Senior/Principal Software Engineer (PHP, MySQL, and AWS)

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Senior/Principal Software Engineer (PHP, MySQL, and AWS)

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As Arrive, we guide customers and communities towards brighter futures and more livable cities, it isn’t a challenge just anyone could take on. Luckily, we have something to help us make it happen. Our people and our values. We Arrive Curious, Focused and Together. Just as our entire brand is inspired by the North Star, the shining light leading travelers to their destinations since time began, our values guide us. They help us be at our best. For our customers. For the cities and communities we serve. For ourselves. As a global team, we are transforming urban mobility. Let’s grow better, together.

Among the standout brands that form Arrive is Parkopedia.

Parkopedia is the world’s leading connected car services provider, used by millions of drivers and organisations such as Apple, Here, TomTom, and 20 automotive brands ranging from Audi to Volkswagen. Its mission is to provide the best in-car data and transaction services, to make mobility ecological, efficient and convenient.

Are you adaptable, flexible and pragmatic with a DevOps mindset? Are you able to apply good engineering processes to deliver software products of high quality and performance, even with occasionally ambiguous requirements?

The ideal candidate will be a lifelong learner who enjoys solving technical problems, is curious about new technologies, and loves sharing knowledge and experience with colleagues.

Parkopedia offers a rewarding working environment within a collaborative, supportive and inclusive team, where your contribution is valued, and where you feel empowered to do your best work.

Responsibilities

• Our platform is PHP, MySQL, and AWS, which we leverage to deliver exciting new features which enable drivers to use our applications, in-car and online, in innovative and novel ways. We place a high value on improving reliability, maintainability, security and testability to our platforms.
• You will participate in Scrum ceremonies and work with your colleagues, stakeholders and third parties, to align on requirements and deliver a user experience you can be proud of.
• The role requires demonstrable experience of backend development using PHP and MySQL, and includes full lifecycle development of RESTful APIs and web apps which can operate at scale on AWS.
• You will appreciate the benefits of TDD/BDD, ensuring all code is tested and reviewed to the highest standards, and adapt quickly to changing environments, concepts and emerging technologies to assist in the future roadmap of our products.
• As a team, we are responsible for the health of the systems we build. You should understand performance tuning and optimisation, and how to diagnose technical issues across local, pre-release and production environments running on AWS. We operate a DevOps culture and are responsible for developing, deploying, operating and monitoring our team’s deliverables.
• As the senior engineer in the team, you will set the technical standard for the team; offering mentoring and support to your team-mates.
  
  

• Highly skilled and proficient coding in PHP, with strong skills in adjacent areas such as TypeScript, React, JavaScript or Python.
• A desire and willingness to learn other languages in particular Golang
• Proving technical leadership and direction to your team and contributing to the wider engineering organisation.
• Deep technical understanding of MySQL and relational databases, particularly database performance tuning.
• Knowledge of best practises around Modern Software Engineering, CI/CD, DORA metrics.
• Experience of troubleshooting and fixing performance issues in a full-stack application; from browser to the database.
• Experience of software architecture and presenting technical designs to your team and stakeholders.
• Demonstrable expertise and understanding of API development/design and experience interfacing with disparate systems.
• Excellent communicator with a self-starter attitude and comfort working autonomously.
• Applicable understanding of software security, common exploits and secure development practices, including the OWASP Top 10.
• Proven and demonstrable understanding of testing methodologies and frameworks.
• Commercial experience with AWS and IaC (Terraform/CDK/CloudFormation)
• Commercial experience with Linux, Docker, Docker Compose, Git and DynamoDB.
  
  

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Engineering and Information Technology

• Industries

  IT Services and IT Consulting

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