PHP Engineer
Our Opportunity:
Chewy is hiring a PHP Engineer to work on our engineering team in Boston, MA. You will be delivering solutions on a team with design and development responsibilities while working on high scale systems.
What you'll do:
- You will be responsible for design, coding, testing and debugging ecommerce software
- You will be learning and participating in code and design reviews
- Chewy will assign a mentor to help you ramp up after which you will be helping improve our on-boarding process for new engineers
- You will build awesome software
What you'll need:
- You must be proficient in PHP and MySQL
- Working knowledge of AWS
- Knowledge of an object-oriented language such as Java or Scala
- Proficiency in Computer Science fundamentals – object oriented design, data structures, algorithm - design, problem solving, and complexity analysis
- Sharp analytical abilities and design skills
- Strong background with modern tools and environments (e.g., XML, web services, version control systems, bug/issue tracking tools)
- Position may require travel
Bonus:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Math, Physics or Electrical Engineering
- Knowledge of Scrum, XP or other agile methodologies a plus.
- Good communication skills with both technical and business people.
- Experience in web technologies such as JavaScript, JQuery, AJAX and HTML5
- A working knowledge of optimization algorithms (e.g., linear programming) and mathematical modeling a plus.