Full Stack Developer, Awesome Motive

• You’re a self-starter who loves taking initiative and seeing things through from conception to completion. Our developers often "own" features/tasks and are responsible for scoping, development, and testing
• You're an excellent communicator, fluent in both verbal and written English, who makes sure nothing slips through the cracks. We believe communication is critical and there is no such thing as over communicating
• You have the curiosity and desire to learn and grow your skills
• You're passionate about leaving your mark on the web for all to see and are excited to work on tasks that impact millions of users
• You take pride in the quality and craftsmanship of your work rather than just doing it to get it done
• You're a team player who is comfortable working along side and helping other developers, and you don't take critical feedback personally
• You're happy jumping between front-end and back-end development tasks, or tackling tasks which require both
• You're happy working on tasks of all sizes - from small bug fixes and enhancements to large features/rewrites
• Professional experience in PHP and Laravel development, architecture, and standards. Working with older and newer versions of PHP (5.6 to 8.1)
• Advanced proficiency with PHP and MySQL, including modern PHP practices (OOP, autoloading, namespacing, traits, interfaces, etc). Able to write advanced SQL queries
• Strong familiarity with JavaScript (vanilla JS, Alpine.js, ES6, etc), CSS (SCSS, Tailwind CSS, etc.) and HTML.Familiar with how emails work (raw email structure, SMTP protocol, spam filters, etc)
• Familiarity with Redis, RabbitMQ, ElasticSearch and Supervisor (writing PHP CLI utilities and daemons)
• Experience working with third-party APIs (Eg Stripe, AWS SES, etc). Building and maintaining custom APIs
• Ability to use and extend build tools like webpack
• Familiarity with package managers such as Composer and NPM
• Good at QA and the ability to test your own implementation, resolving edge cases
• Competent with version control through git and GitHub
• The ability to iterate and ship ideas quickly
• Ability to troubleshoot and debug complex technical issues
• Ability to keep complex ideas and features simple. (Simplicity is our core value!)
• Previous freelance or remote work experience
• Personal Computer with Internet Access
• Availability to participate in audio/video meetings during work hours

Desirable

• As a Full Stack Developer at Awesome Motive, you will join the SendLayer team, where you will be responsible for Making Stuff Go. You will build infrastructure to create new features, improve existing code, squash bugs, and help us rapidly scale our platform
• Triaging bugs and small enhancements that come into GitHub
• Scoping, writing, and testing new product features and addons
• Refactoring legacy code with a particular attention to backwards compatibility
• Providing feedback and peer review for other developers (Github PRs)
• Communicating with the team and supporting your peers using chat, audio, and video

• Please clearly include the following in your cover letter:
• Your development experience with all the listed languages, technologies, frameworks, and libraries
• What is your favorite PHP function, and why?
• Tell us a bit about yourself and why you should be considered. Details about your experience, qualifications, personality, etc., are very helpful
• Profile links with code samples (GitHub, GitLab, BitBucket, etc.)
• Other profile links, if available (Your website, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc.)
• Also note, don't forget to proofread before submitting. Check spelling, capitalization, etc. This is your chance to make your application stand out :)
• We won’t be able to respond to all applications individually, but if we feel you’re a strong match, someone will be in touch shortly