Lead Backend Engineer

We are Virtual Internships, an EdTech startup on a mission to bridge the gap between education and the workplace by making internships accessible to all.

Over the last four years, we’ve established partnerships with 12,000+ companies, 100+ universities, and supported thousands of students and graduates in becoming more employable via our online work experience product.

We are a team of 130+ across 25+ countries, and recently https://techcrunch.com/2022/09/14/virtual-internships-matches-students-with-top-companies-around-the-world/">secured our Series A funding from investors such as Hambro Perks, Sequoia Capital, Kaplan, Arsenal Growth, and Ascend Vietnam Ventures - who have collectively guided the likes of Google, Linkedin, WhatsApp, Canva, Udemy, and Applyboard.

Our 2022 awards include:

• Ranked 23rd out of 13,000 organizations in https://www.escapethecity.org/escape100/2022?utm_source=media_kit&;utm_medium=blogpr&utm_campaign=esc100_2022&utm_id=launch">The Escape 100: the top purposeful organisations to ‘escape’ to in 2022

• https://www.techinasia.com/50-rising-startups-southeast-asia">Tech in Asia’s “Top 50 Rising Startups” (No.6 in Vietnam)

• Top100 EdTechStartup Selected by https://www.holoniq.com/notes/holoniq-europe-edtech-100/">HolonIQ

• Finalist for https://www.businessleader.co.uk/gotech-awards-22-finalists/">Go:Tech Awards

Become one of our new Senior Software Engineers, where you will play a role in building an enterprise-level WordPress platform. If you want to work in a flexible environment where you can own technology, strategies, design, and build new systems from scratch using the tools YOU choose, read on!

• Work with the Marketing team to conduct a plan for building the website and scale-up plan yearly.

• Development/Deployment of enterprise-level WordPress plugins and themes in a WordPress VIP multi-site environment.

• Building and collaborating with developers from other teams to create modular, extensible PHP and JS solutions (plugins, packages, blocks, and components).

• To create own themes based on requirements from HTML scratch.

• Local Development Environment Setup/Configuration.

• Theme and Plugin Security.

• Understanding of best standards and guidelines about WordPress.org.

• Ability to handle complex problems from design to execution and deliver in time bound manner under constraints.

• Autonomously architect, prototype, and maintain solutions to different problems.

• Comfortable wearing many hats and willing to work on all parts of the stack.

In your first month, you will:

• Get onboarded and brought up to speed with all things VI - our company structure, product, mission, and values

• Meet with colleagues across the company and start building relationships that will help you better understand the company

• Review our current programs, systems, and data so you can gain insight into where we currently are

• Take over our new WordPress website which is in setting phase

Within 3 months, you will:

• Take ownership of your role and started working directly with stakeholders.

• Have strong relationships with our external vendors and be the front line of people support for the company

• Deliver 1st version of the new website.

• Coordinate with analysis to set up Google Analytics and other tools.

Within 6 months, you will:

• Work with the Marketing team to maintain, and improvement by the analyst result of the new website.

• Be a strong technical advisor for the marketing team about SEO/other Google and WordPress technologies.

• A Bachelor’s degree is preferred.

• Extensive experience in writing and building PHP applications at scale using object-oriented coding, namespace, autoloading, dependency injection, PHPCS, Psalm, PHPUnits etc., as well as interacting with REST API/ GraphQL

• Familiarity with WordPress development (multisite, configuration, parent/child themes, plugins, Gutenberg) and understanding of security concerns and site optimization for performance.

• Possesses an understanding of and commitment to web standards, including web accessibility standards (WCAG)

• Familiarity with package managers for PHP (Composer) and JS (NPM/Yarn)

• Familiarity with PSR specifications

• Previous working experience with Code versioning and code review

• Previous working experience with Docker, Git, and dependency management via Composer
  
  

One of our core values at Virtual Internships is transparency. That’s why, we’re allowing you to ‘try before you apply’ in our “https://www.notion.so/virtualinternship/Virtual-Internships-VI-P-GUIDE-0aaa39e9a3304d4cbc19fad96bd0c72d">VI-P Guide” which includes our values, how we operate, how we build our packages, and how we interview.

To give you an example of some of our perks and benefits:

• Flexible Working Hours - start earlier, leave earlier, take a shorter lunch or leave a bit later, it's totally up to you.

• Remote First - work from anywhere, with a budget to support your remote setup

• Learn from the world’s best - access to exclusive content including how-to guides and playbooks from Sequoia/500Global-backed organizations

• Professional Development Budget - dedicated budget towards content/platforms/courses that can contribute to your professional growth

• Impact - we’re still at an early stage, so your impact is magnified. You will likely be solving something that hasn’t already been solved or you will be taking something to an entirely new level!

• Birthday Leave - go enjoy yourself on your birthday without needing to use your annual leave

• Meritocracy - a culture that prides itself on internal promotions and meritocracy. The majority of our managerial team has risen up (quickly), including our COO, CAO, CFO, Head of Host Companies, and Head of Intern Experience.