Position: Senior Developer- Backend
Location: CA, TX, WA
Range: $125,000-$145,000
Company Info:
SCTR Services (www.sctr.net) is a dynamic and hungry tech company that has a strong record of success and big goals for the future. We create outstanding digital products that combine streaming media, live chat, gamification, and online communities, and we serve a wide variety of users all over the world. This requires bleeding-edge technology and a culture that rewards creativity and innovation to continually raise the bar and delight our customers/partners. Our headquarters is in San Diego, and we have specialized teams worldwide.
Overview:
This is a Senior development position, responsible for developing the APIs that power our applications, and occasionally working on a few front-end pieces powered by PHP and Javascript.
Successful Candidates will be able to:
Develop new features and enhance our existing software, tools, and experiences to help delight our customers, taking responsibility for code quality, maintainability, reliability, performance, and scalability.
Design and build new APIs, web services, and microservices while supporting the worldwide operations of our cloud-based intelligent security solutions.
Collaboratively experiment, prototype, and document your work while helping to build new applications, services, and tools.
Continuously improve and maintain code, including optimizing services for performance and scale.
Stay updated with technology and industry trends to continually drive innovation in our architecture, technology choices, engineering practices, and products.
Drive impactful initiatives for the globally distributed infrastructure
Attend SCRUM meetings and Keep track of GitHub tickets, commenting on them, changing the status of the tickets as you make progress
Collaborate with product managers, architects, other engineering teams, and business groups, to drive end-to-end solutions
Lead the team when necessary, mentoring and coaching more junior developers
Communicate feedback and seek feedback on architecture/design of solutions
Successful Candidates will have prior experience with:
PHP (5+ years)
Symfony framework (3+ years)
Composer
Git/ GitHub
Elasticsearch / MongoDB / MySQL (Doctrine)
Docker
Consuming APIs
Additionally preferred:
AWS
Terraform
Python
JavaScript/TypeScript
Successful Candidates will have the following skills:
Be able to see multiple perspectives from both the internal team and customers
Have excellent interpersonal skills and be attentive listeners
Thrive in a collaborative environment and be able to switch between leadership and supportive roles depending on the needs of the team or project
Able to propose the right programming language and tool for the task
Compensation and Benefits:
Direct, daily access to the company CTO
Ability to be a critical driving force in the creation of new products and services
Be part of a company that prioritizes the usage of cutting-edge technology
Flexible work environment
Full-time salaried, opportunities for bonuses and growth
401k with 50% company matching
Full benefits (health, dental, vision, 100% employer-paid)
2 weeks paid vacation (increases with tenure)
12 days paid time off (including 8 company holidays)
Monthly gym membership & home internet reimbursement
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