Software Engineer (Backend)

*Position Summary: *

The development team at Delta Defense manages the entire application lifecycle of the business from front to back. This includes everything from a simple landing page, and extends all the way back to our own APIs, iOS and Android apps, CMS and CRM solutions and server infrastructure. You’ll never be wanting for diversity.

The daily work is an exciting blend of custom internal web application development and enterprise solution integration. We build solutions for our users, as well as many different internal departments: the Sales and Marketing team, Member Services team, and our Content Team just to name a few. We also build tools that we use internally to help keep all of this complexity under control.

With so many unique internal and external customers to satisfy, we have a wide range of exposure to different problems that need solving. This isn’t rinse and repeat development; we are in the trenches developing the future of the company with generous levels of autonomy. This allows us to move quickly and seize exciting opportunities, building solutions using the frameworks, tools, and technologies that best meet the task at hand.

As a fast growing company with wide-ranging digital offerings, there are opportunities everywhere. Our team moves to capitalize and innovate on these opportunities in a fast-moving and positive, collaborative culture that empowers individuals with tenacity and talent to bring their ideas to life.

*Duties / Responsibilities: *

• Design, build, and maintain applications, APIs, and systems for internal and external users at a large scale.
• Write clean, efficient and scalable code.
• Work to continually improve our processes, tools, standards, and team.
• Debug complicated issues in production that touch many services.
• Hold yourself and others to the highest of standards. Especially when working on production.
• Demonstrate good communication skills and can work effectively in a team environment.

Skills/Abilities and Education Requirements:

• Cool under pressure.
• Time management and reliability (able to accurately predict turnaround time on projects and deliver on those timelines).
• Can integrate with different services even if you’ve never used them before to create a great experience.
• Enjoy working across our full stack to solve problems that delight users. We use PHP. We understand languages and frameworks can be learned, so we care more about your general software development skill than knowledge of PHP.
• Bring solutions to the table in an environment with diverse stakeholders. One week you might be working on a difficult report or data validation issue and the next a brand new internal application for a Sales & Marketing team related to landing pages.
• Drive projects forward and tear down blockers for yourself and your team.
• Knowledge and experience developing RESTful APIs.
• Knowledge and experience with Cloud Computing (DigitalOcean, AWS, or GCP).
• Passionate about building a DevOps culture and experienced working in related toolsets (Docker, Kubernetes, Puppet, Ansible, Jenkins).
• Familiarity with Salesforce and Zuora is a huge plus.
• Must have 5+ years experience in a similar IT role.
• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology/Business or related field is preferred, in lieu of degree equivalent work experience may be considered.
• Demonstrates the Core Values of Delta Defense, LLC.