Description

Are you up for the challenge of delivering cutting edge web based software based on the LAMP technology stack?  Is solving business challenges in innovative and inventive ways with the newest tools and platforms how you would like to spend your days?  Do you want to want to work with a team of developers and QA analysts that are all invested in producing great products?  Are you looking for an opportunity for a stable work environment with reasonable work hours?  

Company – KPA (www.kpaonline.com ), headquartered in Lafayette, CO, is a market leader in cloud-based risk management solutions for the automotive, insurance and industrial markets.  KPA is a $60+M revenue company, with outstanding metrics: 28% topline CAGR, 90+% retention, 96% recurring revenue, 38% EBITDA margin and 90% employee retention.  Recent research conducted by Bain and LEK consulting firms, confirm KPA is one of the leaders in the highly fragmented, growing, $4B middle-market compliance markets served by KPA – automotive, insurance and industrial. Given these outstanding characteristics, KPA has recently attracted a tier one private equity firm, Providence Equity Partners as its majority investor, to provide capital and expertise to the management team to accelerate growth organically and through additional acquisitions.   KPA provides a combination of SaaS compliance solutions and complementary recurring services, to drive a change in safety, environmental and workflow best practices.    

Since 1986 KPA has been refining the core values with which we work together as a team and with our clients.  Do you align with our core values of Integrity, Helpful, Excellence, Agile, Respectful, and Teamwork?  It is these core values that promote our success through both organic growth and integrating acquisitions.  This success and the growing demand for compliance solutions was validated through a 2018 investment by Providence Equity Partners, adding valuable experience in both the automotive and compliance software sectors and continuing to promote an entrepreneurial atmosphere at KPA. 

Position Description: As a member of the Technology team, the Senior Software Developer will play a crucial role in delivering modern, web based software in a LAMP stack environment to develop and maintain Node.js and PHP enterprise level applications with Docker/Kubernetes.  Must be enthusiastic about quality and unit testing, we aim to get it right the first time!  The successful candidate has experience creating scalable solutions and delivering high quality software for KPA’s Software as a Service (SaaS) products.

The Senior Software Developer will be responsible for the following:

In the first 2 weeks you will:

• Have a running development environment confirmed by successfully building the code base for the existing product. 

• Accept, estimate, develop and test a set of low-priority defects associated with one product.

• Have the solutions peer reviewed and passed prior to check-in

In the first 30 days you will:

• Have a minimum of two features ready for delivery following the defined development process and deploy the features to production.

• Contribute towards the planning, tasking, execution and delivery as defined by an agile development environment that includes reporting time against tasks, estimation of effort, code reviews and commitment to delivery.

• Work on deploying the fixes to production.

In the first 90 days you will:

• Demonstrate development productivity and quality on par with the other team members through the daily input of status information. All developed code will be highly scalable, high-quality, object-oriented, and comply with KPA standards.

• Demonstrate either the ability to design and develop a) rich user interfaces using standards compliant technologies, b) C# service/business/data layers and other distributed processing components, c) back-end tools to help with builds, deployments, troubleshooting.

In the first 6 months you will:

• Collaborate with team members, project managers, product managers and other senior executives on identifying and documenting the technical tasks.

• Contribute to the analysis, solution designs and implementations of major new system components

By the end of the first year you will have:

• Be a valued member of  KPA’s SaaS platform development team to the point of leading feature development for multiple components of the platform

Requirements

• BS or MS degree in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent experience

• Experience with LAMP Stack – Expert in PHP apps (minimum 6 years). 

• Troubleshoot and develop REST APIs with frameworks like Lumen/Laravel (PHP) and Express (Node.js) (minimum of 3 years)

• Experience developing and designing rich user experience (JavaScript,Vue.js, jQuery, Ajax, CSS, HTML, XML) (minimum 6 years)

• Expertise in SQL (6 years minimum), no-SQL experience a plus

• Experience with unit testing frameworks like PHPUnit (Codeception), and with Acceptance Test Driven Development

• Experience developing apps locally with docker-compose

• Familiar with use of package managers such as NPM and Composer

• Experience in enterprise software using MVC, Object Oriented programming, n-tier design, and service-oriented architecture

• Experience working in a scrum environment with well-defined definition of done.

• Experience with Git or other source control systems.

• Creative and passionate about cutting edge technologies and continuous personal and team improvement

• Committed to deliver great software solutions, with a deep sense of personal ownership and passion for working with all types of Software Developers and QA Analysts 

• Work ethic that corresponds with KPA’s core values: Integrity – Teamwork – Helpfulness – Excellence – Accountability

• Experience with build automation tools and continuous integration & continuous delivery (with Docker/Kubernetes a plus)

• Experience building applications in a cloud environment is a plus.