PHP Developer For AI Email Marketing Platform

Who We Are

Feared by our competitors, adored by our clients, and attacked by the mainstream banks for our unconventional ideas...our work powers the investment decisions of 100,000s of investors in more than 100 countries.

Our team has pioneered the largest email advertising platform in the industry.

We have an award-winning tech stack, and we compete head-to-head with Google for financial advertising. We're enjoying unrivaled success as a disruptor in the email advertising industry. 

We're not just another publishing company. We're a powerhouse behind one of the largest email advertising platforms, reaching over 4 million eager investors daily nationwide. We're challenging the giants of the industry, and reshaping the financial advertising landscape one breakthrough at a time.

We publish more than a dozen free email investment newsletters, five different daily email ezines and we own some of the most viewed financial 'aggregator' websites.

The key to our continued growth is the ability to attract truly exceptional team members who are completely dedicated to serving our email newsletter subscribers.

The group of companies has a team of approx 20 members based in Europe (Malta, UK, Serbia, Ukraine, Nigeria, Poland etc) working with some of the leading technology and Email Service Providers.

Your Opportunity / What You Will Be Doing

• Develop and maintain clean, efficient, secure, and well-designed full-stack programming that conforms with accepted industry standards
• Design relational database structures to store the business data and of our clients' systems and websites (database/storage management)
• Maintain existing code-base in PHP and intelligently integrate new features in other services
• Performance measure and tune existing PHP services
• Ensure thoughtful coding practices which create tight security
• Refactor and enhance existing system towards increased scalability, efficiency, and automation
• Learn new web development languages, as required, to support the business
• Communicate with stakeholders at a high level to understand requirements and provide solutions in efficient and innovative ways
• Gain knowledge and stay abreast of technology trends and developments in the financial industry to use best practices

Workflow

• Weekly or 2-week sprints with the following meetings: Grooming, Sprint Planning, Sprint Presentation, Demo meeting and Retrospective
• Daily stand up call where we prioritize the work for the day ahead, discuss and remove blockers
• End of Day call where we review the completed action items for the day

We use Jira for project management, Confluence for documentation and Slack for team communication.

Tech stack

• Proprietary CRM and tracking platform (PHP) - PHP, SQL, HTML, CSS, Javascript
• Ongage, Iterable, Sendgrid, Sparkpost, smtp.com, etc
• Zapier
• Some databases are currently in Amazon AWS, some others are in-house
• Jira and Slack for project management and collaboration

Recruiting Process

All applicants will be asked to submit a form with basic details and a personality test and for those shortlisted, complete a 1-1 interview, a basic coding test and a final in-person assessment centre

The Culture

If you like to be challenged, this is for you

"Don't tell me about the labor pains, just show me the baby"

You need to be pro-active, be able to work independently and learn things fast. Unlike many canned job posts, you don't need to be an "excellent communicator"

Our Values

1. Ownership

Ownership is taking initiative to manage the process from bottom to top and doing whatever it takes achieve the result

2. Growth

Growth is proactive hunger to become a better version of you and for constant improvements to achieve bigger results

3. Transparency

Transparency is sharing informaation in a clear, timely and truthful manner

4. Cooperation

Cooperation is people working alongside each other to complete their individual goals to contribute to a larger outcome

Our Approach

Sometimes, you will be doing a task with step by step instructions.

Sometimes, you will be solving a problem for the first so you’ll be expected to research and contact the relevant people to figure it out and get the job done.

If you like to be challenged, this is for you

Languages? English is all that's needed (Polish language is not a requirement)

Location / Hours / Starting Date / Reporting Line

Location: We just opened a new office opposite the Warsaw Spire, in Warsaw. You should expect to work Monday to Friday from this location.

Hours: Office hours, Monday to Friday - depending on team workload and urgencies, occasionally weekend work may be required / paid accordingly.

Role type: Full time

Reports directly to: CTO

Anticipated Start Date: ASAP

Must be resident in Warsaw, Poland

We Embrace Diversity

We support a global membership of employees, clients, and contributors from all walks of life. 

We find strength in what makes us different. We are committed to building a diverse workforce and cultivating an inclusive environment where every one of our team members can thrive.

We are actively seeking any individual who may have taken a road less traveled to get to where they are now. Experience and education comes in many forms; so long as you are excited about this posting and convinced you could be your best self within our team, then we want to hear all about you

We don't care wher you went to school or how good your grades were. We don't care how much experience you have, where you've worked, etc. And we don't want to see your titles, ‘Scrum’ qualifications or certificates. Either you think you can think critically and quickly take over project management for one or more of our teams, or you don't. That's all that matters.

Requirements

• In-depth knowledge of web application development using PHP/LAMP, HTML/CSS/JavaScript/Ajax/jQuery utilizing strong Web User Interface principles
• Familiarity with modern PHP frameworks would be highly desirable
• Familiar with GIT
• Familiar with basic AWS technologies/services
• Demonstrated knowledge of object-oriented programming in PHP
• Conversant with integrating third-party web services using APIs
• Strong interpersonal and collaboration skills with the ability to build effective working relationships with internal and external stakeholders, including senior management, peers and third parties
• Attention to detail and exceptional verbal and written communication skills
• Understanding of data/server request from (GET / POST)
• Good Knowledge of SQL
• GitHub for code Collaboration
• Performance Tooling, Be able to debug code

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Uncapped commission on all booked revenue
• Monthly and quarterly incentives/bonuses upon completion of probation period
• Annual and semiannual incentives (Includes paid trips and/or additional PTO)
• The chance to pitch game-changing solutions to our existing network (we have well-established relationships with 95% of the players in the financial publishing space)
• Opportunity to work with Fortune 500 partners in the Finance and Insurance verticals
• A badass company culture

Diversity

We support a global membership of employees, clients, and contributors from all walks of life. We find strength in what makes us different. We are committed to building a diverse workforce and cultivating an inclusive environment where every one of our team members can thrive.

We are actively seeking any individual who may have taken a road less traveled to get to where they are now. Experience and education comes in many forms; so long as you are excited about this posting and convinced you could be your best self within our team, then we want to hear all about you

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