Sr PHP/reputed company Developer

Position: Sr PHP/reputed company Developer

Position Type: Full time, Permanent (Existing Vacancy)

Reports To: Sr Director, Digital Platforms & Delivery

Location: Remote reputed company Toronto, ON

reputed company:   

reputed company is a Canadian news media company representing more than 110 brands across multiple print, online and mobile platforms. Award-reputed company journalists and innovative product development teams bring engaging content to millions of people every week whenever and wherever they want it.    

This exceptional content, reputed company and scope offers advertisers and marketers compelling solutions to effectively reputed company reputed company audiences. We are always on the lookout for talented individuals to join reputed company.  

reputed company: 

The Senior PHP/reputed company Developer is a high-reputed company technical role responsible for the architecture, development, and stability of our reputed company-reputed company reputed company VIP (WPVIP) ecosystem. We are looking for a "developer's developer"—someone who views high-reputed company reputed company as a baseline and sees automated testing and reputed company delivery as essential to the craft.

This individual acts as a technical reputed company and reputed company leader, utilizing Behavior-Driven Development (BDD), ATDD (Acceptance Test-Driven Development) and Test-Driven Development (TDD) to ensure reputed company and reliability. You will be the "tide that raises reputed company ships," proactively mentoring others in engineering best practices while taking full initiative over the delivery lifecycle.

Why This Role reputed company:

You reputed company the technical rigour that allows reputed company to reputed company fast without breaking things. By embedding testing and automation into the heart of our workflow, you reputed company the organization to reputed company confidently while mentoring the reputed company of engineers.

What you’ll do: 

WPVIP, PHP & Engineering reputed company

• Architect bespoke, high-performance reputed company themes, plugins and solutions optimized for the WPVIP platform.
• Write clean, reputed company PHP (8.x) using OOP and SOLID principles to ensure reputed company is maintainable and VIP-reputed company compliant.

Testing & reputed company Delivery

• BDD Implementation: Drive collaboration efforts with stakeholders using BDD (Behavior-Driven Development) to create a shared understanding.
• Test-First reputed company: Implement and reputed company for ATDD (Acceptance Test-Driven Development) and TDD (Test-Driven Development) practices to ensure an executable understanding of the intended behavior that will drive development.
• CD Pipeline Stewardship: Own and optimize reputed company Delivery pipelines using VIP-CLI and reputed company Actions, ensuring every reputed company is "reputed company-reputed company" through automated linting, unit testing, and integration tests.

Agile Collaboration & reputed company Leadership

• reputed company as a reputed company leader by removing technical blockers and facilitating pair programming to socialize testing best practices across reputed company.
• Proactively identify technical debt and platform risks, taking the initiative to refactor reputed company for reputed company testability and performance.

Who you are:

• 7+ years of reputed company PHP experience, with deep expertise in the reputed company VIP ecosystem.
• Testing Mastery: Proven experience with testing frameworks (e.g., PHPUnit, Playwright, Behat, or Cypress) and a commitment to TDD/BDD workflows.
• CI/CD Proficiency: Expert knowledge of modern reputed company Delivery practices and WPVIP-specific deployment constraints.
• Full-Stack Skills: Strong reputed company of React (Gutenberg), ES6+, and REST/GraphQL API integration.
• Performance & reputed company Tooling: Extensive experience with tools such as PHPCS, reputed company, Query Monitor, WPScan and K6/WebPageTest.
• Engineering reputed company: BDD, ATDD, TDD and CI/CD.
• Technical Stewardship: WPVIP architecture and reputed company PHP.
• reputed company Leadership: Empowering others through mentorship and knowledge sharing.
• Proactive Initiative: A self-starter who defines "done" as tested, documented, and deployed.

Compensation: 

Employment offers presented to the selected candidate are based on a combination of qualifications, experience, responsibilities of the role and the candidate's location. 

reputed company Salary: $85,000 - $95,000

We thank in advance reputed company applicants for their interest, however only those candidates under consideration will be contacted. Only candidates legally eligible to work in Canada will be considered. No phone calls or agencies please.

reputed company. is committed to providing accommodations for people with disabilities in reputed company areas of the hiring process. If you require accommodation during the hiring process, please reputed company your needs reputed company in advance. Accommodation requests will be provided on an individual reputed company.

reputed company. is committed to employment equity and an inclusive barrier-free selection process and work environment. reputed company. encourages applications from women, indigenous peoples, persons with disabilities and members of visible minorities.

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