Software Engineer

Gravity Payments is a company focused on providing a collaborative work environment where leadership and passion for progress are valued. They are seeking a full stack engineer to enhance and support their SaaS platform for online payments, working closely with team members and stakeholders to improve the system and mentor junior engineers.

Responsibilities:

• Write code to enhance the platform, solve problems, and correct defects
• Support the enhancement, technical execution and operation of the platform
• Work with team members, business stakeholders, as well as Engineering and Product Managers to provide analysis, insight, and guidance on the direction of the platform
• Assist in prioritizing the engineering work assignments and deliverables for contract software engineers located remotely
• Perform code review, merge code to master, coordinate and perform deployments, and troubleshoot production issues
• Manage the technical support of the platform for existing clients and assist in the onboarding of new clients
• Mentor junior team members and foster a sense of shared responsibility

Requirements:

• Experience with PHP or another modern C-based language
• 5-7 years experience in the development field
• Access to a wired internet connection with at least a 25 mbps download and 20 mbps upload speed
• PHP – The platform consists of a backend and frontend that are both written in PHP; the frontend utilizes Bootstrap/JQuery framework
• History of adapting to new languages quickly
• MySQL/Aurora RDS – Data is persisted in a relational database provided by the MySQL flavor of Aurora RDS on AWS
• AWS – The platform makes use of a number of AWS technologies: ECS, SQS, Aurora RDS, Cloud Watch, SES, and S3
• Unix-like development system – Current developers use MacOS or Linux and Unix tools for development, and the technical operation of the system requires usage of a command-line environment
• Experience with distributed computing and enterprise-wide systems with high availability
• Hands-on expertise in many disparate technologies, typically ranging from front-end user interfaces through to back-end systems and all points in between
• Knowledge of virtualization technologies (e.g.: Docker, Vagrant, etc...)