Full-Stack Back-End-Heavy Software Engineer

• Take charge of the current team's codebase and improve on it
• Ensure that the WordPress websites can incorporate third-party APIs and services
• Take ownership of the web application's performance, speed, and scalability optimization
• Debug and troubleshoot existing web apps' problems
• Thrive in an expanding, flexible team, and be willing to pitch in when needed
• Recognize team growth and peer learning as important
• Work independently but also collaborate well
• Prosper in a dynamic atmosphere with a variety of projects
• Attain a great deal of fulfillment from developing products that help people
• Give pertinent stakeholders, such as product managers, marketers, and other team members, technical support and direction
• Ensure that code and technical requirements are recorded for future use

Job Requirements:

• Bachelor s/Master s degree in Engineering, Computer Science (or equivalent experience)
• At least 5+ years of relevant experience as a back-end or web development engineer
• 5+ years of full-stack development experience in B2B or B2C applications
• Demonstrable knowledge and experience with web development and software engineering
• Extensive experience working with PHP, MySQL, Laravel, and WordPress
• Demonstrable knowledge of modern JavaScript (ES6+)
• Strong understanding and experience with React.js, Next.js, and Node.js
• Ability to convert designs into CSS that would provide responsive and mobile-first web design
• Strong grasp of version control systems (such as Git) and web standards and best practices
• In-depth knowledge of WordPress SEO best practices
• Proficient experience using an ORM to write effective SQL queries
• In-depth knowledge and experience with data consolidation from several sources.
• Prior experience working with others to solve problems and examine code
• Strong familiarity with legacy codebase refactoring
• Nice to have some experience with CI/CD tools like Circle CI or similar
• Ideal to have some working knowledge of prominent AWS services like EC2, API Gateway, Lambda, Cloudfront, S3, etc.
• Prior TypeScript experience, particularly migration from ES6 JavaScript is preferred
• Nice to have some Swift and/or Kotlin experience
• Japanese fluency is preferred
• Ability to work independently with little supervision or documentation
• Excellent English communication skills, both spoken and written