Senior PHP Software Engineer

Senior PHP Software Engineer

Senior PHP Software Engineer

Apply locations Cape Town time type Full time posted on Posted 3 Days Ago job requisition id R86618

Would You Like to Shape Digital Innovation?

Join Us as a Senior PHP Software Engineer!

About our Team

LexisNexis Legal & Professional, which serves customers in more than 150 countries with 11,800 employees worldwide, is part of RELX, a global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers. Our company has been a long-time leader in deploying AI and advanced technologies to the legal market to improve productivity and transform the overall business and practice of law.

About the Role

As a Senior PHP Software Engineer, you will design, develop, and maintain complex software solutions. You'll collaborate with cross-functional international teams to drive innovation and deliver high-quality products highly favored by legal professionals. Your expertise will be crucial in solving technical challenges and enhancing system performance.

Responsibilities

• Collaborating closely with our Product and Data Sciences teams to develop a Legal Risk Quantification product.
• Taking part in architecture and technological choices for Front-End.
• Maintaining and supporting existing applications.
• Ensuring the quality of the back-end code base (resilience, performance, and security).
• Designing and implementing new features across our suite of applications.
• Contributing actively to our Agile rituals.
• Performing thorough cross-developers code reviews.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related field or a solid technical background.
• 5+ years experience in software engineering for web applications.
• Strong proficiency in PHP8 (Symfony or Laravel framework).
• Experience with RESTful API design and development.
• Proficient in Git for version control.
• Adherence to best development practices such as unit and functional testing, code reviews, SOLID principles, and security practices.

Work in a way that works for you

We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organization. We offer an appealing working prospect for our people. With numerous wellbeing initiatives, shared parental leave, study assistance, and sabbaticals, we will help you meet your immediate responsibilities and your long-term goals.

• Working flexible hours - flexing the times when you work in the day to help you fit everything in and work when you are the most productive.

Working for you

We know that your well-being and happiness are key to a long and successful career. These are some of the benefits we are delighted to offer:

• Medical Aid.
• Retirement Plan inclusive of Risk Benefits (Disability, Critical Illness, Life Cover & Funeral Cover).
• Modern family benefits, including adoption and surrogacy.
• Study Leave.

About the Business

LexisNexis Legal & Professional provides legal, regulatory, and business information and analytics that help customers increase their productivity, improve decision-making, achieve better outcomes, and advance the rule of law around the world.

LexisNexis, a division of RELX, is an equal opportunity employer: qualified applicants are considered for and treated during employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, national origin, citizenship status, disability status, protected veteran status, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law. We are committed to providing a fair and accessible hiring process. If you have a disability or other need that requires accommodation or adjustment, please let us know.