Senior Full Stack Software Engineer - remote

800.com
Posted 3 years ago
We Work Remotely
Highlights 
  • 📈 401K Plan 
  • 🏖️ Flexible Vacation 
  • 💸 $350 Referral Bonus 
  • 💻 Co-Working Stipend 
  • 💡 7+ Years of Experience 
  • 💰 Competitive Salary &Perks 
  • 🗺 Anywhere in North America or South America

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At 800.com, we’re building an intuitive &powerful cloud communications platform for SMB &Enterprises to communicate via Voice &SMS. 
 
Our backend tech stack currently consists of PHP web apps that serve a public API that our front-end JavaScript app consumes (React / React Native). Our data stores include MySQL, Elasticsearch, and Redis. The underlying infrastructure runs on AWS using a combination of managed services like RDS and non-managed services running on EC2 instances. All of our development runs through CI/CD pipelines that build Docker images. 
 
About You 
We’re looking for an experienced full-time Software Engineer to join our engineering team. Someone who has a solid understanding of web technologies and wants to help design, implement, launch, and scale major systems and user-facing features. 
 
You should have senior-level experience (~7 years) building modern back-end systems, with at least 5 years of that experience using PHP, and ~3-years using Laravel. 
 
You also have around five years of experience using MySQL, Redis, or similar data stores. You have significant experience designing, scaling, debugging, and optimizing systems to make them fast and reliable. You have experience participating in code reviews and providing overall code quality suggestions to help maintain the structure and quality of the codebase. 
 
You’re comfortable working in a fast-paced environment with a small and talented team where you’re supported in your efforts to grow professionally. You are able to manage your time well, communicate effectively and collaborate in a fully distributed team. 
 
You are located in an American or European time zone. 
 
Required Skills &Experience 
  • 5+ years experience with PHP development (Laravel, Symfony, WordPress) 
  • Strong knowledge of SQL (writing and optimizing queries) 
  • Experience with REST, XML, JSON, etc. 
  • Version control using git on Bitbucket 
  • Familiarity with Agile best practices 
  • Able to solve problems in a simple, neat and organized way 
  • Experience working in an agile environment, scoping and road-mapping, and self-management 
  • Knowledge of web performance and speed/memory optimization techniques 
Bonus Required Skills &Experience 
  • Understanding of test driven development and testing in general 
  • Experience in GraphQL and/or “Headless” CMS development 
  • API design experience for frontend or server-to-server 
  • Basic understanding of web servers, SSL, deployments, and continuous integration 
  • Worked with a QA team before or familiarity with QA/release workflows 
Come help us with projects like 
  • Conceiving, designing, building, and launching new user-facing features 
  • Improving our vanity phone number algorithm to secure the best matching phone numbers for customers 
  • Innovating on business texting to include;auto-reply, scheduled messages, dynamic templates, keyword triggers, and reporting 
  • Working with Twilio’s API, Bandwidth API, WebSockets, and WebRTC to improve our calling features 
  • Building user-facing analytics features that provide actionable insights 
  • Improving our internal messaging infrastructure using streaming technologies like Redis 
  • Building new and enhancing existing integrations with other SaaS platforms like Google’s G Suite, Zapier, and Web Conferencing providers 
Why 800.com? 
  • 100% remote (we believe in trust and autonomy) 
  • Competitive salary 
  • Flexible vacation plan (includes company-wide winter holiday break) 
  • $200/month co-working stipend 
  • 401k matching at 4% (US residents) 
  • Dependent care FSA (US residents)