Full-stack Developer

Title: Full-stack Developer (PHP-JS) - EMEA

Type: Full-time

Workplace: Fully remote

Job Description:

Location: Full remote position from EMEA

Moodle with us!

At Moodle, we're a mighty group of passionate people based in several countries around the world. We're united by our dedication to enabling best-practice online learning, whether within educational institutions or workplaces, and we are looking for someone who aligns with our values and goals.

If you are a Full Stack Developer who enjoys learning while having fun as we advance our mission, read on!

What your new job would look like

The Moodle Marketplace is a trusted, centralised, peer-to-peer e-commerce platform that connects creators of Moodle plugins and integrations with Moodle users who are looking for free and paid solutions to enhance and extend their Moodle sites. It improves on the existing Moodle Plugins Directory, addressing its limitations while delivering new features and benefits. We're looking for a Full Stack Developer to join the Marketplace team.

You will have the opportunity to be part of the new team that will contribute to the overall Moodle platform success. You will be involved in the design, implementation and rollout of the product, helping the team to make effective decisions, based on research, feedback and careful reasoning.

We value learning, reflection and introspection, and we're always open to improvement as a team and as individuals.

At Moodle, no two days will ever be the same, but this role involves a mix of:

- Building architecturally consistent software that aligns with product roadmap, consistently shipping features and bug fixes.

- Understanding technical and UX constraints and ensuring informed decision-making.

- Collaborating with UX design and research on problem solving.

- Helping to create an emotionally safe environment where team members demonstrate a strong sense of ownership and engagement, openness to new ideas, and learning from mistakes.

- Contributing to a collaborative and engaging team culture.

- Identifying areas for improvement in processes, tools, and workflows, and suggesting change where needed.

- Maintaining high quality work standards.

- Promoting Open Source values.

- Communicating status, findings, and insights in the team.

Requirements

We'd love to meet you

Especially if you can talk to us about your:

- Proficiency in PHP.

- Proficiency in JS (ES6).

- Proficiency in SQL.

- Ability to write clean, maintainable, testable and well-documented code.

- Maintaining high-quality standards.

Some other things that are important to us:

- Experience with Symfony and Doctrine ORM.

- Experience building RESTful APIs endpoints using Symfony.

- Experience integrating Symfony with modern frontend frameworks (e.g., React, Angular, or Vue.js).

- Familiarity with payment gateways and external services.

- Familiarity with modular approach for software design.

- Familiarity with distributed systems and event-driven design.

- Experience designing and implementing data structures.

- Familiarity with testing frameworks and CI/CD pipelines.

- Experience working in a team with a product culture.

Non-technical skills:

- Fluent in English

- Comfortable working within remote-first teams

- Excellent communication skills, both written and spoken

- Excellent problem-solving skills.

- Highly organised with the ability to manage their own workload to meet tight deadlines with competing priorities.

- Reliable and accountable for the work they own

- Proven ability to work in a high-performance team

- Able to clearly communicate technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders

- Understand and keep up to date with industry-wide software development best practices

- Proactive solutions-focussed attitude, willingness to speak up and share ideas

- Design new features from a customer's perspective. Keeping the customer's needs at the forefront.

Benefits

What's in it for you?

Moodle has a globally diverse team with over 280 team members in more than 25 countries around the world. We've built a passionate team of hard-working, driven and diverse people from all over the world, united by a shared belief in the ability of our platform to make a positive difference to our world. We respect our colleagues and value an open and innovative workplace, filled with integrity and of course a strong focus on education (yes, these are our company values!)

In addition to this you can expect:

- Taking on a genuinely flexible, distributed role, working from anywhere in the world.

- A fantastic range of benefits, focusing on work-life balance, wellbeing and 'choosing your own adventure.'

- Working with a global team on a worldwide platform and make a real difference.

- As a certified B Corp, we are proud to be part of a global community of mission-driven companies dedicated to using business as a force for good.

Moodle is the world's most trusted online learning solution, with a growing ecosystem of products and services, including Moodle Workplace, Moodle App, MoodleCloud, and more. The engine of our ecosystem is Moodle LMS, the secure and customisable open source learning management platform used by well over 300 million learners worldwide.

At Moodle we are an equal opportunity employer that actively supports diversity and inclusion in the workplace and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind. We're committed to fair recruitment and selection practices, ensuring we are drawing from a diverse range of sources to attract and select the very best person for the job