Intermediate Full Stack Engineer

Clean and testable back end code is written and there is a high degree of confidence in your ability to build with quality.
Critical feedback is sought out and you are open to receiving and implementing feedback during code reviews.
Proactively seek opportunities to coach and mentor your team.
A high level of collaboration takes place with other engineers to design and deliver project-level solutions.
Work closely with the Product team to ensure seamless user experiences through effective communication and technical advice.
Strong relationships are formed with your peers across the business - Product, Marketing, Design, Implementation, CS.
Provide Input into our engineering practice, governance, and help create our engineering roadmap.
Create simple and intuitive web applications for a range of different end users.
Design, develop and maintain your application keeping scalability and performance in mind.
Own all aspects of back end development for your application.
Work closely with end users to understand pain-points and specific use-cases.
Take full ownership of the product/feature from idea to operating in production.
Work effectively with product managers, other engineers and business stakeholders on the project.
Drives innovation within Whip Around, proposing and implementing new technologies or methods that improve system performance or user experiences.
Iterate quickly and incorporate feedback to improve the feature.
Requirements

Critical Competencies

Impact: Having impact across large projects within a team / area, working in parallel with peers and often taking a leading role on features or refactors.
Technical competency: The ability to write robust, manageable, and scalable code for major new features in existing systems, balancing the implementation of pure and pragmatic solutions as needed.
Delivery: Effective delivery of medium team projects. Recognizing and surfacing risks/unknowns and always working in line with bigger picture goals. Not going down rabbit holes.
Drive: A deep commitment to customer-centric solutions. The ability to suggest solutions to problems, demonstrating critical thinking skills. The ability to take a considered and professional approach to one's work and one's team.
Culture and collaboration: The promotion of cross-functional collaboration by proactively communicating and coordinating the team’s requirements with other groups and teams in engineering, avoiding blame and solving the right problems, disagreeing and committing when necessary. The promotion of inclusive meeting culture.
Experience

Useful BSc in Computer Science, BE in Software Engineering, or other relevant qualifications.
Strong PHP skills and relevant frameworks (e.g. Laravel, Symfony) are recommended but not required; however, you are familiar good coding practices (YAGNI, SOLID) and common design patterns.
Solid commercial experience with React.
Experience writing unit tests and highly secure web applications
Personal projects! An app or a portfolio of apps that you have built outside of work.
Experience working in agile development teams that applied and experimented with infrastructure automation, continuous integration, continuous delivery
Experience with core AWS web-enabling technologies