This is an e-commerce company, located in Pittsburgh, PA, focused on next-generation gifting business models. Our organization is committed to a positive work environment and we prioritize our culture to continue to facilitate our high performance as a cohesive culturally enlightened team. We use OfficeVibe, Bonusly, and other leading tech tools to ensure our initiatives are effective.

We’re looking for a strong technical lead to:

• Holistically own the direction and management of technical implementation across all facets
• Steer the technical plan to move into the Platform space.
• Contribute heavily to the coding for the conversion to the platform model.

Duties

• Direct a team of front-end and back-end developers to deliver Business needs
• Contribute to the application through coding and testing, primarily on the back-end services layer.
• Take technical over-site of:
  • back-end and front-end application code
  • infrastructure
  • partner integrations (networks, Financial Institutions, fulfillment providers)
  • platform services
  • automated testing o deployment
• Interface directly with stakeholders on:
  • prioritization based on business needs.
  • implementation strategy
  • road map planning

We use these tools:

• Frameworks, etc: Bootstrap (lots), Foundation (some), Materialize (a little bit, and it’s going away), SASS.
• Browser-side JavaScript Frameworks and patterns: React, Redux, Sagas, Axios, Flux Standard Actions, jQuery (we won’t lie)
• Server side: PHP, Symfony, Twig
• Native App: Experimenting with React Native
• Infrastructure: AWS (EC2 but moving to ECS), RDS.
• Pipelines: BitBucket, CodeDeploy

Our process needs work, and we want you to help us:

• Find efficiencies, be it load times, build pipelines, or design/dev hand-off processes.
• Identify the right tools and frameworks to use across the front ends of multiple business units.
• Implement HTML/CSS in modern browsers.
• Produce an excellent user experience.
• Understand and implement SEO best practices and use tools like Google Analytics for analysis.
• Achieve necessary and desired site performance and optimization. Manage assets on CDNs and understand how to get the most out of a site. You have a toolbox of services to help you evaluate a site’s performance.
• Provide guidance and drive consistency in front-end tooling choices. It’s a complicated ecosystem, and we need someone that understands it.

Experience required for this position:

• 5 years in web-based software developer, Symfony a plus
• 4 years managing a team of developers.
• 4 years as an application architect or similar position Application Stack .
• you’ll be working next to all of these technologies:
  • PHP, Symfony
  • MySQL, Redis, Rabbit
  • Twig, React, React Native
  • AWS ECS, EC2, RDS
  • Algolia Search Service
  • Bitbucket Pipelines
  • CloudFlare

What Separates You from Others?

• Direct work on a public facing API
• Experience deploying an application in a SaaS model.
• Fan of automated testing and CI
• Experience with a DevOps mindset, specifically containerization, application monitoring, performance evaluation

Compensation includes a competitive base salary. We are committed to providing our employees with a benefits package designed to give them the flexibility they need to ensure a healthy life/work balance. We offer employees great benefits and perks, including, but not limited to:

• Medical, Prescription, Vision and Dental
• Generous Paid Time-Off policy
• Incentive Compensation Plan (our employees have earned over $16m through this program since 2006)
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Miscellaneous Perks:
  • Employee recognition program
  • Charitable Donation to a Charity of YOUR Choice yearly
  • Refer Friends, and if we hire them you get awarded.
  • Family Picnic, Holiday Party, and other employee outings
  • On-site dry-cleaning pick-up service
  • Flextime Scheduling
  • Telecommuting Policy
  • Top 75% pay range versus other local employers.