Junior PHP Software Engineer

Purpose of Position

As a Software Engineer, you are part of a cross-functional service-oriented team, working on extending and maintaining our Affiliate Marketing platform.

You will be responsible for writing clean, secure and well-tested code. You follow best-practice guidelines and help to improve those guidelines, your code is open by default and easy for others to reuse. You are part of a team and with the team extend, maintain and operate assigned parts of our platform.

You have a good understanding of the user needs within your service and work with the stakeholders and other team members to translate these into technical solutions. You work through the entire lifecycle of a service or product, from understanding requirements, and development to deployment, support and maintenance. You show an understanding of deadlines, find pragmatic solutions and are proactive in raising potential risks.

You will help the team in solving the challenges that arise as our business grows and develops; working together to ensure the service continues to meet the needs of our business and its customers.

The Team

You will be joining our Advertiser Tribe, a team responsible for delivering some of our most impactful and high-value work. Our focus is on building custom solutions that enable both new and existing clients to onboard quickly and seamlessly. With these tailored solutions, we empower our clients to create value for themselves and their partners, ultimately driving sales and engagement.

As part of our team, you’ll thrive in a dynamic, collaborative environment dedicated to building strategic partnerships that fuel growth. While our core applications are primarily built in PHP, some solutions require integrations with Java-based applications owned by other teams. In such cases, we develop custom plugins to deliver a personalised and seamless experience for our clients.

Key Tasks & Responsibilities:

• Work inside a small team and be comfortable with agile methodologies and practices.
• Improve existing applications, design and build solutions from scratch.
• Develop code and contribute to reviews, retrospectives, planning and development sessions.
• Shape development technologies and practices.
• Follow best-practice guidelines and processes.
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues in a timely fashion.
• Communicate effectively in both verbal (day-to-day discussions, team meetings) and written forms (documentation, emails, communication tools) with local and remote team members.

Whilst the above is a guide to general expectations of the role, we expect this position to evolve allowing you greater scope to gain both knowledge and experience within the online and affiliate marketplace.

Skills & Expertise:

Required:

• At least 1-2 years of commercial Software Engineering experience.
• Experience with PHP.
• We appreciate any experience with Symfony.
• Basic understanding of Java and related frameworks (Spring, Hibernate, etc.).
• Experience with any relational databases, e.g. MySQL or MariaDB.
• Familiarity with Agile processes.
• Passion for writing elegant code and a desire to constantly refactor and improve, with a good understanding of SOLID, design principles and OOP.
• Understanding basic Data Structures and Algorithms.

Nice to have:

• Knowledge of containerization tools like Docker and orchestration platforms like Kubernetes.
• Knowledge of best practices, RESTful APIs, and design patterns.
• Understanding of unit testing or even TDD would be a great asset.
• Experience working with Cloud technologies (AWS, Azure, GCP, etc).
• We are migrating and building new solutions in AWS.
• Experience working with NoSQL databases. AWS DynamoDB is also a plus.
• Understanding the concepts of DDD
• Comfortable with applying continuous integration and deployment.

Our Offer

• Flexi-Week and Work-Life Balance: We prioritise your mental health and wellbeing, offering you a flexible four-day Flexi-Week at full pay and with no reduction to your annual holiday allowance. We also offer a variety of different paid special leaves.
• Remote Working Allowance: You will receive a monthly allowance to cover part of your running costs. In addition, we will support you in setting up your remote workspace appropriately.
• Flexi-Office: We offer an international culture and flexibility through our Flexi-Office and hybrid/remote work possibilities to work across Awin regions
• Meal Vouchers: You will be supported with a certain net sum to spend it on a variety of lunches.
• Health & Wellbeing: The insurance covers several types of health, vision and / or dental treatments for you and for up to one additional family member.
• Remote Working Furniture Package: After 3 months of employment, you will be eligible for a furniture package, which should enable you to set up a proper workplace at your remote working location
• Appreciation: Thank and reward colleagues by sending them a voucher through our peer-to-peer program.

Established in 2000, Awin is proud of our dynamic, social and inclusive culture.

Like all businesses, we’ve had to adapt and nurture our culture in a virtual environment. Our virtual ‘Life @ Awin’ hub brings our colleagues from across the globe together for various social activities.

Diversity & Inclusion are paramount to us, and we proudly pursue and hire diverse team members. We champion uniqueness and authenticity; this is who we are at our core. Our network of affiliate partnerships are diverse and transparent, as are the employees powering our vision to build the world’s leading open partner ecosystem. We welcome all backgrounds, identities, and experiences. If you need support at any point in the application or interview process, please let us know.

Apply now to begin the next stage of your career at a progressive company that supports both your professional and personal development.