Role Description
This is an exciting opportunity for several Senior PHP Developers to join our growing team in Timisoara. You will be an experienced senior developer who specialises in Laravel or a similar open-source PHP framework. In this role, you will leverage your technical expertise and problem-solving abilities to deliver high-quality, generic, and robust solutions efficiently.
You will play a pivotal role in the evolution of Seopa’s platforms, including the design and implementation of new projects, API development, and system integrations. By incorporating AI and modern best practices, you will enhance development workflows, improve decision-making, and contribute to scalable, reusable, and secure coding standards. You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including product management, design, and QA, to drive innovation and deliver industry-leading interfaces.
Responsibilities
- Driving Innovation: Leveraging AI tools and technologies to streamline development workflows, enhance productivity, and optimise technical decision-making.
- Problem-Solving Expertise: Rapidly identifying and implementing robust technical solutions that align with business goals.
- Platform Leadership: Taking a primary role in the ongoing development and improvement of Seopa’s cutting-edge web comparison systems.
- Standards & Processes: Ensuring all software meets business requirements, adheres to industry best practices and complies with Seopa’s internal standards and processes.
- Requirements Gathering: Identifying technical requirements, creating actionable plans for new products and providing accurate estimations for development timelines.
- Documentation: Leading the creation of detailed functional and technical documentation to ensure clarity and consistency.
- Code Reviews: Reviewing and providing constructive feedback on the code, testing procedures and documentation of peers.
- Mentorship: Guiding junior developers and leading technical projects with a focus on skill development and knowledge sharing.
- Collaboration: Working closely with project owners, business stakeholders, and QA teams to ensure cohesive development efforts across local and global teams.
- Continuous Improvement: Contributing to the refinement of internal standards and staying up to date with advancements in PHP, Laravel, and AI technologies.
- Project Delivery: Ensuring tasks and projects are delivered on time and to specification while championing company values: Smart, Efficient, Open, Passionate, Accountable.
Essential Requirements
- A degree within the field of Computer Science, Informatics or similar, relevant experience in this sector.
- Familiarity with AI-powered tools (e.g., ChatGPT, Copilot) to enhance development efficiency.
- Minimum 5 years’ experience of open source web development technologies including PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, HTML5, CSS and using these with high traffic, high volume websites.
- At least 3 years’ experience working with an open source PHP framework, preferably Laravel.
- Deep understanding of API design principles, including RESTful standards and secure API implementation.
- Strong problem-solving skills with a focus on creating scalable and generic solutions.
- Security best practices for web application development.
- Agile methodologies and tools like Jira.
- Proven experience with modern testing frameworks and methodologies, including unit, integration, and end-to-end testing.
Desirable Requirements
Experience in some of the following would be beneficial:
- Database Optimisation: Proficiency in optimising database performance, including query optimisation, indexing strategies, and schema design.
- Unit Testing: Familiarity with writing and maintaining unit tests to ensure code reliability and facilitate robust development practices.
- AWS Infrastructure: Experience with cloud platforms, particularly AWS, including services such as EC2, ECS, S3, RDS and Cloudfront.
- Microservices Architecture: Knowledge of designing, developing, and maintaining microservices for scalable and modular applications.
- WordPress: Experience in integrating or customising WordPress alongside Laravel to address specific business needs.
- Artificial Intelligence: Experience with advanced AI and machine learning integrations for PHP and Laravel.
- Front-end: A good working knowledge of frameworks like Vue.js or React.
- DevOps: Experienced in using DevOps practices, including CI/CD pipelines and containerisation (e.g., Docker).
Personal Specification
- Must be eligible to permanently live and work in Romania without the need for a work visa sponsorship.
- Can identify with and commit to our company values.
Company Values
SMART
We are innovative and strategic
We find better ways to do things
EFFICIENT
We maximise productivity and value for money
We minimise waste and duplication
OPEN
We are one team – diverse, loyal and respectful
We welcome new ideas, challenge and change
PASSIONATE
We are ambitious, positive and driven
We celebrate the success of our company and colleagues
ACCOUNTABLE
We are responsible, trustworthy and dependable
We do what we say we will
Remuneration
Seopa offers a competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package, including:
- 13th Salary.
- Free private medical insurance.
- Free access to our nominated e-learning platform.
- Team building and company dinner events.
- Sports plan.
Reporting to
Technical Team Lead/IT Manager, Timisoara
Job Type
Permanent full-time. This role entails a balanced approach to both in-office working and working from home.
Location
Strada Maresal Constantin Prezan, 140 Timisoara, 307211, Romania
How to Apply
Please submit your CV to careers@seopa.com.
About Seopa
Founded in 2003 with branches in Belfast (Head Office) and Timisoara, we are an industry leader in creating and hosting insurance, finance and utility price comparison engines. In addition to providing our software and systems to other companies, we also operate our own insurance comparison brands – Quotezone.co.uk and CompareNI.com.
Used by millions of people each year, our systems enable insurance and utility providers to secure business within their target markets and empower consumers to easily identify providers who meet their financial product requirements at market-leading prices. Our Affinity Partnerships enable other companies to offer additional financial services on their websites and increase their revenues. Our products are used by over 400 financial partners in the insurance, finance and utilities industry.
Our success is recognised by a series of awards including six consecutive Deloitte Technology Fast 50 awards, a Deloitte EMEA Technology Fast500 award, several prestigious Deloitte Best Managed Companies awards (2017, 2018 & 2019), three Gold Standard Best Managed Companies award status (2020, 2021 and 2022) and Platinum Standard Best Managed Companies award 2023 and 2024.