PHP Lead
- Canada
Contract
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Job details
- Job type
- Contract
- Posting language
- English
- Posted
Original job description
Technical Skills
- Core: PHP 5.x–8.x (deep OOP, SOLID, DRY, design patterns), Core PHP, Laravel 10.x–13.x, REST API design
- Data: MySQL (schema design, indexing, query optimization, replication/backup strategies)
- Platform: Linux (Ubuntu), Docker, web server tuning (Nginx/Apache)
- Cloud: AWS EC2, S3, Secrets Manager (plus IAM, VPC, security groups)
- CI/CD: Jenkins, GitHub Actions
- Testing: Phpunit, unit/integration/API testing, debugging and profiling tools
- Template Engines: Working experience with templating engines like Blade, Smarty, Twig
- Frontend: JavaScript (ES6+), HTML5, CSS3
Core Responsibilities/Capabilities:
- Design, evaluate and recommend technical architectures for ERP modules, integrations and platform evolution.
- Stay hands-on: develop critical components, debug complex production issues and lead performance profiling and tuning.
- Own production deployments, environment setup and release readiness across dev, staging and production.
- Establish engineering standards: SOLID, DRY, design patterns, Phpunit test coverage and code quality gates.
- An eye for security vulnerabilities, SQL Injection, DDOS, XSS
- Partner with infrastructure/DevOps on CI/CD (Jenkins, GitHub Actions), containerization and AWS hosting.
- Implement and operationalize SAST and DAST in CI/CD pipelines, and triage and close findings.
- Conduct vulnerability assessments and remediate issues in live production systems.
- Run security-first code reviews and threat modelling for new features and integrations.
- Compliance exposure to SOC 2 and GDPR
- Secrets handling, CI/CD design, containerization and deployment safety.
More about this job
Responsibilities
Design and recommend architectures for ERP modules, integrations, and platform evolution while remaining hands-on with development, production debugging, and performance tuning. Own deployments and release readiness, establish engineering and security standards, and partner with infrastructure and DevOps teams on CI/CD, cloud hosting, vulnerability remediation, and compliance.
Requirements
The role calls for deep PHP and Laravel expertise, strong object-oriented design practices, REST API development, and experience with MySQL, Linux, Docker, AWS, and CI/CD tools. It also requires testing and profiling capabilities, application security experience including SAST/DAST and threat modeling, and exposure to SOC 2 and GDPR.
Skills
- PHP
- Laravel
- Object-Oriented Programming
- SOLID
- Design Patterns
- REST API Design
- MySQL
- Linux
- Docker
- AWS
- CI/CD
- Jenkins
- GitHub Actions
- PHPUnit
- Application Security
- Performance Optimization
Visa sponsorship
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Categories
- Software
- Technology
- Management & Leadership
- Security & Safety
Keywords
- PHP 5.x–8.x
- Core PHP
- Laravel 10.x–13.x
- Object-Oriented Programming
- SOLID
- DRY
- Design Patterns
- REST API Design
- MySQL
- Linux
- Ubuntu
- Docker
- Nginx
- Apache
- AWS EC2
- Amazon S3
- AWS Secrets Manager
- IAM
- VPC
- Jenkins
- GitHub Actions
- PHPUnit
- Blade
- Smarty
- Twig
- JavaScript ES6+
- SAST
- DAST
- SOC 2
- GDPR