PHP Software Engineer, Backend API (remote)

Neptune Retail Solutions (NRS) is North America’s premier retail marketing services company. Our powerful advertising and promotion programs are relied upon by the country’s largest consumer packaged goods manufacturers and retailers for unparalleled consumer reach.

NRS’ portfolio of omni-channel marketing solutions includes Checkout 51. Checkout 51 is a mobile app that allows consumers to receive cashback via digital rebates when they purchase in stores, at the gas pump, or online.

You’ll be responsible for:

• Enhancing Checkout 51’s Backend API with new features and functionality

• Writing code that will scale with our growing user base and data stores

• Writing tests and performing code reviews to ensure that we’re shipping reliable, readable, and reusable code on a daily basis

• Working with the team on software design principles, including object-oriented design principles
  Identifying technical debt and devising strategies to manage and remediate it

• Identifying design patterns that improve the maintainability of our code base, and refactoring code towards those patterns
  Helping the team improve their refactoring and unit testing skills

• Working with your peers in the engineering team at Neptune Retail Solutions to improve our software development practice as a whole

What we're looking for:

• Experience with the LAMP stack and Amazon Web Services
• Experience with PHP MVC Frameworks like Symfony and Laravel
• The ability to explain complex technical concepts to collaborating teams
• Adept at writing unit and functional tests for your code (TDD or otherwise)
• Source control (Git) is second nature to you
• Comfortable working with web front-end technology (HTML, CSS, JS)
• Know your way around the command line (we develop on Macs and host on Linux servers)
• You want to take ownership of what you work on. You’re ready to explain it to your colleagues and support it in production
• You jump at the chance to help out co-workers find solutions for tough problems
• Possess a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience

Bonus points if you:

• Have experience optimizing performance
• Love automating, optimizing and making things faster
• Have experience working on custom backend APIs for mobile apps

About Us:

• We’re flexible and value a good work-life balance! We work remotely and have the opportunity for reduced summer work hours

• We use many of the AWS products (ex: ec2, lambda, s3, rds, aurora, elasticache, redis, memcached, data pipelines, redshift, beanstalk, ecs)

• We’re laying the groundwork for developing new features in an MVC framework

• We use several tools to help us every day - GitHub, Jira, PHPStorm, New Relic, Cloud Watch, SumoLogic, Pager Duty

• We are currently working in Scrum with 2-week sprints centered around product roadmap delivery with a team (rotating every sprint) that focuses on our technology roadmap and process improvements

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