Senior Full Stack Software Engineer - PHP Focus

About Us 

At 800.com, we’re building an intuitive & powerful cloud communications platform for SMBs & Enterprises to communicate via Voice & SMS. 

Our backend tech stack currently consists of PHP web apps that serve a public API that our front-end JavaScript app consumes (React / React Native). Our data stores include MySQL, Elasticsearch, and Redis. The underlying infrastructure runs on AWS using a combination of managed services like RDS and non-managed services running on EC2 instances. All of our development runs through CI/CD pipelines that build Docker images. 

About You 

We’re looking for an experienced full-time Software Engineer to join our engineering team. Someone who has a solid understanding of web technologies and wants to help design, implement, launch, and scale major systems and user-facing features. 

You should have senior-level experience (~7 years) building modern back-end systems, with at least 5 years of that experience using PHP. You have significant experience designing, scaling, debugging, and optimizing systems to make them fast and reliable. You also have around five years of experience using MySQL, Redis, or similar data

stores. You have experience participating in code reviews and providing overall code quality suggestions to help maintain the structure and quality of the codebase. 

You’re comfortable working in a fast-paced environment with a small and talented team. You are able to work with very little guidance, manage your time well, communicate effectively and collaborate in a fully distributed team. 

Required Skills & Experience: 

• 5+ years experience with PHP development 

• Experience with at least one PHP framework like Symfony, Laravel, and CodeIgniter, or an understanding of PHP-based open-source projects like Joomla or Drupal.

• Experience developing in a containerized environment (Docker, Kubernetes)

• Strong knowledge of the common PHP or web server exploits and their solutions

• Understanding fundamental design principles behind a scalable application

• User authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments 

• Familiarity with RDBMS and their declarative query languages 

• Experience with REST, XML, JSON, etc. 

• Knowledge of web performance and speed/memory optimization techniques

• A solid understanding of modern Javascript (NodeJS, ECMAScript, TypeScript)

• Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as WebSockets HTML5, and CSS3 

• Able to solve problems in a simple, neat, and organized way 

• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git 

Bonus: 

• Familiarity with Agile best practices 

• Experience working with VoIP, SIP, WebRTC, Freeswitch and/or related protocols Experience in GraphQL and/or “Headless” CMS development 

• API design experience for frontend or server-to-server 

• Basic understanding of web servers, SSL, deployments, and continuous integration 

• Worked with a QA team before or familiarity with QA/release workflows

Come help us with projects like 

• Conceiving, designing, building, and launching new user-facing features

• Improving our vanity phone number algorithm to secure the best matching phone numbers for customers 

• Innovating business texting to include; auto-reply, scheduled messages, dynamic templates, keyword triggers, and reporting 

• Working with Twilio’s API, Bandwidth API, WebSockets, and WebRTC to improve our calling features 

• Building user-facing analytics features that provide actionable insights

• Improving our internal messaging infrastructure using streaming technologies like Redis 

• Building new and enhancing existing integrations with other SaaS platforms like Google’s G Suite, Zapier, and Web Conferencing providers 

Why 800.com? 

• 100% remote (we believe in trust and autonomy) 

• Competitive salary 

• Flexible vacation plan (includes company-wide winter holiday break)

• $200/month work-from-home equipment allowance 

• 401k matching available (US residents) 

• Dependent care FSA (US residents) 

800.com asks respectfully to only apply through the application form and not email/apply to them directly. Recruiters and Agencies please do not contact 800.com directly.