About the position

What you’ll get to do…

As part of the Managed WooCommerce team at this company, you’ll work closely with teammates on the  engineering and product teams to build fast, secure, and maintainable code in PHP using modern MVC and composability approaches. Our customers are business owners or eCommerce store operators, so it is important to build reliable, iteratable, intuitive experiences that get out of their way, make managing  their store fun and approachable, and help them grow their business. You will be responsible for translating product requirements into detailed engineering specs and collaboratively writing code with  an engineering team to implement them, along with reviewing your teammates’ work, and constantly improving how we work.

While most of your time will be spent writing quality code and reviewing the code that your teammates  write, you will also have the opportunity to mentor & learn from others, improve internal documentation & processes, build enhancements to our test / QA automations, and contribute to open source projects.

A typical day includes...

• Building features and fixes based on detailed product requirements.
• Reviewing your teammates’ code for readability, maintainability, and security.
• Performing user testing on your own code and providing code reviews to teammates.
• Participating in the full development lifecycle from research and planning engineering.
• implementations to QA and deployment.
• Adding to our internal wiki/documentation.
• Assisting our care team with troubleshooting challenging issues.
• Collaborating with other engineering teams across the company on shared projects.

Requirements

Your experience should include...

• Deep competency in Laravel or other MVC based frameworks and philosophies
• Demonstrated experience managing, optimizing and architecting composable, well tested, and event driven architectures at scale
• The ability to translate technical descriptions into detailed engineering implementation tasks
• Proven passion for constant improvement, learning, sharing your knowledge, and building meaningful relationships as a member of a highly efficient, fast paced team
• Being a self-starter, able to work in a remote environment without constant supervision
• Excited to work in a team-oriented environment with an emphasis on growing and helping one another

You might also have…

• Experience with Node, AWS services like EventBridge, React or other front-end frameworks.
• Experience designing and developing APIs with REST and GraphQL.
• Experience with Go or other compiled languages.
• Experience with eCommerce (like WordPress / WooCommerce, Shopify, or others).
• Experience with integrating third-party APIs, especially with payments and shipping providers.