Jobs, fresher vacancy - Product Software Engineer (PHP, Symfony) • UK

Company: Coders Connect

UK

This is a remote position.Coders Connect has partnered with an innovative solutions company specialising in providing critical data services to scholarly publishing and related industries.Their digital plumbing solutions power the dissemination of knowledge by enabling organisations to manage the identity and access of their users, and collect valuable analytics on the usage of their products and services. Their clients are diverse, ranging from large, complex organisations with tens of thousands of employees across many locations down to small startups. Every implementation brings a unique blend of needs, systems, and processes. And all of them help advance human knowledge.The culture is innovative, collaborative, and empowering. As a niche player in a large industry, their success comes from operating at the leading edge and they are often the first in their area to launch new services and innovate around new technologies. The solutions combine a lot of complex domain knowledge, so they work best when they pool their skills and experience. And they value roles that are challenging and satisfying, which come from feeling supported and empowered to move ahead.The team is small, yet powerful. Bringing valuable skills and experience, a desire to learn and be challenged, and the need to work on meaningful projects that make a difference to the world. And they’re looking to grow their team. What you will do You’re an experienced software engineer who thinks “beyond the code”, recognises the continuum between bespoke engineering and self-serve products, and how this helps scale up a B2B company.You want to continue growing professionally, enjoy learning and acting autonomously, and prefer working on long-lived products over short-term projects.You’ll be critical in maturing our domain-specific platform and its features, benefiting the product as a whole. For example: designing and building easy-to-use data uploading systems, so our clients can confidently upload and configure complex data designing and building troubleshooting tools, so client success staff can solve problems without needing developer intervention improving the B2B onboarding experience for our clients and their technical and administrative staff helping people solve (and prevent) thorny problems; both with internal tools, and occasionally directly with client staff spotting pain points, sources of friction and paper cuts in the platform; suggesting and making simplifications and improvements You’ll join a lean, fully-remote collaborative team, supported by an Engineering Manager, and work day-to-day with the CTO, engineering team, client success team, and others. RequirementsYou MUST have: Demonstrated experience over a number of years in software engineering, solving problems like the above Recent experience in Symfony and PHP It’s nice if you’re familiar with: web interface and database-driven API development, particularly for B2B products dynamic and rich front-end experiences agile software development DevOps tools and practices – they use DigitalOcean, GitLab, and Docker And they’ll love it if you’re familiar with, or interested to learn: Scholarly publishing SAML authentication technologies Analytics data processing and COUNTER reporting