On the project
Our client is a a data tech company operating a fully integrated management system delivering software solutions to leaders of the global food industry. Our product is an end to end food tech platform with data science capability. Its company headquarters are located in New York and we are happy to be a globally distributed team with employees in the United States, Portugal, the United Kingdom and Argentina.

The company offers:

100% Agile, 100% Remote
Make a meaningful product with a big purpose to support healthy eating and to reduce waste
Professional growth in a small team of really skilled, really nice folks

About the position
We are looking for a self-managed PHP Backend Engineer to help us improve our platform and build APIs leveraged by our web, mobile apps and third party services. Our team believes that software can be beautiful, powerful and easy to use. Do you love APIs, open source philosophy and following coding best practices? So do we!

Join our team of amazing developers that are disrupting the Food software industry, one line of code at a time.

Responsibilities

Implement scalable user-friendly features that can handle growth.
Collaborate with experienced software engineers in the design, development, review and maintenance stages of the platform.
Collaborate with our experienced product and support team to understand customer’s needs to enhance usability and resolve technical issues.
Work well in a agile development environment, shipping code through the dev/stage/prod release cycle. Solve technical challenges and put your skills to test every day.

Requirements

Software engineering background with experience in Object Oriented programing and Service Oriented Architecture. PHP programming skills focus on code quality: reliable, reusable, efficient and secure.
Familiarity with Laravel framework; a solid understanding of Laravel and the Model View Controller Design Pattern. A good understanding of Laravel Homestead development environment would be an aid to success.
Some experience in use of Postman API development considered a plus.
Experience working with MySQL and MongoDB (Apache Spark, a plus)
Experience on front-end development using JavaScript (jQuery), HTML, CCS and responsive design (Bootstrap). Be fearless about learning new technologies and developing new patterns to be applied.
Perform well working remotely as part of a team as well as independently.

On the role:

This role is 100% remote
This is a full-time role
It is an indefinite duration contract, to create a long-lasting relationship with the team
It includes 2 weeks paid vacations
Stock options and performance bonuses included