Senior Backend Engineer

Who we are

Stensul dramatically reduces marketing content creation time - by up to 90% - so teams can better focus on improving marketing performance. Stensul makes this possible by streamlining the collaboration process and simplifying marketing asset creation for all marketers so they can create high-performing campaigns that drive stronger results. Stensul integrates with all leading ESPs/MAPs, workflow platforms, image digital asset management platforms, live content, link tracking, and messaging platforms. Top brands that trust Stensul to solve their most demanding marketing creation problems include BlackRock, Cisco, Demandbase, Equifax, Greenhouse, Siemens, and Thomson Reuters.

At Stensul, our top priority is maintaining a people-first, diverse, and inclusive culture. We look for people that live by our core values - Garra, Learning Agile, Above & Beyond, and Team Players. We’re committed to investing in your growth through mentorship, coaching, and meaningful professional development. If you thrive in a fast-paced environment and are eager to take ownership of a large, revenue-generating area of the business, we want to hear from you!

What you'll do

Coming on as an expert, you’ll join one of our tight knit, cross functional Product Engineering teams, contributing to expanding the value that the Stensul platform offers to world class customers by implementing high quality solutions that meet the most demanding expectations. This gives you the unique ability to collaborate with Product, Design and QA experts to discover and solve for new market opportunities in an agile manner. You’ll contribute to technical discussions and decisions that enable us to take our software development practices to the next level as well as serve as a coach & mentor to other developers.

We’re in a period of high growth which means we move fast, but you’ll do so alongside smart, driven individuals in a fun, collaborative environment with opportunities for growth. Our stack currently consists of PHP, MongoDB, Redis, Docker, Javascript (and Node.js), Vue.js, Go and Python to name a few. Learning Agile is one of our core values, which means that we are always identifying ways to make things better, and welcome new tools and languages that help us improve the way we work.

Specific responsibilities include:

• Working with roughly defined requirements and using the product vision to elaborate and build effective solutions
• Collaborating as part of a cross-functional team (Engineering, Product, Design, QA), helping achieve synergy, understanding our most demanding user needs and delivering features that exceed their expectations
• Participating and contributing in architectural/system design discussions and decisions
• Designing, implementing and maintaining improvements to the functionality of our platform
• Writing high quality, standardized, concise and maintainable code
• Tracking down and fixing bugs
• Following our agile methodology and contributing to its improvement
• Own and lead initiatives from inception to delivery and maintenance in an autonomous way
• Proactively adding positive energy to our rapidly growing company
• Helping, coaching and mentoring fellow team members in their day to day tasks and professional development, contributing to the team’s learning & development

Who you are

• Extensive knowledge of web server-side oriented languages (i.e. PHP, Javascript for Node.js, Python, Golang)
• Knowledge of relational and document oriented databases (i.e. MySQL, MongoDB)
• Knowledge of memory stored system (i.e. Redis, Memcached)
• Knowledge of web architectures, services and APIs concepts
• Experience developing microservices
• Experience using design patterns
• Excellent OOP knowledge
• Experience with version control (git, subversion)
• Ability to work well in an agile and team environment, a true team player
• Solid English communication skills both oral and written
• Proficiency on quality practices such as unit test implementation
• Strong testing skills and attention to detail
• Strong interest in understanding our customers, our market and our product to bring new ideas to the table
• Strong continuous improvement culture and intellectual stimulation approach.
• Experience in product-oriented companies, interest in understanding our customers, our market and our product to bring new ideas to the table

You get bonus points for having:

• Experience with PHP frameworks (Laravel, Zend, Symfony)
• Experience with Typescript and/or other type checking technologies
• Experience with high traffic sites
• Experience with monitoring tools and metrics (New Relic, Kibana)
• Experience with container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Experience with bug tracking tools like Jira, Redmine, Bugzilla, etc.
• Experience with functional programming
• Experience with API design
• Experience shipping products for enterprise companies
• Experience with email layout coding
• A great sense of humor

What we offer

• Competitive salary & benefits
• Company laptop and phone reimbursement (if required)
• Healthcare plan
• Other awesome secret benefits we’ll tell you once you are on the team
• Being a part of an amazing, inclusive team that lives by our shared values and is committed to building the next phase of Stensul.

Stensul is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer building a diverse and inclusive workforce.

If your experience is close (even if not a perfect fit) to what we’re looking for, please consider applying. Experience comes in many forms – skills are transferable, and passion goes a long way. We know that diversity makes for the best problem-solving and creative thinking, which is why we’re dedicated to adding new perspectives to the team and encourage everyone to apply.