\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

\nThe Position\n\nThe Quality Assurance Analyst contributes to all phases of Testing Lifecycle through the analysis, design, execution, and maintenance of software test suites. As a Quality Assurance Analyst, you will have the opportunity to work on a wide range of projects, ranging from new and existing front-end web-based (mobile and desktop) applications to back-end API testing. You will work closely with the Product Engineering, Product and Project Management teams to create test cases, execute test suites, and over time potentially create automated test cases for web and mobile applications.\n\nYour Responsibilities\n\n\n* Participation and/or review of documentation and/or test results in all QA test phases such as requirements validation, unit, integration, functional, and regression testing.\n\n* Create manual and potentially automated tests and execute tests for software and systems.\n\n* Execute test plans and scripts / cases that will determine optimal application performance according to specifications.\n\n* Participate and collaborate with software/systems personnel in application testing, such as system, unit, regression, load, and acceptance testing methods and activities.\n\n* Ensure that testing activities allow applications to meet business requirements and systems goals, fulfill end-user requirements, and identify existing or potential issues.\n\n* Communicate test progress, test results, and other relevant information to project stakeholders and team members.\n\n* Make recommendations for improvement of applications to programmers and software developers or engineers.\n\n* Analyze formal test results to discover and report any defects, bugs, errors, configuration issues, and interoperability flaws.\n\n* Prepare and / or Create AODA (Accessibility) reports at end of test cycles as required.\n\n* Assist with preparation of required QA artifacts including, but not limited to, master test strategy and plan, functional test plan, QA acceptance plan/sign off, defect tracking report.\n\n* Cultivate and disseminate knowledge of quality assurance best practices.\n\n* Participate in daily standups, sprint planning, and project retrospectives.\n\n* Contribute to innovation and cultivate a positive and supportive team.\n\n* Stay up to date with current best practices and emerging technologies.\n\n* Participate and contribute to company culture.\n\n\n\n\n \n\nAbout You\n\n\n* 1-3 years of experience in a Quality Assurance role\n\n* Experience with web/mobile application testing (browser compatibility, responsive testing, etc.)\n\n* Experienced in web/mobile application technologies such as HTML, CSS, Javascript etc.\n\n* Experience testing in Window OS, Mac OS, Mobile OS (Android, iOS), etc.\n\n* Good understanding of the quality assurance discipline, the defect lifecycle management processes, and the software commonly used for test planning and defect tracking (ideally Jira or another tool like Bugzilla, etc.)\n\n* Understanding of cloud computing architecture, services and platforms\n\n* Good knowledge of structured test methods and processes, and writing test cases and test scenarios\n\n* Experience in developing test plans, writing test scripts, developing use cases, governing quality standards, vetting and guiding requirements/acceptance criteria, and assisting business users through user acceptance test processes.\n\n* Experience and knowledge of software quality tools (ie. test case management, project planning, defect management)\n\n* Experience with testing APIs using tools such as Postman\n\n* Understanding of Software Development Life Cycle Methodology\n\n* Familiarity with concepts related to design principles, content, navigation, usability, behavioural analytics tagging, accessibility, SEO, localization/ multi-lingual and personalization considerations\n\n* Familiarity with DevOps principles, processes and tools (e.g. IaC, CI/CD and orchestration)\n\n* Experience with Test Automation (Nice to have)\n\n* Experienced in working in Agile environment (is ideal)\n\n* Sense of urgency and ability to work under tight timelines.\n\n* Ability to communicate ideas both technically and non-technically.\n\n* Clear, concise and articulate. Good written and oral communication skills with the ability to present to various levels of stakeholder.\n\n* Results oriented, critical thinker, good analytical and problem-solving skills\n\n* Good organizational and time-management skills\n\n* Highly collaborative and dynamic\n\n* A bachelor's degree in Engineering, computer science, information systems or a related field.\n\n* Ability to take ownership of tasks and projects assigned with minimal supervision\n\n* Proactive in raising potential risks/concerns\n\n\n\n\nWhy You’ll Love This Opportunity\n\nUltimately, if you are looking for a challenging role that will expand your skills and expose you to leading edge web technologies, this is the position for you. This is an amazing opportunity that allows you to have a fulfilling career in QA for the long term. \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Design, DevOps, JavaScript, Cloud, API and Mobile jobs that are similar:\n\n $60,000 — $105,000/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\nToronto, Ontario, Canada

Launched in 2013, ManoMano is the European leader specialised in DIY, home improvement and gardening online.  ManoMano brings together the largest offer of DIY & gardening online products. With more than 3600 seller partners and 10 million products, ManoMano brings together the largest offer across 6 countries : France, Belgium, Spain, Italy, Germany, United Kingdom. \n\nWe currently are 800 Manas & Manos, including a quarter of international talents and 24 nationalities, working in our 4 offices (Paris x2, Bordeaux and Barcelona). People are at the heart of ManoMano’s culture around our 3 core values : boldness, ingenuity and care.\n\nJoining us is a tremendous human and business adventure ! We offer an ideal and (hyper)dynamic environment to put your skills on innovative and concrete projects on a European scale.\n \nTake a look at our Blog : https://medium.com/manomano-tech\n\nTo consolidate its position as DIY and Gardening online leader, ManoMano has put technology at the heart of its strategy. We are convinced it is by fluidly delivering high quality products that we will be able to offer our clients and merchants all the functionalities to revolutionize their online DIY experience.\n\nFor your part, you know that Quality is not about bringing in an army of Testers at the very end of the SDLC, this is old-school !\nOn the contrary, you have the absolute conviction that Quality must be taken into account and challenged from the expression of need, throughout the SDLC, as well as after deployment in production. \nYou are driven by this mindset of continuous improvement and you love advocating for quality and testing practices in a full Agile context.\n\nAt ManoMano, your mission will be composed of three main streams :\n1- Spread The Quality Culture: Empower the team to be the owners of the quality of their product\n2- Enable Continuous Improvement: Challenge teams on their processes and encourage them to take actions for improvement\n3- Mentoring Feature Teams on testing practices: Challenge their work, being a facilitator and a coach to help team members learn more and progress at their best\n\nOur current tech stack :\n- Microservice architecture in the cloud with AWS, Kubernetes (check our blog)\n- JavaScript (NextJS, React Native), Java, Kotlin, Golang\n- Jira and Xray for test scenario management\n- CodeceptJS, Detox, Webdriver for GUI testing\n- Postman, Newman and CodeceptJS, Behat, PACT for API testing\n- Gitlab / Bitrise / Bitbar for our CI/CD/CT together with Sonarqube for Code quality\n- And more... including an in-house defect management system!\n\n\nABOUT YOU\n\nTechnical skills :\n\n- Relevant experience in QA roles working as part of a wider development team, pairing with Devs, Product Manager, SRE, Designers and other relevant  stakeholders\n- Solid understanding of the SDLC and Agile methodologies\n- Embracing the devops mindset, shifting the testing effort to the left and other relevant modern techniques, while having experience applying them in real projects\n- Understanding the practical Test Pyramid, applying the right testing techniques at the right time\n- Experience with Behaviour Driven Development (BDD) concept\n- Understanding of Microservice Architecture\n- Knowledge in Restful API\n- Working experience with CI/CD, Test Management Tools\n\nInterpersonal Skills :\n\n- You are a good communicator : We want to spread the quality mindset across the Teams\n- Ingenious, creative, humble and curious with a big appetite to learn, discover and experiment new things: We always question the status quo\n- Autonomous and adaptable: You know what working in a fast-changing environment means\n- You are a good team player: One player wins matches, the team wins trophies\n- You have a problem solver mindset: We face new challenges every day\n- You are comfortable communicating in English: We have a lot of nationalities, so it’s our company's official language\n\nBonus points\n\n- Experience with a Software Programming Language (JavaScript Preferred) as a developer or as a test automation engineer\n- Previous experience working in a marketplace\n- You keep up-to-date with the QA industry’s best practices, tools and techniques\n\nINTERVIEW PROCESS :\n\n1/ Phone interview with a Talent Recruiter \n+ Technical Test\n2/ Zoom interview with a Team Lead + Software Engineer\n3/ Final Zoom interview with an Engineering Manager \n\n\n\nBenefits:\n\nPeople: Smart/ diverse backgrounds / international environment/ A positive, supportive & dynamic atmosphere\nWork: office/ hybrid/ full remote  \nSalary: competitive salary package\nTechnology: Get a laptop you love to do your best work\nTime off: 7 weeks of paid vacation + vacation premium $$\nSports: free gym \nHealthcare: mutual (60% taken care by MM) \nRetreats/ fun: music room/ a terrace/ modern office/  Crafternoons every Thursday afternoon (share your knowledge, learn from others)/ External events attendance, fairs & Meetups\nFood: all the coffee you can drink/ Restaurant card (Swile)\nTransportation: 50% reimbursement\nMM employee discount\nParents: flexible policies\n\n\nWe're actively seeking applications from candidates of all backgrounds.\n\nIf all the above rings a bell, it probably means that we are meant to meet each other ! Please get in touch.« So, come and plant the seeds of your success and gather the fruits of your labour »\n\nThe information collected on this form is recorded in a file used by ManoMano - Colibri SAS so that we can process your application.   \nThe data is kept for 2 years from the date of your application. You can access your data, rectify it, request its deletion or exercise your right to limit the processing of your data. You can also exercise your right to the portability of your data. Consult the cnil.fr website for more information on your rights. \nTo exercise these rights or if you have any questions about the processing of your data under this scheme, you can contact our data protection officer by writing to [email protected].  \nIf, after having contacted us, you feel that your "Data Protection" rights have not been respected, you may submit a complaint to the CNIL. \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to React, Jira, DevOps, JavaScript, Music, Cloud and API 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
\n\n#Location\nParis 75017