PHP Developer @HeyBlu

PHP Developer @HeyBlu

HeyBlu is a Romanian e-money licensed fintech company that aims to provide financial services to customers and merchants operating in the e-commerce space. Our vision is to increase the financial power of e-commerce buyers & sellers, making a positive impact in their everyday lives. We do this by extending the purchasing power of retail shoppers in easy and convenient ways, while also helping e-commerce merchants with the capital needed to grow their business.

Being part of eMAG group, the largest e-commerce player in Romania, HeyBlu is focusing on building a financial offering for customers and merchants operating within the eMAG ecosystem by implementing an “embedded finance” approach. As part of the global Prosus group, we share the same purpose: “Improving everyday life for billions of people through technology”. In the HeyBlu team we are building an entrepreneurial, results-driven, agile, and collaborative culture based on the core values we share across the group: ownership, accountability, innovation, adaptability and customer focus.

What you’ll have to do:

Code Development: Create high-performance, reliable, and maintainable code while having a broader architectural vision.

Application Design and Implementation: Design, implement, and support multiple applications across various platforms.

Proactive Improvement: Maintain a proactive mindset, staying updated with the latest technologies and best practices. Identify areas for improvement and propose viable solutions.

Collaboration: Work collaboratively with other technical team members to design, implement, troubleshoot, and resolve critical issues.

Wow we'd like you to be:

Required Skills and Experience:

With PHP Expertise: 3+ years of experience in a PHP environment.

With Object-Oriented Programming experience (OOP): Experience with OOP, including the use of namespaces, traits, and interfaces, with a strong understanding of encapsulation, abstraction, inheritance, and polymorphism.

With Design Patterns knowledge: Knowledge of design patterns such as Dependency Injection, Factory, Builder, Observer, and Facade.

With Solution Architecture experience: Experience with scalability, service-oriented design, and application configuration (parameter ranges, number of rounds, skill chances).

With PHP Frameworks knowledge: Symfony or Laravel.

With Automated Testing experience: Experience with automated testing tools like PHPUnit.

With Database Management knowledge: Proficiency in MySQL and NoSQL databases (e.g., MongoDB, Couchbase).

With Messaging and Parallel Processing knowledge: Understanding of AMQP (e.g., RabbitMQ) and parallel processing in PHP.

With Version Control experience: Experience with Git/Stash.

With Environment Management knowledge: Knowledge of Linux and Docker.

With API Development experience: Experience with REST APIs and documentation tools (e.g., Swagger).

With Soft Skills: Flexible, communicative, and a real team player. Ability to manage multiple simultaneous projects and adapt to a fast-evolving environment.

Preferred Qualifications:

With Payment Integration experience: Experience with payment-related projects (e.g., PayU payment service).

With Domain Driven Design (DDD) experience: Experience with DDD projects.

With Advanced Testing Tools knowledge: Familiarity with Cypress, Testcafe.

With Agile Environment experience: Experience working in an Agile Scrum environment.

With Performance Monitoring experience: Use of performance, monitoring, and logging tools (e.g., Kibana, NewRelic).

With Automation Tools experience: Experience with automation tools (e.g., CloudFormation, Terraform, Puppet, Ansible).

With Cloud and Container Orchestration experience: Experience with cloud services and container orchestration (e.g., Amazon Web Services, Kubernetes).