Hello from Havoc Shield! 

We’re A Small Team of Passionate Technologists, Entrepreneurs, and Democratizers making a professional cybersecurity program accessible to small and vulnerable companies. It’s kind of like TurboTax for small business cybersecurity in that we take the ocean of complexity that is risk mitigation, vendor management, policies, recovery, and orchestration and we bake it into a step by step action plan that non-experts can execute on.

At Havoc Shield, we know that the workplace dynamic is changing and we have changed with it. Your day will not be broken up into countless meetings, distractions that could wait and unnecessary fire-drills. We believe in small teams. Small teams are fast and nimble. Small teams mean less bureaucracy and less management and more getting things done.

We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer who has at least 6 years experience in backend web development, with at least two of those years working for a startup. You’ll ultimately own several software components, and you’ll participate in product planning and testing. 

Tech Stack: Our platform uses the PHP framework Laravel and the Javascript framework Vue tied together with the InertiaJS library for a SPA-like experience without the maintenance overhead. Our platform is backed by a MySQL database and relies on the N8N workflow engine and the RPA framework via Robocorp for out-of-band tasks. All of our servers are hosted on AWS, and our code is hosted on GitHub. Although we're currently a small team, we use modern methodologies, local environments coordinated by Docker, code reviews, continuous integration, etc. for software development. 

About You 

You love building. You have at least six years of experience as a Software Engineer building scalable web-applications, with at least two of those years working for a startup. 

You excel working on a team and mentoring others. You enjoy being part of a team that solves problems together, collaborating on ideas and working to meet team goals. You like pairing up with teammates when someone gets blocked. You give and accept feedback professionally and don’t let ego get in the way of delivering the best solution for the customer. You can summarize technical concepts effectively as you work with people from disciplines outside of engineering.

You love shipping to customers. Nothing we build matters if it isn’t meeting customers’ needs. You’ll also learn to empathize with Havoc Shield’s end users and add capabilities to the Platform that enable Havoc Shield to offer new products. 

You love learning. Engineering is an ever-evolving world. You enjoy exploring areas that you might not have experience with yet. You have a balanced approach to adopting new tech vs using well-understood patterns.

Things You Might Do

• Participate in product planning and testing; develop mostly backend software across infrastructure

• Own several infrastructure component areas and supports all others

• Operate and scale the systems you and your team build.

• Dig into bugs and feature requests 

• Work and collaborate with colleagues to help them deliver value to customers in new and exciting ways
  

More about Havoc Shield:

Pay Transparency

Havoc Shield strives to create transparency in compensation across our team in the pursuit of ensuring pay equality and trust. We’re working on published pay bands for each role that will be available to all team members. We expect those pay bands to be published within Q4 2022. In the meantime, we highlight to employees that it is their right to discuss their compensation with others and always welcome conversations about the topic. We re-evaluate pay bands on an at least annual basis and perform individual compensation reviews bi-annually.

Equity

We’re a growth-stage startup, and one that prizes the careful use of funds to protect our team members. We know we can’t pay the same as a large tech company can, but we do reward employees who want to truly own what they’re working on with significant equity. All full time team members receive equity options. These options are tied to what we can pay in cash and where the market is in terms of total compensation above that. We fill the gap with equity options valued at our last fundraising round’s post-money valuation, of which value we strive to grow year over year. We regularly evaluate our equity option plan to introduce mechanisms and offerings to make understanding, exercising, and benefiting from your options. We know equity is a bet on the company, and so we’re doing everything we can to make sure that bet pays off. Ask us for more details - we’ll be happy to talk about them.

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Deeply rooted in all of us are reasons for Why we make the decisions we do. At PracticeGenius we equip thousands of businesses around the globe with tools and services that more effectively engage and align their business goals and initiatives with those of their customers, advocates, and employees. 

By combining the principles of behavioral economics and choice architecture with gamification, reward-loyalty systems, and social engagement functionality we’ve created a scalable platform that helps businesses of all sizes add contextual interactions and incentives to their most valued relationships.

Accomplishing this takes a focused effort from a talented team. Culturally we pride ourselves on the diversity that is celebrated amongst our teams and share an affinity for intelligent minds, quality work, and exceptional customer care. We have employees distributed throughout the US and offer a remote-friendly culture and flexible in-office positions.

Job Summary

As a Software Engineer at PracticeGenius, you will have a significant impact on products that are used by millions of people as well as the team behind it. You’ll do this through a combination of writing code, participating in code review, collaborating with engineering and non-engineering team members, and most importantly contributing your own unique experiences and perspective.

We strive to constantly make strides towards improving our tech stack and engineering culture, and are committed to it as a continual journey. Some technologies you'll be working with are: Laravel (primarily JSON REST APIs), MySQL, Elasticsearch, Docker, CI/CD environments, Apache Solr, Javascript (React), automated testing on both frontend and backend code, automated deployments, AWS, and more.

Join us as we develop fresh new product offerings as well as help drive our continued mission of improving and replacing legacy systems, constantly adopting new technologies in an environment where you are empowered to experiment and free to fail safely. 

Who Are You?

• You care about product, obsess over the people that use it, and take pride in the quality of your work.
• Introvert or extrovert, you've got a phenomenal personality and respect for others.
• You enjoy the constant challenges and learning that come with software design and development.
• You’re not afraid to raise concerns, suggest improvements, or question the status quo.
• You seek to learn from others as well as share your knowledge and experience.
• You’re a kind and curious person looking to be a big part of a small team.

What Are Your Skills?

• You are proficient in PHP and the Laravel framework.
• You are experienced and confident in managing MySQL in production.
• You have practical knowledge in implementing and maintaining a CI environment.
• You are competent in managing cloud infrastructure environments (AWS is a plus).
• You communicate effectively whether on video/audio calls or in a chat environment.
• You can analyze a problem and break it down into small, achievable chunks.
• You can act on feedback from others and provide helpful feedback to others.
• You know how to contribute to and work effectively on a distributed, remote team.
• You know how to research, explore and successfully introduce new technologies.

Examples of profiles that are relevant to us:
*You’ve likely had experience that falls into one or more scenarios such as:

• Led or played a major role in the development of a system involving multiple software developers and/or teams.
• Held significant ownership of a software project from its early stages, through initial development, to release and maintenance.
• Revitalized and/or replaced a legacy system with more modern, appropriate technology.
• Built a sizable authenticated (e.g. OAuth, JWT, etc) RESTful API-based system.
• Deployed and maintained a load balanced server environment with multiple web-servers.
• Introduced or owned backend technologies such as ElasticSearch, Memcached, Redis, RabbitMQ, etc.
• Identified and optimized performance issues on demanding processes, whether they were database or application code oriented.

Compensation and Benefits

• We offer competitive salaries.
• We offer several health benefit plans and a company-funded FSA.
• New Macbook Pro, monitors, sit/stand desk, and more…
• Paid subscriptions/software to help you grow and excel (PhpStorm, Laracasts, egghead.io, Amazon books, etc.)
• Ample paid time off, flexible work schedule, and a healthy work-life balance.

We welcome applicants of all backgrounds, gender, age, and race. If you are unsure whether you meet the requirements or have any questions, please reach out and we'd be happy to help!

Well...if this all sounds good to you and you think we might have a fit, please proceed!

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