\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

WP White Security is a young development company that develops high-quality WordPress security and management plugins. Our plugins are installed on more than 150,000 websites and are used by world renowned businesses such as Disney, Amazon, and Intel!\n\nJoin our growing distributed team and develop plugins that help thousands of WordPress websites administrators from all-over the world! We are looking for a senior PHP / JavaScript / WordPress developer that can work during European time zone hours. If you love writing code, a good challenge, and are fond of the WordPress and open-source communities, we want to hear from you.\n\nEven though we have a very large customer base, we are still a small team. So there is a lot of room to grow within the company.\n\n## What will your job be?\n\nYou will work on the development of our WordPress plugins portfolio. Your tasks will span from designing new features (with the team), writing code and bug fixing, expecting that new and changed code is thoroughly tested and well documented. You will also help the other developers, conduct code reviews of their code, test their code, help our support team solve customer issues, and interact with the rest of the team for knowledge sharing and product work.\n\n## Who are we looking for?\n\n* Excellent verbal and written English\n* Organized, methodological and can work with very little or no supervision\n* 5+ years experience working as a PHP / WordPress plugin developer (mostly back end development)\n* Hands on experience with testing automation and writing testable code (unit testing) etc\n* Strong background in scalable database usage with MySQL\n* Good understanding of Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP (LAMP) environments\n* Hard working and passionate – we are a young start-up\n* [BONUS] Good skills in react.js and jQuery\n* [BONUS] good understanding of both WordPress and application security\n\n## Benefits of working for us\n\n* Work from anywhere (during European time zone hours)\n* Job security and competitive salary\n* Work in a flat, small, and friendly organization\n* Paid educational materials (including but not limited to online courses and books)\n* Opportunities for paid travel to attend WordCamps\n* Long term engagement – we are looking for a committed candidate who within a few years can become a team lead and a source of knowledge\n\n**Compensation**\nThe salary for this position depends on your experience and technical skills. This is something we will discuss during the application process. \n\nPlease mention the words **SCHOOL TODDLER BID** when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMjE2LjczLjIxNi4xNDY=). 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#Benefits\n 🌎 Distributed team\n\n

WP White Security is a young development company that develops high-quality security and admin WordPress plugins. Our plugins are installed on more than 150,000 websites and are used by world renowned businesses such as Disney, Amazon, and Intel!\n\nJoin our growing distributed team and develop plugins that help thousands of WordPress websites administrators! We are looking for a senior PHP / JavaScript / WordPress developer that can work during European time zone hours. If you love writing code and are fond of the WordPress and open source communities, we want to hear from you.\n\nWe are still a small team, however, we have a large customer base. So there is a lot of room to grow within the company (more about us [here](https://www.wpwhitesecurity.com/about-us/)).\n\n\n\n\n# Responsibilities\n You will be leading the development of our [WordPress plugins portfolio](https://www.wpwhitesecurity.com/wordpress-plugins/). Your tasks will span from designing new features, writing code and bug fixing, expecting that new and changed code is thoroughly tested and well documented.\n\nYou will also help the other developers, conduct code reviews of their code, test your own code and that of others, interact with our support team and helping them solve customer issues, and interact with the rest of the team for knowledge sharing and product work. \n\n# Requirements\n* Excellent verbal and written English\n* Organized, methodological and can work with very little or no supervision\n* 6+ years experience working as a PHP / WordPress plugin developer (mostly back end development)\n* Ability to setup testing environments for testing the plugins and ability to debug technical issues\n* Strong background in scalable database usage with MySQL\n* Good understanding of Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP (LAMP) environments\n* Hard working and passionate – we are a young start-up\n* [BONUS] Intermediate skills in react.js and jQuery\n* [BONUS] good understanding of application and WordPress security\n\n**Benefits of working for us**\n\n* Work from anywhere (during European time zone hours)\n* Job security and competitive salary\n* Work in a flat, small and friendly organization\n* Paid educational materials (including but not limited to online courses and books)\n* Opportunities for paid travel to attend WordCamps and other industry conferences\n* Long term engagement – we are looking for a committed candidate who within a few years can become a team lead and a source of knowledge \n\nPlease mention the words **MODIFY OFFICE LEG** when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMjE2LjczLjIxNi4xNDY=). 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 No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to JavaScript, InfoSec, PHP, Senior, Wordpress, Developer, Digital Nomad and Admin jobs that are similar:\n\n $60,000 — $120,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 🌎 Distributed team\n\n
\n\n#Location\nWorldwide

\nThis is a fully remote position\n\nWe’re looking for talented, experienced web application developers interested in tackling a wide array of problems. To build the best product and technology, you must have a deep understanding of how all parts of the system work. If you're a specialist with deep knowledge in a particular area and interested in learning about other parts of the stack, or a generalist who loves going deep on all sorts of problems, you’ll fit right in.\n\nWe’re in a very exciting time here at MemberMouse because we're growing faster than ever and are facing some interesting, difficult problems that we’re not yet sure how we’re going to solve. Not only will you be working on a product and technology that hundreds of thousands of people use each day, you’ll be helping to define it.\n\nThe most common way that something gets done at MemberMouse is as follows: someone has an idea, they share it with the team, they collaboratively refine what it should be, and they go build it. People are their own project managers, and this works because everybody on the team understands our business and what's important to us and to our customers. You will have lots of autonomy and a huge impact on our business.\n\nWe pride ourselves on being flexible, but there are some things we feel very strongly about:\n\n\n* Do it right. We focus on the long term. We love to be productive, but deadlines are the first thing to be sacrificed in the name of quality!\n\n* Simplicity over everything. If you're smart enough to write 100s of lines of clever spaghetti code, you should be smart enough to realize that someone will probably break it later. It can be hard to make things simple and elegant, but it’s worth the effort and the time.\n\n* Great teams are better than the all-star players. No matter how great someone's ideas, they'll be improved upon through collaboration with other stellar engineers.\n\n* Understand the whole business. Great software isn’t built in a vacuum -- it requires hard work from extremely smart people across many disciplines and an understanding of how it all fits together.\n\n* Have fun. In order to produce exceptional work, you have to love what you do.\n\n\n\n\nTechnical requirements for this position:\n\n\n* Passion for the craft and dedication to producing a quality product\n\n* LAMP (5+ years) with strong PHP Object Oriented programming skills\n\n* Understanding of common design patterns and PHP development best practices\n\n* Experience working with a wide range of APIs (XML,JSON)\n\n* Familiarity with security best practices for web development\n\n* Strong SQL query writing skills (preferably with MySQL)\n\n* Comfort writing Javascript and experience with the jQuery framework\n\n* Solid experience with cross-platform, browser compliant HTML (HTML5 a plus)\n\n* Strong work ethic along with the ability to efficiently work remotely to meet project timeframes and specifications\n\n* Excellent written and verbal communications skills\n\n* Working knowledge of SVN\n\n* Experience working with WordPress/WordPress plugins\n\n\n\n\nDesirable Skills:\n\n\n* Linux server administration\n\n* Experience with Amazon EC2/S3/RDS\n\n* Working knowledge of CSS\n\n\n\n\nSince you've made it this far, here's why we think you should join us:\n\n\n* Working with highly motivated, ambitious, upbeat people on challenging problems is what makes work great. That’s what we love!\n\n* We are profitable, growing and are privately held, so we have the luxury of being able to do what best serves the long-term interests of the company.\n\n* This is a fully remote position so you'll be able to work from whenever you have a computer and internet.\n\n* We offer competitive compensation and flexible vacation schedule\n\n\n\n\nIf we sound fun and interesting to you, please apply with some links (e.g. GitHub, Twitter) or attachments (e.g. non-public code, technical writings) that will help us understand your background. \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to PHP, Senior, Wordpress, Developer, Digital Nomad, JavaScript, Amazon, HTML and jQuery 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

\nThis is a fully remote position\n\nWe’re looking for talented, experienced web application developers interested in tackling a wide array of problems. To build the best product and technology, you must have a deep understanding of how all parts of the system work. If you're a specialist with deep knowledge in a particular area and interested in learning about other parts of the stack, or a generalist who loves going deep on all sorts of problems, you’ll fit right in.\n\nWe’re in a very exciting time here at MemberMouse because we're growing faster than ever and are facing some interesting, difficult problems that we’re not yet sure how we’re going to solve. Not only will you be working on a product and technology that hundreds of thousands of people use each day, you’ll be helping to define it.\n\nThe most common way that something gets done at MemberMouse is as follows: someone has an idea, they share it with the team, they collaboratively refine what it should be, and they go build it. People are their own project managers, and this works because everybody on the team understands our business and what's important to us and to our customers. You will have lots of autonomy and a huge impact on our business.\n\nWe pride ourselves on being flexible, but there are some things we feel very strongly about:\n\n\n* Do it right. We focus on the long term. We love to be productive, but deadlines are the first thing to be sacrificed in the name of quality!\n\n* Simplicity over everything. If you're smart enough to write 100s of lines of clever spaghetti code, you should be smart enough to realize that someone will probably break it later. It can be hard to make things simple and elegant, but it’s worth the effort and the time.\n\n* Great teams are better than the all-star players. No matter how great someone's ideas, they'll be improved upon through collaboration with other stellar engineers.\n\n* Understand the whole business. Great software isn’t built in a vacuum -- it requires hard work from extremely smart people across many disciplines and an understanding of how it all fits together.\n\n* Have fun. In order to produce exceptional work, you have to love what you do.\n\n\n\n\nTechnical requirements for this position:\n\n\n* Passion for the craft and dedication to producing a quality product\n\n* LAMP (5+ years) with strong PHP Object Oriented programming skills\n\n* Understanding of common design patterns and PHP development best practices\n\n* Experience working with a wide range of APIs (XML,JSON)\n\n* Familiarity with security best practices for web development\n\n* Strong SQL query writing skills (preferably with MySQL)\n\n* Comfort writing Javascript and experience with the jQuery framework\n\n* Solid experience with cross-platform, browser compliant HTML (HTML5 a plus)\n\n* Strong work ethic along with the ability to efficiently work remotely to meet project timeframes and specifications\n\n* Excellent written and verbal communications skills\n\n* Working knowledge of SVN\n\n* Experience working with WordPress/WordPress plugins\n\n\n\n\nDesirable Skills:\n\n\n* Linux server administration\n\n* Experience with Amazon EC2/S3/RDS\n\n* Working knowledge of CSS\n\n\n\n\nSince you've made it this far, here's why we think you should join us:\n\n\n* Working with highly motivated, ambitious, upbeat people on challenging problems is what makes work great. That’s what we love!\n\n* We are profitable, growing and are privately held, so we have the luxury of being able to do what best serves the long-term interests of the company.\n\n* This is a fully remote position so you'll be able to work from whenever you have a computer and internet.\n\n* We offer competitive compensation and flexible vacation schedule\n\n\n\n\nIf we sound fun and interesting to you, please apply with some links (e.g. GitHub, Twitter) or attachments (e.g. non-public code, technical writings) that will help us understand your background. \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to PHP, Senior, Wordpress, Developer, Digital Nomad, JavaScript, Amazon, HTML and jQuery 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