Senior Software Engineer (PHP/JS) Full-time

Our client is looking for a senior PHP/JavaScript software developer to work remotely on their Cloud-hosted analytics SaaS service, their Analytics core platform software and all their products. They have challenges to solve and need you!

A vast majority of their collaboration is online. They are a small, flexible team, and when you come on board you will play an integral part in engineering. You’ll help to make their products better and deliver a great experience to customers.

Working closely with the founders you will help to build the future of their products and services. You will find a huge “playground” to grow your skill set and have an immediate impact on a product that is used by more than a million websites, runs on hundred thousands of servers, and is used in almost every country in the world. A lot of your work will be on open source products.

Key Responsibilities:

• Maintain and improve several products requiring strong competency coding in PHP and JavaScript.
• Contribute to the improvement of our client’s Analytics SaaS service performance, reliability, security, and overall user experience.
• Harness your great communication and collaboration skills.
• Aid the development of practices to better and reduce friction from idea to deployment.

Additional Responsibilities Include:

Taking ownership of technical issues, and working with the team to resolve more advanced issues when necessary.

• Documenting product features and contributing to our client’s user-facing knowledge base.
• Refining websites and web design using HTML, CSS and JS.

To be successful in this role we would hope you would have all/some of the following:

• 4+ years commercial experience in product development, security, usable interface design.
• 4+ years experience building successful production software systems.
• Strong competency in PHP and JavaScript application development (full-stack).
• Experience using databases and SQL.
• Skilled at writing automated tests and reviewing code.
• Strong analytical skills to understand complex business logic
• Strong initiative and attention to detail.
• A pragmatic approach to problem solving.
• Familiar with Linux command line.
• Ideally familiar in developing with WordPress (used by our client’s website).

Please apply below if this exciting opportunity sounds like you. Any questions? Email us at enquiries@recruitsme.co.nz for further information.