Php Symfony Developer Remote Jobs in Missouri (NOW HIRING)

Description

Company Overview:

SteadyRain, an award-winning digital agency headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri is seeking an experienced PHP Solutions Architect to join our growing Development team. As a firm, we provide a unique blend of digital strategy consulting, user interface and user experience design, web development, software development and digital marketing campaign strategy and management services. 

SteadyRain is composed of people who passionately love their work and strive to provide exceptional results. We are a hardworking, determined team focused on industry leadership through providing value and innovation for our customers. We aren't just a group of employees working hard for customers-we nurture, support, and celebrate one another as we grow together to make the impossible possible. Our company is proudly employee-owned, so we all have a direct stake in the success of our solutions (and one another). Employees pitch in across teams to deliver the best strategy, highest level of services, and strongest solutions, making our collective impact greater than the sum of our parts. 

As a PHP Solutions Architect, you will personally make an impact by:

• 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

Requirements

• Minimum of five (5) years writing PHP
• Minimum five (5) years working in WordPress
• 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
• Online portfolio or personal website with samples of relevant work a plus  

Benefits:

• Full Time 
• Flexible Scheduling 
• Remote Work Options  
• Paid Time Off & Vacation  
• Matching 401k Plan  
• ESOP
• 100% Coverage of Health Insurance for Employee  
• Dental Insurance  
• Vision Insurance  
• FSA Plan  
• Life Insurance  
• Long Term Disability