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PawBoost | Senior PHP Backend Engineer | Raleigh, NC | REMOTE or ONSITE | Full Time

PawBoost is a small 5-person Raleigh-based tech company founded in 2014 that helps owners reunite with their missing pets through web, email, and social media. Bootstrapped and employee-owned. We take pride in our ability to stay lean, profitable, and fiscally responsible while helping thousands of lost pets every day.

PawBoost has an opening for a senior DevOps/Testing/DB engineer. The ideal candidate has experience ranging from deployment pipelines, DB scaling, docker automation, testing, general PHP/HTML work to identifying bottlenecks and making things faster. The successful candidate will be a self-starter with the ability to take ownership and responsibility for their role in supporting the system behind the scenes.

Our Stack: AWS, Ubuntu, Apache, MySQL, PHP, Yii2 Framework, jQuery / Vanilla JS / SASS, Docker

Requirements:

- 5+ years of professional PHP development

- Experience with PHP MVC frameworks (Bonus for Yii2)

- Deep understanding of OOP/MVC principles and design patterns

- Deep understanding of ORM, MySQL, queries and table structures esp with relation to geo

- Working knowledge of Git

Remote work ok, competitive compensation, solid benefits, easy-going team, build stuff that genuinely helps people everyday.

If you are interested please send CV and Github link (if available) to tim@pawboost.com



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