Senior Backend Engineer

Parkopedia is the world’s leading connected car services provider, used by millions of drivers and organisations such as Apple, Here, TomTom, and 20 automotive brands ranging from Audi to Volkswagen. Our mission at Parkopedia is to provide the best in-car data and transaction services, to make mobility ecological, efficient and convenient.

Are you adaptable, flexible and pragmatic with a DevOps mindset? Are you able to apply good engineering processes to deliver software products of high quality and performance, even with occasionally ambiguous requirements?

Our ideal candidate will be a lifelong learner who enjoys solving technical problems, is curious about new technologies, and loves sharing knowledge and experience with their colleagues.

We offer a rewarding working environment within a collaborative, supportive and inclusive team, where your contribution is valued, and where you feel empowered to do your best work.

Responsibilities

Our platform is PHP, MySQL, and AWS, which we leverage to deliver exciting new features which enable drivers to use our applications, in-car on online, in innovative and novel ways. We place a high value on improving reliability, maintainability, security and testability to our platforms.

You will participate in Scrum ceremonies and work with your colleagues, stakeholders and third parties, to align on requirements and deliver a user experience you can be proud of.

The role requires demonstrable experience of backend development using PHP and MySQL, and includes full lifecycle development of RESTful APIs and web apps which can operate at scale on AWS.

You will appreciate the benefits of TDD/BDD, ensuring all code is tested and reviewed to the highest standards, and adapt quickly to changing environments, concepts and emerging technologies to assist in the future roadmap of our products.

As a team, we are responsible for the health of the systems we build. You should understand performance tuning and optimisation, and how to diagnose technical issues across local, pre-release and production environments running on AWS. We operate a DevOps culture and are responsible for developing, deploying, operating and monitoring our team’s deliverables.

As the senior engineer in the team, you will set the technical standard for the team; offering mentoring and support to your team-mates.

Requirements

• Highly skilled and proficient coding in PHP.
• Confident in offering technical leadership and advice to your team and the wider business.
• Strong experience of MySQL and relational databases.
• Experience of troubleshooting and fixing performance issues in a full-stack application; from browser to the database.
• Confident in software architecture and presenting technical designs to your team and stakeholders.
• Demonstrable expertise and understanding of API development/design and experience interfacing with disparate systems.
• Applicable understanding of software security, common exploits and secure development practices, including the OWASP Top 10.
• Proven and demonstrable understanding of testing methodologies and frameworks.
• Commercial experience with AWS and IaC (Terraform/CDK/CloudFormation)
• Commercial experience with Linux, Docker, Docker Compose, Git and DynamoDB.

Benefits

Parkopedia is committed to building a great work environment for all our employees. Here are just a few of the benefits that we offer:

• Unlimited annual leave - yup, time off is as important as time in the office, we all need to unwind and recharge our batteries!
• Generous parental policies - for/maternity/paternity/adoption leave
• Hybrid working policy
• Flexible working hours
• Paid time off for volunteering
• Annual company retreat
• Pension contribution
• Training allowance
• Private medical insurance
• EV scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• Gym membership
• Eye care and flu vouchers

We are an equal opportunities employer and believe in the power of a diverse and inclusive team. We welcome applications from everyone, regardless of race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age.