Senior Software Engineer, Laravel at Loop Returns

Job Description

Challenge: Contribute while leading to build the best ecommerce post-purchase platform in the market
Design, build and maintain web applications, APIs and lambdas for the Loop product line.
Solve complex technical issues for our merchants and our partners, and care most about giving them an exceptional experience.
Your experience:
7+ years experience of software engineering experience, specifically having experience with PHP 8.1 / Laravel 10, AWS Serverless (and we use Vue.JS on the front-end, too).
Working in Shopify’s ecosystem is a huge plus for us.
You have significant web development experience using modern tooling.
Demonstrated hands-on experience building web applications and APIs.
Challenge: Guide and solidify the engineering practices that Loop needs to be successful, with a focus on scalability, repeatability and reliability
Develop solid automated unit and integration tests.
Maintain a healthy, continuous integration/deployment process.
Lead, assess, and make recommendations as to what our best practices should be so we scale effectively, and advocate for these with the engineering team.
Your experience:
Have led and participated in effective testing processes on previous teams, and have opinions about how to create a quality-driven development process.
Worked in environments that had continuous integration/deployment, and had a hand in scaling those processes.
Can share examples of how you have practiced test driven and behavior driven development, and how youve advocated for the practices with the rest of your team.
You have worked and thrive in an agile development environment and can speak to the principles of agility, as well as the specific tactics you employed.
If youve worked closely with product managers, designers and user experience experts, thats a plus for us.
Challenge: Elevate the engineering culture at Loop
You should show great empathy towards your teammates and support them as humans that show up each day, to ensure that everyone can bring their best, most authentic selves and feel fulfilled at work.
You should be intellectually curious, and always be on the lookout for opportunities to learn, grow and level up.
You should have a strong excellence reflex and bias for action. You leave things better than you find them, and dont wait for permission to address real problems.
You feel a strong sense of ownership over your work, where its going and why its important.
You can appreciate the balance between collaboration, consensus, and empathy, yet understand that sometimes there needs to be a bias for action based decision making that you must align yourself with.
You can step up to lead initiatives, even when it makes you scared.
Your experience:
You know the kind of team you thrive on, and can speak of the best teams youve been a part of and what made it so great.
You can speak to the times in your career when you experienced rapid growth, know your learning style well and how to maximize what you get out of each project you take on.
You have examples of having crucial conversations, such as giving feedback to a boss, customer or peer, admitting a mistake with humility and vulnerability.
You can speak to the times you left things better than you found them, and negotiated with your team and stakeholders over doing things differently and how it helped.
You have examples of times when a team decision didnt go the way you wanted, but you still were able to fully commit to the direction and drive progress.
You know what its like to stretch yourself beyond what you think you can do, and have stories to share about when you went beyond and succeeded and when you tried and failed.