\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

We are hiring a **Lead Engineer** for our Shop team. \n\nLead technical decisions not people, ensuring we build a beautifully engineered product that people love. **Full remote role, EU Based, up to €100k** depending on your experience and location.\n\n#### You will be an expert in building products in React.js, and happy to work on a PHP & AWS stack. You are great at making decisions around architecture, scalability and product. \n\n* You are responsible for the technical side of our shop solutions - drive the architecture and technical evolution of it. \n* You mentor junior team members to achieve technical excellence (you spread your technical knowledge, but do not manage the people).\n* You act as a counterpart for product managers to ensure selected features and product improvements are feasible to implement. \n* You are responsible for the operating of the product in production, own monitoring, know and handle all performance bottlenecks.\n\nIn particular, you develop our new shop based on React.js, own our older solution written in PHP, define the refactoring roadmaps of older solution to bring it into the new React.js stack. Together with other Lead engineers you will contribute to our engineering vision and define the tech strategy.\n\n**We want to ensure we build the best e-commerce solution in the photography market.** [The GotPhoto SaaS platform](https://www.gotphoto.com/) helps school photographers streamline their workflow and ensure that they can easily manage large photo shoots and print amazing products their customers want. Our culture is one of a positive business model, with the mindset “we create winners”. Photographers, parents, schools and labs are better off when using our software. \n\n**Your mission, make an amazing product through making better technical decisions.** You will be key in developing and implementing great modern engineering practices with the team, delivering well-written, tested and factored code, shipping to production at high frequency. You will be supported by great managers, work with a caring team and be given the autonomy you need to grow.\n \n\nPlease mention the words **BLUSH VINTAGE TUITION** when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMjE2LjczLjIxNi4xODg=). 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 $80,000 — $110,000/year\n \n\n#Location\nthe European Union

**We are hiring a tech lead for our Shop team.** You will be an expert in building fullstack products and lead technical decisions for products ensuring we build a beautifully engineered product that people love. You are great at making decisions around architecture, scalability and product. You love to help your whole team deliver quality code and create a caring collaborative environment that gives all the engineers around you the tools they need to become excellent software developers.\n\n### TL;DR\n* MicroFront Ends, A/B testing, Management of Rewrite Project, Data Driven decision making\n* PHP 7, React, Typescript, REST or GraphQL, MySQL, AWS, Docker, Terraform, GitLab\n* Remote First, collaborative customer focused team that deploy code everyday\n* € 80- 90k per year (depending on location and experience)\n\nAt the end of the day we want to ensure we build the best e-commerce solution in the photography market. The GotPhoto SaaS platform helps school photographers streamline their workflow and ensure that they can easily manage large photo shoots and print amazing products their customers want. GotPhoto is a profitable startup that has been around since 2010. Our culture is one of a positive business model, with the mindset “we create winners”. Photographers, parents, schools and labs are better off when using our software. \n\n*Your primary goal is making an amazing product through making better technical decisions.*You will be key in developing and implementing great modern engineering practices with the team, delivering well-written, tested and factored code, shipping to production at high frequency.\n\n### You can expect to do things like\n* Take requirements from product managers and make sure they are easy to implement.\n* Help the teams make design decisions that enable good software architecture, limit technical debt and allow fast feature delivery.\n* Manage the commitments and delivery of the team, communicate details about delivery with management and the product manager. You protect against scope creep and timeline slippage.\n* Rewrite project lifting shop PHO codebase into new JS stack\n* Collaborate with other teams and tech leads to define department wide tech guidelines and standards. \n* Data driven decision making (iterate with A/B Tests)\n* Making sure that we release quality\n* Making sure that code quality of the staff is up to scratch\n* Taking a long term view on code maintainability\n* Cultivate a learning environment, coaching team members on how to develop excellent software.\n\n\n### Our stack\n\nWe take a pragmatic approach to building products and systems that work for our customers. Our core application is a modular CakePHP monolith - not as monolithic as you may have seen before. As we have scaled in terms of features and functionality we have built microservices in PHP, NodeJS, Python and React.\n\nWe use AWS-Cloud using MySQL, Docker, SQS, SNS, SES, PhpUnit, NewRelic, Graylog. QA has a Cypress Stack for end-to-end testing. In the Platform team we make use of Amazon Lambda for image processing to keep the scale very flexible. Payments are handled and abstracted by the finance team in their own distributed service. \n\nSince our business has complex use cases, we keep the cognitive load for our Devs as low as possible so they focus on solving problems rather than configuring tech. [Read more about our tech here.](https://career.gotphoto.com/the-tech-product-team/our-technology/) \n\n### Our Team\n\nWe are a team of 12 Engineers (on our way to 20 by the end of the year). Most of our team is based in Berlin but this role is a fully remote position based in Europe, ideally you are within a 2 hour time difference of Berlin because we want you to have a good balance with work and your personal life.\n\nYou will work with Product, QA, Engineers and report to our head of engineering. If you want to learn more about the team, [give our team page a read.](https://career.gotphoto.com/the-tech-product-team/) \n\nIf you enjoy going to an office then we would love to help you relocate to Berlin, just ask our recruiting team about it when you speak to them.\nWe follow Agile development and have synchronous and asynchronous communication. We love to collaborate, you will find us regularly sharing tips and tricks during our brown bag lunches, organising hackathons and pair coding to solve our most complex problems.\n\n### Benefits and Perks\n\n* Be part of an international team with an established brand in Europe and strong growth in the USA\n* Choose your own equipment: laptop & operating system\n* Flexible working hours: we have synchronous and asynchronous communication\n* Learning budget of 500€ annually and more for training, conferences and coaching\n* Continuous development: we help you to grow through structured process and feedback provided by our Head of Engineering and your peers.\n* Monthly lunch money after successfully completing the probationary period\n* We have regular team events, knowledge sharing and team holidays\n\n### About You\n\nYou are a technical expert who doesn’t want to manage people but manage technical decisions. You understand how to structure large scale code basis and can handle the refactoring and rewriting of large software systems. You can work with product managers and ensure you and your team can deliver things in a timely manner. You are great at choosing the right technologies, and thinking about bottlenecks in the software architecture (e.g. concurrency issues)\n\nYou care about the product you build, the code you write and helping the team around you grow.\n\n### About Us\n\nfotograf.de/GotPhoto is the market-leading workflow and sales solution for professional photographers in Europe and has a strong footprint in the US market. \n\nWe move the world of kindergarten and school - and nursery photography from analog to digital, making the life of our photographer clients easier and their business more successful. We are reviving an industry in which changes are long overdue.\n\nToday we have built a profitable business and, together with our international brand GotPhoto, we are one of the world’s most important players in school and kindergarten photography.\nWhy work with us? [Know more](https://www.fotograf.de/jobs/) \nCheck us out on [Glassdoor ](https://www.glassdoor.com/Overview/Working-at-Fotografen-Online-Service-EI_IE1193675.11,36.htm) \nConnect with us on [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/fde-gotphoto) \n\n/- We are trying our best to be an Equal Opportunity Employer -/\n\n/If you aren’t completely confident that you fit our exact criteria, please reach out anyway: we’re at least as interested in your character as in your talents!/\n \n\nPlease mention the words **FICTION LIMIT OUTER** when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMjE2LjczLjIxNi4xODg=). 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 $80,000 — $100,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n ⏰ Async\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n
\n\n#Location\nEurope

\nOUR MISSION In today’s world we experience a global shift to offline experiences over products. Following this trend, bookingkit is set to digitise and develop tours&activities industry in Europe. Our API partners include connections to top-tier providers such as Google, GetYourGuide and TripAdvisor. Due to our market position we have the possibility to set and influence industry standards and are actively engaged in committees steering this development.\n\nWe are actively looking for a new Senior Software Engineer (m/f/d) to join our team as soon as possible. You will have the chance to not only work on a SaaS system, but also shape the eCommerce experience of thousands of our customers and thus millions of consumers. Your work will have a direct impact on the future success of our product.\n\nIN A NUTSHELL\n\nLevel - \n\nOur Tech Stack - PHP (Yii1, Laravel), Golang, JavaScript (jQuery, Vue.js), MySQL, Redis, git, Gitlab, AWS , PHPUnit, Cypress. io\n\nYour future gear - Mac or Windows laptop (private use allowed)\n\nRemote option - Work from wherever you are in Germany, while enjoying quarterly team events with all bookingkids in Berlin\n\nPerks - Flexible work time, pet friendly office, breakfast, snacks & fruits 24/7, Company BBQs, Team events, Sport leagues, relocation support… and more!\n\n\nTasks\n\n\nMORE ABOUT YOUR DAY-TO-DAY\n\nYour role\n\n\n* As a Software Engineer (mainly PHP and Golang) you are reporting directly to our Head of Product.\n\n* You are part of the Engineering team at bookingkit and will be working closely together with product managers and UX designers to conceptualize and build innovative and scalable software for our customers.\n\n* You will build scalable services in Golang, as well as improve existing systems in PHP (Laravel and Yii).\n\n* Based on your experience, your knowledge in DevOps processes, AWS environments, ReactJS/VueJS or ReactNative will come in handy.\n\n\n\n\nYour mission\n\n\n* bookingkit is building the leading infrastructure for tours & activities in Europe. Thus, at our core we are a B2B2C company, driven by SaaS and APIs. You will have the chance to not only work on a SaaS system, but also the eCommerce experience of thousands of our customers and thus millions of consumers.\n\n* Our API partners include connections to top-tier providers such as Google, GetYourGuide and TripAdvisor. Due to our market position we have the possibility to set and influence industry standards and are actively engaged in committees steering this development. We are in the unique position to be the market leader for infrastructure technology and now need to develop our platform in that direction as well.\n\n* Your role is to be part of the change from a mostly monolithic PHP driven structure to a (micro-)service driven structure using state of the art technology, like Golang.\n\n* In order to succeed on that mission we are recruiting top tier engineers to support us on our path.\n\n\n\n\nYour tasks\n\n\n* Build and launch scalable, production-ready software.\n\n* Collaborate with product managers & UX designers during product exploration to give context on feasibility.\n\n* Contribute to the product, software architecture, infrastructure, tech stack, as well as the user experience.\n\n* Share your knowledge and experience with other engineers.\n\n\n\n\n\nRequirements\n\n\n\n* Working experience of at least 4 years.\n\n* You are experienced in Golang and PHP and frameworks like Laravel or Yii.\n\n* You have worked with RESTful APIs and have a sound understanding of MySQL.\n\n* You strive for high code quality, are no stranger to design patterns and love to write automated tests.\n\n* You are fluent in English and communicate with internal and external stakeholders on a high level.\n\n\n\n\nNICE-TO-HAVES\n\n\n* Experience with AWS/DevOps would definitely be a plus.\n\n* Knowledge of frontend technologies would also be beneficial.\n\n\n\n\n\nBenefits\n\n\nWe invest in your future: We care about individualized personal and professional development. After 6 months, we provide you with a development budget of up to 1000 € plus an extra day off for training and development purposes. Frequent feedback and coaching sessions with your Team Lead help you to achieve your career goals.\n\nWe live our values: Flat hierarchies and #transparency are no empty promises! Share your ideas and #bookingkidness with us and contribute to our #growth. We #trust you to do a great job at your own pace: flexible working hours and home office prove it.\n\nWe believe in work-life-balance: You will work with the best in the industry - 70 great colleagues from +10 nations are waiting for you to join us. We love to share our knowledge in bookingkit university, but of course there is always time for fun team events- our monthly Barbecues are legendary!\n\n\n\nPlease state your earliest starting date and salary expectation when applying. We are looking forward to hearing from you! \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Senior, Engineer, Developer, Digital Nomad, DevOps, English, JavaScript, Laravel, PHP, API, SaaS, Golang and Ecommerce 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