\nWe are hiring a PHP Staff Engineer to focus on backend application work and technical leadership while contributing to DevOps, data, and frontend work as necessary. We’re a small team, so the blend will depend on the individual and the project.\n\n\nIdeal candidates will have an incredibly strong Web SaaS background, a decade or two of Web-based professional history, and a deep comfort with PHP. You are consistently assessing whether technical choices are adding or removing system complexity. You enjoy enabling your teammates to do their best work with clear & appropriate feedback, tailored guidance, and thoughtful workload sharing. You are deeply critical of which technical choices and work will have the most meaningful impact on our goals.\n\n\nThis role offers 160K/yr and participation in our ESOP (Employee Stock Option Program) with a 4-year vesting schedule. If you start by 1 April, you’ll be eligible for the company-wide annual 1 July pay raise. If you’re interested in the role but have questions or feedback, please email the hiring manager. No one’s resume will get buried for being critical, it’s kinda the point of the job.\n\n\nWe will accept applications through Friday, 21 February and begin the email screening process as soon as possible. Initial interviews will ideally be scheduled for 24-27 February, and second interviews the week of 10 March. There are two 90-minute interviews (hiring manager + panel) and we request 3 professional references (but let's talk anyway if you have circumstances that make that impossible). We are filling this role ASAP, preferably no later than 1 April. Please note availability concerns in your application! We can be flexible and are happy to accommodate whenever we can. \n\n\nAbout uConnect \n\n\nuConnect is on a mission to help more people realize their potential by improving access to career services for all people - early in their lives and throughout their careers. Focused on the traditional higher education market, uConnect's All-In-One Virtual Career Center is used by a wide range of institutions including UCLA, MIT, and Baton Rouge Community College to radically improve utilization of career services, career readiness and student outcomes.  We're a mission-driven team working in a fun and collaborative culture which puts people first. uConnect is backed by leading technology investors including Growth Street Partners, Strada Education and LearnLaunch.\n\n\n\nCore responsibilities\n* Collaboratively plan, document, and execute complex web application programming tasks. This is foremost an individual contributor role responsible for shipping.\n* Adhere to team coding standards and architectural principles.\n* Demonstrate advanced knowledge of one or more relevant programming languages in day-to-day use.\n* Demonstrate best practices in submitted code.\n* Make informed decisions about what qualifies as in- and out-of-scope for current tasks and communicate those decisions succinctly and thoroughly.\n* Raise concerns, questions, and ambiguities for team discussion; lead consensus-building.\n* Identify risks in current code, environment, and/or process; recommend alternatives.\n* Add automated low-level tests to code as appropriate.\n* Troubleshoot existing code for defects, performance issues, or other unwanted behavior.\n* Take ownership of overall application code base and be accountable for its long-term health, performance, and alignment with team goals.\n* Take on independent investigations or maintenance projects to enable the rest of the team.\n* Take a leadership role in overall technical decisions and direction.\n* Work cross-functionally with Product, Customer Success, and other stakeholders to identify the best outcomes possible given our goals and constraints.\n\n\n\nSecondary responsibilities\n* Assist with support and bug triage.\n* Assist with CI/CD pipeline as necessary.\n* Assist with E2E tests as necessary.\n* Improve application observability with logging and automated alerting.\n* Explain technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.\n* Guide and mentor other engineers of all levels with their professional growth and learning.\n* Assist with hiring engineers as requested.\n* Investigate new technologies for applicability to current and future engineering challenges.\n* Monitor the broader technology ecosystem for significant changes and brief team.\n* Respond to priority support incidents during off-hours in rare business-critical situations.\n\n\n\nWhat will a typical day look like?\n* Attend daily engineering standup (Mon-Thu). What’s blocking you, and how can you help your teammates? Sometimes we also do work refinement during this time.\n* Meet with stakeholders and peers to understand and prioritize needs.\n* Programming new product features, upgrading existing functionality, and updating dependencies and pipelines.\n* Performing code review async via pull request or synchronously via Zoom.\n* Validating application functionality through the use of both automated and manual testing.\n* Pairing with another engineer to trade experience or collaborate on a particular challenge. (We encourage pairing as needed and it shouldn’t be “never” but there’s no mandate.)\n* Researching tools, patterns and practices relevant to current or future work.\n* Writing internal documentation about technical choices, runbooks, or team practices.\n* Working with your manager to discuss and implement guidance or technical coaching plans for other engineers.\n* On Fridays (or an equivalent amount of time elsewhere in the week at your discretion), you’re encouraged to pursue team-agreed work that isn’t explicitly toward the product roadmap, like tool upgrades or technical research. We are purposefully targeting 20% of capacity toward maintenance work.\n\n\n\nCore skills & experiences (You check most of these boxes)\n* Building and maintaining Web SaaS products for at least 5 years (12+ is ideal).\n* Advanced programming experience in a Web server context, PHP strongly preferred.\n* Programming experience in JavaScript and HTML/CSS.\n* Advanced SQL query authoring and relational database design constraints.\n* Working remotely with a cross-functional team & collaborating with other engineers.\n* Task refinement & scoping, self-organization, and prioritization.\n* Team-based communication (asking for what they need and conveying challenges and timelines proactively), active listening, and consensus building.\n* Giving and receiving constructive and well-communicated code review feedback.\n* Experience with one or more web application frameworks, especially event-based (as in WordPress, not Kafka).\n* Troubleshooting DNS and web request / server response structures.\n* Validating code using test automation (unit or functional/integration).\n* Controlling major sources of application complexity and managing dependencies thoughtfully.\n\n\n\nAccretive skills (We hope you check a few of these boxes)\n* Using, designing, documenting, and building REST APIs.\n* Experience with WordPress (or similar).\n* Experience using caching layers to improve web application performance.\n* Building & improving CI pipelines (we use BitBucket).\n* Evaluating application-level security and remediation of flaws.\n* Evaluating & implementing accessibility requirements.\n* Experience with data pipelines, feed processing, and/or data migrations.\n* Working with Python (used in our data pipeline), data warehouses, and/or data visualization (We use GCP / BigQuery / Looker).\n* Iterative self-directed learning is second nature to you.\n* You’ve read resources or books like Will Larson’s Staff Engineer and are thoughtful about the strategic role of the Staff Engineer in an organization.\n\n\n\nWhy take this role?\n* High impact, high efficiency, sustainable efforts, & minimal politics. Our entire company culture is oriented to winning together, not individual interests.\n* Truly flexible work schedule with consistent effort to minimize meetings and prioritize individual needs. Unlimited PTO, 15 holidays, plus a mostly-shutdown entire final week of the year.\n* Commitment to a healthy engineering culture with a focus on great documentation, team-based work refinement, and clear acceptance criteria. We’re not done improving how we work.\n* We’re not just “committed to diversity”, we have a diverse & inclusive team and continue to iterate on policies that support it.\n* You're aligned with our mission of improving access to career services & employment outcomes for higher education students by supporting their individual needs.\n* Your 5-year plan could involve deepening your technical skills and focusing on impact as a special project “solver”, becoming the technical lead of a second product team as it forms, or transitioning into an engineering management role. (It likely does not involve becoming an overall project “architect” as that is our principal’s primary role.)\n\n\n\nCompensation package\n* $160,000 annual salary (with annual raise 1 July).\n* 4-year vesting stock options\n* Unlimited PTO (you must use at least 3 weeks; 4-6 is normal)\n* Health insurance (Gold PPO) premium 100% covered for employee & 60% for dependents (Dental 75% for employee & 50% for dependents; Vision 75% for employee)\n* 4% 401K contribution (3% full match + 2% half match)\n* $600 annual home office stipend\n* 12 weeks parental leave (after 1 year)\n* Guaranteed remote work policy (there’s no office)\n\n\n\nHiring process\n* Screening over email (call optional)\n* 90-minute alignment interview (Zoom video)\n* 90-minute functional area interview (Zoom video)\n* Pre-offer stage: (1) 60-minute Meet & Greet with CEO (Zoom video), (2) 3 references (preferably all who worked directly with you for 6 months or more; 1 senior to you in your team or reporting chain)\n* Background check (we do not automatically disqualify applicants for non-violent criminal convictions)\n\n\n\nAbout the team\n* We are fully remote, but require employees reside in the continental US or Canada due to time zones & compliance overhead.\n* We employ 7 full-time engineers (Manager, 4 Application, 1 Data, 1 QA Automation) that lean senior (2 staff-level, 3 senior-level, 2 mid-level, 0 entry — yes, that’s the scale). There is 1 product manager (with plans to grow).\n* No engineers have left the company in 3 years. Our principal engineer has been with the company 12 years. \n* We use a Kanban workflow in Jira (“kanban-like” if we’re being pedantic) with clear acceptance criteria and Gherkin for testing criteria.\n* In 2024, half our tickets were in support of our strategic roadmap, 20% were maintenance work, and the rest were requests (support escalations and other non-roadmap work).\n* We primarily build in a WordPress-based monolith with a few ancillary AWS services.\n* We have managed hosting, so there is no on-call rotation, but as a staff engineer you will be on the short-list of emergency technical contacts. (We had zero emergencies in 2024.)\n* Two years ago, we had zero automated tests. Today, we have more than 500 (300 of which are E2E) and will aggressively increase that number this year, focusing on PHP integration tests in a specific section of the product.\n* We’re publishing our interview plan, onboarding impact plan, and performance review criteria for this role. Our small team works best by being engaged, taking ownership, and exercising critical thinking every day. This role is critical to continuing and expanding that strategy, so consider coming to your interviews with good questions.\n* West coasters beware: Standup is 10:30am ET (Mon-Thu; we don’t have standing meetings on Fridays). It is our team’s only standing meeting (besides 1:1s with your manager and monthly All Hands).\n\n\n\nWhat will your 90-day onboard look like?\n* Weeks 1: Meet people, read docs, complete training, set up your localhost, ask questions. We’re not a “commit code on day 1” shop; relax & adapt. Check in with your manager daily.\n* Weeks 2-4: Dig into team’s current problem set and how you can start contributing now, while also learning medium- and long-term goals to start aligning decisions with them. Join the team’s workflow and complete prioritized work. Check in with your manager a few times a week.\n* Months 2-3: Take work that aligns with your learning goals to quickly expand your exposure to various parts of the product and stack. Make strong contributions, but more biased toward learning than highest priority, tapering back toward priority-based work toward the end of 90-days at the pace that makes sense. Choose a longer-term 1:1 pace.\n\n\n\n\n\n$160,000 - $160,000 a year\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Design, SaaS, Wordpress, Python, Testing, JavaScript, Education, PHP, Senior, Engineer and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n $50,000 — $100,000/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
\n\n#Location\nCambridge, MA or Remote

\nOUR MISSION\n\n\nAt Torch, we believe in the power of people. People are the heart of every success story. They collaborate to achieve ambitious things together. And they inspire others to build a better future. \n\n\nThat’s why our mission at Torch is to unlock the potential of people, teams, and organizations. We believe that trusted relationships are the key to helping people realize their full potential. When people experience transformational growth in the context of a trusted relationship, they achieve more, their teams excel, and their organizations thrive.\n\n\nBy combining a community of expert coaches, scalable technology, and the latest behavioral science, Torch helps our customers develop their people, create stronger leaders and managers, and drive business performance. \n\n\nBacked by top-tier investors, Torch is a fast-growing, mission-driven SaaS startup comprised of people who are passionate about helping leaders, their teams, and their organizations achieve more. If that sounds worthwhile to you, join us. Torch is a remote and distributed team with an office in San Francisco. The rest of the team is scattered around the U.S.\n\n\nOUR VALUES\n\n\nAll Torch employees are expected to reflect and enhance our company values, GROWS:\n\n\nGo Deep\nWe study the science, learn from the best practitioners, and dig in with customers to solve their unique needs.\n\n\nRelationships Matter\nWe lean into relationships with empathy to create more meaningful connections and more meaningful impact.\n\n\nOwn It\nWe take responsibility for our commitments, our contributions, our results and for the success of those around us.\n\n\nWin Together\nWe believe that happiness and fulfillment at work comes from shared success and value.\n\n\nSprint Forward\nWe prioritize, sprint, learn, adjust, and then sprint again.\n\n\nABOUT THE ROLE\nAt Torch, we are looking for a talented Engineering Manager who has experience developing web systems from the ground up and is passionate about doing work that matters. \n\n\nThe Engineering Manager works alongside technology and product leadership to ship a high quality, engaging digital coaching platform using  technologies and engineering processes.  This role is crucial in continuing to build and sustain a world class engineering culture - one which provides team members open and supportive leadership and a clear path for growth both personally and as a group.\n\n\nThis role requires a leader who can inspire and mentor a team of talented engineers, fostering a culture of innovation, precision, and collaboration. The ideal candidate will bring both technical expertise and strategic insight, driving the team to deliver results that align with Torch's overarching goals of growth and customer satisfaction. \n\n\nPlease note we are only accepting US based applicants at this time.\n\n\n\nYOUR POSITION\n* Collaborate with product teams to design and build creative solutions, enabling personal growth for our clients while empowering our coaches.\n* Guide discussions of architecture, technical debt, and long-term technical strategy.\n* Lead and mentor a team of onsite and offshore engineers, by establishing and maintaining high technical and professional standards.\n* Help to create scalable, high-performance web applications consumable on various device form factors.\n* Develop and implement strategic plans for frontend technology, in alignment with the company's overall goals.\n* Establish and maintain design systems and component libraries to promote consistency and efficiency across applications.\n* Collaborate with UX/UI designers to implement responsive and intuitive interfaces that meet user needs and business objectives.\n* Uphold high standards in code quality and system reliability through peer code reviews and advocating for best practices in software development.\n* Provide focus and direction by driving execution on some of our highest priority projects.\n* Willingness to be hands on and support your team whenever necessary whether coding, debugging, or testing new product features.\n\n\n\nYOUR EXPERIENCE - Basic Requirements\n* 10+ years of software engineering experience, plus a degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or other STEM area.\n* 3+ years leading an agile software development team.\n* 5+ years experience developing complex front-end applications using modern frameworks such as React, Angular, or Vue.js.\n* Experience integrating and leveraging LLMs to enhance product functionality and user experiences, including natural language processing, recommendation systems, or other AI-driven functionalities.\n* Experience in responsive design and cross-browser compatibility issues, ensuring consistent user experiences across different devices and browsers.\n* Experience with component-driven development and proficiency in tools like Storybook for building and maintaining design systems.\n* Skilled in building and utilizing RESTful and GraphQL web services.\n* Proficiency with Git and cloud technologies in AWS.\n* Comprehensive understanding of various testing methodologies, ensuring thorough coverage and high-quality user experiences.\n* Understanding of distributed application design patterns and asynchronous programming models.\n* Familiar with both relational and non-relational databases.\n* Knowledge of security best practices and adherence to data protection regulations.\n\n\n\nINTERVIEW PROCESS - consists of the following\n* Technical Interview with the CTO (45 minutes) and a Principal Engineer (45 minutes).\n* Interview with an Engineering Team member (45 minutes) focusing on experience working with cross-functional teams, integration of product development processes, and managing engineering teams.\n* Design/Coding Session (60 minutes) to assess problem-solving skills and technical proficiency.\n\n\n* Leadership/Cultural Fit Interview with the CEO (45 minutes).\n\n\n\nBENEFITS\n* Health Insurance (medical, dental, and vision)\n* Unlimited PTO\n* 401k Retirement Plan\n* Life & Disability Insurance\n* Paid Parental Leave\n* Torch Coaching\n* UP Days\n* Remote Workstation Stipend\n\n\n\n\n\n$160,000 - $200,000 a year\n\nTorch ensures equal employment opportunity without discrimination or harassment based on race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, national origin, marital or domestic/civil partnership status, genetic information, citizenship status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Design, SaaS, GraphQL, Cloud, Git and Engineer jobs that are similar:\n\n $45,000 — $87,500/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
\n\n#Location\nRemote

\nAbout us:\n“Companies access the capital markets to raise money that will ultimately drive expansion, innovation, and employment growth, which is why we have built an integrated capital markets platform that will optimize the deal flow process for all market participants.” Greg Ingram, CMG CEO and Co-Founder. \n\n\nCapital Markets Gateway (CMG) is a financial technology firm that is modernizing the equity capital markets (ECM). CMG connects investors and underwriters via a neutral platform that delivers integrated ECM data and analytics, transparency, and workflow efficiencies. Providing a digital system of record for firm-wide deal activity, CMG helps clients make more timely, better-informed decisions. Launched in 2017 by a team of ECM practitioners, the CMG platform is currently relied upon by nearly 100 buy side firms representing $20 trillion in AUM and 15 investment banks. \n\n\nCMG’s goal is to alleviate pain points resulting from disparate solutions, fragmented data, and frenzied communication. CMG’s DataLab product solves for data analytics, while CMG’s XC platform establishes connectivity between buy- and sell-side firms. \n \nAbout the team:\nThe CMG engineering team consists of domain experts who work collaboratively within a culture of cross-domain knowledge sharing. We value engineers who are passionate about modern technologies and best practices. \n\n\nOur engineers are willing to challenge the status quo and are constantly seeking improvement and efficiency in our code base and platform. CMG engineers are empowered to explore solutions and bring recommendations to the table. We’re in a period of making impactful engineering decisions. As part of our process, we believe in taking the time for research and prototyping - this is critical in making the right decisions. \n\n\nGiven the experience of our team, we have naturally adopted best practices from local development, through code review and into production rollouts. Besides the standard pull requests, test automation, code coverage tracking, containerization, and one-click deployments we are constantly reviewing these foundational components to develop new best practices. \n \nThe role:\nCMG is searching for a highly skilled and experienced front-end engineer. You will work alongside other talented engineers in defining and executing a short-term and long-term vision for front-end development. Your output will have a significant impact on both CMG’s core product and the day-to-day of CMG’s frontend development team. We’re proud of what we’ve built -- we’re looking for a passionate individual who can help us take it to the next level. \n\n\n\nWhat you will be responsible for:\n* Ownership over core front-end architecture (shared with other front-end leads)  \n* Delivering high-value, high-complexity product features \n* Training engineers, driving consistency, and creating re-usable patterns \n* Enhancing the developer experience \n* Proactively identifying areas of improvement and acting on them \n\n\n\nAreas you may contribute to in your first six months:\n* Feature delivery on one of CMG’s SaaS web apps \n* Monorepo tooling \n* Module federation \n* DataGrid architecture \n* GraphQL strategy \n* Component testing architecture \n* Visual regression testing \n* AI incubation \n\n\n\nYour experience:\n* 10+ years in software engineering  \n* 5+ years building UIs (with advanced React experience) \n* 5+ years building backend services (day-to-day at CMG will not entail backend development, but this role requires a deep understanding of full stack architecture)\n\n\nModern JavaScript \n* TypeScript \n* Build tooling (i.e. Nx, Webpack, Turbo, Create React App, Module Federation) \n* State management (i.e. Redux, XState, Jotai, MobX, Apollo Reactive) \n* Node.js \n\n\nModern Testing \n* Unit (i.e. jest) \n* Component (i.e. React Testing Library, Storybook, Playwright) \n* End to end (i.e. Playwright, TestCafe, Cypress) \n\n\nModern DevOps \n* Containerized development and deployment \n* Configuration of and use of CI \n* Adhering to and advocating for CD principles \n\n\nModern CSS (i.e. css-in-js, styled-components)  \nModern API (i.e. GraphQL, React Query, Apollo, OpenAPI) \n\nNice to have:\n* Mobile app development (i.e., React Native, iOS, Android)  \n* Data visualizations (i.e., d3, Highcharts, Chart.js)\n* C# .NET (our microservice stack) \n* CI, CD, Docker, and modern DevOps \n* Feature flagging strategy/tooling \n* Prior experience working in FinTech \n\n\n\nOur values:\n* We innovate with purpose\n* We focus on outcomes vs. output\n* We believe diverse and inclusive teams fuel innovation\n* We are humble yet candid\n* We do right by the customer\n\n\n\nWhat we offer\n* Equity: Own a part of what you create and feel invested in what you're building\n* Healthcare: Medical, Dental & Vision \n* 401K Company Match \n* Life Insurance \n* Flexible Spending & Health Savings Account \n* Unlimited PTO \n* Remote Working Environment \n* Interactive Training Programs \n* STD & LTD \n* Education Reimbursement Program \n* Employee Referral Bonus \n* Paid time off for volunteering in our communities \n* Charitable giving programs chosen by our customers \n* Health and Wellness Programs \n\n\n\n\n$175,000 - $200,000 a year\n\n\nCompensation Information:\nThe estimated salary range for this role is $175,000 - $200,000. The successful candidate’s salary will be determined by non-discriminatory factors such as skills and experience. Additionally, this role is eligible to participate in our benefits program including health, dental, vision, 401K, paid time off, and our equity plan.  \n  \nThis employer participates in E-Verify and will provide the federal government with your Form 1-9 information to confirm you are authorized to work in the US. \n  \nCMG embraces our ongoing commitment to building a culture reflecting the people, perspectives, and passions it represents. We will accept nothing less than equity, inclusion, and belonging for all. With the only constant in life being change, we will always listen, learn, and improve for the betterment of our teams, customers, and communities. CMG is proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer.  \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to SaaS, React, Testing, CSS, API, Engineer and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n $65,000 — $115,000/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
\n\n#Location\nUnited States (Remote)