Spring Professional is hiring for HostelWorld Group, a Senior Software Engineer (M/F) for Oporto area.

Main Responsibilities

- Develop robust and scalable APIs and Services to support high traffic applications;

-Work across different areas of the software stack;

- Contribute clean, secure and maintainable code to the product;

- Contribute to the evolution of the overall product/system architecture;

- Optimising code for performance and scalability;

- Prototyping and building highly performed and flexible components;

- Estimating projects and features, working closely with technical and business teams at each stage of the development lifecycle;

- Mentor members of the team to enhance and share knowledge;

- Provide guidance, feedback and input on the product roadmap and technical strategy;

- Liaise with internal teams - Development, Systems, Product and QA to ensure strong execution and implementation.

Experience and Skills

- 7 years developing object-oriented PHP for database-backed websites with extensive experience in APIs and Micro-services;

- Full stack development expertise;

- Strong understanding of most popular design patterns (MVC, SOLID, Dependency injection);

- Experience working in an agile environment and with techniques like Continuous Integration, code reviews;

- Excellent understanding and experience of web application security best practices;

- Excellent experience in API, Rest API development and XML/JSON processing;

- Strong experience in MySQL.

- Understanding of code documentation practices and tools;

- Ability to quickly learn, understand, test, and debug existing codebases;

- Experience with testing tools (phpunit, behat, phpspec) and methodologies TDD, BDD;

- Experience with profiling tools (xdebug, webgrind, xhprof);

- Excellent critical thinking, problem solving, and analytical skills;

- Bachelor's degree in computer science or similar;

- Experience with version control systems e.g. GIT/Mercurial;

- Proficient in both spoken and written English.

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