PHP / Laravel Software Developer

We have multiple Web and Mobile apps. You’ll work closely with our PM, designer, and engineers to architect and develop delightful user experiences.

Together. Founders, engineers, designers, and product managers - everyone helps define our strategy and roadmap. You will never be asked to limit your work to engineering wireframes and designs. You will play a role in helping us decide the direction we take. Uncertainty doesn’t intimidate you, the realm of possibilities and ownership inspires you.

About you

Who You Are

If you are somebody who identifies with these attributes, abilities, and experiences, you're likely a great fit:

• Shared vision - you are inspired by our team charter and envision an opportunity to contribute to it
• Experienced - have 3+ recent years of mobile development work and a great portfolio
• Frontend focus - identify as a frontend dev who also has some backend skills
• Independent - find high-value things to do and do them; are not paralyzed without guidance; can work without a project manager
• Collaborative - give and take criticism and praise well, work with your team as a whole
• Systems thinker - consider broad architectural implications in solutions
• Distributed - comfortable building long-distance relationships with distributed team members; are a proactive collaborator
• Communicator - are articulate; ok with meetings; write docs; have the heart of a teacher
• Explorative - try new things; track the state of the art; are self-motivated to try new experiments

What you'll own

This is a standard software development job, so all the usual duties apply: write code, test code, review code, do tickets, occasional meetings for requirements (we keep it really light), and provide input on new product specifications. The basic job is: develop user-facing features, build reusable components and front-end libraries, translate designs and wireframes into high quality code, repeat. Your familiarity with RESTful APIs, code versioning tools - particularly Git and Content Management Systems will be crucial! Demonstrated ability to optimize components for maximum performance across a vast array of web-capable devices and browsers will also be a necessity in this position.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Work as part of an agile team (developers, PM, designer, QA) to build web applications.
• Architect, build and maintain excellent quality web applications with clean code.
• Implement pixel perfect UI's that match designs.
• Implement clean, modern, smooth animations and transitions that provide an excellent user experience.
• Integrate with third-party API's.
• Write unit and integration tests.
• Complete two weeks sprints and participate in sprint retrospectives and daily standups.
• Assist with building estimates.
• Interface with stakeholders via Slack, Zoom, and email.
• •Track your time throughout the day using our tracking tools.
• Work with modern tools including DevOps, Teams, GitHub, Google Docs, etc.
• Be part of a community of web developers that share knowledge and help each other as problems arise.
• Follow Ignite Solutions's detailed development process.

Requirements:

• A minimum of 4+ years of professional software development experience with relevant tech stack.
• 3+ Year of professional (read: daily, hands-in-the-code on platforms with thousands of users) experience working with PHP and relevant web frameworks
• Demonstrated experience building complex web applications.
• Understanding of open source projects like Wordpress, Joomla, Drupal, OpenCart, Magento etc
• Good knowledge of developing Web services, REST API's
• Experience in common third-party APIs (google, facebook, paypal, ebay etc)
• A four-year college degree is required.
• Meaningful experience working on large, complex systems.
• Strong communication skills. Demonstrated ability to speak on a technical level and communicate clearly with team members
• Ability to take extreme ownership over your work. Every day is a challenge to ensure you are performing to the expectations you and your team have agreed upon, both in regards to estimates and to general process.
• Ability to identify with the goals of Ignite Solutions, and dedicate yourself to delivering on the commitments you and your team make to them.
• An understanding of web frameworks best practices and a commitment to following them.
• Ability to work through new and difficult Web/Backend development issues and contribute to libraries as needed.
• Ability to create and maintain continuous integration and delivery of web applications.
• A positive mindset and can-do attitude.
• Forensic attention to detail.
• An analytical approach to testing new features
• A strong understanding of user research and human-centered design
• You’re passionate about software development...it’s not just your career, it’s your hobby.
• You’re constantly striving to learn new things and improve. You follow industry news, regularly tinker with new technologies, and read books and blogs to keep your skills current.
• You work well within a team environment and enjoy working in the office with your colleagues
• Ability to consistently work 40 hours per week.