full stack developer for sports platforms

Описание: Other Media is a digital agency that builds and maintains web platforms, apps, and ecosystem integrations for sports clubs, governing bodies, and venues. It combines data-driven strategy, fan-centric design, and engineering to deliver digital experiences for the sports industry.

Задачи:

• Maintain and improve existing backend services;
• Maintain and improve first-party analytics and data pipelines, ensuring new features are integrated with them;
• Gather API contract and functionality requirements for interconnected platform features with specialist Drupal, Magento, Frontend, iOS, and Android teams;
• Design and implement scalable, resilient Symfony microservice-style backend features end to end, from requirements analysis through delivery;
• Participate in code reviews, review other teams’ code, and work with them to review your code;
• Lead end-to-end testing to ensure high-quality delivery to product and project teams;
• Implement and maintain Drupal features and integration modules;
• Maintain automated testing, linting, and static analysis pipelines in GitHub Actions;
• Maintain and own secure deployment processes;
• Assist the operations team with daily monitoring to identify issues early;
• Provide out-of-hours on‑call support on a rotating basis.

Требования:

• Excellent PHP skills;
• Excellent knowledge of and experience with Symfony v7+;
• Excellent knowledge of Symfony components and their design patterns, including Service Container, Dependency Injection, Cache (APCu/Redis/Memcache), Service Locators, Compiler Passes, Bundles, Console, Serializer, and Validator;
• Experience with AWS services such as SQS, Step Functions, Kinesis, S3, DynamoDB, and Lambda;
• Experience developing event-driven applications and shared PubSub pipelines;
• Experience with Serverless Framework or similar;
• Excellent SQL knowledge, especially query optimization and indexes;
• Experience designing well-documented internal API contracts as part of the design process;
• Experience with OpenSearch querying;
• Experience with GitHub Actions and either Claude or Copilot CLI;
• Strong problem-solving skills;
• Experience with Git, GitHub, and code review practices;
• Strong security awareness and knowledge of OWASP;
• Excellent communication skills;
• Excellent Bash and/or Zsh scripting skills;
• Experience with JavaScript, React, Babel, and Webpack;
• Nice to have: experience setting up and maintaining secure LEMP hosting (Linux, Nginx, MariaDB, PHP) and configuring Varnish, Redis, and/or Memcache.

Условия:

• 25 Days of holiday;
• The last Friday of every month off as a discretionary work/life balance day, except in months with a Bank Holiday;
• Regular career planning;
• Pension scheme;
• Salaries are competitive and based on experience.