Senior Software Engineer (PHP)

Pango Group helps customers monitor, manage, and protect against the risks associated with their identities and personal information in a digital world. Backed by WndrCo, Warburg Pincus and General Catalyst, Pango Group is dedicated to creating the world’s most comprehensive portfolio of industry-leading cybersecurity solutions. Our vision is to become THE go-to resource for every cyber protection need individuals may face - today and in the future. 

Join us for the ride!

About the Role:

As a Senior Software Engineer (PHP), you will play an active part in designing backend components and services for main Pango’s products. You will help Pango Group to design and implement a scalable architecture, build core services and APIs, and manage and evolve existing software systems. The ideal candidate is a self-starter, detail, and quality-oriented, as well as passionate about having a huge impact in providing privacy and security to millions of our users.

Day to Day:

• Design, implement, deploy, and operate scalable backend systems;
• Utilize the following technologies: PHP, Nginx, MySQL, Memcache, RabbitMQ, Prometheus, Docker, JavaScript, HTML;
• Ensure that everything you write is well-tested and automated;
• Help define our architecture ensuring scalability and reliability;
• Help define our API design and best practices;
• Participate in planning and retrospectives;
• Collaborate with Product Management and Engineering colleagues on technical vision and design.

What you bring to the table:

• 5+ years of production experience creating software with PHP 7/8; 
• 3+ years experience in developing REST APIs;
• Experience with building scalable, resilient, high-performance systems;
• Experience building robust APIs;
• You have designed, built, scaled, and maintained production services, and know how to compose a service-oriented architecture;
• You’re able to design schemas for relational databases such as MySQL, write efficient SQL without an ORM, and optimize DB queries;
• Strong opinions on API design and best practices;
• Docker or containerization experience or familiarity;

It would be great if you also had:

• Golang expertise;
• Advanced Unix skills;
• You have experience decomposing a large monolith into microservices;
• Experience with caching technologies such as Memcached or Redis;
• Experience working with AWS technologies (EC2, DynamoDB, S3);
• Experience working with queuing systems such as RabbitMQ or Amazon Simple Queue Service;
• Any DevOps/SRE experience.

As part of Pango Group, you will:

Solve real customer problems. Pango Group’s point solutions allow consumers to address their immediate cyber protection needs. Our mandate is to continuously anticipate our customers’ evolving digital security needs to create best-in-class solutions aimed at keeping them safe.

See your impact. We are a scrappy, nimble organization where individual contributions are needed and valued. You will see your impact every day.

Accelerate your career.  As we expand, you will have the opportunity to learn new technologies, products, and markets in a fast-paced, growth-oriented environment.

Most importantly, you’ll get to work with other talented people at a company where people matter. If you want to put your fingerprint on an organization and leapfrog your growth, this is the place for you.

In keeping with our beliefs and goals, no employee or applicant will face discrimination or harassment based on race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, age, gender, marital domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status, or veteran status. Above and beyond discrimination or harassment based on “protected categories,” Pango Group is committed to being an inclusive community where all feel welcome. Whether blatant or hidden, barriers to success have no place at Pango Group.

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