Senior Software Engineer

 
The Senior Software Engineer is a trusted senior-level technologist who is a strong contributor to team goals and technical vision. In this role, you will help us achieve ambitious product development goals that ensure proper interoperability between application and platform services and that they are built for scale with resilience.
 

Essential Accountabilities

• Hands-on development of web-based applications, platforms, and web services
• Team player with a team-first attitude
• Work closely with project and product managers to ensure products are delivered on time and within budget
• Ensures products are developed to scale to anticipated user loads, adhering to performance and uptime requirements
• Work with the development operations team to ensure services are configured to meet requirements, troubleshoot any issues as they arise in a timely manner, proactively foresee and address potential problem areas

 

Qualifications

• 7+ years professional experience in web software engineering
• Strong experience with PHP (LAMP) or another web language in the context of an Object Oriented MVC framework. Symfony preferred or other MVC like Zend, Magento, CakePHP, Laravel, etc.
• Strong experience with JavaScript, client-side AND node.js
• Strong experience with Docker or other containerization technologies
• Experience with modern JavaScript frameworks – AngularJS, Backbone, React, Ember, etc. Angular experience preferred
• Experience with RESTful API design and implementation, best practices in web security, cross-browser compatibility issues
• Expertise in Object Oriented Programming (OOP) principles and practices
• Expertise in HTML5, CSS, and current web standards
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Applied experience with both traditional relational databases (MYSQL, MSSQL, Oracle), and preferably also with NOSQL databases
• Experience with unit testing frameworks and strategies

 

Standout Disciplines

• Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery with CircleCI
• Cloud resource automation with Terraform and AWS
• Understanding application and service performance using data metrics such as Datadog and New Relic