Senior Software Developer

A Full Stack Developer familiar with each layer of software development technology. Responsible for designing, developing and modifying website solutions and services. Own the quality of their work and enforcing code integrity throughout the team.

Located in New York, NY, Bankrate has a fresh, fun, and creative environment you won’t find anywhere else. If you have a strong will to learn and educate and are motivated by opportunity to help grow our team, then we’d love to hear from you!

Responsibilities include:
Designs, modifies, develops, writes, tests and implements software.

Take ownership and responsibility of the work at hand and shepherding code through to production.

Implement web services and REST APIs to power Bankrate.com and partners’ web sites.

Building a scalable, robust and reliable infrastructure to support our website and services.

Collaborate with product owner, scrum master, and other developers to deliver a quality product.

Requirements:
3-5 years of software development experience

Experience with object oriented PHP and Laravel and/or Symfony frameworks

Extensive knowledge of JavaScript and VueJS, AngularJS, or ReactJS frameworks

Requires strong object-oriented design and development skills

Knowledge and experience with other third party PHP and JavaScript libraries, frameworks, and technologies is a plus.

Experience with PostgreSQL, MySQL, and/or SQL Server databases

Analysis & Problem Solving: Ability to understand our codebase, system interactions and business requirements to effectively make changes to our applications and investigate issues.

Communication: Ability to use various communication forums to effectively communicate. Whether via face-to-face discussion, phone, email, chat, white-boarding, or other collaboration platforms, must be an effective communicator who can inform, explain, enable, teach, persuade, coordinate, etc.

Team Collaboration: Ability to effectively collaborate and share ownership of team’s codebase and applications. Must demonstrate willing to fully engage in team efforts, speak up for what you think are the best solutions, and be able to converse respectfully and compromise when necessary.

Education: BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related subject is a plus.

Additional Knowledge and Experience:
Experience with C#, ASP.NET, Node.JS, XML, and JSON is a plus

Extensive experience developing and supporting production quality API

REST, SOAP and API service, HTTP Status Codes, Content Negotiation, API versioning, Caching

Security , Stability, Reliability, Scalability, Fault Tolerance, Performance, Monitoring, Documentation

Experience with various architectures

Domain Driven Design, CQRS, Event Sourcing, Hexagonal Architecture, Event Driven Architecture, Microservices

Experience with testing

Unit Testing, Test Driven Development, Integration Testing, Load Testing, Test Automation, Consumer Driven Contract Testing

Agile Engineering Practices

Test Driven Development, Pair Programming, Continuous Integration, Refactoring

Expert knowledge of OOP principles and practices as well as Design Patterns, SOLID principles

Experience with various tools

GIT

Postman

Wireshark

Swagger

Key Attributes:
Develops innovation strategies, processes and best practices.

Leads and participates in medium- to large-scale, complex, cross-functional projects.

Leads the discovery phase of medium to large projects to come up with high level design.

Promotes and supports company policies, procedures, mission, values, and standards of ethics and integrity.

Troubleshoots business and production issues.

Owns the technical testing and performance plans for their projects.

Utilizes industry research to improve Bankrate technology environment.

Driven by “What can I do to help here?” attitude, rather than the “That’s not my problem” mentality.

Has the desire to simplify instead of making things more complex.

Looks at the big-picture: understands the impact his/her piece of software implementation has on the whole product.

Has good communication skills: communicates effectively with the team and clients to understand business requirements.

Can function as part of a team: able to fit in the team’s culture and exchanges thoughts, ideas, knowledge and experience with other team members to boost efficiency and quality of the solution.

Mentors others instead of coding in a black box.

Is able to start a project with limited requirements and refine them by asking questions or talking with business people.

Has a good understanding and knowledge of the domain and environment they work in.

Reviews/understands requirements and questions requirements in a productive manner.

Constantly improving themselves through training, research, and learning.

Is willing and ready to take one or more roles in a team and is able to switch his/her roles when required.

Is adaptive: able to adapt as a result of changes in requirements for a continuous improvement of a software.

Works overtime to meet committed deadlines.

Is accountable for the work their team produces.