PHP Software Engineer

About this role

The Jotelulu Product team is looking for an experienced Software Engineer to join our customer-facing software team, support our growing engineering team, and scale our codebase from thousands to millions of users. You will join a full-stack development team that creates self-service, Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), and Software as a Service (SaaS) at a cloud provider scale. We are scaling our catalog of IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS services and need experienced developers to help us scale our codebase and achieve our goals. You'll be part of a fun, fast-paced, collaborative, and agile team.

This is a fully remote role based in Spain. While we have offices in Madrid (Plaza España) and welcome everyone to join us, our software engineering team is spread across multiple cities, making us a remote-friendly company.

Our ideal candidate excels at working with complex codebases, takes initiative, and delivers solutions to customer challenges while promoting a strong team culture. You will address complex issues by building trust through reliable data, working closely with a multi-disciplinary engineering team.

The Jotelulu Product team designs, plans, delivers, and maintains all customer-facing products. We help partners purchase our cloud products (servers, remote desktops, cloud storage, etc.) and collaborate across Jotelulu to deliver impactful features while ensuring code stability and security. Our inclusive culture welcomes bold ideas and empowers you to see them through.

You will

• Design, develop, and maintain our cloud platform software.
• Write highly maintainable and well-tested code.
• Create scalable and flexible data models that can handle high demand.
• Tackle complex technical challenges with creative solutions.
• Build robust and efficient APIs.
• Reproduce and fix bugs reported by users.
• Set goals and regularly communicate your progress.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of our engineering team and platform.

What we are looking for

Basic qualifications

• 4+ years of software development experience with PHP frameworks (Symfony/Laravel)
• Experience with MySQL or similar relational databases
• Experience with job queues and background PHP processes
• Experience working in an agile environment (using Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, GitLab, etc.)
• Comfortable working on both back-end and front-end development, integrating PHP with client-side frameworks
• Experience partnering with product or program management teams
• Knowledge of engineering practices and patterns for the full development lifecycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, certification, and live-site operations

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience communicating with users, technical teams, and senior leadership to gather requirements and describe software product features, technical designs, and product strategy
• Excellent communication skills and a willingness to pair program, tackle critical issues, and collaborate with teammates to solve challenging problems
• Experience with Ansible and developing Ansible playbooks
• Deep technical experience in both private and public cloud technologies (AWS, Azure, GCP, VMware, etc.)
• Experience with continuous integration/delivery (CI/CD) systems
• Strong understanding of RESTful API development