Senior FullStack Software Engineer (PHP) (#3928)

About the client:

Our customer is the European online car market, with over 30 million monthly users and a presence in 18 countries. As a Senior FullStack Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the future of online car markets and enhancing the user experience for millions of car buyers and sellers.

Responsibilities:

• Canadian Timezone working hours (EDT)
• Contribute to building and evolving a digital platform used by thousands across the automotive industry.
•  Participate in daily agile ceremonies, team planning, and retrospectives.
• Drive innovation by brainstorming and implementing ideas that challenge the status quo.
• Advocate for code ownership, maintainability, and high-quality delivery.
• Share knowledge and best practices, while promoting continuous improvement across the team.
• Engage in the full software lifecycle — from design and development to deployment, monitoring, and support.
• Build user-centric web applications by translating mockups into accessible, performant front-end components
• Work cross-functionally with product and design teams to develop scalable UI features aligned with usability best practices.

Requirements:

Must-Have:

• Be able to work independently, take ownership of features.
• You have 4+ years of experience building reliable, scalable, and highly available software systems. Specifically:
• Solid understanding of software architecture and design patterns.
• Deep proficiency in backend development (PHP, TypeScript, Node.js).
• Experience with frontend technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Vue.js or similar frameworks).
• Strong database skills: both SQL (MySQL, PostgreSQL) and NoSQL (MongoDB, Redis).
• Experience with WordPress and headless CMS architectures.
• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure and tools like AWS, Docker, and Terraform.
• Experience building and consuming APIs in service-oriented environments.
• Skilled in version control (Git) and working within structured CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with observability tools (e.g., Datadog) for logging, monitoring, and alerting.
• Solid testing background: unit, integration, and end-to-end testing on both backend and frontend.
• Hands-on experience with production support, incident management, and postmortems.
• At least Upper-intermediate English level

Nice to have:

• Exposure to AI-enhanced tooling (e.g., GitHub Copilot) is a plus.