PHP Software Engineer

Department: Tech

Location: Cape Town

Description

• Who we’re looking for: An experienced PHP Software Engineer with an understanding of RESTful APIs and an interest in continuous improvement
• Where you’ll work: This role will be based in Cape Town, you'll be part of our global team, collaborating with colleagues and serving customers across the UK, USA, Australia, South Africa, and beyond. Our hybrid approach offers flexibility with regular team connection in our Cape Town office
  
  

The Tillo Difference
We're in the business of rewards and incentives, so we know a thing or two about the importance of giving back. We can't grow as a business without growing as individuals, so we are committed to providing a workplace where passionate, driven individuals can thrive. We value collaboration, trust, positivity, and a willingness to learn - only by working as a team will we reach our goals.

We’re the market leader in the UK and are active in a number of other markets including USA, Europe, Australia and India.

Day to day this role will

• Help with the design, build, and refactoring of financial processes within our Laravel applications
• Integrate to third-party services and APIs
• Perform code reviews for other Engineers and provide thoughtful feedback
• Work with Product Managers to scope, define and estimate work
• Support with DevOps - monitoring and maintaining test and production environments
• Maintain the high standards of our codebase
• Mentor other team members including regular Pairing sessions
  
  

What we’re looking for

• Proven experience writing performant and clean code to modern PHP 8 standards
• Experience developing with the Laravel framework
• Excellent communication skills, as you will be liaising with internal and external customers on a regular basis
• Experience using version control such as git and Bitbucket/GitHub/Gitlab
• Experience building and maintaining RESTful APIs
• Strong understanding of testing principles
  

It’s not essential, but we’d love to hear about it if you have experience with

• AWS services and/or Kubernetes
• Designing efficient SQL queries and schemas - the payments & billing team work with huge amounts of data
• Test-Driven Development
  
  

Benefits

We offer all our employees trust and empower our team to work with flexibility and autonomy. We’re a close-knit team and love working collaboratively, with our hybrid model, our team can come together at our fantastic office, but also focus in their own space. The Tillo team are a motivated bunch and we all work hard to push Tillo forwards, always innovating. We completely understand the importance of work/life balance and offer a supportive and collaborative working environment with the following benefits:

• 21 days holiday per annum
• Retirement Fund (5%)
• Health insurance contribution
• Employee Incentive Scheme
• Hybrid Working
• Top spec equipment including laptop, mouse, keyboard, monitor
• Anniversary gifts
• Monthly breakfasts, drinks, snacks and events
• Team Learning & Development budget