API Developer

 Who we are

At Venngo, we provide premium discount programs that allow organizations of all sizes to offer their employees, members or customers special offers from national brands and local favourites where they love to shop, eat and play.

We’re an established and growing company that delivers programs and marketing services for leading organizations in North America across a broad range of verticals, including finance, healthcare, retail, electronics, telco, food, etc.

Who we need

Reporting to the Engineering Manager, we are looking to add an API Developer to our Agile development team. You will play a highly valued role on web initiatives from conception to post-production. You will modify and update existing user-facing web-based software products using PHP frameworks (Laravel for REST APIs). 

This is a hybrid role requiring 3 days per month in office.

Who you are

You are a talented Backend or API Developer eager to advance your career with an organization that values professional growth and work-life balance. With extensive experience in building scalable, reliable, and secure backend systems, you bring expertise in monolithic applications, APIs, caching strategies, AWS, and system architecture. You are recognized as a subject matter expert and excel at designing innovative solutions while optimizing backend performance.

What's in it for you:

Technical Challenges: You will lead the decision-making process for transitioning from a monolithic to an API-based architecture, helping us determine whether to modify our existing setup or start from scratch. You will design and implement the API architecture, creating a strong foundation for migrating all systems from non-API to API. In this role, you will spend 70% of your time coding and 30% mentoring other developers, sharing your expertise and guiding them through best practices.

Autonomy and Impact: You will have the independence to shape our technical direction, leveraging your experience to inform decisions, avoid common pitfalls, and adopt industry best practices. Your insights will play a key role in setting up systems and processes that align with modern development standards.

Growth Opportunities: Joining us now is an opportunity to gain exposure to a dynamic technical environment increasingly integrating AI. Whether your aspirations lie in technical or people leadership, or exploring other areas of our business, you will find plenty of avenues to grow and thrive.

As our new API Developer, you will:

• Build. You will develop and maintain RESTful APIs using PHP and Laravel. You will write code that interfaces with numerous internal and 3rd party systems. You will architect and design API solutions that are secure, efficient, and maintainable. You will program large-scale, high-volume websites in a load-balanced or web farm/cloud environment. 
• Own. You will work on multiple projects, balancing competing deadlines and deliverables. You will serve as a steward that ensures APIs deliver value to the enterprise. You will be responsible for the reliability and maintenance of customer-facing web applications.
• Share knowledge. You will promote and advocate for new ways of using APIs, encouraging others to adopt these models and showing how they can benefit the organization. You will train business and technical leaders, developers, and product managers on API practices, opportunities, and realities in multiple formats.

You bring:

• The technical experience. You have in-depth backend programming experience with both monolithic applications and API-based architectures. You are skilled in creating RESTful APIs, developing API documentation, and working with cloud services like AWS and version control systems like Git. You have experience or the ability to quickly get up to speed with the Laravel framework and Vue.js. Additionally, you are familiar with project management and bug-tracking tools, unit testing frameworks, and SQL database design principles.
• The initiative. You are a driven technologist passionate about creating new products and optimizing existing products and features. You thrive in an Agile environment and want to share best practices and ideas for innovation. You love solving problems for a different product every day, stepping up to different challenges. You have a thirst for technical knowledge and a desire to contribute however you can
• The interpersonal skills. You have professional communication skills and can adapt your approach to fit any audience. You ask intelligent questions to obtain and verify detailed requirements. You are highly collaborative, can build trust, influence decisions, and work closely across teams. You are happy to jump in wherever and whenever needed. You appreciate diverse backgrounds, ideas, and approaches.

Why join us

At Venngo, we believe strongly in the value of what we are doing and our capacity to make work better for everyone. And that starts internally. From access to our amazing perks to professional development to genuine respect for ideas from every single person here. We ensure that everyone's accomplishments are acknowledged out loud regularly, and we prioritize helping our people grow their careers.

What you can expect from our interview process:

• A virtual interview with a Talent Advisor who will discuss your interest in Venngo and how your background aligns with this role.
• A virtual interview with the Hiring Manager and the HR Manager to share your technical experience and understand how you collaborate with teams.
• A virtual interview with the VP, Information Technology and members of the Technology team to share your approach to solving complex technical problems. It’s a chance to ask questions about our product.

Apply now.

If you have 70% of what we're looking for and 100% authenticity and passion, express your interest here. Please contact our Talent Acquisition partner by email at [email protected] and let us know what accommodations or assistance we can provide you during the application process.

At Venngo, we're committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion. We welcome and appreciate candidates from diverse backgrounds, including women, persons with disabilities, Black, Indigenous and People of Colour (BIPOC), the LGBTQ2SIA+ community, and other equity-seeking groups.

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