Software Engineer, Overton

• We’re looking for a developer with at least 2-3 years of experience working with SaaS applications in PHP. Ideally you’d also have one or two from (most important to least):
• Any experience with Laravel or Craft CMS
• Javascript for front-end work (vanilla is fine, experience of frameworks is a bonus - we use React)
• Any experience with Python (we’re using this more and more)
• Experience working with and maintaining large (multi-terabyte) databases
• Knowledge of Elasticsearch and/or Postgresql

Desirable

• We’re looking to hire an enthusiastic and talented mid-weight PHP developer to join our tech team and help us further develop our data processing pipeline and web platforms
• We deploy daily and you’ll be making changes customers can see from day one. Some key projects on our roadmap this year include; migrating key sections of our app from legacy code to Laravel and React, working with our data team to integrate machine learning models into our data pipeline and front end
• You’ll be joining us at an exciting stage of development and there’ll be lots of opportunity to try out new ideas, for professional development and to learn about developing a new product inside a start-up environment
• We work on a number of different projects and products, with our key technology stack being PHP, Python, Postgres and Elasticsearch. For our primary product, Overton, we scrape and process a large number of documents from the web, index them and allow users to search them through the web app
• The majority of our code is written in PHP but some parts of the data pipeline are written in Python which is what we use for our data science work. We need you to be familiar with PHP already, but can help you learn anything you’re missing