PHP Software Engineers

Are you a PHP developer with recent Laravel or other framework experience? Are you full stack and do you have experience of working in an agile development environment?  If so, Epsilon have roles available to work on one of the exciting in-house applications listed below as either a Senior Software Engineer or Software Engineer depending on your experience.   

We welcome experienced PHP programmers with at least 3 years' experience to apply. One of our open roles will suit developers who enjoy the UI design aspects of the job. You will report to the Software Team Leader and you will join a small agile scrum team of 4 involved in the design and development of Epsilon Telecommunications' in-house software products.  Our salary range is from 3500 BGN net to 6500 BGN net depending on your skills and experience.   You will focus on one of the following in-house projects and will have the opportunity to grow your professional career either within development or up the management path:

Infiny - In this role you will be working on our Network-as-a-Service platform ‘Infiny’. This web application allows our customers to view our product capability and is integrated into our global network and those of our network partners (E.g. AWS, Google, IBM, Microsoft, LINX, DECIX etc) facilitating real time provisioning and monitoring of network services. This customer facing web application is built on the Laravel framework and is deployed to AWS infrastructure. As a developer, you will spend approximately 80% time on feature development and 20% in support and maintenance activities.

EthOSS - In this role you will be working on our Network inventory platform ‘EthOSS’. This web application allows our internal operational teams to plan and deploy new network and supports business critical workflows, such as cross connecting our customers to our network in datacentres around the globe, network capacity management as well as network navigation and network circuit visualisation. This customer facing web application is built on the Laravel framework and is deployed to AWS infrastructure. As a developer, you will spend approximately 80% time on feature development and 20% in support and maintenance activities.

Other companies may call this Software Engineering role a Software Developer, Programmer, Web Developer, Full Stack Developer, Senior Programmer, Full Stack Programmer, PHP programmer, PHP Developer, Senior Software Engineer, Software Team Leader

Accountabilities

1. Software Development - Designs, develops, modifies and maintains software code. Follows Epsilon software engineering standards, software development methodology and release processes. Ensures code is clean and maintainable. Serves as an expert on specific technology.
2. Investigation - Investigates issues and provides fixes for bugs. Highlights and helps to mitigate technical risks.
3. Team Work and Collaboration - Collaborates and adds value through participation in peer code reviews. Serves as the subject matter expert for the application.
4. Technical Ownership - Assumes ownership and accountability of specific modules within an application and provides technical support and guidance during user story grooming sessions and during problem resolution for critical / complex software issues.
5. Quality – Values clean and maintainable code. Contributes to meeting departmental SLAs and KPIs. Ensures assigned tasks are completed on time and with a high level of quality.
6. Onboarding & Knowledge Sharing – Supports the team lead with new hires and trains them on processes and best practice, shares knowledge and provides technical mentoring
7. Communications – Takes an active role during all agile ceremonies. Builds strong relationships with internal customers/stakeholders.

Skills and Knowledge required

• 3+ years' experience as a software engineer with recent PHP development experience
• Expert knowledge of programming concepts, patterns and anti-patterns
• Expert knowledge of API design best practice
• Knowledge of key security concepts
• Experience working in an agile environment
• Experience of providing and/or consuming APIs

Experience with the following technology is required:

• PHP (core)
• Javascript (core)
• Laravel (core)
• Vue (core)
• Ajax
• HTML
• MySQL or other relational DBs
• RESTFul APIs
• Git

Experience working with the following is desirable:

• Bootstrap
• JIRA
• Jenkins
• AWS
• Terraform
• Docker
• Kubernetes
• Vuex

More about Epsilon:

Epsilon Telecommunications is a nimble organisation that allows us to work as a disruptor in our industry and our development teams embody that spirit by adopting an agile first approach. 

Our development philosophy is very much to empower the teams to own their process and we are looking for like-minded individuals who thrive in a fast pacing and exciting culture where every single person is key to the success of the business and your contribution is really felt. 

Extremely multinational environment (we are now part of the Korea Telecom group that offers financial stability whilst allowing us to continue as a separate entity) with the corresponding mind-set and attention to people. There is no gap between management and employees. As a small entity (55 people in Sofia) communication is fast and productive. 

We buy trust-worthy salary surveys each year to ensure our salaries are up to date with the market. Additional benefits: 20 days holiday (rising gradually with years’ experience, up to 23); An extra day holiday in the month of your birthday.  Multisport card and UNIQA Health Insurance that will be applicable after your 3rd month with the company. A performance bonus and salary indexation will also be applicable end of each year. 

Epsilon Telecommunications Ltd are equal opportunities employers, value diversity and are strongly committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all employees and all applicants for employment. Equal opportunities are the only acceptable way to conduct business and we believe that the more inclusive our environments are, the better our work will be.

When you apply, please ensure that you send your CV written in English including any of the technologies that you have used and where, ideally along with a cover note explaining why you think you will be good in this role.