Medior or Senior PHP/ Symfony Developer - Brussels - influencer marketing sector - Scaleup!

Our client is a nice (famous) startup based in Brussels. It has raised $1.4m in seed funding in 2015 and now the company is looking to build out team with talented and passionate people

Our client is a leading Influencer Marketing company with software (SaaS) and a range of services helping companies connect with the right influencers, launch and analyze successful collaborations.
Their mission: to develop the most innovative solutions to make influencer marketing smarter, easier, and more efficient — to everyone.

They have a young, energetic, and rapidly growing team, consisting of passionate professionals constantly reinventing Influencer Marketing from their Paris, Brussels, and Copenhagen offices.
They are currently seeking, for their Brussels office, a Senior PHP/Symphony Developer.

  • We are currently seeking, for their Brussels office, a new backend developer to join their existing team.
  • Your role will be to develop, with the team, the backend of our SaaS platform. To do this you will required to handle several tasks such as:

- Contribute in all phases of the development lifecycle
- Implements new feature with automated test
- Troubleshooting the app and code issues
- Maintain the existing code
- Follow best practice guidelines

  • You will mainly focus on background job (queued messages) and on API creation to be handled by the frontend (VueJS).
  • You will also do some analytic job from time to time, following your experience.

This job will provide a great chance to experiment with emergent tools and concepts and develop innovative solutions that are at the forefront of the Digital Marketing industry. You will work on specific projects critical to the product success – switch projects as you and our fast-paced company grow and evolve.

You’ll be involved with all aspects of our back-end systems including:

  • Research into new tools and technologies, products/frameworks that could benefit the construction of our platform.
  • Working on analysis, strategy, development, production, as well as contributing to the automation of deployments/configurations of code.
  • Ingesting data from various social and web sources (APIs, etc)
  • General collaborative duties such as agile method project management and code reviews
  • Knows what it takes to build, administer and grow scalable applications
  • Is a creative developer and problem solver
  • Get the entrepreneurial feel of a start-up and is always ready to roll up his/her sleeves
  • Is willing to work in a small team environment with great possibilities to make development decisions that affect the future success of our company.
  • Codes object-oriented (PHP + JS).
  • Think design patterns, SOLID, clean architecture.
  • Loves industry best practices (CI, TDD, PSR…).
  • Is agile-friendly (scrum,…) and embraces change.
  • Has experience in Symfony, REST, PHPUnit, Behat, Composer, Git, MySQL…

Nice experience to have:

  • Experience of Social Networks’ APIs.
  • Familiar with recent developments in front end technologies, ideally having experience in client-side JavaScript (Angular, React, Backbone…)
  • Knowledge of Continuous Integration/Delivery pipelines.
  • Have an interest in open-source search engines such as Elasticsearch
  • Have a strong interest in Big Data concept and technologies

The offer:

- Working for a very nice startup (scale up)
- Having a direct impact on the product
- A fast-growing and very young atmosphere
- A permanent job with a fixed and very good salary (and good advantages)
- The opportunity to grow with the company over time