PHP Developer — Symfony/Laravel in Westland Insurance

PHP Developer— Symfony/LaravelAbout Westland InsuranceFrom humble beginnings in1980as asingle family-owned brokerage inLadner, BC, Westland has grown tobecome the largest independent, Canadian-owned brokerage inthe country. Since then, we’re proud tohave grown toateam ofover 2,500 employees and over 250 locations coast-to-coast.Job SummaryWestland Insurance isseeking atalented PHP development professional for athree-month contract (with potential extension) towork onseveral exciting projects within the insurance domain. This contract isfully remote and for someone who can implement new features, maintain existing code, and refactor existing code across abreadth ofproducts used both internally and externally atthe company.About the RoleAsaPHP developer, working ondeveloping online solutions for insurance products, you will beresponsible for designing and developing software that can effectively digitize and streamline the insurance product experience. You will work closely with other developers, product owners, andQA engineers todeliver high-quality, robust, and flexible back-end solutions that meet the needs ofthe business and end-users. You will assume apivotal role inthe development ofshort-term software projects, leveraging your expertise and experience todevelop modern web applications that feature adaptive front-end user experience and robust backend solutions.ResponsibilitiesTake full ownership ofyour tasks from development totesting and deliveringTranslate complex functional, technical and business requirements into efficient and scalable software designs byconsidering time and financial constraintsDesign and implement secured and testable API systemsAdhere tomodern tooling and design practices inthe enterprise domainResponsible for the planning, coordination, development, and supervision ofall activities related tothe integration ofapplications and third-party solutions tomeet the business requirements ofthe organizationCollaborate closely with UX/UI Designers and advise ontechnical feasibility ofproposed design approachesKey RelationshipsReporting toITDevelopment Manager and Development Team Lead. Collaborating closely with other development team members, QAengineers and business analysts.Experience and QualificationsPrior experience with modern self-documenting API design with Swagger/OpenAPIThorough understanding ofavailable authentication/authorization technologies (OAuth2, JWT)Building distributed task processing systemsPrior experience designing customer-facing dashboards (authentication, RBAC)Prior experience with E-commerce and payment gateways (Stripe, Moneris, Bambora)Solid grasp ofapplication security and performance optimization techniquesExperience with microservices and containerized applications designDeep understanding ofsoftware architecture patterns and conceptsUnderstanding ofmultithreading and parallelism3+years ofusing IDE, debugging and code profilingProactive and have excellent written and oral communication skillsTechnical Requirements3+years ofexperience with PHP 8.x using Symfony and Laravel frameworks3+years oftest-driven development and unit testingRDBMS system design (MySQL, MariaDB)Solid knowledge ofDocker and containerized approach todevelopmentExperience with CI/CD pipelinesExperience with AWS, GCP orMSAzureBonus PointsAsynchronous PHP development (Amphp, ReactPHP)Message queueingWeb sockets