VERB is a digital marketing and technology agency located in downtown Halifax, Nova Scotia. Our global clients offer the opportunity to work and collaborate with some of the world’s biggest destinations, resorts, and travel brands—and with our employee travel credit, it’s easy to experience them for yourself. We take a balanced approach to work/life and have fun at the office– or wherever we happen to be working. We are passionate about exceeding expectations and we thrive on jobs other agencies might find too big, or too difficult, or too fast
Sound good? Great, here’s who we’re looking for…
The Staff Engineer develops API services for VERB’s enterprise products. They are innate problem solvers, with the ability to translate client requests into robust technical solutions. They have a deep understanding of Dolli and act as a subject matter expert for internal stakeholders.
What You Will Do
- Develops software solutions by studying information needs, systems flow, data usage, and work processes while also conferring with stakeholders
- Collaborate with third-party web service providers to create reusable integrations
- Identify and utilize software design patterns
- Build and track reusable code and libraries
- Document and demonstrate solutions through flowcharts, layouts, diagrams, code comments and clear code
- Optimize applications for scalability and performance
- Debug complex issues spanning multiple systems and vendors
- Adhere to internal workflow and development standards
- Collaborate with other team members and stakeholders ensuring there is clear, consistent communication
- Support Project team members through highly technical tasks and be the go-to person for questions and concerns
- Provide architecture guidance and mentorship to Development team members
- 10+ years of experience with PHP frameworks
- Post-secondary education in computer science or equivalent experience
- Experience using LAMP-stack technologies and the Symfony PHP framework or similar MVC frameworks
- Familiarity with modern PHP development practices and tools, including PHP7+ and Composer
- Experience with API development tools such as Postman, SoapUI, Swagger/OpenAPI
- Familiar with OWASP best practices
- Working knowledge of CI processes, including automated testing
- Familiarity with Web infrastructure technologies such as SSL and DNS
- Proficient with version control systems, Git and Gitlab in particular
- Proficient with development debugging tools and practices
- Highly organized with the ability to function in a fast-paced business environment
Our benefits are anything but basic, with vacation time available on day one (not to mention an extra bonus week during the holidays), an annual travel credit (for non-work related travel), and free office snacks and drinks to keep you energized when you’re around.
In addition, we offer the following and are consistently looking for new ways to enhance the benefits we offer to our team:
- 80% premium share option for Group Health Insurance (medical, dental, vision), with a health spending account to top up your claims
- A healthy living account
- Company matching RRSP program
- Top up for Parental/Pregnancy leave
- Remote and flexible work arrangements
- Transit and fitness discounts
- Recreational sports teams
- Learning and development opportunities with a multitude of resources
- Internal recognition programs
