Senior Back-End Developer (PHP)
Goodfood Market Corp., Canada
Job Description
Goodfood (TSX:FOOD) is a leading online grocery service in Canada, delivering fresh meal solutions that make it easy for members from coast to coast to enjoy delicious meals at home every week. Goodfood’s mission is to make the impossible come true, from farm to kitchen, by enabling members to do their weekly meal planning and grocery shopping in minutes. Goodfood members get access to a unique selection of products online as well as exclusive pricing made possible by its world-class direct-to-consumer fulfillment ecosystem. Goodfood currently has more than 370,000 active subscribers and over 3,800 dedicated and passionate employees across Canada.
We're looking for a seasoned Senior Back-end Developer with experience in building web-based applications and tools to join the fast moving team at Goodfood. Reporting to the Software Development Manager, the Senior Back-end Developer will play a senior role within the newly formed SWAT development team. Within this new team, you will work with a team of front-end and full-stack developers with the mission of being cross-functional specialists to build innovative eCommerce features, tackle difficult and sometimes critical problems within the GoodFood e-commerce platform.
We work on a range of interesting and challenging problems and as a Senior Back-end Developer you should feel comfortable tackling any back-end development task. Here at Goodfood, we look for Back-end Developers not only capable of building a solution, but owning the problem end-to-end. There is a tremendous amount of opportunity in front of us, and your work will directly impact Goodfood members across the country.
Responsibilities- Actively participate in the product development (website / web application) in order to build the best service on the market
- Analyze, design, code and maintain existing and new functionalities
- Build performant services, APIs and distributed systems to power mobile, web and voice experiences for our customers amp; vendors
- Propose innovative changes that improve product performance for our customers
- Document code development and revisions
- Participate actively in scrum meetings and internal reviews
- Continuously maintain, debug and improve existing web applications and websites
- Perform unit testing to validate the quality of the features
- Build unit and integration tests using tools like PHPUnit, Mocha and Postman
- Working in a Linux environment, you will research, design, test, implement, and maintain online and back-end data services applications in GCP/AWS cloud, leveraging modern service frameworks including NodeJS, TypeScript and PHP applications
- A University degree in computer science, computer engineering, or a related field
- 5+ years of working experience as a Programmer, Software Developer or Software Engineer
- Strong PHP expertise is a plus and MySQL proficiency; Experience and desire to develop in NodeJS and TypeScript would be an asset
- Strong understanding of Object Oriented Programming (OOP) and understanding of SOLID and DRY principles
- Experience working with a variety of database technologies including relational and non-relational databases (Postgres, MySQL, Redis, MongoDB)
- Knowledge of test driven development and modern deployment practices with strong experience writing unit tests with PHPUnit
- Experience working with security gateways and protocols (JWT, Oauth2.0, etc)
- Experience working within the Gitflow workflow and CI/CD pipelines
- Experience with building and maintaining RESTful APIs
- Ability to propose, advocate and critique design alternatives to determine solution
- Bilingualism (French - English), nice to have
Why Goodfood?
Our team strives to give our members a world class customer experience. We believe in being ambassadors of the brand to make the impossible come true from farm to table!
What we have to offer our employees:
- E-commerce/ Start-up and fun work environment
- Ability to directly impact company results
- Competitive Group Insurance
- Personal days
- Bonus program
- Annual fitness credit
- Goodfood credits
- Employee stock purchase plan