Remote Backend + Finance + JavaScript + MySQL + PHP Jobs

We are easyMoney, part of the easy family of brands. Over 90 million people used easy goods and services in 2019.\n\nOur vision is to make better financial products available to everyone. We are looking for an ambitious developer to help usextend our existing platform, build microservices, work on the core API and introducing new features on the main platform.\n\nTop 8 reasons to work with us.\n\n1. You will also work on new and exciting projects in the fintech space competing with some of the biggest disrupters globally.\n\n2. You will learn new things, every day, alongside experienced developers.\n\n3. Some pretty cool benefits such as flexible remote working, equipment of your choice and if you are based in the UK then private medical insurance & employee discounts at thousands of retailers.\n\n4. Interesting problems to solve working with money, investment and finance.\n\n5. Work in a startup but for a major brand\n\n6. We will help with your career development and help you grow beyond just coding.\n\n7. Freedom to try new technologies and be part of the decision making process.\n\n8. Your code will get into the real world quickly and you will make a difference\n\n*What we need from you?*\n\n * ability to work independently on full feature sets bringing product specifications to life.\n * be able to take ownership of problems with a determination to solve them.\n * not be afraid to learn new things outside of your comfort zone.\n * contribute to company standards and best practice\n * identify risks and mitigate them\n\n*Skills required:*\n\n * PHP and/or NodeJS for backend development\n * ReactJS and/or VueJS for frontend development\n * MySQL and/or PostgreSQL\n * API driven development (REST or GraphQL)\n * Experience leading development projects\n * Strong problem solving ability and able to articulate solutions clearly\n * Good understanding of AWS with some devops experience\n * Understanding of agile development process and practice\n\n*It would be beneficial if you have:*\n\n * General interest in the fintech space\n * Experience or interest in React Native and/or Native Script\n * Experience in web development frameworks such as Laravel, Symfony and/or ExpressJS\n * Linux and cloud infrastructure administration with devops tools such as Terraform, Jenkins, CircleCI, Docker, Kubernetes\n * Test driven development advocate\n\n**About easyMoney**\n\neasyMoney is a financial products platform, with a vision to make better financial products available to everyone. We are part of the easy family of brands which has up to 99% market recognition across Europe.\n\n*Benefits:*\n\n * Flexible working – either work from home (country of your choice) or from amazing Chelsea, London office with Gym, Ping Pong, Pool, Table Football, Bar etc.\n * Friendly and supportive team\n * Free easyMoney Plus membership (discounts at 1,500+ retailers)\n * Welcome package including Apple laptop or equivalent of your choice with headphone, mouse etc.\n * Working on exciting initiatives at the forefront of fintech\n * Bonus scheme\n * Pension scheme\n * Flexible working hours\n \n\nPlease mention the words **PUSH BLEAK VICIOUS** when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMjE2LjczLjIxNi4xODA=). This is a feature to avoid spam applicants. Companies can search these words to find applicants that read this and see they're human.\n\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n $90,000 — $140,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 🚑 Medical insurance\n\n
\n\n#Location\nEurope

What we're building\n\nScratchpay provides pet parents with simple friendly payment plans. We help pet parents to provide the care their pets need, easing the financial barrier. We are growing fast in the veterinary space and Veterinarian, Pet owners and pets across the US love us! Come help us help more pets!\n\n\nAbout the position\n\nAs we grow quickly, we need someone to strengthen the team for specific services, including Mobile app and Dashboard for that service. By working with the team, you will learn how things work, quality standards and lifecycle and then quickly jump into growing the software we are building to save pets.\n\nThis job is for you if you recognize yourself in this:\n\n\n* I am a good mind\n\n* I can think for myself\n\n* I am critical of myself and others\n\n* I am always respectful\n\n* I ask questions when needed\n\n* I can understand the boundaries but have a lot of fun within them\n\n* I take my work seriously and never let down people\n\n* I work hard because I want to do the best that I can right now\n\n* I always observe and reflect on how to do better tomorrow\n\n* I like animals\n\n\n\n\nResponsibility and Duties\n\n\n• Hands on development of front end and backend web applications using PHP, Laravel, JavaScript, MySQL and React\n• Coordinate and communicate with other developers and QA, estimates, assignments and progress.\n• Communicate with development management and customer service to report progress.\n• Recommend improvements to existing architecture, features and design\n \nQualifications\n\n\n• 7+ years of commercial software engineering experience\n• 5+ years PHP development (with some HTML & CSS)\n• 4+ years working with Laravel\n• 4+ years working with React and/or Angular\n• Experience with Continuous Integration and DevOps\n• Strong secure coding practices\n• Experience with Git\n• Solid knowledge of design patterns\n• Advanced level proficiency of the LAMP/LEMP Stack (PHP/Apache or Nginx/MySQL/Linux)\n• Advanced level proficiency of building REST APIs\n \nBonus\nC#, MSSQL, Jira, AWS\n\nYou will\n\n\n* Build services using TDD practice\n\n* Work within a Scrum team of fun and talented people\n\n* Design and implement systems\n\n* Run tests, find issues, escalate, discuss solutions\n\n* Work in a highly scalable cloud computing environment with the difficulties scalability brings\n\n* Build a platform and an ecosystem of services that will in turn make for a great UX for pet parents and clinics!\n\n* Build, deploy and maintain your own work\n\n* Learn anything you feel like that's necessary for the job, however challenging, however you like it\n\n* Be part of an exciting adventure\n\n\n\n\nHow to know if you are a good fit?\n\nYou will have to:\n\n\n* Have empathy;\n\n* Understanding the position of others is critical. It is necessary to navigate through communication, mitigation and the culture\n\n* Be independent;\n\n* Yet know when to raise a point or ask for a clarification or escalate a potential issue\n\n* Communicate;\n\n* Speak your mind and expect others to. Engage in respectful and mindful conflict. Quality > quantity.\n\n* Know your stuff and know what you don't know;\n\n* No one is perfect but everyone can learn. Be humble enough to know your weaknesses. Be open minded and hard working enough to be able to fix them.\n\n* Take constructive critics;\n\n* Ask yourself "how to know if I'm wrong?". You may not, but not challenging your thinking is unhealthy. We challenge each other a lot @Scratchpay.\n\n\n\n\nOur culture\n\nWe care about the human aspect of work and we expect others to. Excellence is also an important keyword @ Scratchpay. While everyone makes mistakes, we learn from them. We are conscious about efficiency and effectiveness in the positive way. We don't do things that bring low-to-no value short or long term. We also do hard things that bring a lot of value. Quality, attention to detail and respect are some of the traits you must have and expect others to have.\n\n\nThe good\n\n\n\n* We are a team of dedicated, hard working, friendly individuals\n\n* We move fast, sometimes break things with measure, we give a second chance\n\n* We give constructive feedback, we challenge each other\n\n* We are open-minded and we care for each other\n\n* Everyone is striving towards excellence. Mediocrity isn't our cup of tea. But we always work hard to help those that are willing to get there!\n\n\n\n\nThe bad\n\n\n\n* Everything goes fast and the ultimate goal is to move the business fast. There can be disconnects in the communication at times. We all need to navigate through this and push whenever it is critical to do so.\n\n* We are open-minded but things need to be moving forward.\n\n* We say what we have to. So expect to hear some unpleasant - but true - things sometimes. Don't hesitate to argue back - with respect - if you disagree.\n\n* Like any startup, It can be a mess some days. You also will likely have to do things that aren't in your scope sometimes. Part of the fun, right? ;)\n\n\n\n\nThe most important is: We are always looking at improving. All the time, step by step. If you feel mediocre and don't see a path to improvement or can't listen to others' voice to, please do not apply. \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to JavaScript, PHP, Laravel, LAMP, Full Stack, Web Developer, Developer, SQL, Digital Nomad, React, Finance, Cloud, HTML, Mobile and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n $60,000 — $120,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n