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SteadyRain · 2 months ago

PHP Solutions Architect

St Louis, MO

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level

5+ years exp

SteadyRain is an award-winning digital agency headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri. As a PHP Solutions Architect, you will lead the establishment of an IT Architecture practice, develop coding best practices, and collaborate with team members to create great products for customers.

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Responsibilities

Leading the establishment of an IT Architecture practice, and the adoption of an architecture and standards methodology

Developing coding best practices, playbooks, frameworks and solutions for our customers and internal team

Working with our team to create great products for our customers

Writing clean, maintainable and performance code

Outlining architectural best practices for our platform

Optimizing applications for maximum speed and scalability

Helping to drive, document and continually refine platform standards

Helping to drive new tech research and experimentation

Collaborating with other team members and stakeholders

Qualification

PHPWordPress developmentIT ArchitecturePHP frameworksThird-party APIsSource controlMentoringProblem-solvingCommunicationDetail oriented

Required

Minimum of five (5) years of WordPress development experience

Minimum of five (5) years writing PHP

Experience with at least one PHP framework like Symphony, Laravel, CodeIgniter or an understanding of PHP-open source projects like WordPress, Joomla or Drupal

Experience leading IT Architecture decisions

Knowledge working with common third-party APIs

Knowledge and experience with W3 Standards and cross-browser compatibility

Experience with source control such as Git or Mercurial

Experience in guiding and mentoring junior developers

Flexibility in a fast-paced dynamic environment with shifting roles and responsibilities

Technically creative and open-minded

Experience working at a digital agency

Ability to solve complex performance problems and architectural challenges

Great communication and problem-solving skills

Comfortable working on PC platform

Detail oriented and focus on quality assurance of work