PHP Developer

Mastech Digital Inc. (NYSE: MHH) is a minority-owned, publicly traded IT staffing and digital transformation services company. Headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA, and established in 1986, we serve clients nationwide through 11 U.S. offices. Role: PHP Developer Location: Covington, KY Duration: Full-Time The Expertise You Have You have a passion for technology and can navigate your way across sophisticated and rapidly changing landscapes by staying on top of the latest trends and thrive by sharing knowledge.Are a creator, a doer, and a disruptor who will help us seek real-life problems and meet real customer needs. You’ll be helping us build things, taking an idea, and crafting rapid prototypes that are shippable and learn from real-life feedback.A self-starter, who actively challenges status-quo, is curious and not afraid to ask “Why” and “What if”?Are experienced with the tools of the trade including a variety of modern programming languages and frameworksHave an attitude of test first development and are experienced in modern test frameworks. We believe in testing and that quality is everyone’s job.Can measure, collect, and use data to make decisions. We understand the value of intuition and the need to balance decisions accordingly. The Skills You Bring Required Skills: Minimum of 5 years of software engineering development experience.Proven hands-on experience working with PHP 8, Node.js, NPM, Angular 17+, TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3, Git, REST APIs, and modern web application development.Proven hands-on experience developing Angular applications using Standalone Components, Signals, and modern control flow syntax.Strong experience maintaining, enhancing, and troubleshooting legacy PHP applications.Experience modernizing monolithic applications and migrating functionality from PHP-based architectures to Angular and Node.js solutions.Proven experience identifying, analyzing, and remediating application security vulnerabilities including OWASP Top 10 risks.Experience implementing secure coding practices, authentication, authorization, input validation, and data protection controls.Experience with relational databases including MySQL.Experience designing and consuming RESTful APIs and integrating with enterprise systems.Proven experience writing automated tests (unit, integration, and end-to-end) and following Test Driven Development (TDD) principles. Any combination of the following is a plus: Experience with Agile (Scrum or Kanban) methodologies and Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) practices.Experience modernizing legacy PHP frameworks such as CodeIgniter as well as custom-built applicationsExperience with application security scanning tools such as Mend, CodeQL and SonarQube.Experience performing vulnerability remediation and supporting penetration testing efforts.Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, and containerized application deployments.Experience with cloud platforms including Azure and AWS.Experience with OAuth, OIDC, SAML, and other enterprise identity integrations. The Value You Deliver Daily activities will involve designing, development, automated testing, meeting with technology peers (including architecture) to work through technical designs, supporting other developers on the team with their work, and participating in Agile ceremonies (Daily Stand up, Backlog grooming, Retrospective meetings)Captures requirements and runs or participates in the systems design effort.Develop maintainable standards and scalable solutions.Adhering to project timelines, addressing, and resolving technical issues.Ensuring code reviews, unit testing, and integration testing are completed efficiently and effectively.Fosters teamwork/motivation and spirit of collaboration with project team and business and systems partners Special Instructions This req was built today and has already been approved in Prosource. This req requires onsite participation, so subject to the additional req audit at extension but seems likely to be approved faster than other positions as of late. Legacy applications developed by 3rd party vending teams did not meet Fidelity standards. Legacy Migration from PHP to Angular/Node.js has begun. Until all PHP apps have been converted (years from now) Mend standards will require maintenance and updates The hiring manager is prepared to hire a PHP developer with Mend experience and train on everything else listed below. With limited reqs to recruit on we have seen quality of submission skyrocket. The ideal candidate is a PHP developer who has experience providing Mend support to active legacy applications in the environment, while providing support to the migration to Angular/Node.js. These typescript competencies, along with Kubernetes and experience deploying applications on their own to Azure would greatly support the staff. This is a market I am unfamiliar with so if you would like to submit a candidate fast to get them in and replace them with a more senior resource after the initial submittal, just email me and submit both. Required skills: PHP Developer: 5+ years Mend vulnerability experience with ratings of 8.0 and above.Reducing security exposure across PHP applications Supporting the modernization of applications by converting PHP and jQuery-based functionality to Angular where appropriateMend.IO Nice to haves: AngularNode.js typescript JQuery Javascript CodeIgniter Kubernetes and the cloud This team Deploys to azure, deploying themselves would be great Github co-pilot