PHP Engineer at Pixwel

Pixwel is hiring a PHP Engineer, dedicated to software development and emerging technology, to become part of our team and help build our platform.

Skills & requirements

• 5+ years experience with PHP and MVC frameworks like Laravel and CakePHP
• You take pride in writing tests for all of your code
• Deep understanding of HTTP and REST/GraphQL APIs
• Experience writing and tuning database queries for SQL and NoSQL databases
• Experience designing, building, scaling and maintaining distributed systems
• Passionate about fostering good engineering practices and processes
• Strong customer focus and data-driven approach
• You show humility when you are right and have the confidence to admit mistakes
• Experience effectively contributing to technical strategy and roadmaps
• Troubleshooting skills across network, application, caching, queuing, load-balancing, storage and distributed services layers.
• Excellent analytical skills as well as both verbal and written communication skills. We’re a distributed team so strong communication is critical.
• Passionate about mentoring and helping their peers, both inside and outside of their team, to grow

Description

Pixwel is hiring a PHP Engineer, dedicated to software development and emerging technology, to become part of our team and help build our platform.

This is a great role for you if you are passionate about entertainment and technology, and interested in redefining the future of entertainment marketing and localization.

About The Company

We have been running a profitable platform since 2013 and do not have any investors. We are experts at video post-production and software engineering. Marrying the two, is our secret sauce.

About The Team

We are a very small team. There's lots of room to make big waves! Currently we have 3 engineers:

• Manager / Infrastructure / Backend / Frontend
• Front End Developer
• Front End Developer + Designer

About The Software

• Lithium framework (PHP)
• Kahlan (testing)
• MongoDB
• Docker
• AWS
• AngularJS
• React (REST, GraphQL, Redux, react-query)

Responsibilities

• Reading, writing, and reviewing application code, with a focus on writing maintainable code that is easy to understand
• Collaborating with product teams to define and implement new features
• Communicating persuasively with peers to inspire cooperation
• Making well-reasoned decisions that inspire and energize others
• Documenting the systems you help build
• Building scalable and highly available systems that follow operational best practices
• Building observable systems that we can learn from and we can continuously improve
• Working with support to triage and debug support requests

Benefits

• Health Care Plan (Medical, Dental & Vision)
• Retirement Plan (401k, IRA)
• Paid Time Off (Vacation, Sick & Public Holidays)
• Family Leave (Maternity, Paternity)
• Training & Development
• Work From Home