Austin, Texas
PHP Software Engineer Job Opening in Austin, Texas - What we?re looking for:
We only look to hire like-minded folks; those that are self-driven to succeed, critical thinkers, and like to have fun doing it! Our downtown office space has an open floor plan that encourages collaboration and pushing each other to be our best. We take care of our team as well, with a solid benefits package, quarterly bonuses, regular company outings, free coffee, beer, snacks, music, and great co-workers are all included with employment at Modernize.
In this position, you will research, design, build, test, deploy, and maintain web and backend applications that leverage large scale marketing data to optimize web based user experiences. Your knowledge of databases, programming languages, and scalable web architectures will be put to the test as you build out applications that optimize the experience of millions of online users. Working in a tight-knit team environment, you will participate in architecture discussions, code reviews, sprint planning, and deployments. Our current code base is primarily LAMP stack in a distributed environment, so we seek applicants that have experience in a similar ecosystem.
What you?ll do:
Assist in translating business requirements into software designs, implementation schedules, and deployment strategies
Implement software modules, database schemas, deployment and migration scripts
Define new features insuring a high performing and scalable user experience in the cloud
Collaborate with peers on technical design, work estimation and feature implementation on data model, business logic, and user interfaces
Participate in sprint planning by understanding the effort, risk, and priority of remaining work committed to a software release
Perform peer code reviews and collaborate with team to improve overall code quality
Contribute ideas for continually improving the team's productivity, release quality, and job enjoyment
What you need:
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3+ years experience in software development (PHP required, Python a plus)
Solid grasp of common design patterns and object oriented design
SQL experience, MySQL preferred
Experience working with large transactional datasets and combining transactional data with web, social and mobile data
Excellent communication skills with the ability to present and translate complex information to internal teams
Experience with performance tuning and memory profiling
Experience working with a cloud environment, AWS preferred
Linux administration skills
Experience with test automation and continuous integration, preferred but not required
Experience with Kafka, Kinesis and other streaming technologies, preferred but not required
Experience with CMS platforms, preferred but not required
Who you are:
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Loves to solve problems
Motivated, driven, and works well independently
Always researching a better more efficient way to fix something
Looking for the opportunity to join a fast-growing engineering team
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