Sr. PHP Application Developer

Vanderbilt University Medical Center•Nashville, TN

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) is seeking a Sr Full-stack PHP developer with experience using modern frameworks to join their team in crafting software to support medical research. The applications are continually evolving to incorporate more data sources and provide greater utility, requiring flexible software architecture and the ability to rapidly refactor/modernize. As an application developer, this person would work with stakeholders to define specifications, as well as collaborate with peers to integrate systems and build shared codebases. The goal is to produce software befitting of a leading medical institution - clean, maintainable, and efficient behind the scenes; responsive, intuitive, and beautiful for the end user. The Vanderbilt Institute for Clinical & Translational Research (VICTR) is Vanderbilt’s virtual home for clinical and translational research. Supported by Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s Office of Research and the NIH-sponsored Clinical and Translational Service Award (CTSA), the mission of the institute is to transform the way ideas and research discoveries make their way from origin to patient care. VICTR functions to help researchers and clinicians do their jobs better by providing tools and support to improve the quality of research, publications, grant writing, and training for future doctors and researchers.

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree (Required)
5 years relevant experience (Required)
4+ years of PHP experience with knowledge of object-oriented concepts
Working knowledge of JavaScript, jQuery, and CSS
Experience with relational and non-relational databases
Intermediate-level server experience

Nice To Haves

Working familiarity with the Symfony framework is preferred

Responsibilities

Develop and modify software under occasional guidance; design, code, and perform benchmark testing, as well as debugging and documentation of programs.
Implement small projects or components or large projects.
Ability to solve medium to complex problems through technical core competencies.
Demonstrates proficiency of programming and other development tasks independently and without support from others for moderate to difficult applications.
Has conducted all of the tasks and activities required to complete the applications development phase and participated in the process of fully implementing the system.
Able to successfully debug complex routines.
Has used structured code to produce modules of straightforward logic.
Possesses sufficient fundamental proficiency to successfully demonstrate knowledge of applications development standards and procedures in practical applications of moderate difficulty.
Is attentive to existing applications development standards and procedures, and may recommend improvements to existing applications development standards and procedures within the work area.
Demonstrates the ability to conduct systems design tasks in a team environment or independently to build or enhance a simple system.
Has conducted the basic phases of systems design including preparing design and file specifications, preparing testing, conversion, and implementation plans, designing system architecture and process flows, and preparing program requirements and specifications.
Creatively generates multiple potential solutions.
Has participated in the structured design of one or more conventional, relatively uncomplicated data processing systems as a member of a project team.
Is familiar with standard methods for functional decomposition.
Has participated in structured design walk-throughs.
Has some training in or light exposure to basic systems analysis tasks.
Participated in one or more systems analysis tasks such as: collection of documents, user interviews, file analysis, process flow charting, functional process modeling, data modeling, feasibility, prototyping, and evaluating existing systems.
Able to analyze information and verify its completeness.
Has knowledge of the concepts of structured functional specifications, modularity and partitioning.