Senior Backend Developer

About Property Finder

Property Finder is UAE's leading real estate and rental marketplace dedicated to connecting consumers to their perfect property.

Launched in 2007, propertyfinder.ae is owned and operated by The Property Finder Group which also owns and operates real estate portals across the Gulf and the Middle East.

We make finding a home easier and faster by offering users verified properties from specialised agents.

Position

Property Finder is looking for a talented Back-end Developer to join their development team. We believe in nurturing your talent and we encourage creativity and autonomy where you are free to grow and develop your career in a fun, forward thinking and positive environment.

We expect our developers to be passionate about new technologies and think of creative ways that they could benefit our business. We want our developers to stay current with changes in technologies such as PHP, Symfony, Go, TypeScript, ElasticSearch and MongoDb.

We are big proponents of Agile development methods with small cross-functional teams fully empowered to take an idea from inception and to be able to deliver it fully tested into production with minimal outside disruptions. Because of this you will need to be able to work well with others in your team and be able to contribute meaningful ideas on how to best achieve your objectives and key results.

Responsibilities:

• In a large tech department, divided in smaller teams, you’ll be in charge of developing new features, as well as refactoring existing projects
• You need to be able to write clean and scalable code
• You’ll need to be able to participate in brainstorming sessions and to bring your opinion and experience to the table

Your qualification

• PHP 7
• Experience working with MVC Frameworks, such as Zend or Symfony
• Very strong Object Oriented Programming and design pattern skills
• MySQL / Doctrine 2
• PHPUnit
• REST web services
• Git / Github

Will be a plus

• Golang
• ElasticSearch
• MongoDb
• Comfortable working with testing frameworks
• Message Queuing / RabbitMQ
• Memcached or Redis