Neptune Retail Solutions Hiring for PHP Software Engineer, Backend API (US/Canada Remote) at Toronto, ON Full Time

Neptune Retail Solutions (NRS) is North America’s premier retail marketing services company. Our powerful advertising and promotion programs are relied upon by the country’s largest consumer packaged goods manufacturers and retailers for unparalleled consumer reach.

NRS’ portfolio of omni-channel marketing solutions includes the Freedom API, a platform for creating and distributing cashback offers into retailer loyalty programs, and 3rd party cashback apps.

Our vision is to build the industry’s most powerful incentive management and distribution platform, by using cutting-edge personalization technology and unparalleled scale to drive shopper conversion online and in-store.

You’ll be responsible for:
Enhancing Freedom’s Backend API with new features and functionality

Writing code that will scale with our growing user base and data stores

Writing tests and performing code reviews to ensure that we’re shipping reliable, readable, and reusable code on a daily basis

Working with the team on software design principles, including object-oriented design principles

Identifying technical debt and devising strategies to manage and remediate it

Identifying design patterns that improve the maintainability of our code base, and refactoring code towards those patterns

Helping the team improve their refactoring and unit testing skills

Working with your peers in the engineering team at Neptune Retail Solutions to improve our software development practice as a whole

What we’re looking for:
Experience with the LAMP stack and Amazon Web Services

Experience with PHP MVC Frameworks like Symfony and Laravel

The ability to explain complex technical concepts to collaborating teams

Adept at writing unit and functional tests for your code (TDD or otherwise)

Source control (Git) is second nature to you

Comfortable working with web front-end technology (HTML, CSS, JS)

Know your way around the command line (we develop on Macs and host on Linux servers)

You want to take ownership of what you work on. You’re ready to explain it to your colleagues and support it in production

You jump at the chance to help out co-workers find solutions for tough problems

Possess a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience

Bonus points if you:
Have experience working in a startup environment

Have experience optimizing performance

Love automating, optimizing, and making things faster

Have experience working on custom backend APIs for mobile apps.

About Us:
We’re growing! This position is a new spot on the team created to accelerate our product and technology roadmaps.

We’re flexible and value a good work-life balance! We work remotely.

We use many of the AWS products (ex: ec2, lambda, s3, rds, aurora, elasticache, redis, memcached, data pipelines, redshift, beanstalk, ecs).

We’re laying the groundwork for developing new features in an MVC framework.

We use several tools to help us every day – GitHub, Jira, PHPStorm, New Relic, Cloud Watch, SumoLogic, Pager Duty.

We are currently working in Scrum with 2-week sprints centered around product roadmap delivery, as well as implementing system and process improvements.

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• Proof of full COVID-19 vaccination is required.

Neptune Retail Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer.