
As a Senior Principal Engineer, you’ll lead a team of engineers through challenging development projects. Come join a highly collaborative team of skilled engineers with a passion for quality.
What You’ll do:
- Work in an agile environment, orchestrating a group mostly comprised of skilled PHP engineers of various levels to complete User Stories authored by professional Product Managers
- Architect highly scalable/transaction heavy web/API applications
- Work with 1-2 Frontend resources (in addition to backend PHP) through projects in React, Angular (maintenance), MooTools/Jquery (deprecation), Socket.io and serverside NodeJS
- Work with Product and QA Managers in multiple grooming sessions and sprint planning for your team
- Collaborate/coordinate with other Engineering Managers and Leads
- Work with QA and Application Support teams to triage bugs
- Work with DevOps to automate deployment and monitoring of applications
- Design and develop Restful APIs using frameworks with design patterns
- Design JSON payloads and various payload contexts
- Convert complex business rules and workflows from User Story requirements into SalesForce type CRM applications and client facing web portals
- Work with monolithic legacy codebases, along with design patterns in newer repositories
- Work with large database schemas of 500+ tables
- Write complex queries. Efficiently joining upwards of 20 tables, some containing +10m rows. In T-SQL or Doctrine ORM
- Integrate 3rd party platforms via APIs and callbacks
- Write Unit tests and documentation
What You Have:
- 10+ years professional experience developing APIs & web based applications in PHP as an individual contributor
- Prior experience working with organized development teams (5+ member pods)
- Prefer hands-on experience using MS SQL Server, CosmosDB, but other relational databases/NoSQL ok (MySQL, Postgres, MongoDB)
- Professional experience using open source PHP frameworks. Symfony3+ preferred (Laravel, CodeIgniter - ok)
- Experience scaling in LAMP, but also leveraging Redis, RabbitMQ, Elastic Search (ELK), SupervisorD, Socket.io, centralized Session stores
- Prefer experience designing fault tolerant architecture on cloud deployments (loadbalancing, clustering, reducing/eliminating single points of failure, etc)
- Understand branching, merging, pull requests and conflict resolution in Git (Bitbucket or Github)
- Experienced in leveraging issue tracking systems and wikis for documentation (Jira/Confluence)
- Comfortable on CentOS Linux, command line, SSH, SFTP, SCP…
- Full stack is a plus (JavaScript, CSS, HTML, React/Angular/Vue)
- Able to onboard self and others while working entirely remotely in EST
- Experience in Azure PaaS and IaaS
- Experience crafting architecture diagrams in Visio or LucidChart
- Problem solving skills and a proactive work style
- Strong interpersonal & communication skills

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