Senior Software Engineer

Summary

Join Loop's Engineering Team, a dynamic group focused on agility, consistency, and performance, delivering valuable customer experiences. This indispensable role involves designing, building, and maintaining web applications, APIs, and backend services. You will contribute to building the best e-commerce post-purchase platform, solve complex technical issues, and guide engineering practices focusing on scalability and reliability. The ideal candidate possesses 5+ years of experience with PHP/Laravel and AWS Serverless, along with expertise in modern web development tools and agile environments. Loop offers a blended work environment with options for office, hub, or remote work, and provides a competitive salary and benefits package.

Requirements

• 5+ years experience with PHP / Laravel, AWS Serverless (and we use Vue.JS on the front-end, too)
• Significant web development experience using modern tooling
• Demonstrated hands-on expertise building web applications, backend services, and APIs
• Have participated in effective testing processes on previous teams, and have opinions about how to create a quality-driven development process
• Worked in environments that had continuous integration/deployment, and had a hand in scaling those processes
• Can share examples of how you have practiced test driven and behavior driven development, and how you’ve advocated for the practices with the rest of your team
• You have worked and thrive in an agile development environment and can speak to the principles of agility, as well as the specific tactics you employed

Responsibilities

• Contribute while leading to build the best ecommerce post-purchase platform in the market
• Design, build and maintain web applications, APIs, backend services, and lambdas for the Loop product line
• Solve complex technical issues for our merchants and our partners, and care most about giving them an exceptional experience
• Develop solid automated unit and integration tests
• Maintain a healthy, continuous integration/deployment process
• Lead, assess, and make recommendations as to what our best practices should be so we scale effectively, and advocate for these with the engineering team

Preferred Qualifications

• If you’ve worked closely with product managers, designers and user experience experts, that’s a plus for us
• You know the kind of team you thrive on, and can speak of the best teams you’ve been a part of and what made it so great
• You can speak to the times in your career when you experienced rapid growth, know your learning style well and how to maximize what you get out of each project you take on
• You have examples of having crucial conversations, such as giving feedback to a boss, customer or peer, admitting a mistake with humility and vulnerability
• You can speak to the times you left things better than you found them, and negotiated with your team and stakeholders over doing things differently and how it helped
• You have examples of times when a team decision didn’t go the way you wanted, but you still were able to fully commit to the direction and drive progress
• You know what it’s like to stretch yourself beyond what you think you can do, and have stories to share about when you went beyond and succeeded and when you tried and failed

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Flexible PTO
• Company holidays
• Sick & safe leave
• Parental leave
• 401k
• Monthly wellness benefit
• Home workstation benefit
• Phone/internet benefit
• Equity