend, or GraphQL in frontend
- General knowledge of open-source software packages
- Good communication skills, both verbal and written in English and Romanian
- Interested in and/or provides solutions in the architecture design process
- Refining the development process and keeping the development process up to date
- Interested in developing skills in new technologies
Should you be interested in further professional development, we will help you boost your skills and capabilities. Some roles in which you can grow in our organisation are:
- Software Team Leader
- Software Architect
Our recruitment process
We will use a three-step process for the recruitment of this role:
- An initial exercise will be sent out to the candidates selected for this step (this step is optional for highly qualified candidates)
- An interview with the recruitment team (partially technical)
- A final technical presentation of a project after we review the content from previous phases, between the candidate and the team.
We place efficiency at the core of our business. Our day-to-day efforts contribute to improving the quality of passengers’ travel experience worldwide.
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