Senior Software Engineer – Backend, PHP
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Senior Software Engineer collaborating on scalable application development for a high-performance SaaS platform. Joining cross-functional teams to enhance infrastructure and DevOps practices while solving complex problems.
Responsibilities:
- Collaborate on the architecture, design, and development of scalable and highly available applications and services.
- Solve complex infrastructure-related problems with code, developing and providing post-release support for scalable applications.
- Identify and implement enhancements to DevOps practices and tooling, leveraging automation to enhance robustness of the CI/CD pipeline, thereby streamlining efficient application development and deployment.
- Drive technology design and articulate architecture solution options to the product owners and Engineering leadership.
- Conduct post-mortems to analyze and prevent repeat failures.
- Be a champion for Continuous Improvement in end-to-end infrastructure and systems.
- Evaluate and recommend tools, technologies and processes that solve concrete business problems.
- Become a domain expert who follows industry trends and applies best practices and contributes towards continuous improvement of those practices.
Requirements:
- 5+ years of programming experience in backend languages
- 2+ years experience with PHP (Strongly preferred), Python, GoLang, Java or a similar programming language
- 2+ years experience with MySQL or a similar technology
- Strong understanding of database schema design, caching and scalability
- Strong understanding of various communication protocols (TCP, RPC, etc)
- Strong understanding of Distributed Systems
- Experience in Caching technologies is a plus (e.g. Redis or Memcached)
- DevOps experience preferred
- Experience with Full-stack observability tools like New Relic is strongly preferred
- Workable understanding of Linux operating systems
- Experience with modern CI/CD and containerization tools like Docker
- Ability to perform time and memory complexity analysis
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S.
Benefits:
- Inclusion and belonging programs
- Reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities
















