Flocknote is hiring a
Software Engineer

Summary

Flocknote is seeking a self-motivated Software Engineer with experience in LAMP stack, OOP concepts, and modern web app development to join their fast-growing product team. The role involves managing technical aspects of Flocknote service, building out backend systems, integrating with third-party services, implementing new features, exterminating bugs, and improving backend design and coding standards.

Requirements

• To know your way around a LAMP stack, node servers, or other modern web app development stacks
• Experience with OOP concepts and proficiency in a modern web based language and environment
• Experience maintaining Linux VPS servers running Apache, PHP, and MySQL using the command line
• A strong knowledge of security best practices, especially as it relates to websites, including understanding of CSRF, XSS, encryption, SQL injection, etc
• The ability to learn quickly, multitask, and work independently in a fast-moving and dynamic environment
• To be a self-starter and a go-getter and highly focused on crafting high quality and testable code
• To have strong interpersonal skills and be flexible, detail-oriented, professional, easy to get along with, enthusiastic and of high moral character

Responsibilities

• Managing technical aspects of the Flocknote service, including maintaining the health, uptime and performance of all Flocknote servers
• Continuing to build out Flocknote's robust backend, including queueing & messaging systems, user management & security, data archiving, email reputation & sending, payments processing, and much more!
• Integrating with multiple 3rd party services, including billing, credit card processing, short (and long) code text messaging, phone calling, - Amazon SES, Amazon SQS, Amazon S3, Facebook, Twitter and others
• Implementing and developing new features across all areas of the stack
• Exterminating bugs and helping our support team make sure our customers have a great experience with Flocknote
• Constantly improving and iterating our backend design and coding standards

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with PHP (8+) and modern PHP development
• Experience developing cross-client email design and understanding differences in HTML layout and compatibility issues for various email clients
• Experience with queues and asynchronous processing paradigms
• Experience with some form of test driven development and crafting integration and unit tests as part of your regular development process
• Experience with PCI & other data security compliance
• Ability to debug performance or stability issues using log files, infrastructure metrics, server and MySQL process logs, and MySQL EXPLAIN plans
• Experience with AWS and Docker
• Knowledge of Elasticsearch and other NoSQL datastores

Benefits

All positions are full-time (remote/work-from-home) positions with salary and benefits