The Software Engineer II is a vital role within the team, leveraging your expertise to create easy to use software solutions leveraging the latest program and languages and algorithms.

In this role you will be responsible for writing server-side application logic, developing back-end and front-end components, connecting applications with other (often third-party) web services, and supporting the front-end developers by integrating their work with the application. You will also develop and integrate plugins for certain popular frameworks.

We are looking for a PHP Developer who has a passion for coding and loves creating high quality code. If you are an independent and logical thinker, who is adept at taking specifications and converting them into a realistic idea for how to build the solution - we want to talk to you!

In addition to your coding skills and passion for your craft, it is important for us to hire people who are a great fit for our collaborative, innovative and learning-focused culture here at Akkadian! We want people have strong communication and collaboration skills and like to work on a team to achieve goals. We see mistakes as learning opportunities and we want our team members to work fearlessly, take responsibility for mistakes, and most importantly see them as opportunities to learn. In this role, there will be a mix of using new technology and developing new functionality, as well maintaining legacy applications - so want to speak to candidates who are comfortable doing both.

We look forward to speaking to you!

With a focus on maintainability, scalability and quality, you will;

Develop distributed, scalable client/server systems
Develop cutting-edge components of our platform infrastructure
Work on large mission critical systems dealing with very large numbers of real time actions
Design, modify, develop, write and implement software programming applications
Participate in the testing process through test review and analysis, test witnessing and certification of software
Have knowledge of commonly-used concepts, practices, and procedures within a particular field
Rely on instructions and pre-established guidelines to perform the functions of the job

Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or a related field
5+ years of full-stack development experience with complex, tiered, high-availability, Cross Platform applications
Expert in PHP language
JavaScript, AJAX, HTML/DHTML, XML
Jenkins, Ansible, Bootstrap Laravel are a plus
Agile Methodologies, Scrum certification is a big plus
Experience building complex web applications
Familiarity with Linux is a plus
Knowledge of one of more Open Source web development frameworks is a plus
Confident consuming and creating RESTful APIs
SQL and DB design/development
Debugging skills in a clustered environment
Cultural Fit!!
Empathy for end users
Motivated by building a state of the art product
Desire to work on new products and help building and lead a team in the process
Motivated by everyday challenges
A fearless who worker who can take responsibility for mistakes and sees them as learning opportunities.
Strong team player who doesn't play games - we are a no-politics organization!
Eager to move to a fast-paced environment
Eager to learn new technologies and solve problems

Benefits:

We offer Medical, Dental, Vision, Paid Time Off, 401(k) plan with company match, supplementary insurances, and work/life balance. This position is based in NYC, but we are open to applicants nation wide.

Apply here: https://bit.ly/34RvILu

Software Engineer (PHP)