Senior PHP Developer

Job Description

As a Senior PHP Developer, you will be spending approximately 30% of your time on refactoring activities and 70% on other development activities. Some of the areas you will be working on: - Optimizing, objectifying and MVC-ifying our codebase. - Matching design patterns with business logic. - Continuous integration and build - Automated testing and unit tests - Enhancing our reporting and data collection efforts. - Building new (business driven) functionality Sam Media's back-end IT systems are developed in PHP and run under the Linux Operating System. Our front-end technologies include HTML, JQuery and AngularJS. The major development domains that the IT Development Team focuses on are 3rd party API interfaces, database, statistics and reporting, marketing, mobile internet, payments and front-end. Almost all of our IT systems have been developed in-house and are currently undergoing a major refactoring effort. The main goals of our refactoring effort are to ensure that we use standardized and future-proof IT systems globally and that the Quality of the code is world class, encased in an MVC framework, self-documenting and using continuous integration and build automation. Please Read about us: Our company culture is best described as informal, international and diverse. We very much believe in the concept of 'Smart and gets things done', because smart people working together can pretty much break through any barrier ! We place trust in our employees to do the right thing, which means that everyone enjoys a lot of freedom in their day-to-day work, is directly involved in the decision making processes and is not held back by rigid bureaucracy, red tape or a very hierarchical organization. Talent and passion are two other things that we like to nurture and at Sam Media, talent overrides experience any day of the week because where smart talent exists, experience will follow. In our day-to-day working environment we practice a very relaxed dress-code, we have flexible working hours and we enjoy all the benefits of being located in one of the hottest locations in Kuala Lumpur, smack in the middle of the city centre but yet very easy to reach.