Senior PHP Engineer

About

NorthGravity is a Chicago/Krakow -based startup that provides cognitive data collection, predictive analytics, and data management solutions to Hedge Funds, Banks, and Energy companies. The company was founded in 2018. NorthGravity's innovative technology provides easy-to-use high-quality data as the basic foundational requirement for our clients' successful data science projects and business processes. NorthGravity is building a system of intelligence.

The Opportunity

Work as part of the Global Engineering team along with the Product and Business Development teams to define, develop and deliver client solutions. Be part of the team that is defining the solutions.

Your Part

• Program new software, web applications and support applications under development
• Develop secure, performance optimized and scalable code that is tested well documented
• Implement standards compliant and responsive web interfaces using HTML, CSS and JavaScript
• Identify, review, analyze and create proposals for new product features, bug fixes, process efficiency improvements and user experience refinement
• Provide timely feedback on thoroughly reviewed branches completed by your peers ahead of being released into production
• Assist, support or lead code releases into production environments as required
• Provide guidance and administrative support to the business, especially through conversations with Product Owners and Engineering Managers
• Collect and analyze qualitative and quantitative data to improve your personal and team efficiency and productivity

What Are We Providing

• Exposure to multiple stacks, frameworks, languages, and technologies
• Fully paid Luxmed and MyBenefit cafeteria
• Engagements in English

In Order to Excel

• B.S./M.S. in Computer Science or equivalent relevant experience
• 3+ years of experience building web applications, ideally using PHP (CodeIgniter and Laravel) and Python.
• Product development experience, working across all stakeholders
• Strong verbal and written communication
• Willingness to engage with a positive, open-minded attitude in collaborating to make the company stronger
• Desire to engage in ongoing education and professional growth, with a deep curiosity in regards to what’s next and what can be done
• Knowledge of relational (MySQL) and NoSQL databases
• Experience building and maintaining microservices
• Experience writing and consuming APIs
• Experience writing unit tests, as well as other automated tests
• JavaScript using unobtrusive techniques, preferably using React
• Write clean, compliant and accessible HTML/CSS/JQuery
• Experience building production applications on top of a cloud architecture (preferably AWS)
• Understanding using DevOps tools with build and deployment pipelines.
• Experience with Agile and Scrum
• Experience with Kafka or other message/event streaming technologies
• Proven experience using data to drive decision making