John Clements

Job Responsibilities

• Design and implement scalable solutions to challenging problems in SOA and microservices architecture

• Code review with teammates, identify areas for improvement and help mentor junior developers

• Measure performance pre-and post-deployment

• Bring new functionality from conception to release

• Build new or modernize existing functionalities to enable our global presence

• Share ownership of major areas of back-end functionality and support them

• Work with test engineers to identify and fix defects using basic and advanced issue troubleshooting and root cause analysis techniques

• Research and evaluate new technologies

Job Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field, or equivalent training, fellowship, or work experience

• Building web applications professionally for 8+ years using PHP and frameworks, Zend Framework preferred

• 7+ years’ experience with SQL and a complete understanding of query optimization

• 6+ years’ experience with any Linux OS

• 4+ years’ experience working with containers such as Docker or Kubernetes

• Experience with other functional or imperative programming languages -- e.g., Python, Ruby, Go, C, or Java
• Demonstrate a thorough understanding of OOP, SOLID, encapsulation, and SOA

• Instrumental in the development, deployment, and scaling of a public-facing load balanced web application

• Possess strong computer science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, programming languages, distributed systems, and information retrieval

• Amenable to a night shift schedule (9 pm-6 am)

• Currently at Temporary Work From Home Set-up (but will need to report in the office at least once or twice a week)

Preferred Skills & Expertise

• PHP 7, Zend Framework 3

• Python (Celery)
• Message Queueing (RabbitMQ)
• Containers (Docker or Kubernetes)
• Javascript, JQuery, React, AngularJS
• MS SQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis
• Solr/SolrCloud, Elasticsearch
• TDD (PHPUnit, Selenium)
• CI/CD (Codeship/CircleCI, Bamboo/Jenkins)
• Git, SVN
• APM (New Relic)
• AWS, Google Cloud
• Tomcat, Apache, NGINX, IIS
• Linux, Windows