Company description
A people focused FinTech company that digitizes business processes in the Canadian Residential Mortgage Lending space. Our head office is based out of Calgary Alberta with employees in multiple locations across Canada.
We are an exciting, privately held technology company doing interesting things that inter-connect all of the mortgage participants through innovation including:
- a quicker, more efficient way to gather, retain, interpret and create documents,
- the ability to communicate internally and with third parties,
- connected and intelligent workflow tools, and
- a streamlined home buying process from the commencement of the mortgage application to the completion of the real estate transaction.
Job description
Position Overview
Reporting to the Engineering VP, Simplicity Global Solutions is looking for an ambitious Symfony/PHP Senior Developer to build solutions for our fast-paced company. Our experienced leadership team is driving toward an expansive vision in the legal and financial technology sector and is seeking candidates who are self-starters with a passion for developing elegant, stable, efficient and testable code.
You will be
- a feature-smith, future proofing bugs, and authoring tests that elegantly simplify complexities
- relentlessly seeking automation in tools for code review, code analysis and CI/CD purposes
- a presence that other developers want to be mentored by
- an engaging code reviewer that makes the team want to be better
- a leader by example in daily stand ups
- continuously seeking learning and improvement
Job Requirements
Applying for jobs and reviewing applications is time consuming work. We are looking for highly skilled individuals for this position. We don't want to waste your time but are looking for something specific here. We want to meet you if you think you meet the criteria but because reviewing applications is a complex process we're going to give you detailed information regarding what we're specifically looking for in a resume. Without these we won't likely reach out because we didn't find them.
Skills required for an interview
- 5-10 years Symfony experience or 10+ years PHP experience
- Good understanding of design principals like SOLID.
- Good to expert level understanding of PHPUnit
- Knowledge of static analysis tools such as phpstan, psalm and other code quality
- Understanding of code quality metrics - i.e. CRAP scores, Cyclomatic and N-Path complexity
- Some architectural design experience - DDD, Hexagonal, etc
- Good to expert level git - you can easily use rebase, cherry-pick or merge and understands what is happening to the source tree for each
What we are hoping to confirm and explore in an interview
- Confident with existing skill set and open to continuous learning
- Demonstrates initiative to identify potential challenges, issues and areas for improvement
- Strong oral, listening and written communication skills; we focus on team collaboration
- Ability and to work well independently and within a collaborative team environment
- Desire and ability to mentor and receive mentorship
Our code base includes
- PHP and Symfony
- Linux/NGINX/PHP/MariaDB
- HTML, CSS, JavaScript/jQuery
- MariaDB
- Git
All candidates must be currently eligible to work in Canada.
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Salary: $85,000.00-$140,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Casual dress
- Dental care
- Extended health care
- Flexible schedule
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Vision care
- Work from home
Schedule:
- 8 hour shift
- Monday to Friday
Experience:
- Symfony Framework: 5 years (required)
- PHP: 7 years (required)
- Linux: 3 years (preferred)