Software Engineer Level 2 / Stack Developer

Hello, thanks for stopping by!

LocationIQ offers mobile positioning technologies as a LaaS API (Location as a Service) to developers and companies world-over. We serve over 100,000 developers on our platform, and receive billions of hits to our APIs each day.

We’re looking for Stack Devs / Software Engineers (Level 2) to join our high-energy team. As an early engineer in the team, you have immense opportunities to grow through responsibilities and roles as we scale.

At LocationIQ, you will:

• Design, develop and maintain features on our API platform
• Create APIs which will be consumed both internally and externally
• Write clean, scalable, testable code to support our rapid growth
• Actively contribute towards improving developer productivity and tools
• Be a team player who is driven, respectful of others, passionate about what you do and determined to achieve results fast

Requirements:

• 2+ years of relevant software engineering experience
• Comfortable scripting in at least two languages preferably PHP or NodeJS
• Strong experience with relational databases and SQL, preferably MySQL
• Excellent Object Oriented Programming skills and ability to write modular, secure, scalable and maintainable code
• Passion for building great products and loads of energy
• Experience working in an agile team (Scrum or Kanban)
• A down-to-earth attitude
• A desire to continually master your craft
• A good sense of humour :-)

It would be phenomenal if you have:

• Experience building REST APIs and background tasks which are secure and can handle scale
• Hands on experience with Symphony/Laravel or Slim/Lumen, Elasticsearch, Memcache/Redis
• Experience with frontend development and frameworks like React.js, Vue.js or the desire to learn
• Experience with testing tools like Codeception and Selenium
• Prior experience in a Product / SaaS company

We also offer the following benefits:

• Macbooks, multiple internet connections and help setup a great remote workspace
• Competitive base pay and large variable pay including industry leading components like profit-share
• Calm working environment - we almost never work beyond 40 hours a week
• Wellness benefits - Health Insurance, Gym memberships, and Mental wellness allowances

If all of this sounds exciting, do get in touch!