Overview:
Technology influences everything we do at Guidepoint. Our engineering team plays a vital role in building the powerful technology that allows us to deliver knowledge to our clients faster and more efficiently. Their contributions enhance the way we serve our clients every day. Team members address complex challenges with optimal solutions, working toward their goal of continuous improvement. The team practices a flat management structure, so employees at all levels feel they have a voice, and their contributions are valued. This is a rapidly growing team with ample opportunities for professional growth, so you can expand your skillset, take on new challenges and make a real impact. As a Lead PHP Software Engineer, you’ll lead a team of engineers through challenging development projects. Come join a highly collaborative team of skilled engineers with a passion for quality.
What you’ll do:
- Develop new applications, APIs, features, and integrations that support Guidepoint’s CRM modernization initiatives
- Maintain development and deployment environments using containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes
- Manage automated build pipelines and code deployments across multiple environments
- Optimize monolithic legacy codebases and newer repositories using PHP (Symfony)
- Manage front and back-end team members through projects on a monolithic, legacy codebase and greenfield development projects
- Coordinate with Product Managers to convert complex business rules and workflows from user stories into technical implementations
- Coordinate with QA, Application Support, and DevOps teams to triage bugs
- Coordinate with other Engineering Leads/Managers in the same or different functions
- Work with large database schemas that would include adding and updating tables and rows using MySql
- Write Unit tests and Documentation
What you have:
- 8 years’ experience with OOP
- 8 years’ experience and an expert in PHP
- 8 years’ experience with SQL
- 6 years’ experience with REST API development
- 6 years’ experience with Symfony/Frameworks
- 8 years’ experience with Linux
- 4 years’ experience with Azure/Cloud
- 4 years’ experience with system and API design
- 4 years’ experience with containerized development and deployments
- 2+ years’ experience with Javascript (React/Node)
- 2+ years’ experience with Redis/Caching
- Effective communication skills to explain ideas and processes to others on your team and other departments.
- Planning and managing projects, tracking progress, and adjusting priorities as needed
- Strong leadership and team management and be able to motivate and guide their team towards achieving common goals
- Strong sense of judgement when approaching challenges and decision making
- Think strategically and work with senior leadership to execute products to build Guidepoint’s business
Preferred Technical Qualifications:
- 4 years’ experience with RabbitMQ
- 2 years’ experience with CosmosDB/NoSQL
About Guidepoint:
Guidepoint is a leading research enablement platform designed to advance understanding and empower our clients’ decision-making process. Powered by innovative technology, real-time data, and hard-to-source expertise, we help our clients to turn answers into action.
Backed by a network of nearly 1.5 million experts and Guidepoint’s 1,300 employees worldwide, we inform leading organizations’ research by delivering on-demand intelligence and research on request. With Guidepoint, companies and investors can better navigate the abundance of information available today, making it both more useful and more powerful.
At Guidepoint, our success relies on the diversity of our employees, advisors, and client base, which allows us to create connections that offer a wealth of perspectives. We are committed to upholding policies that contribute to an equitable and welcoming environment for our community, regardless of background, identity, or experience.
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