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Pinger.com is hiring
1 points by weinr0ck 4125 days ago
Pinger is growing and is expanding internationally. We are looking for an experienced Software Engineer for our backend web services team.

Responsibilities

- You will work with a small team of smart engineers designing, developing and maintaining mission critical web services that service millions of users across the world.

- Ownership of back-end PHP and C++ servers needed for the scalability and performance of Pinger services.

- Develop, maintain and enhance code using best practices in Software Engineering. Develop web-services using PHP and MySQL.

- Lead various projects and act as a mentor for junior engineers.

Requirements

- Thrive in startup environment that is fast paced, fun and enriching.

- Solid design and software engineering skills. You enjoy a vigorous design discussion, are able to make the necessary trade-offs and are able to execute.

- Have solid grasp of Object oriented design techniques including design patterns.

- Experience with SaaS model and/or high traffic web environments.

- Strong experience with PHP.

- Strong Sql/NoSql skills.

- Solid Linux skills (developer level).

- 4+ years of relevant industry experience.

- BS or MS in Computer Science (or equivalent industry experience).

Highly Desired

- Enjoy Agile Software Development with Scrum.

- Good testing practices (unit, integration, system) with automation.

- Good experience with C++ or Java.

- PHP Commercial Framework experience (Symfony2, Laravel).

- Good understanding of shell scripting and continuous integration.

If you are interested, or have any questions, please email erik@pinger.com