Senior Full-stack Software Engineer (PHP-JS)

Moodle with us!

At Moodle, we’re on a mission to empower educators and learners worldwide with open, flexible, and innovative digital learning solutions. As the world’s most customisable and trusted open-source LMS, we partner with schools, universities, and organisations to create better learning experiences for millions. If you’re ready to make a real impact, and be part of a global movement shaping the future of learning, join us—let’s transform education together!

If you are a Full Stack Developer who enjoys learning while having fun, read on!

Remote position based in Europe.

About the role

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 Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer to join the Marketplace team.

You will have the opportunity to be part of a new team that will contribute to the overall success of the Moodle ecosystem. You will be involved in the design, implementation and rollout of the product, work on complex integration problems, help the team to navigate uncertainty and make effective decisions, based on research, feedback and careful reasoning.

What you’ll do

You will be part of a team that values learning, reflection and introspection, and is always open to improvement as a team and as individuals.

At Moodle, no two days will ever be the same, but most days in this role usually involve a mix of:

• Building architecturally consistent software that aligns with product roadmap, consistently shipping features and bug fixes.
• Coordinating with product leadership on priorities and helping meet business objectives.
• Understanding technical and UX constraints and ensuring informed decision-making.
• Collaborating with UX Design and Research on problem solving.
• Encouraging the professional and technical growth of less experienced colleagues through mentoring and coaching.
• Continuously identify areas for improvement in processes, tools, and workflows, and advocate for change where needed.
• Helping to create an emotionally safe environment where team members demonstrate a strong sense of ownership and engagement, open to sharing ideas, and learning through mistakes.
• Contributing to creating and maintaining a collaborative and engaging team culture.
• Promoting Open Source values.
• Communicating status, findings, insights, and recommendations in the team, being comfortable presenting to customers and product leadership, encouraging the importance of strong written and verbal communication skills to others.

Requirements

We’d love to meet you

Especially if you can talk to us about your:

• Exceptional command of English, both written and spoken.
• Extensive experience with PHP, including a deep understanding of its latest features and capabilities.
• Proven proficiency in JS (ES6) over several years.
• Robust skills in SQL and database design.
• Passion for writing clean, maintainable, testable, and thoroughly documented code.
• Commitment to upholding high-quality standards and championing excellent engineering practices.
• Valuable contributions to Open Source projects.

Some other things that are important to us:

• Proven experience with Symfony and Doctrine ORM.
• Demonstrated ability to build robust RESTful API endpoints using Symfony.
• Skill in integrating Symfony with modern frontend frameworks like React, Angular, or Vue.js.
• Expertise in integrating payment gateways and various external services.
• Understanding of a modular approach to software design.
• Familiarity with distributed systems and event-driven design principles.
• Experience in designing and implementing efficient data structures.
• Knowledge of testing frameworks and CI/CD pipelines.
• A track record of successful collaboration within a team that prioritises product excellence.

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.

Learn more about Moodle

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.

Find out more about us on our website.

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. Learn more in our Diversity Inclusion Charter.