Software Developer

Who We Are:

Embrace® provides software solutions to over 1,100 school districts across eight states, enabling educators to spend less time on paperwork, and more time where it matters - in the classroom. We are committed to providing high quality, easy-to-use software for managing IEP and 504 plans, documenting intervention plans, monitoring services and reimbursement, and evaluating staff.

Summary:

Embrace is looking for a Software Developer to join our agile software development team. In this role, you collaborate with other developers to maintain and expand our web application. Part of these responsibilities include writing and debugging code, so we are looking for applicants familiar with PHP, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS. You must have excellent problem solving skills, be self-motivated, and flexible. This position offers the ability to learn from senior members of the team and advance your career with a growing company.

Job Responsibilities:

Work on fixing bugs

Work on feature development projects

Work with internal and external API?s

Develop unit tests

Maintain documentation

Attend daily/weekly developer meetings

Collaborate with other developers to design, build, and maintain applications

Use JIRA to plan daily/weekly work

Job Requirements:

2+ years experience writing code in PHP, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS

2+ years experience working with relational databases

1+ years experience with git (or other version control)

Comfortable with object oriented programming

Comfortable using linux command line

Familiarity with MVC frameworks

Excellent online communication skills

Able to work independently, as part of a team, or under direction of management

Experience working with API?s

Beneficial, but not Required:

Experience with with ORM?s

Experience with dependency injection patterns

Experienced with normalized database structures

Experience writing units tests or test driven development environments

Experience with AWS products

Experience with Twitter bootstrap or other grid based layouts

Experience with Redis

Familiarity what the OWASP top 10

Familiarity with JIRA

College degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field

Embrace Benefits:

100% company paid health, vision, dental, and disability insurance for employee

401k with 4% employer-contribution

Monthly internet stipend

Generous PTO with yearly roll over of unused days

Remote work environment

Company provided equipment