Senior Senior/Principal PHP Software Engineer

About Sunbytes

Sunbytes is a leading Tech & Talent Solutions company known for innovative and scalable solutions. We offer comprehensive long-term partnerships, including recruitment, dedicated worldwide talents, and custom software development tailored to meet client needs.

About the Role

Sunbytes is actively seeking a highly skilled PHP Software Engineer (Senior or Principle level) to join an in-office, full-time role with our Japanese client in their SaaS company specializing in providing cloud services. You will have a chance to join one of Japan’s leading IT companies, in a well-equipped and professional environment with a clear path for career development.

As a PHP Software Engineer, you will join their new project in every phase from Outline Design, Detail Design, Development/Implementation, Code review, Unit test, and Release. During your time here, you will be trained to develop to Tech Lead/Principal Software Engineer as your next step in the career.

Responsibilities

• Work with Project Lead and project development members to analyze product specifications, specification changes, and new additional functions.
  

• Participate in project development as a Principal/ Senior Software Engineer from the Outline Design, Detail Design, Development/Implementation, Code review, Unit test, Release stages. 
  

• You can be trained to become a Principal Software Engineer/Tech Lead.
  

• Design Database, develop functions, and support team members.
  

• Do other tasks assigned by the Project Lead.
  

Requirements

Job Requirements

Technical must-haves

• At least 4 years of experience in web application programming with: PHP
  

• Proficiency in Laravel, CodeIgniter, Yii 2, CakePHP, Zend
  

• Proficiency in Javascript, HTML, CSS, SCSS, Jquery, Json, Ajax
  

• Proficiency in database tools like PostgreSQL, MySQL...
  

Technical nice-to-haves

• Experience in AI tools: Github copilot, Gemini, Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor
  

• Experience in developing complicated system, serve 1-2 million users 
  

Soft skills must-haves

• Ability to create/present easy-to-understand technical documentation and share knowledge with colleagues
  

• Ability to research to solve technical problems.
  

• Read and understand documents in English well
  

Benefits

Benefits

1) Salary and Bonus

• 13th and 14th month salary; 100% gross salary social insurance contribution.
  

• 100% salary during probation period
  

• Salary increase and Bonus payment 2 times/year
  

2) Working hours, rest

• Monday ~ Friday, from 8:30 ~ 17:30
  

• 12 annual leave days + 11 Vietnamese holidays + 7 Japanese holidays = 30 days
  

• Almost no overtime (has OT salary policy)
  

3) Training

• Opportunity to be sent to Japan for training
  

• Japanese engineers support OJT (on the job training)
  

• Soft skills training by level
  

• Monthly technical seminars
  

4) Awards

• Yearly MVP - 2 to 3 excellent employees each year get to experience and work in Japan for 1 week.
  

• Quarterly MVP - Outstanding Employee of the Quarter Award
  

• 5-year employee award,..
  

5) Physical and mental health care benefits

• Social insurance paid on full contract salary
  

• Annual company trip (3 days 2 nights), 50% sponsorship of tour costs for employee families
  

• Many events throughout the year: Women's Day, Men's Day, Children's Day, Mid-Autumn Festival, Christmas, Year-end party, quarterly team building, Activities with employee families, Monthly birthday parties ...
  

• Participate in PVI personal health insurance program
  

• Participate in sports clubs (Futsal, Badminton)
  

• Periodic health check-ups.