Senior Developer

At Coconut Software, Senior Developers lead our growing development teams in rapidly and efficiently building solutions to revolutionize the banking experience at some of the industry leading financial institutions, focussing on iteration, experimentation, and stability. This role has a strong focus on business outcomes and the relationship between departmental development goals and overall company goals. 

In this role, you will be an essential technical contributor for projects by creating solutions that meet market needs relating to architecture, implementation, testing and maintenance. You will oversee and mentor Junior and Intermediate Developers within the organization, and will be responsible for designing fully functioning, debugged code with required documentation that meets development goals, and for ensuring seamless delivery of features to our customers.To be successful as a Senior Developer, you must understand how to motivate and engage a team while having the leadership skills needed to influence effective teamwork and task work throughout the development cycle. Finally, the candidate will partake in customer conversations to ensure the right value product or feature is being delivered. This role makes an impact through driving business outcomes and building solid team and partner relationships.  You will also be a part in leveling-up our processes, with a focus on higher quality software and greater overall efficiency.

We don’t need you to be an expert in PHP or React but you must have a working knowledge of these components, and be willing to learn as you go in a fast growing and supportive team:

• We innovate on top of a modern solution stack consisting of web technologies (such as React and Laravel) utilizing a RESTful architecture, and backed by relational DBs (MariaDB and PostgreSQL) and deploy using Docker in an AWS environment.
• You don’t need to be an expert in all of our technologies; we’re great at supporting solid full stack engineers with previous exposure to our modern SaaS stack (PHP, Laraval, React)
• We don't follow rigid Scrum, but we do work in an agile, iterative way, and try to continuously improve and implement what works for us
• Blameless culture and a continuous improvement mindset

YOU’RE FIRED UP ABOUT:

• People Leadership
  • Leading through mentorship while elevating junior and intermediate developers
  • Contributing to hiring, training, and developing new team members 
• Technical Delivery
  • Contributing to determining the functionality, performance, scalability, reliability, realistic implementation schedules and system architecture for each assignment
  • Ensuring delivery schedule is on track and keeping the team informed of the progress
  • You’re skilled at writing code, helping with code reviews, and fixing bugs; as well as providing technical advice and guidance 
• Planning and Architecture
  
  • Assisting in requirements gathering, articulate updates, and subscribing to a customer first approach to software development
  • Providing estimations for high-level designs as well as participating in assigning story points on detailed tasks, to predict accuracy on our project and sprint deliverables
  • Designing, coding, and testing major features in collaboration with team members from all aspects of the organization
  • Maintaining and modifying existing applications
  • Producing design documents to ensure efficient maintenance and code reuse
  • Providing recommendations for improvements in the overall development process
  • Actively participating in team meetings and offering recommendations/ideas on design projects

WHAT YOU BRING TO THE TEAM

• 5+ years of SaaS development experience
• Excellent communication and critical thinking skills
• Experience writing / working with REST and associated technologies (JWT, JWE, etc)
• Expert understanding of object-oriented programming, namely with PHP (ideally PHP 7+)
• Advanced understanding of server-side software development, preferably with Laravel or CakePHP
• Expert understanding of front end technologies; namely with Javascript, CSS, and React
• Strong understanding of GIT and associated workflows (pull requests, code reviews)
• MariaDB (MySQL) experience
• Tech or team lead experience is not mandatory but would be an awesome bonus!