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Firebrand Technologies is a fully-virtual technology company working in and for the book publishing industry. Firebrands wear many hats, are not afraid to roll up their sleeves and get their hands dirty, and embrace the never-ending technical challenges in the book industry with enthusiasm and a sense of purpose.

Our company is committed to equal employment opportunity. We will not discriminate against employees or applicants for employment on any legally-recognized basis [“protected class”] including but not limited to: veteran status, uniform service member status, race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, physical or mental disability, genetic information or any other protected class under federal, state, or local law.

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Software Engineer (PHP/Symfony)

If you love books and building things on the web, we are sure you would enjoy:

Building web-based tools used by book publishers to make their job easier
Releasing code often and getting immediate real world feedback
Coding in PHP with Symfony and deploying to Amazon Web Services
Working remotely from anywhere in the continental United States

Our team is currently building a service that monitors changes in book data across selected retail sites. When we detect a problem with one of our clients’ titles, we alert them and help them proactively address it. We face interesting challenges in back-end processing, query optimization, building efficient user interfaces, producing actionable data visualizations and reports, and in other areas across all levels of the application stack.

With this and other exciting projects underway, it’s a great time to join the Firebrand team!

At Firebrand Technologies, you will:

Contribute directly to the architecture and implementation of multiple Symfony-based PHP projects
Be responsible for PHP back-end as well as JavaScript and HTML front-end code
Work with and occasionally contribute to open source software packages that we use in our projects
Build automated functional and unit tests
Participate in agile planning sessions using Jira and related tools
Document useful practices and tools to share with the team

Your qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience
2+ years of experience with modern PHP code and testing
Experience with the Symfony framework (version 3+) is highly desirable
Experience with database development and optimization (we use PostgreSQL and MongoDB)
Experience with PHP 7.1+, JavaScript, HTML, PHPUnit, Composer, Node.js, Webpack, and Linux
Experience with Scrum or other agile processes, and with Jira or similar tools
Excellent communication skills

This position is remote from anywhere in the continental United States with occasional travel required.

To apply for this position please send cover letter and resume to jobs@firebrandtech.com.

Senior Software Engineer (PHP/Symfony)

We are Firebrand Technologies, a software and technology services company that has been helping publishers handle their internal workflows, digital distribution, and marketing efforts for over 30 years.