PHP Developer
Pareto Publishing, Poland

We:

One of the leading email marketing /advertising platforms, Pareto Publishing, a top 3 leader in online financial advertising, is looking for 2 full time Email Data Analyst (EDA) to join our growing Warsaw-based team.

Feared by our competitors, adored by our clients, and attacked by the mainstream banks for our unconventional ideas...our work powers the investment decisions of 100,000s of investors in more than 100 countries.

If you want to work on cutting edge projects, this opportunity is for you. Simply put, we do what no one else in the industry does. If you're looking for something that will keep you at the top of your game, this will be your happy place.

We publish more than a dozen email investment newsletters, five different daily email ezines and we own some of the most viewed financial 'aggregator' websites. In total our work reaches around 4 million people every day.

Our business has become increasingly data-driven. As such, we developed and implemented some data models to deliver the right message to the right person at the right time that no-one else in the industry has. And we’re just getting started as we leverageblu

Founded in 2011, we've been the fastest growing business in our space for the last 5 years. The key to our continued growth is the ability to attract truly exceptional employees who are completely dedicated to serving our clients.

The group of companies has a team of approx 20 members based in Europe (Malta, UK, Serbia, Ukraine, Nigeria, Poland etc) working with some of the leading Email Service Providers and enterprise-level across 5 countries.

Requirements

• In-depth knowledge of web application development using PHP/LAMP, HTML/CSS/JavaScript/Ajax/jQuery utilizing strong Web User Interface principles
• Familiarity with modern PHP frameworks would be highly desirable
• Familiar with GIT
• Familiar with basic AWS technologies/services
• Demonstrated knowledge of object-oriented programming in PHP
• Conversant with integrating third-party web services using APIs
• Strong interpersonal and collaboration skills with the ability to build effective working relationships with internal and external stakeholders, including senior management, peers and third parties
• Attention to detail and exceptional verbal and written communication skills
• Understanding of data/server request from (GET / POST)
• Good Knowledge of SQL
• GitHub for code Collaboration
• Performance Tooling, Be able to debug code

Tech stack

• PHP, SQL, HTML, CSS, Javascript

Your Opportunity / What You Will Be Doing:

• Develop and maintain clean, efficient, secure, and well-designed full-stack programming that conforms with accepted industry standards
• Design relational database structures to store the business data and of our clients' systems and websites (database/storage management)
• Maintain existing code-base in PHP and intelligently integrate new features in other services
• Performance measure and tune existing PHP services
• Ensure thoughtful coding practices which create tight security
• Refactor and enhance existing system towards increased scalability, efficiency, and automation
• Learn new web development languages, as required, to support the business
• Communicate with stakeholders at a high level to understand requirements and provide solutions in efficient and innovative ways
• Gain knowledge and stay abreast of technology trends and developments in the financial industry to use best practices

Workflow:

• Weekly or 2-week sprints with the following meetings: Grooming, Sprint Planning, Sprint Presentation, Demo meeting and Retrospective
• Daily stand up call where we prioritize the work for the day ahead, discuss and remove blockers
• End of Day call where we review the completed action items for the day

We use Jira for project management, Confluence for documentation and Slack for team communication.

Tech stack

• Proprietary CRM and tracking platform (PHP)
• Ongage, Iterable, Sendgrid, Sparkpost, smtp.com, etc
• Zapier
• Some databases are currently in Amazon AWS, some others are in-house
• Jira and Slack for project management and collaboration

Recruiting Process:

All applicants will be asked to submit a form with basic details and a personality test and for those shortlisted, complete a 1-1 interview, a basic coding test and a final in-person assessment centre.

We don't care wher you went to school or how good your grades were. We don't care how much experience you have, where you've worked, etc. And we don't want to see your titles, ‘Scrum’ qualifications or certificates. Either you think you can think critically and quickly take over project management for one or more of our team

Job Rewards and Benefits