Lead Symfony Developer

Remote position based in Europe

The Moodle Marketplace is a trusted, centralised, peer-to-peer e-commerce platform that connects creators of Moodle plugins and integrations with Moodle users who are looking for free and paid solutions to enhance and extend their Moodle sites. It improves on the existing Moodle Plugins Directory, addressing its limitations while delivering new features and benefits. We’re looking for a Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer to join the Marketplace team.

What your new team and job look like

You will have the opportunity to be part of a new team that will contribute to the overall success of the Moodle ecosystem. You will be involved in the design, implementation and rollout of the product, work on complex integration problems, help the team to navigate uncertainty and make effective decisions, based on research, feedback and careful reasoning.

You will be part of a team that values learning, reflection and introspection, and is always open to improvement as a team and as individuals.

At Moodle, no two days will ever be the same, but most days in this role usually involve a mix of:

• Building architecturally consistent software that aligns with product roadmap, consistently shipping features and bug fixes.
• Coordinating with product leadership on priorities and helping meet business objectives.
• Understanding technical and UX constraints and ensuring informed decision-making.
• Collaborating with UX Design and Research on problem solving.
• Encouraging the professional and technical growth of less experienced colleagues through mentoring and coaching.
• Continuously identify areas for improvement in processes, tools, and workflows, and advocate for change where needed.
• Helping to create an emotionally safe environment where team members demonstrate a strong sense of ownership and engagement, open to sharing ideas, and learning through mistakes.
• Contributing to creating and maintaining a collaborative and engaging team culture.
• Promoting Open Source values.
• Communicating status, findings, insights, and recommendations in the team, being comfortable presenting to customers and product leadership, encouraging the importance of strong written and verbal communication skills to others.

Requirements

• Fluent in English, both written and spoken.
• Several years of experience with Symfony and Doctrine ORM.
• Several years of proficiency in PHP, including knowledge of its latest features and capabilities.
• Several years of proficiency in JS (ES6).
• Strong skills in SQL and data modelling.
• Ability to write clean, maintainable, testable and well-documented code.
• Ability to maintain high-quality standards and promote good engineering practices.
• Experience contributing to Open Source projects.

Some other things that are important to us:

• Experience building RESTful APIs endpoints using Symfony.
• Experience integrating Symfony with modern frontend frameworks (e.g., React, Angular, or Vue.js).
• Experience integrating payment gateways and external services.
• Familiarity with modular approach for software design.
• Familiarity with distributed systems and event-driven design.
• Experience designing and implementing data structures.
• Familiarity with testing frameworks and CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience working in a team with a product culture.