Back-End Web Developer (PHP, WordPress...) DevOps (AWS...)

Job Description

Salary: 30-40k gross per year

About Visca Web

Visca Web operates performance marketing websites within the sports, real estate and finance segments across several markets, primarily in the Americas and Europe.

For more than 10 years now, our content has been educating and empowering our users across the globe to make well-informed decisions, which has resulted in generating over 100,000 high-quality online leads for our partners brands over that period of time.

One key element of this success has been our small (20+ full-time members), resourceful and truly multicultural team, which is organized around Content, SEO, tech development, product management and data analytics. Friendly startup feeling, with structures and processes in place to continue growing.

This successful track-record, culture and set up makes us proud and confident to take on any challenge, whether it is to maintain and consolidate our position amongst the top players of our industry or to venture into new segments and territories looking for further growth opportunities.

Your Role:

We are looking for a Back-End Developer who can deliver quality software at a fast pace, as well as maintain and improve our AWS Infrastructure to help our websites and business grow. Our main sites are written in PHP. The ideal candidate will also have experience with several of these platforms/tools/systems: WordPress, Agile methodologies, AWS (EC2, Lambda, RDS, CloudFront, S3, SES, etc), Docker,, Kubernetes, Google Tag Manager, Google Cloud, Google APIs.

We anticipate the role split will be roughly75% back-end development /25% infrastructure-related.

Your main missions will revolve around:

Websites and structure performance enhancements (PHP applications speed optimizations, speed up deployment, monitor code behaviours...)

Managing hosting infrastructure (AWS), migrations, enhancements of the infrastructure.

Implement performance monitoring systems and create dashboards to track KPIs.

Support the front-end team develop features on our websites.

Support the data team to maintain the infrastructure and suggest new ideas.

Required skills/experience/mindset

Experience with modern PHP (OOP, Composer).

Solid knowledge of object-oriented programming, refactoring, etc.

Ability to maintain a MySQL database.

Server management (via AWS or other) or at least a desire to learn about server/AWS infrastructure

Team player with a positive mindset, willing to find reliable solutions that fit the projects needs and their constraints.

The ability to communicate in English.

(Bonus) Knowledge and experience with Front-End technologies/software (ReactJS, gulp, webpack, Bootstrap).

(Bonus) Experience with Kotlin to work (in pair) with our data analyst and data developer.

BENEFITS

On top of the competitive salary package and annual bonus plan, the benefits we offers are the following:

Great environment

Cool and bright office in the 22@ district of Poblenou.

Bike storage, rest room, Playstation room.

Annual holiday

23 days per year

All bank holidays from Spain, Catalunya and Barcelona

Flexibility

Flexible working hours

Hybrid office/remote work

Self-development and growth

Personal training/conference budget (1000 annually)

Health, fitness and well-being

Private health insurance plan.

Andjoy (fitness) Membership.

On-site massages every month.

Social

Summer & Christmas offsite gatherings

...and a few more (good) surprises along the year.

This position is a full-time one, based in our Barcelona office. Possession of a valid work-permit for Spain is a must.

Hybrid remote