Senior Software Engineer

About Acquia
Acquia is an open source digital experience company. We provide the world's most ambitious brands with technology that allows them to embrace innovation and create customer moments that matter. At Acquia, we believe in the power of community and collaboration - giving our customers the freedom to build tomorrow on their terms.

Headquartered in Boston, we have been named one of North America’s fastest growing software companies as reported by Deloitte and Inc. Magazine, have been rated a leader by the analyst community, and have been named one of the Best Places to Work by the Boston Business Journal. We are Acquia. We are building for the future of the web, and we want you to be a part of it.

The Acquia Source Platform Engineering team at Acquia is responsible for developing and maintaining Acquia Source UI, Sites API and other associated services. Acquia is seeking an exceptional full stack Senior Software Engineer, who has the ability to grow into an industry leader. You have a strong understanding of APIs development using the PHP Symfony framework. You are able to take technical and business requirements and deliver them successfully. You are innovative, bringing your own ideas and suggestions to the project. You know what it means to be collaborative, and play well with others. You will work with your fellow engineers, Product, and Customer Success teams to identify inefficiencies in our current services and processes, then propose and implement changes to improve the Customer Experience. 

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will...

• Work in a highly collaborative environment with front and back-end engineers, product managers, and product owners.
• Design and develop performant, object-oriented applications and APIs using PHP.
• Create automated tests.
• Collaborate with your team members and other interfacing teams to review their work and have your work reviewed in turn.
• Design and develop unit and system tests that give the team confidence to deploy to production multiple times per day.
• Produce comprehensive software documentation for public and internal use.

You’ll enjoy this role if you…

• Use sound rationale for problem identification and decision making, and can transfer that knowledge to other engineers on the team.
• Strive to consistently achieve excellence, not only for yourself, but for your teammates. 
• Enjoy refactoring code as you strive for continuous improvement.
• Have a passion for User Experience.
• Have experience in working on frontend application development using Angular with backend API development in PHP (Symfony framework) and MySQL.

What you’ll need to be successful…

• 5+ years of experience with PHP Symfony framework (Show us your GitHub profile)
• Experience with various AWS services (SQS, EC2, RDS