Shift4 (NYSE: FOUR) is boldly redefining commerce by simplifying complex payments ecosystems across the world. As the leader in commerce-enabling technology, Shift4 powers billions of transactions annually for hundreds of thousands of businesses in virtually every industry. For more information, visit www.shift4.com.
Summary
As a Web Developer (Software Engineer) at Shift4, you’ll help shape the future of our production systems by building clean, scalable, and high-impact applications. You’ll write and review code, contribute to architecture decisions, and drive major projects from idea to deployment in a fast-moving continuous integration environment. Your work will power Shift4’s xDine solution—an innovative platform that transforms restaurant online ordering and remotely manages pinpads through our advanced Terminal Management System. This is your chance to work with cutting-edge technology, solve complex challenges, and deliver solutions that directly impact how thousands of businesses serve their customers every day.
Responsibilities
- Contribute stable, well-written code to the production system.
- Provide detailed feedback for colleagues via code reviews to ensure code quality.
- Begin learning and understanding new languages or frameworks.
- Deploy multiple builds to a continuous integration pipeline with minimal issues.
- Write and maintain test cases for various projects to ensure code quality.
- Set up and manage staging and production environments for development.
- Own and deliver at least one major project with successful outcomes.
- Contribute to architecture design for both large and small-scale systems.
- Provide feedback on optimization or refactoring for existing systems to improve performance.
- Provide development support to resolve any issues with technical systems and applications.
- Translate high-level requirements to actionable tasks and deliverables.
- Understand, diagnose and solve deep technical and performance issues across the product.
- Collaborate with the Quality assurance team in test planning and test coverage.
- Understand future business goals from Product Owners and make sure architecture and system design can support those goals.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or equivalent practical experience.
- 3+ years of relevant experience
- Strong proficiency in PHP, JavaScript, CSS, MySQL.
- Experience working with the LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP)
- Good understanding of website speed performance optimization.
- Ability to write modular, maintainable, and clean code.
- Experience designing, building, and shipping websites, software, and/or mobile apps.
- Ability to clearly communicate technical topics to non-technical people.
- Proven ability to work well in a fast-paced, multi-disciplinary team environment.
- Proficiency with Git/GitLab is a nice-to-have skill.
- Ability to learn, adapt, and keep an open mind toward new technologies.
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