What you'll do:

• Build software that powers the experience of millions of users.
• Design sophisticated solutions and deploy your own code to production.
• Adapt to a diverse set of backend technologies (Redis, Memcache, Elastic Search, domain-specific languages, and many more)
• Work with a team of highly-motivated server and client engineers.
• Set teamwide best practices for PHP code quality and API architecture.
• Set standards for internal API documentation and development workflows.

What makes you great fit:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, or equivalent work experience.
• A firm grasp of Computer Science fundamentals including object oriented design, data structures, algorithm design, problem solving, and complexity analysis.
• 8+ years of web API development.
• 3+ years developing APIs in scripting languages (PHP, Python, Ruby, or JavaScript).
• 1+ years in modern PHP (7+).
• Extensive experience with and knowledge of [multi-tier] applications and RESTful APIs.
• Knowledge of real-time web UI technology (ex. WebSockets, HTTP/2, pub/sub, messaging brokers).
• Developed consumer applications that have handled significant public traffic (10k+ daily active users).
• Experience with REST API documentation strategies (Swagger, PHPDoc).
• Familiar with Slim and REST API frameworks for PHP.
• Familiarity with working on Message brokers like Kafka or RabbitMQ or Apache Pulsar
• 1+ years of full-stack Web UI development (modern javascript frontend frameworks).
• Knowledge of data pipelining and pub/sub architectures.
• Experience in data architecture: SQL databases, caching, sharding.
• Knowledge of DevOps systems, CI/CD, deployment pipeline.

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