Senior Software Engineer, Full Stack (Hybrid)

Denver, CO / Remote (CO)

Founded in 2003 and now part of Donuts Inc, Name.com is made up of roughly 40 people and is Colorado’s premier Domain Name, Email, Hosting, and Web Services Provider. We value collaboration, respect, accountability, transparency, and humor, and we’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer to help us achieve our vision as being the most recommended provider of online presence solutions. Our team consists of industry experts and coding veterans who are supportive, open-minded, committed, and excellent at what they do. We’re also pretty fun to be around (even John Hall!). With this position and others, we are looking to grow to a 3-4 pizza engineering team.

Where you can make an impact:

• Leverage your experience and thirst for knowledge to bring fresh perspectives to our development challenges. The team generally divides its time managing registry connections, integrating 3rd party product offerings, improving www.name.com, and building internal tools.

• You will make decisions that affect our efforts in bringing the best experience to our customers. Our customers are many -- not just end-users, but also the internal teams and individuals with which we interact on a daily basis. Cross-functionally, you’ll work closely with our Product, Operations, Customer Solutions, and Marketing teams. 

• Seize opportunities to make major contributions in many areas, from DevOps to backend services architecture and web service integrations to frontend application design. 

• Advocate for best practices in code quality, modularity, maintainability, security, and performance. As a scrappy team, we want to make smart choices today that will help “future us”.

• Mentor colleagues with varying degrees of experience.

What’s it like to work in the Name.com Engineering Team?

• Our tech - Code and Software: Object-oriented PHP (we are at 7.4), CodeIgniter/Lumen/Laravel, RabbitMQ, MySQL, with a dash of Go and Java (but most of the codebase is PHP). We are moving our frontend code from Bootstrap/Backbone to Vue.js. We all work on Macs and deploy to Linux containers or instances on AWS. Other tools: PivotalTracker, Gitlab, Slack,

• Building and Delivering Code - 

  • We follow Scrum with 2 week sprints and have the usual meetings: Ticket Sizing, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospectives as well as our daily scrums. 

  • We leverage a continuous deployment model that empowers individual team members to push code to production; we typically push new code to prod many times a day.

• Batperson - Every member of the team rotates through a sprint-long tour as our “Batperson”. This role serves as the primary point of contact for our Technical Support team. This is a great opportunity to empathize with customer issues while gaining expertise with different parts of the code base. Additionally, it helps the rest of the team focus on sprint tickets.

Where:

• In the Before Time, most of us (aside from our contingent of Dublin Customer Support specialists) were housed in our downtown Denver office near the Denver Convention Center, where our engineering team was entirely co-located. We’ve built upon our in-person culture to be highly effective while working remotely.

• We are constantly evaluating the pandemic situation and have recently begun to take steps to safely meet in the office on a periodic (if irregular) basis.

• We recognize that hybrid and remote-only working situations are a reality now and are continually evolving to retain our beloved Name.com culture. 

What you bring to the table:

• A desire to plant your roots with a team interested in cultivating your career.

• Excellent communication skills, enthusiasm to learn new things (prepare to pair program!), and a high degree of emotional intelligence. You welcome constructive feedback and are always on a path toward self-improvement.

• 5+ Years professional experience using a C-style language (eg, PHP, C++, Java, JavaScript, Python, Ruby) against an SQL database (eg, MySQL).

• Solid knowledge of functional programming, modern frontend frameworks (eg, Vue.js, React, Angular) and client-side best practices. Applied Vue.js experience is a definite plus.

• A firm grasp of Object Oriented Programming (OOP) concepts and design patterns

• A love for elegant frontend/backend architecture and API design.

• Practical knowledge and experience with automated testing (from unit to end-to-end testing) and Test-driven development.

• Comfortable working in Linux environments (POSIX commands, bash scripts). DevOps experience and interest is a plus.

• BS in Computer Science or equivalent degree or experience.

What we have to offer:

Name.com offers a highly competitive compensation package (the salary range for this position is $125,000 - $140,000), great benefits and a fun, friendly and collaborative culture that values employee engagement and ongoing career development. 

• Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental and vision plans (with coverage starting Day 1)

  • 401K with company match, 100% vesting (and Day 1 eligibility)

  • Short Term & Long Term Incentive Programs

  • Generous Paid Time Off and Holidays

  • Annual Education Reimbursement

  • Employee Rewards & Recognition Program

• “Mandatory Fun”

  • Every Friday, the company is invited to a happy hour in our “Dorm Room” and its adjacent balcony. It’s a time for relaxing and enjoying conversations with co-workers across all the teams in the company. 

  • Annual Scavenger Hunt - an anticipated company-wide event.

  • And more… some examples: Annual Baseball game, Harry Potter Day, periodic team-building events… also, check out our videos on YouTube, like this one.

  • Well... OK, yes. The above was true before the ‘Rona came and disrupted things, but we still find ways to enjoy each other’s company, whether remote or in-person. We have occasional online coffee breaks and happy hours, and Jackbox games and their ilk are great diversions. We more recently held remote-friendly “Spirit Week'' activities involving Halloween themes and… uh... spirits, of course. This year, vaccines and safety policies have allowed us to attend a Rockies game and company-sponsored happy hour gatherings.

• Community Engagement - Do you like engaging with your community? If you said yes… So do we! Unfortunately, the Virus that Shall Not Be Named has put a damper on most of these activities. In the past, we have sponsored Hack the Dots… or is it Hacks the Dot? (https://hack.social), participated in panels and presentations at local conferences like Develop Denver and Denver and Boulder Startup Weeks. Name.com employees also guide the contributions made by our name.gives charitable giving program (http://name.gives).

Name.com offers a highly competitive compensation package (the salary range for this position is $125,000-$140,000) and a fun, friendly and collaborative culture that values employee engagement and ongoing career development. Name.com is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, veteran status, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or any other category prohibited by local, state or federal law. This policy applies to all aspects of employment, including recruitment, placement, promotion, transfer, demotion, compensation, benefits, social and recreational activities and termination. Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis