Job Description

We are Firebrand Technologies, a software and technology services company that has been helping publishers handle their internal workflows, digital distribution, and marketing efforts for over 30 years.

If you love books and building things on the web, we are sure you would enjoy:

• Building web-based tools used by book publishers to make their job easier
• Releasing code often and getting immediate real world feedback
• Coding in PHP with Symfony and deploying to Amazon Web Services
• Working either remotely or in our office in Newburyport, MA

Our team is currently building a service that monitors changes in book data across selected retail sites. When we detect a problem with one of our clients’ titles, we alert them and help them proactively address it. We face interesting challenges in back-end processing, query optimization, building efficient user interfaces, producing actionable data visualizations and reports, and in other areas across all levels of the application stack.

With this and other exciting projects underway, it’s a great time to join the Firebrand team!

At Firebrand, you will:

• Contribute directly to the architecture and implementation of multiple Symfony-based PHP projects
• Be responsible for PHP back-end as well as JavaScript and HTML front-end code
• Work with and occasionally contribute to open source software packages that we use in our projects
• Build automated functional and unit tests
• Participate in agile planning sessions using Jira and related tools
• Document useful practices and tools to share with the team

Your qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience
• 4+ years of experience with modern enterprise PHP code and automated testing
• Experience with the Symfony framework (version 4+)
• Experience with database development and optimization (we use PostgreSQL and MongoDB)
• Experience with PHP 7.3+, JavaScript, HTML, PHPUnit, Composer, Node.js, Webpack, and Linux
• Experience with Scrum or other agile processes, and with Jira or similar tools
• Excellent communication skills

This position is either remote from anywhere in the continental United States with occasional travel required, or based out of our office in Newburyport, MA, depending on your preference.

No relocation assistance or visa sponsorship available.

Compensation will be commensurate with experience.

No agency responses.

Company Description

Firebrand Technologies (www.firebrandtech.com) is a software and technology services company that has been helping publishers handle their internal workflows, digital distribution, and marketing efforts for more than 30 years. Our community-focused approach gives our clients more than just tools and support, it helps foster an optimal atmosphere for innovation and product success. Our Core Values: Long Term Perspective: We have a realistic and shared vision for our future, we have communicated it and have a process in place for implementing it. Financial Health: Achieve the financial results that enable us to improve, grow, and protect our business to achieve our vision. Creativity: Encourage solutions that transcend traditional approaches. Service Mindset: We do our best to help people that we interact with. Balance Work/Life: The sum total of what we do inside of work and outside that makes us who we are. Teamwork: We trust and help each other to achieve our goals. Integrity: Standing up for what we believe to be fair and honest, with authenticity and consistency. Excellence: Delivering superior results.