Plant-for-the-Planet is a youth-led non-profit organization with a vision to plant a Trillion Trees. We are a collective of young climate justice ambassadors, environmental scientists, designers and developers – spread across 7 continents – who work together to bring solutions to solve the climate crisis.
We are seeking a backend developer with demonstrated experience designing and implementing enterprise-scale web solutions using the Symfony Framework. The ideal candidate will work with our team members based in Mexico and India and will bring both strategic vision and solid execution skills to build APIs and solutions for scalable and versional applications for mobile and the desktop.
Required Skills and Experience
- Minimum 2+ years of experience in building highly available critical systems
- Experience in writing scalable, high-performant, instrumented and clean code in PHP & MySQL
- Ability to work both independently and within a team environment
- A passion for technology with a drive to stay up to date with technology and best practices
- Experience with GitHub
- Experience with building REST-APIs using Symfony, PHP, MySQL
- Experience with Payment Processors such as Stripe or Paypal
Good to have
- Knowledge of ElasticSearch, Redis
- Some experiences developing web interfaces using HTML/JavaScript/CSS (React or equivalent framework)
- Some knowledge of Serverless Architectures
- Experience in writing clean, secure, test-driven, easily maintainable and modular codes
- Experience in Database designing and maintenance
- Knowledge of German, Spanish, French or other languages apart from English
- Willing to join a remote team, but prefer someone based in Mumbai, India
We value and promote the diversity of our employees and applicants. We look forward to your application via our online form.
