Description
Position at Freedom Forever
Remote position salary range $130K-$180K including benefits
POSITION SUMMARY:
The Senior Full Stack Software Engineer will be responsible for developing and designing front and back-end web architecture to ensure the responsiveness and effectiveness of applications. The Full Stack Software Engineer will create website foundations using back-end applications and database structures. Using their understanding of programming languages and tools to analyze current codes and industry developments, formulate more efficient processes, solve problems, and create a more seamless experience for users.
ESSENTIAL JOB DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Engineer user-based interactions through an effective front-end architecture framework
- Develop functional databases, applications, and servers to support back-end website applications
- Creating servers and database functionality
- Ensuring cross-platform optimization for mobile phones
- Ensuring responsiveness of applications Develop internal APIs and integrate with external APIs
- Collaborate with Staff Engineers, Product, and leadership to engineer and document architectural and procedural game plans to achieve product and business goals
- Ensure that non-functional requirements such as security, performance, maintainability, scalability, usability, and reliability are being considered when architecting solutions
- Managing database administration and hosting duties
- Building new features and maintaining existing ones
- Diagnosing and resolving bugs
- Writing and maintaining unit tests
- Conduct code reviews and mentor software engineers to improve the team as a whole
- Compile and analyze data, processes, and codes to troubleshoot problems and identify areas for improvement
- Build reusable code and libraries for future use
- Ensure the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs
- Optimize application for maximum speed and scalability
- Perform other duties as assigned
QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS:
Education & Certifications:
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, Software Engineering, or related discipline; or equivalent years of experience
Experience:
- 10+ years of Experience as a Software Engineer (aka: Software Developer, Software Engineer, or Senior Coder.
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:
- Experience with a PHP-based MVC framework (like Laravel) preferred
- Experience with modern JavaScript frameworks (like React) preferred
- Experience with MySQL
- Experience working with small to midsize web applications that handle user accounts and secured/protected access
- Experience detecting and evaluating issues in web applications, devising appropriate solutions within constraints, and executing on those solutions
- Experience dealing with non-technical co-workers or collaborators to translate business needs into technical implementation
- Strong ability to predict complexity, technical debt, and cost-benefit analysis for a given technical implementation
- Experience with cloud computing (Amazon Web Services)
- Experience with Git version control
- Experience with build tools (Grunt, Gulp, Webpack, or Rollup)
- Experience with npm-based front-end tooling
- Experience with Redis and other caching strategies
- Web performance tuning (critical CSS, progressive loading, and time-to-interaction optimizations)
- Experience mentoring other software engineers
- Ability to work well with others in a fast-paced collaborative environment
Special Skills & Training:
- Significant recent experience with PHP and JavaScript
PHYSICAL DEMANDS AND ABILITIES
- Regularly spend long hours sitting and using office equipment and computers
- Regularly move from sitting to standing positions effortlessly
- Regularly spend long hours in intense concentration reviewing and entering data into a computer
- Regularly use hands and fingers to handle, control or feel objects
- Regularly see details of objects that are less than a few feet away
- Regularly speak clearly so listeners can understand
- Regularly understand the speech of another person
- Frequently work on projects that require deadlines
- Occasionally lift 5-10 pounds
Freedom Forever is an equal opportunity employer. In accordance with applicable law, we prohibit discrimination against any applicant or employee based on any legally-recognized basis, including, but not limited to: veteran status, uniformed service member status, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age (40 and over), pregnancy (including childbirth, lactation and related medical conditions), national origin or ancestry, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, genetic information (including testing and characteristics) or any other consideration protected by federal, state or local law. Our commitment to equal opportunity employment applies to all persons involved in our operations and prohibits unlawful discrimination by any employee, including supervisors and co-workers.