Platform Backend Developer

Join OpenRatio's corporate systems group as a Backend Platform Engineering to help design and build infrastructure platforms to run innovative applications and solutions that serve enterprise clients.

As a lead backend you will be building the backend for the next generation of employee-facing mobile apps that empower enterprise clients to efficiently engage with their stakeholders.

This role is responsible to be part of the team that will help define the strategic direction of the OpenRatio platform, platform installation delivery, support and developing talent pool for backend frameworks and technologies. The successful candidate must be highly effective and influential in a matrix structure of functional business areas. The successful candidate should communicate clearly and have a consistent track record of delivery. Qualified candidates have extensive experience in a digital technology environment building product roadmaps, deep understanding of the business, customer service orientation and delivering projects that meet rapidly evolving business needs.

Qualifications:
- Proven track record of developing and operating large SaaS platforms.
- Experience working with diverse infrastructure options such as private and public cloud, bare metal servers, Dockers, physical and software load balancers and multiple storage options.
- Experience working with different teams to design infrastructure platforms which includes provisioning, monitoring and deploy application on different architectures.
- Experience working and setting up monitoring tools/processes for LARGE scale environments.
- Collaborate with architects and software engineers on improving software delivery, application performance, and scalability to build highly resilient systems.
- Advise and assist operations for improving uptime, reduce service incidents and accelerating software deployments.
- Hands-on experience installing, configuring and building platforms to demonstrate the feasibility, and direct engineers to implement the solution.
- Solid understanding of database systems (MySQL, MongoDB, NoSQL, etc.). Well versed with the use of XML, JSON and REST services.
- Ability to multi-task and manage tasks with varying priorities.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills.

- Natural openness to new ideas.
- Strong analytical ability to master cutting through to the heart of a situation and ensuring the right results in time.
- Hard-core debugging and trouble shooting skills.
- Javascript mastery is a must (NodeJS)
- PHP mastery is a must (Laravel, Zend, etc.)
- AngularJS
- HTML5, CSS3 and jQuery
- Understand the HTTP protocol like no other
- An excellent sense of what looks good in UI design.

Responsibilities:
- Work with development teams to understand their needs and requirements and determine timelines and release schedules.
- Take ownership of platform initiates, ensuring high quality and repeatability.
- Build proof-of-concepts, prototypes, and implement projects at scale.
- Triage bugs and inconsistencies in platform services.
- Design and implement monitoring strategy and capabilities for applications and services.
- Help continuously raise our standard of engineering excellence by implementing best practices for application architecture, monitoring and high availability.
- Keep up to date with latest technologies and tools and evangelize their value within the team