Backend Engineer

Recently named one of Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies and AdAge's A-List Awards Social Media/Influencer Agency of the Year, Whalar is a global creator commerce company that enables creators, brands, and the world's leading social platforms to work better together to drive business growth for all.

We help brands stay culturally relevant through strategic creator relationships that deliver entertaining and must-see content at scale. We are differentiated by our unique capabilities, including comprehensive creator talent management, brand partnership expertise, proprietary technology, and a dedicated Web3 innovation practice. Our team includes over 300 diverse storytellers, creatives, data, and technology specialists across North America, Europe, APAC, and MENA.

We power the Creator Economy. We are Whalar.

**Location/Remote**:
**As part of your job, you will**:

- Follow agile methodologies
- Write robust, reliable and maintainable code you are proud of
- Align with the product team to help achieve the best solution
- Contribute to growing our microservices architecture
- Integrate third-party services
- Enhance our data ingestion infrastructure
- Improve the security of our systems
- Create technical documentation
- Work towards improving our Data-Driven products
- Collaborate with our Data Science team
- Help to measure the success of our products

**Experience**:

- A minimum of 4+ years of backend software development experience with PHP
- Understanding of microservices architecture and best practices
- Solid knowledge of REST APIs and web service architecture
- Proven experience using best practices (SOLID, Clean code, TDD )
- Experience writing unit and integration tests
- Experience using Symfony or Laravel frameworks
- Experience using Docker and AWS
- Experience using code analyzer tools (phpstan, phpmd, sonar, etc)
- A good command of written and spoken English

**Bonus Points**:

- Experience with PHP 7.4+ and Symfony or Laravel frameworks
- Experience with RabbitMQ or Kafka
- Knowledge of Python or NodeJS
- Experience Elasticsearch

**Soft skills**:

- Self organizer
- Good communicator
- Problem solver
- Curious by nature with an attention to detail
- A contributor - everyone on our team has a voice

**Our values**:
Our people are our superpowers. At **Whalar**, diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility are at the core of who we are. We are deeply committed to reflecting on the unique journeys, authentic voices, and perspectives of our people, our creators, and the communities they represent. Our hope is to impact accessibility beyond compliance and help break societal stigmas and stereotypes. We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds, not just because it's the right thing to do, but because it makes our company stronger. If you share our values and our enthusiasm for everything creator, we want to meet you, and we encourage you to apply.

**The perks**:
Whalar is a remote-first working environment, allowing our employees to be their most creative and successful versions of themselves. Whalar is located across 18 states in the US and 6 countries including offices in London and Málaga, Spain. **Whalar** provides flexible benefits and collaborative work environments/experiences, empowering employees to work productively in a setting that best and uniquely suits their needs.
- Company-wide yearly bonus
- Private medical insurance
- 25 days of PTO + Sick days + Winter break
- Monthly tele work allowance
- Professional development stipend
- Home office allowance
- English language classes
- Calm App subscription (Add up to 4 dependents)
- Fwrd personal development App subscription
- Volunteer Days
- Social Programs
- 4.5 day work week

**_Whalar_**_ provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. Equal opportunity extends to all aspects of the employment relationship, including hiring, promotions, training, working conditions, compensation, and benefits._