Backend Developer (Freelance) with Marcadores.com (Football Live Scores)

IMPORTANT: This role is intended for

freelance

backend developers available to work a

minimum of 20 hours per week

on our projects. Most of the work can be done

remotely

but ideally we would like you to spend

one day in our Barcelona office every week

(exact frequency to be discussed and agreed together).

With plenty of ideas to innovate and make our products indispensable to millions of sports fans around the world, we are looking for talented and passionate developers to help us create the future of Marcadores.com, Futebol.com and their international cousins.

If you are excited about making things better and finding solutions to complex technical challenges, we want to hear from you.

Your Role:

As backend developer in the Visca Web team, your role will be essential to:

• Ensure

  fast and accurate delivery of scores in real-time

  to all users by continuing to build + improve our set of highly available and concurrent backend services.
• Evaluate possible

  new features

  and suggest a smart way to implement them (whilst balancing performance, maintenance, time available, etc..).

• Improve

  the structure of the

  code

  and

  refactor

  code to be more

  maintainable, scalable and testable

  .

• Stabilize

  the project and

  write functional/unit tests

  to ensure that the software performs its stated functions.
• Help us

  transition

  to a

  microservices

  -based architecture.
• Carry out some occasional

  front-end

  work (templates integration (Twig), Javascript…).

What the role requires:

• Solid experience coding clean, object-oriented, namespaced PHP (and an interest in learning new languages).
• Confidence working with Symfony2+ or another modern MVC framework.
• The ability to communicate in English (if you’re not fluent, we’ll help you learn/practice, but you must know the basics).

• Minimum availability of 20 hours per week, remote work accepted but presence at our Barcelona office required (ideally one day per week).

What would be nice (but not required)

• Interest in sports.
• Experience in creating automated tests (TDD / Phpunit / Selenium) and continuous integration.
• Familiarity with RabbitMQ, Redis, Memcached, WebSocket, Varnish or any related technologies.
• Experience working on high traffic websites / conducting stress tests.
• Experience in one or more of the following:
• Amazon Web Services / Deployment Tools / Docker.
• Symfony2 (advanced/expert level).
• Scalable systems.
• New Relic / BlackFire.
• API design and implementation.
• Node JS.

We have great benefits (Yes! Even as a freelance developer, you would naturally be considered as part of our team)

• A stimulating work environment
• The pride to work on a product that everyone may use
• Free Coffee + Bi-weekly Team Lunches
• Personal Development (technical meetings, katas)
• High-level Futbolin games
• Tickets for FC Barcelona live football games