We're seeking a Senior Application Engineer who is excited by the prospect of working with a small, highly-skilled engineering team to scale a fast-growing SaaS product. The ideal candidate is a talented, reliable PHP-focused programmer who is also experienced and enthusiastic about node.js application development.

 

You will help us build great features, scale, and maintain our codebase while supporting a wide variety of technologies. You should be familiar with modern microservice development and its associated benefits (and challenges) in creating stable, performant, rapidly deployable services.

 

Here's an example of what that might look like:

• Develop and test our next-generation applications


• Architect and extend our microservice suite for enhanced scalability and performance


• Optimize data structures, queries, and caching strategies


• Add new features to meet the needs of our customers


• Deliver performance enhancements


• Reviewing the engineering team's technical proposals and code


• Help our support team triage technical and application-related issues


• Contribute to internal tools to help our engineers, sales and customer support teams work more efficiently

This is a 100% remote position. You’ll report directly to our CTO, who is based in New York.



 

Requirements

• Expert proficiency with PHP in a production environment


• Expert proficiency with relational and NoSQL databases (MySQL, MongoDB) and query languages)


• Expertise with current PHP frameworks such as Yii 2, Laravel, CodeIgniter, Symfony, etc., in a production environment


• Extensive experience with microservice-based architecture in production


• Experience with software containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) and serverless computing


• Experience developing REST APIs


• Experience with cloud computing vendors: GCP (preferred), AWS, Azure.

Bonus points for:

• Expertise with node.js (or other programming language) in a production environment


• Experience with message-queueing software and/or pub/sub-applications


• Developing integrations with third-party APIs


• Experience with CircleCI, Jenkins and/or similar CI/CD applications


• Experience with testing, monitoring, and other SRE methodologies


• Experience with security compliance standards

 

About you

You are passionate about data and developing applications that communicate through elegantly designed, well-defined systems that meet specific business goals.

 

You're a great communicator, naturally curious and comfortable diving in and helping out without ego.

 

You'll have strong experience in a collaborative environment working with web applications, preferably B2B SaaS apps.

 

You should consider yourself an expert in:

• PHP 7: native and MVC framework, e.g., Yii/Yii2 (5+ years)


• Server-side [removed] Node.js application development


• REST API management, tools and documentation


• Relational and NoSql database development: MySql, MongoDB


• Source control workflow: Git, GitHub, GitFlow


• Microservices architecture and deployment