Senior Back-end Engineer (PHP)

About Us: Scaler is a purpose-built platform designed to simplify ESG for the real estate industry and drive meaningful progress. Created by a team with deep expertise in ESG, real estate, and tech. Scaler aims to help the industry set and achieve ambitious sustainability goals. The team is passionate about building a cutting-edge data platform that meets customer needs and supports a more sustainable, impactful future.

Role Overview: We are seeking for a resourceful Senior Software Engineer focused on our PHP stack that will implement new products and features end-to-end together with our designers, product managers and other engineers. As a Senior Back-end Engineer you are not only responsible for delivering high-quality code but also for fostering a culture of excellence, collaboration, and innovation within your team. Your work impacts both the technical quality of the product and the overall user experience.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Product Managers, Designers, Stakeholders and other Engineers to deliver end-to-end solutions that delight our customers. 

• Design and implement robust, scalable, and high-performance back-end systems that can scale another 10x in the next year.

• Work together with the team in setting up engineering best practices like code reviews, monitoring, unit testing, consistent code structure and modularization for reusability.

• Develop and manage RESTful APIs for communication with front-end and third-party systems

• Identify and address bottlenecks in application performance, including load balancing and server-side caching.

• Create and manage database schemas, write optimized SQL queries, and implement database caching strategies.

• Diagnose and resolve software defects in a timely manner.

Requirements

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Math, Statistics, Engineering or otherwise proven experience as a Software Engineer or equivalent

• Experience coding using general purpose language like PHP, Python, Javascript or others

• Experience in SQL and SQL databases such as PostgresDB, MySQL and others.

• Experience using some of the following frameworks & libraries: Laravel, Filament, Laravel Horizon, PHPUnit, FakerPHP

• Experience in developing containerised applications in a cloud environment

• Experience in working with and instrumenting metrics, logging, monitoring and tracing systems

• Ability to communicate & collaborate effortlessly and proactively with technical and non-technical colleagues.

• Solid knowledge of data structures and algorithms and an ability to use them practically when implementing solutions

Our Tech Stack

• Front-end: Vue.js, Pinia, Vite, Tailwind CSS and ECharts

• Back-end: 

  • PHP, Laravel

  • Python, Fast API

• Infrastructure: AWS, Kafka, Redis, Postgres, Nginx, Envoyer, Docker

• Other tools: Sentry, Linear, Github, Notion

Benefits

• Top of market salary and a generous equity stake in the company

• 25 paid vacation days per year, but opportunity for more if needed

• We offer a hybrid work policy: 2 days working from home and 3 days in-office each week

• Four months parental leave

• Annual personal development budget

• We are a global company that meets in person at least once a year

Why Scaler?

When you join Scaler, you will collaborate with a team of curious, sharp, supportive, and genuinely enthusiastic individuals about Scaler's product and unique value. Our people are  committed to making a positive impact on our customers' journey to achieving absolute zero carbon.