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