Senior Software Engineer, PHP, VueJS, Tyepscript

Key areas of responsibility

- Design, develop and oversee the successful end-to-end delivery of full-stack web solutions, from technical analysis to architecture and implementation, through to unit testing, development, integration testing and documentation.

- Providing appropriate testing information and environments to QA engineers and Product Owners, to validate the deliverables meet the desired expectations.

- Maintain and improve our engineering standards by participating in thorough code reviews, proposing process changes, and having a proactive attitude towards improvement in all areas of our software delivery lifecycle.

- Participate in the on-call rotation to ensure a timely response during production incidents.

- Performing root-cause analysis on software defects, to help identify weak spots in processes and tools, with the aim of preventing defects from happening again.

- Being an active participant in your teams meetings and processes, providing useful information through efficient communication with Product and Project stakeholders.

- Working closely with Product stakeholders in understanding project needs and providing technical advice in the feasibility of solutions as well as alternative options that could be considered.

Required skills

- Experience working as a full-stack web developer with Python and Vue.js or React.

- Hands-on knowledge of SQL and RDBMs fundamentals, particularly Postgres.

- Experience writing detailed unit, component and integration tests.

- Experience designing and implementing RESTful APIs.

- Working knowledge of git or similar VCS, docker, and cloud-based platforms.

- Working experience profiling and optimizing software in all levels of the stack, from time-consuming API endpoints to expensive queries, through to inefficient algorithms.

- Ability to work in a fully-remote environment, with a distributed team.

- Ability to dig into issues and errors and figure out their causes and potential solutions.

- Great self-organization and time management skills.

- Exceptional written and spoken English.

Required experience

- University degree in Computer Science, or equivalent experience.

- 3+ years of experience building online software. Strong knowledge of website usability and web application architectures.

- Knowledge of relational and non-relational storage foundations and their tradeoffs.

- Working knowledge of modern security fundamentals and best practices.

- Great understanding of agile methodologies in a Kanban delivery environment.

- Experience working with a remote, distributed team.