Remote Developer + Digital Nomad + Full Stack + LAMP + Laravel Jobs

\nAscent Funding is an award-winning, rapidly growing private FinTech company that is on a mission to revolutionize the way people pay for college. We're looking for a Full Stack Software Engineer to join our team in the heart of downtown San Diego, CA (well, virtually during COVID) to lead key application and platform development initiatives that deliver our innovation to the market.\nWhat You Will Be Doing:\nThe Full Stack Software Engineer will play an important role in the ongoing development, enhancement, and deployment of our internal loan origination software system, as well as contributing to the planning and development of any new software systems developed by the company. They must have an excellent understanding of LAMP stack technologies, GIT version control, as well as AWS experience. They should also be forward thinking and be able to adapt to an agile development environment.\nThe Engineer should be comfortable interfacing with peers from all departments within the company to gather application requirements. They must be able to interface with program owners and take high level business objectives and translate them into well-defined and architected software solutions.\nAdditionally, they must possess strong analytical skills with demonstrated problem-solving ability, as well as an understanding of Financial Services concepts. They must also have a proven ability to handle multiple priorities and possess a high level of discipline to work independently, while remaining flexible.\n In This Role, You Will:\n* Contribute to the ongoing development of our internal loan origination software system.\n* Contribute to the planning and development of any new company software systems.\n* Perform requirements analysis and technical design of solutions in collaboration with the marketing team.\n* Help maintain our cloud based architecture, focusing on reliability, security, and scalability.\n* Identify code, database, and infrastructure vulnerabilities/bottlenecks, and implement solutions.\n* Participate in peer code test and review.\n\n\nDesired Skills & Expertise:\n* Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or IT related field.\n* Previous experience in the Financial Services industry.\n* 4+ years as a LAMP stack developer with full life-cycle product development experience.\n* A solid understanding of CS fundamentals (data structures, algorithms, etc.).\n* Advanced experience with Object Oriented coding, as well as modern coding principles.\n* Extensive knowledge of web development, specifically with PHP/MySQL.\n* Extensive knowledge coding with Laravel MVC framework.\n* Firm understanding of event-driven and queue-centric design patterns.\n* Proficiency utilizing GIT version control in a team environment.\n* Proficiency with secure coding principles and design.\n* Proficiency with encryption theory and various encryption libraries.\n* Proficiency with front end coding including HTML, Javascript, CSS and responsive web design.\n* Experience with relational databases, schema design and optimization.\n* Experience connecting with and utilizing 3rd party APIs (REST, SOAP, XML).\n* Familiarity with agile development methodologies.\n* AWS experience, specifically with EC2, S3, Redis, RDS and CodeDeploy.\n* Proven ability to work successfully with limited supervision.\n\n\nQualities We Look For In Our Candidates:\n* Entrepreneurial drive to succeed and win, sense of urgency, and passion for the work.\n* Proven ability to think creatively and drive innovation in the market and within our company.\n* Willingness/ability to work late hours when faced with tight deadlines.\n* All-around good teammate who is cooperative, approachable, and dedicated to helping others succeed.\n\n\nCompetitive pay with bonus, and comprehensive benefits package that includes, but not limited to:\n* 401(k) + Company Match\n* Medical, dental, and vision coverage\n* Annual HSA contribution of $1,500\n* Life insurance, disability, and critical illness\n* Birthday Holiday\n* Unlimited snacks and drinks (when we are in the office)\n* Tuition reimbursement program\n* Generous paid leave policies including unlimited PTO\n* $2,000 Vacation Incentive Plan after 3 years + $1,000 Sabbatical day\n* Community, Wellness funds and more\n\n\nLearn more about our benefits by viewing our 2021 Employee Benefits Guide. \nThe Job Description is intended to be a general representation of the responsibilities and requirements of the job. However, the description may not be all-inclusive, and responsibilities and requirements are subject to change.\nEqual Employment Opportunity\nIt is the policy of the Company to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and employment applicants without regard to unlawful considerations of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, sensory, physical, or mental disability, marital status, veteran or military status, genetic information, or any other classification protected by applicable local, state, or federal laws. This policy applies to all aspects of employment, including, but not limited to, hiring, job assignment, compensation, promotion, benefits, training, discipline, and termination. Reasonable accommodation is available for qualified individuals with disabilities, upon request.\nThe Job Description is intended to be a general representation of the responsibilities and requirements of the job. However, the description may not be all-inclusive, and responsibilities and requirements are subject to change.\nEqual Employment Opportunity\nIt is the policy of the Company to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and employment applicants without regard to unlawful considerations of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, sensory, physical, or mental disability, marital status, veteran or military status, genetic information, or any other classification protected by applicable local, state, or federal laws. This policy applies to all aspects of employment, including, but not limited to, hiring, job assignment, compensation, promotion, benefits, training, discipline, and termination. Reasonable accommodation is available for qualified individuals with disabilities, upon request. \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Full Stack, Developer, Digital Nomad, Laravel, Cloud, CSS, Git, LAMP, Marketing and Engineer jobs that are similar:\n\n $70,000 — $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

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

\nWe are looking for a passionate, world-class Full Stack Developer to join our analytics team. You'll be part of our entrepreneurial development team, and you'll have the opportunity to help us grow stronger, by bringing high-level ideas to our platform that will scale and grow to millions of users worldwide.\n\nIn our current stack, we use Laravel, Elasticsearch, MySQL, Redis, Bootstrap 3.X & Javascript.\n\nWhat we're offering you\n\n- Ability to work 100% remote, enjoy working from the comfort of your own home. We’re hiring the best people regardless of where they live.\n- Flexible work schedule, work when you are the most productive and be with your family when they need you.\n\nYour responsibilities\n\n- You will contribute to developing our existing analytics microservice which provides insights into our users & other microservices data.\n- You will develop other data-driven projects including our product catalog.\n- You will refactor, optimize, and improve the existing codebase for scale\n- Create unit tests to grant that everything works as expected.\n\n\nSkills & Requirements\n\n- At least 5 years of proven experience as a back-end developer and 2 years as a front-end developer.\n- Strong experience with PHP 7.x and the Laravel framework\n- Strong experience with Elasticsearch.\n- Have experience working with message queues\n- Prefers the TDD approach to development.\n- Experience managing at least one Linux distribution (preferably Debian, Ubuntu, or alike), understand how to install, configure and manage a LAMP stack.\n- Familiar implementing and consuming RESTful APIs & good understanding of microservices architecture.\n- Understand fundamental design principles behind scalable applications \n- Experience in working with large datasets (>tens of GBs)\n- You have a highly analytical mind. You have a curiosity to analyze and interpret data.\n- Passion for performance debugging and benchmarking.\n- Self-directed, pragmatic, independent and with experience owning complete features/products: you can solve stuff on your own. \n- Code quality and unit tests mean something to you.\n- Ability to adapt to any technology, language, or development environment that we might need in the future.\n- Amazing ability to get stuff done. Hard working and dedicated\n- Fluent in English, both speaking and writing\n\n\nHow to apply\n\nEmail [email protected] your CV and provide answers to the following questions – if you don't, your application will not be considered\n\n- Q1) How many years of front-end development experience do you have? Please share the site you're the most proud of, that you have had a major contribution to.\n\n- Q2) How many years of back-end development experience do you have? Provide an example of a data-driven system/program you've built, including source code (GitHub links or tarballs are fine).\n\n\nWe have someone who will review your code and answers, and if it's good enough we'll contact you for a phone interview. \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Senior, Full Stack, Developer, Digital Nomad, Laravel, PHP, LAMP and Linux 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