Time zones: SBT (UTC +11),
GMT (UTC +0),
CET (UTC +1),
EET (UTC +2),
MSK (UTC +3)
US-based annual salary range: $80,000 - $90,000
Hi, we're Banzai!
We’re out to solve the #1 business challenge for all B2B Marketers – proving Marketing ROI.
Through The Banzai Platform, we provide marketers the campaign insights they need to make better marketing decisions – and we do it all in one platform, so it’s super easy. We know marketing is hard enough – why make it harder?
Our mission is to help our customers accomplish their mission – through better marketing, sales, and customer success outcomes. Our vision is to increase the value of every customer interaction for every company in the world.
Ready to join us?
Summary:
Banzai is looking for a Senior PHP Backend Engineer to join our team.
Expectations of Role:
- Develop a backend application using PHP, MySQL, Redis, AWS
- Discuss with the team to understand the functionality and come up with innovative ideas for the backend development
- Diagnose and solve problems quickly and effectively as they arise
- Discuss with the team tasks to be done
- Performs code reviews for team members
- Follow best practices and guidance to build an easy-to-maintain and extend the high-performing application
What an average day/week looks like:
- Work together with the Product and Engineering teams on the current sprint/cycle
- Work together with Frontend Engineer on creating/updating API endpoints
- Create unit-tests
- Refactor the code. Improve the code quality
- Write a small daily report (just a few lines) about the work progress
Desired Qualifications, Skills, & Experience
- At least 7 years of experience in the Backend PHP Development area
- English: free speaking level (fluent/advanced)
- Highly proficient with PHP language (7.x and higher)
- Strong knowledge of MySQL. Highly proficient with native SQL queries
- Experience with Amazon Web Services
- Experience with Redis
- Experience in integrations with 3rd-party services
- Can create Unit-tests for components that you created
- Experience with queues, publishers, subscribers, workers units
- Strong experience in the Git subversion system
- Continuously learning new techniques and are aware of the trends in the backend dev community
- Located in the timezones between GMT -1 and GMT +4
- Understanding SOLID, DDD, Clean Architecture
How you work as a team member
- You are a strong team player in a flat-structured, highly collaborative environment
- You have excellent communication skills and participate actively in team meetings and discussions
- You are flexible and can handle constant changes in business requirements
- Willing to work close to UTC/GMT +3 hours
Nice to Have
- Experience running webinars
- Experience with Phalcon PHP Framework
- Experience in testing frameworks
- Experience in CI/CD
Benefits
- 401(k) plan (US based)
- Health, Dental, Vision, Life, and Long-Term Disability insurance (US based)
- Unlimited PTO policy (salaried) or hourly PTO policy
- Remote first company
- 12 weeks fully paid parental leave
- Working with a truly mission-driven team motivated by excellence
- Real room for growth in professional and personal development
- 2 paid mental health days every quarter, plus one full week of paid mental health rest every year
- Clear objectives, direction and empowerment from executive leadership
