Senior Software Engineer

Description

• Help modernize PHP-based web stack and build, release, and maintain home care SaaS • Collaborate with product leaders to spike out possibilities and get technical details right for new features • Mentor junior and mid-level engineers to help them level up in object-oriented programming and code design • Code backend business logic and further develop API for client and customer use • Integrate with third-party APIs and tackle issues throughout the codebase • Work to improve system performance and resilience, upgrade tech stack, and automate tedious manual processes • Lead project teams to ship and help navigate technical challenges • Seek out opportunities for the professional growth of others

Requirements

• At least 5 years' experience as a professional software engineer on teams building web apps with the full PHP web stack, including HTML, CSS, and JavaScript • Experience building React-based apps written in TypeScript • Experience building well-structured, readily comprehensible, easily maintainable software that balances practical and elegant • Experience working with MySQL, with both PHP-based ORMs and raw SQL • Experience designing and building RESTful APIs • Experience integrating with third-party APIs • Fluent use of a distributed version control system like Git • A good writer, especially important given the asynchronous and technically precise nature of our work • A team lead for a small team of 1–2 other engineers • A systems thinker, able to look beyond the element at hand to consider the broader system and the dynamics and interactions at play within it.

Benefits

• Medical insurance is covered in full for the employee (Medical, Dental and Vision) • Company will provide laptop and other needed computer equipment

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