The Senior Software Engineer is responsible for reviewing and evaluating all team output and ensuring that all work adheres to standards and best practices while maintaining a high degree of quality. This position works closely with the Lead Software Engineer to assist in defining and understanding standards and best practices as well as designing and planning applications to meet project objectives. Duties include analysis, design, develop and test software solutions for company products. It is also responsible to provide maintenance and support to existing code following company's standards and best code practices.
Expectations
Abstract requirements to analyze and design innovative new software solutions for enhancement of the company's products
Provide technology leadership and mentoring to the team
Reviews team's output to ensure that all work adheres to standards and best practices while maintaining a high degree of quality
Develop code using the company's best practices and current software patterns
Read, understand, debug code to find and solve current software problems and resolve defects
Understand the team's deployment pipelines and processes
Understand the high-level architecture employed by the team and cross-product interactions
Test and own software solutions appropriately throughout their lifecycle
Actively participate as a full member of an Agile development team
Deliver unit-tested solutions
Evident interest in keeping up to date with technology landscape and best practices
May be asked to perform other duties as assigned
Skills
Proficient with PHP
Proficient with Apache Server and it's configurations
Hands on experience working with Yii PHP framework
Proficient with MySQL
Proficient with JavaScript
(Nice to have) Decent experience or solid understanding of AWS services, specifically EC2, Auto scaling groups, Code commit, RDS
(Nice to have) Decent experience or solid understanding of AzureDevOps CI/CD pipelines (Nice to have)
Understanding of SOLID design principles
Familiarity with design patterns
Solid experience of writing unit tests and testable code
Highly effective communication skills
Proficient with source code control tools and techniques
6 years' experience and a Degree in Computer Science or related field; or 8yrs of relevant experience
Professional experience developing highly scalable API's and integrations
Solid understanding of Web application architecture and operations
Experience with Agile development processes
Nice-to-have skills:
Experience with Bootstrap and/or Foundation css framework
Experience with Test Driven Development
Experience with Nginx
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