Senior Backend Engineer

Summary

Join Stensul's Product Engineering team as an expert and contribute to expanding the platform's value for world-class customers. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to implement high-quality solutions, participate in architectural discussions, and design, implement, and maintain platform improvements. This role involves working with roughly defined requirements, contributing to agile methodologies, and mentoring other developers. Stensul offers a fast-paced, collaborative environment with opportunities for growth and utilizes technologies such as PHP, MongoDB, Redis, Docker, Javascript, Vue.js, Go, and Python. The company is experiencing high growth and provides a fun, supportive work environment.

Requirements

• Extensive knowledge of web server-side oriented languages (i.e. PHP, Javascript for Node.js, Python, Golang)
• Knowledge of relational and document oriented databases (i.e. MySQL, MongoDB)
• Knowledge of memory stored system (i.e. Redis, Memcached)
• Knowledge of web architectures, services and APIs concepts
• Experience developing microservices
• Experience using design patterns
• Excellent OOP knowledge
• Experience with version control (git, subversion)
• Ability to work well in an agile and team environment, a true team player
• Solid English communication skills both oral and written
• Proficiency on quality practices such as unit test implementation
• Strong testing skills and attention to detail
• Strong interest in understanding our customers, our market and our product to bring new ideas to the table
• Strong continuous improvement culture and intellectual stimulation approach
• Experience in product-oriented companies, interest in understanding our customers, our market and our product to bring new ideas to the table

Responsibilities

• Work with roughly defined requirements and use the product vision to elaborate and build effective solutions
• Collaborate as part of a cross-functional team (Engineering, Product, Design, QA), helping achieve synergy, understanding our most demanding user needs and delivering features that exceed their expectations
• Participate and contribute in architectural/system design discussions and decisions
• Design, implement and maintain improvements to the functionality of our platform
• Write high quality, standardized, concise and maintainable code
• Track down and fix bugs
• Follow our agile methodology and contribute to its improvement
• Own and lead initiatives from inception to delivery and maintenance in an autonomous way
• Proactively add positive energy to our rapidly growing company
• Help, coach and mentor fellow team members in their day to day tasks and professional development, contributing to the team’s learning & development

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with PHP frameworks (Laravel, Zend, Symfony)
• Experience with Typescript and/or other type checking technologies
• Experience with high traffic sites
• Experience with monitoring tools and metrics (New Relic, Kibana)
• Experience with container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Experience with bug tracking tools like Jira, Redmine, Bugzilla, etc
• Experience with functional programming
• Experience with API design
• Experience shipping products for enterprise companies
• Experience with email layout coding
• A great sense of humor

Benefits

• Competitive salary & benefits
• Company laptop and phone reimbursement (if required)
• Endless availability of PlayStation 4 and table tennis competitors
• Weekly team lunches (from asado to empanadas, there is something for everyone)
• Great candy corner, with plenty of snacks, drinks, fruits, etc
• Regular after offices in a great area of the city (Palermo), where the office is located
• Other awesome secret benefits we’ll tell you once you are on the team
• Being a part of an amazing, inclusive team that lives by our shared values and is committed to building the next phase of Stensul
• Open to hiring in our Buenos Aires offices, or to work remotely with your commitment to meet the teams in our Buenos Aires office regularly