Full Stack Web Developer (PHP/React)

*** THIS IS A REMOTE OPPORTUNITY ***

Located in Montreal, QC, Cigo Tracker is a technology company in rapid growth, working in a booming industry; last-mile logistics. Our main product offering targets the needs of SMEs,
SMBs, and large Enterprise businesses fulfilling deliveries from their distribution centers to end consumers and/or other businesses.

Our goal is to empower businesses with a simple but powerful set of tools that enable them to significantly increase their operational efficiency, give visibility within their logistics operations, and make their customers happier with real-time delivery notifications and tracking. You’ll work with a diverse team of engineers who believe in code quality and in continuous improvement. We provide access to online learning resources to fuel your learning and growth.

Responsibilities:

• Contribute to overall product and company goals, both in terms of new developments of features and projects, as well as maintenance items (bug fixes, performance enhancements, security vulnerability remediations, etc.)

• Develop new microservices with high scalability requirements

  • Important: Your work continuously needs to have scale, performance and reliability in mind

• Be involved in the horizontal and vertical engineering of new features, and the revision of existing feature sets

• Use innovative/cutting-edge technologies to solve complex problems related to SaaS and high availability systems in the context of modern-day logistics operations

Technologies you’ll most likely work with:

These technologies will vary depending on the tasks you are assigned, but you’ll likely work with:

• PHP 7+ (Yii, Laravel, etc.)

• Node.js & Express.js

• HTTP REST APIs, development, and documentation (OAS 3)

• React and/or Angular

• jQuery (maintenance and eventual replacement)

• HTML5 & CSS3

You currently have/are:

• Specialized higher education (e.g. Software Engineering or Computer Science) and/or significant experience in Software Development

• Significant experience developing in PHP 7+ and solid foundations in OOP (Object
  Oriented Programming)

  • Experience working with REST API responses in JSON

  • Experience working with NoSQL data storage (e.g. MongoDB, Firestore)

  • Experience with one or more modern PHP frameworks, such as Laravel, Yii, Symfony, etc.

• Experience with RESTful API development

• Significant experience with React

• Strong knowledge of JavaScript

  • TypeScript is an asset; you will work with React and Angular in TypeScript

• Knowledge of relational (e.g. MySQL) and non-relational databases (e.g. MongoDB)

• Very well versed in Git (both GUI and command line) and best practices in version control for web development

• Experience with unit testing in a CI/CD environment

• Very strong analytical and written communication skills

• Capacity to quickly learn and get familiar with the ins and outs of multiple interconnected systems

• Experience with any of the following is an asset/bonus:

  • Azure services

  • AWS SDKs and APIs

  • Docker

  • Angular

  • Familiar with the Atlassian product suite (Bitbucket, Jira, Confluence)

Culture of continuous improvement, both personally and professionally, as well as individuals and as a team. We strive to better ourselves and our product offerings while solving a real industry problem with the platform and tools our team builds.