Full Stack Software Engineer - remote

Breeze Church Management
Posted 4 years ago
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More than 7,000 churches depend on Breeze, and we’re grateful to work every day developing intuitive features to make their experience better. We’re looking for a full-stack software engineer to join our Engineering team. Are you interested in building helpful, easy-to-use software that helps churches thrive? We’d love to have you reach out to us! 

How Our Engineering Team Works

We’re a distributed fully remote Engineering team, working across multiple US-based timezones. We follow an agile approach to our planning and work, including:

  • Sprint planning/estimations

  • Pair programming via Zoom &Slack

  • Code reviews

  • Weekly Show and Tell

We strive to build quality into every change that we make and as such our team uses TDD and Travis for continuous integration.  Security is also a #1 priority so we run periodic security scans on our application to ensure that our users are protected.

What We Are Looking For

As a Full Stack Software Engineer at Breeze, you will be: 

  • Supporting our church management product, building new product features, working autonomously to write and scale new services as we transition to micro-services 

  • Helping us with an exciting transition! We are currently transitioning from a CodeIgniter-backend monolith, to a service-oriented architecture with microservices built in PHP and React components on the frontend.

  • Working within our engineering team, collaborating with product managers, engineering managers and more using tools like GitHub, Zoom, and Slack.

  • As you gain context, you’ll be providing technical guidance to teammates as a peer.

Helpful Skills and Experience 

  • You have experience as a backend or full-stack developer in any procedural language, working on backend systems with meaningful production traffic.

  • You are keen to write and maintain tests where needed and appreciate the importance of working effectively with legacy codebases.

  • You have a proactive mindset toward fixing and responding to any issues and integrating feedback.

  • 3+ years experience working with PHP, or Node.js or Go would be helpful.

  • 2+ years experience building microservices with Kubernetes would be helpful.

  • 2+ years experience with any JavaScript frameworks (and openness to explore full-stack engineering) would be helpful.

Our Tech Stack

The latest stack is:

  • Backend

    • Laravel (RESTful API)

    • MySQL

  • Frontend

    • React / React Native

    • Bootstrap 4

  • Development

    • GitHub Pull Request

    • Travis CI build process

  • Production

    • LEMP (Linux, Nginx, MySQL and PHP) in production (and LEMP via Docker in development)

Compensation

We offer a competitive salary based on experience and a full benefits package that includes: medical, dental, life and disability insurance, and participation in company 401K.