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Senior Full Stack Developer – PHP, React

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Summary

Senior full-stack developer building and maintaining critical financial web applications: day-to-day work spans developing PHP and React features, designing scalable REST APIs, diagnosing production incidents, and optimizing MySQL and application performance on AWS.

Responsibilities



  • Develop, maintain, and enhance web applications using PHP and React

  • Analyze, diagnose, and resolve incidents in highly critical production environments

  • Develop new features, evolutionary improvements, and fixes for existing systems

  • Perform corrective, preventive, and evolutionary maintenance to ensure stability and availability

  • Design, develop, and maintain scalable and secure REST APIs

  • Conduct root cause analyses (RCA) and implement preventive actions

  • Analyze and optimize application and database performance

  • Ensure code quality, security, scalability, and maintainability

  • Propose architectural and technological improvements

  • Participate in technical decisions, refinement sessions, and effort estimates

  • Assess the impacts, technical risks, and dependencies of proposed solutions

  • Collaborate with Product, Support, Implementation, and Quality teams

  • Monitor production applications and proactively resolve issues

  • Share knowledge and serve as a technical reference

  • Support code reviews, testing, acceptance validation, and production releases

  • Create and maintain technical documentation

  • Assist in defining and evolving the QA strategy

  • Identify opportunities for new services, integrations, and solutions

  • Develop financial solutions focused on performance, security, and user experience


Requirements



  • Solid experience in PHP development

  • Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)

  • Advanced knowledge of design patterns and software architecture

  • Development and maintenance of REST APIs

  • Integration with internal systems and third-party services

  • Knowledge of Clean Code and SOLID principles

  • Experience with unit testing and continuous integration

  • Solid experience developing applications with React

  • Development of modern, responsive, and reusable interfaces

  • Integration of front-end applications with REST APIs

  • HTML5, CSS3, and modern JavaScript (ES6+)

  • Experience with state management and reusable components

  • Advanced SQL knowledge

  • Relational data modeling

  • Creation and optimization of complex queries

  • Knowledge of Stored Procedures, Functions, Triggers, and Views

  • Database troubleshooting and performance optimization

  • Experience with MySQL

  • Strong knowledge of systems analysis, architecture, and development

  • Experience with cloud environments, preferably AWS

  • Knowledge of scalable, distributed, and service-oriented architectures

  • Ability to assess the technical and architectural impact of solutions

  • Git and version control strategies

  • Docker and containers

  • Linux

  • Microservices architecture

  • Messaging systems and processing queues

  • CI/CD

  • Automated unit, functional, and integration testing

  • Knowledge of ITIL concepts

  • Application observability and monitoring

  • Experience in high-availability environments

  • Experience with financial applications, especially billing and payment solutions

  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

  • Autonomy and ownership in leading technical initiatives

  • Ability to influence technical decisions and support team development

  • Ability to work effectively in multidisciplinary teams and collaborative environments

  • Continuous learning mindset and willingness to share knowledge

  • Product-oriented mindset and focus on delivering value to customers and the business


Core Competencies


Demonstrates expertise in PHP and React development, with a strong focus on building scalable REST APIs and optimizing application performance. Possesses advanced knowledge of software architecture, design patterns, and cloud environments, particularly AWS.


Highest-signal resume keywords



  • PHP Development

  • React Development

  • REST API Development

  • SQL Optimization

  • Cloud Environments (AWS)


ATS Optimization Keywords


Hard Skills



  • Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)

  • Design Patterns

  • Clean Code Principles

  • Unit Testing

  • HTML5

  • CSS3

  • JavaScript (ES6+)

  • MySQL

  • Microservices Architecture

  • CI/CD


Soft Skills



  • Analytical Skills

  • Problem-Solving Skills

  • Autonomy

  • Collaboration

  • Continuous Learning Mindset


Industry Keywords



  • Financial Applications

  • High-Availability Environments

  • ITIL Concepts

  • Technical Documentation

  • Production Environments


Tools & Technologies



  • Git

  • Docker

  • Linux

  • Messaging Systems

  • Application Monitoring

Skills

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