Senior Developer (12 Month Contract)

We’re looking for a high-energy Senior Developer to join a new team dedicated to an exciting addition to our product line. This role goes beyond maintaining our current platform, it’s about building the future of our company. We need someone resourceful, collaborative, and ready to thrive in a high-velocity, blank-slate project.

We’re looking for a proactive teammate who views modern tools as a force multiplier. You should be an early adopter of AI and LLMs, using them to accelerate every stage of the SDLC, from writing cleaner code and documentation to optimizing our entire delivery pipeline.

To generate momentum on this new project, we’re looking for someone who can make an immediate impact. We are specifically seeking candidates with strong skills and experience in SQL, React, and Laravel so you can jump straight into the logic and architecture of our build.

Engineering @ Coconut:

• We innovate on top of a modern solution stack consisting of web technologies (such as React and Laravel) utilizing a RESTful architecture, and backed by relational DBs (MariaDB and PostgreSQL) and deployed using Docker in an AWS environment.
• We are lifelong learners and teachers; all engineering team members are expected to mentor their teammates and share knowledge across the department.
• We don't follow rigid Scrum, but we do work in an agile, iterative way, and try to continuously improve and implement what works for us.
• We work in a blameless culture and have a continuous improvement mindset.
• We strive to provide service excellence in all areas, as such, roles in our Engineering department are expected to contribute to our collaborative on-call rotation, working with your team to support our systems and ensuring application availability/reliability. Each team will have their own rotation schedule. This team’s rotation schedule will be set when the new project enters production.
• We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive team. One-third of our engineering department identifies as female or non-binary, and we actively work to create an environment where people from all backgrounds have equal opportunities to build their skills and grow their careers.

YOU’RE FIRED UP ABOUT:

Team Elevation

• Mentor and support other team members, fostering a collaborative and psychologically safe environment.
• Set high standards for technical excellence and teamwork.

Technical Delivery & Ownership

• Independently implement complex features.
• Proactively identify technical risks, dependencies, and implementation roadblocks, providing timely solutions to maintain delivery momentum.
• Ensure comprehensive test coverage, robust documentation, and delivery of maintainable and performant high-quality code.

System Design & Technical Planning

• Lead technical project planning through discovery, design, development, and release, ensuring clear, actionable RFC documentation.
• Regularly consider essential system characteristics (latency, throughput, resilience), proactively addressing relevant system issues.
• Identify opportunities for architectural improvements.

Product and Design Partnership

• Act as a subject matter expert on the project, actively contributing to product and design strategies to ensure optimal solutions.
• Provide valuable engineering perspectives on product roadmap refinement, clearly communicating technical feasibility, limitations, and opportunities.
• Adapt to changing business requirements and technical challenges.

Communication & Collaboration

• Clearly communicate complex technical concepts and decisions to diverse audiences, ensuring transparency and shared understanding.
• Proactively share project progress, risks, and challenges with your team and stakeholders, effectively managing expectations.
• Create well-structured pull requests and comprehensive documentation that demonstrate deep understanding and technical impact.

Learning & Continuous Improvement

• Seek opportunities to expand your expertise, bringing insights back to your team to improve practices and elevate overall department capabilities.
• Stay current on industry trends, integrating new knowledge into your team's work.

WHAT YOU BRING TO THE TEAM

• 5+ years of full stack SaaS development experience with a solid track record of technical leadership in B2B environments, for enterprise customers. 
• Expertise in PHP (ideally PHP 7+), Laravel or similar frameworks, and front-end technologies including JavaScript, Typescript, CSS, and React.
• Demonstrated ability in system design, architectural planning, and complex project delivery.
• An innovator: We're looking for someone who consistently elevates their skills with new technology, particularly AI and large language models (LLMs) like Google Gemini.
• You should have a strong understanding of how these tools work, the ability to lead other team members in adopting the tools into their own workflow, and a strong desire to explore how they can be used to solve business and customer problems.
• We value continuous learning and our ideal candidate has a proven track record of innovating and pushing the boundaries of what's possible.
• Excellent communication skills and experience mentoring team members, fostering a collaborative team environment.
• Strong grasp of agile practices, Git workflows, and continuous integration/deployment methodologies.
• Proven ability to independently manage projects, proactively address risks, and deliver robust, scalable solutions.

We know that people are more than what’s on their CV. If you’re unsure that you have the right profile for the role... hit the ‘Apply’ button and give it a try!

This posting is for a vacant position. The expected hiring range for this role is $110,000 - $140,000.

The base salary for this position is listed to support candidates to align themselves within the target range. The range is grounded in comprehensive analysis of national compensation data for similar roles and company sizes in the technology sector, alongside a review of our internal compensation framework to ensure pay equity across the company. Note that ranges may evolve over time.  We aim to provide a fair offer and hire within this specified range. The final offer for this position will take a candidate's background, experience, skills, and internal equity into consideration. Top performers’ compensation will be reviewed annually, as part of our Performance Acceleration program (Performance Reviews, Compensation Reviews, etc.).