PHP Backend Developer (Hamburg)

COMPANY
Location: Hamburg (Germany)
Field of operation: Computer Games
Founded: 2009
Size (employees): 501-1000 employees
Main language spoken: English - German
Position in the market: Established
Operating markets: Worldwide

POSITION
Type of contract: Full time Long-termed contract
Working Visa: Not Required

RESPONSIBILITIES
Work with our PHP team on programming and maintaining our back end systems, including our payment shop. 
Responsible for devising, implementing and optimizing our systems as well as upgrading and remodeling them and ensuring high availability. 
Play a part in designing and optimizing the software architecture.

REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE (HARD SKILLS)
Expert: object-oriented programming, PHP 5.5;
Advanced: designing and implementing high availability systems, service-oriented architectures, MySQL and ideally also NoSQL, frameworks (e.g. ZF2, Symfony, Phalcon) and design patterns, test automation and quality assurance, REST

SOFT SKILLS
Required: excellent written and spoken command of English
Not required: excellent written and spoken command of German