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Job type full-time
Full job description
Php software engineer, backend api (remote)
Neptune retail solutions (nrs) is north america’s premier retail marketing services companyOur powerful advertising and promotion programs are relied upon by the country’s largest consumer packaged goods manufacturers and retailers for unparalleled consumer reach.
Nrs` portfolio of omni-channel marketing solutions includes the freedom api, a platform for creating and distributing cashback offers into retailer loyalty programs, and 3rd party cashback appsOur vision is to build the industry`s most powerful incentive management and distribution platform, by using cutting-edge personalization technology and unparalleled scale to drive shopper conversion online and in-store.
You’ll be responsible for:
Enhancing freedom’s backend api with new features and functionality
Writing code that will scale with our growing user base and data stores
Writing tests and performing code reviews to ensure that we’re shipping reliable, readable, and reusable code on a daily basis
Working with the team on software design principles, including object-oriented design principles
Identifying technical debt and devising strategies to manage and remediate it
Identifying design patterns that improve the maintainability of our code base, and refactoring code towards those patterns
Helping the team improve their refactoring and unit testing skills
Working with your peers in the engineering team at neptune retail solutions to improve our software development practice as a whole
What we`re looking for:
Experience with the lamp stack and amazon web services
Experience with php mvc frameworks like symfony and laravel
The ability to explain complex technical concepts to collaborating teams
Adept at writing unit and functional tests for your code (tdd or otherwise)
Source control (git) is second nature to you
Comfortable working with web front-end technology (html, css, js)
Know your way around the command line (we develop on macs and host on linux servers)
You want to take ownership of what you work onYou’re ready to explain it to your colleagues and support it in production
You jump at the chance to help out co-workers find solutions for tough problems
Possess a bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent experience
Bonus points if you:
Have experience working in a startup environment
Have experience optimizing performance
Love automating, optimizing and making things faster
Have experience working on custom backend apis for mobile apps.
About us:
We’re growing! this position is a new spot on the team created to accelerate our product and technology roadmaps.
We’re flexible and value a good work-life balance! we work remotely and have the opportunity for reduced summer work hours.
We use many of the aws products (ex: ec2, lambda, s3, rds, aurora, elasticache, redis, memcached, data pipelines, redshift, beanstalk, ecs).
We’re laying the groundwork for developing new features in an mvc framework.
We use several tools to help us every day - github, jira, phpstorm, new relic, cloud watch, sumologic, pager duty.
We are currently working in scrum with 3-week sprints centered around product roadmap delivery, followed by 1-week “innovation and planning” sprints, where we focus on implementing system and process improvements.
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Proof of full covid-19 vaccination is required.
Neptune retail solutions is an equal opportunity employer.
