PHP Solutions Architect

Job Description

Description:

Company Overview:

SteadyRain, an award-winning digital agency headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri is seeking an experienced PHP Solutions Architect to join our growing Development team. As a firm, we provide a unique blend of digital strategy consulting, user interface and user experience design, web development, software development and digital marketing campaign strategy and management services.

SteadyRain is composed of people who passionately love their work and strive to provide exceptional results. We are a hardworking, determined team focused on industry leadership through providing value and innovation for our customers. We aren’t just a group of employees working hard for customers—we nurture, support, and celebrate one another as we grow together to make the impossible possible. Our company is proudly employee-owned, so we all have a direct stake in the success of our solutions (and one another). Employees pitch in across teams to deliver the best strategy, highest level of services, and strongest solutions, making our collective impact greater than the sum of our parts.

As a PHP Solutions Architect, you will personally make an impact by:

Leading the establishment of an IT Architecture practice, and the adoption of an architecture and standards methodology

Developing coding best practices, playbooks, frameworks and solutions for our customers and internal team

Working with our team to create great products for our customers

Writing clean, maintainable and performance code

Outlining architectural best practices for our platform

Optimizing applications for maximum speed and scalability

Helping to drive, document and continually refine platform standards

Helping to drive new tech research and experimentation

Collaborating with other team members and stakeholders

Requirements:

Minimum of five (5) years writing PHP

Minimum five (5) years working in WordPress

Experience with at least one PHP framework like Symphony, Laravel, CodeIgniter or an understanding of PHP-open source projects like WordPress, Joomla or Drupal

Experience leading IT Architecture decisions

Knowledge working with common third-party APIs

Knowledge and experience with W3 Standards and cross-browser compatibility

Experience with source control such as Git or Mercurial

Experience in guiding and mentoring junior developers

Flexibility in a fast-paced dynamic environment with shifting roles and responsibilities

Technically creative and open-minded

Experience working at a digital agency

Ability to solve complex performance problems and architectural challenges

Great communication and problem-solving skills

Comfortable working on PC platform

Detail oriented and focus on quality assurance of work

Online portfolio or personal website with samples of relevant work a plus

Benefits:

Full Time

Flexible Scheduling

Remote Work Options

Paid Time Off & Vacation

Matching 401k Plan

ESOP

100% Coverage of Health Insurance for Employee

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

FSA Plan

Life Insurance

Long Term Disability

Full-time

Hybrid remote