Collaborate on the architecture, design, and development of scalable and highly available applications and services.
Solve complex infrastructure-related problems with code, developing and providing post-release support for scalable applications.
Identify and implement enhancements to DevOps practices and tooling, leveraging automation to enhance robustness of the CI/CD pipeline, thereby streamlining efficient application development and deployment.
Drive technology design and articulate architecture solution options to the product owners and Engineering leadership.
Conduct post-mortems to analyze and prevent repeat failures.
Be a champion for Continuous Improvement in end-to-end infrastructure and systems.
Evaluate and recommend tools, technologies and processes that solve concrete business problems.
Become a domain expert who follows industry trends and applies best practices and contributes towards continuous improvement of those practices.

5+ years of programming experience in backend languages
2+ years experience with PHP (Strongly preferred), Python, GoLang, Java or a similar programming language
2+ years experience with MySQL or a similar technology
Strong understanding of database schema design, caching and scalability
Strong understanding of various communication protocols (TCP, RPC, etc)
Strong understanding of Distributed Systems
Experience in Caching technologies is a plus (e.g. Redis or Memcached)
DevOps experience preferred
Experience with Full-stack observability tools like New Relic is strongly preferred
Workable understanding of Linux operating systems
Experience with modern CI/CD and containerization tools like Docker
Ability to perform time and memory complexity analysis
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S.

Senior Software Engineer – Backend, PHP

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