Software Development Engineer

PHP Developer

Who We Are

Solera is a global leader in data and software services that strives to transform every touchpoint of the vehicle lifecycle into a connected digital experience. In addition, we provide products and services to protect life’s other most important assets: our homes and digital identities. Today, Solera processes over 300 million digital transactions annually for approximately 235,000 partners and customers in more than 90 countries. Our 6,500 team members foster an uncommon, innovative culture and are dedicated to successfully bringing the future to bear today through cognitive answers, insights, algorithms and automation.  For more information, please visit solera.com.

The Role
We are looking for a PHP Developer to join our fast-growing team and assist in the drive of the company's growth.

What You’ll Do

• Translate business requirements into technical deliverables
• Develop additional features on existing applications
• Take ownership of work and see it all the way through the software development life cycle
• Investigate and resolve defects in the established system
• Help define non-functional requirements and build systems capable of meeting them
• Deliver operationally stable software and help ensure uptime
• Improve automation of our CICD processes
• Deliver API enabled components and microservices
• Be part of a distributed Agile team and contribute to its success and improvement
• Design and implement solution architecture to meet functional and non-functional requirements.

What You’ll Bring

• Degree in computer science with at least 1-2  years of commercial experience
• Full professional proficiency in English
• Excellent communication and inter-personal skills
• Experience in  developing PHP applications and hands-on experience working with at least one of its mainstream frameworks (e.g. Laravel, CodeIgniter, Symfony, Yii2, Phalcon or Zend)
• Experience with Agile methodologies, CI, TDD/BDD, SQL/NoSQL databases and REST/SOAP webservices.
• Hands on experience with legacy PHP frameworks (Qcubed)
• Hands on experience with modern PHP frameworks (Laravell)
• A can-do, problem-solving attitude & work well as part of a team

It is impossible to list every requirement for, or responsibility of, any position.  Similarly, we cannot identify all the skills a position may require since job responsibilities and the Company’s needs may change over time.  Therefore, the above job description is not comprehensive or exhaustive.   The Company reserves the right to adjust, add to or eliminate any aspect of the above description.  The Company also retains the right to require all employees to undertake additional or different job responsibilities when necessary to meet business needs.