Sr. Backend Software Engineer
Havenly, Inc is a consumer services startup located in the heart of Denver. We are making the delight of a beautiful home accessible for everyone, and we're looking for our next Backend Software Engineer to help us do it.
Havenly engineers are obsessed with delivering delightful customer experiences, value software engineering practices such as testing, and never forget about scalability and reusability when designing code. If you’re interested in tackling big challenges, working hard, and creating success at one of the top-funded startups in Denver, this is the job for you.
What You'll Do:
- #1 - Grow our company by working on our Technology & Product Team, committing to excellence, writing high-quality code, and taking pride in all that you do
- Develop, enhance, and debut RESTful APIs
- Envision, spec, implement, test, document, and maintain software components in the Havenly core platform.
- Act as a lead engineer on various projects, collaborating with members from other teams.
- Find the perfect balance between high quality code and getting a product shipped.
- Help the team pay off technical debt, migrating separate chunks of legacy to a more scalable SOA approach.
What You'll Bring
- You have at least 2 years experience in software engineering outside of your education.
- Expert level knowledge in PHP, or proven success at quickly learning a new programming language.
- Experience and comfort building AWS cloud-based components.
- Proven passion for everything you build to be clear and maintainable, in design and implementation.
- Intuition for and experience in designing a highly fault-tolerant architecture of loosely-coupled services.
- Fluency in Java, or a proven success at quickly learning a new programming language.
- Strong individual contributor, self-motivated and a proven team player.
- Experience with Apigility, Doctrine, CakePHP, Zend Framework 2 a plus.
- Ability to learn and adapt in a rapidly changing environment
What we offer:
- A challenging opportunity, and a great team to work beside
- A data-driven environment where your insights and expertise will be valued
- An environment where you can move fast, work hard, see results, and feel your impact
- An opportunity to get in on the ground floor of a successful startup
- Salary, benefits, and design services - Have a room that needs some love? We got you!
At Havenly we hire people who exhibit gumption, act like owners, outperform, and are always playful. If this sounds like a great fit for you, and a challenge you're ready to run with, we want to hear from you.