Senior Software Engineer

Pope Tech is dedicated to creating an accessible internet for people with disabilities by empowering web creators. They are seeking a senior engineer to take ownership of building and improving full-stack features, focusing on system design, performance, and scalability.

Responsibilities:

• Building full-stack features (PHP + Angular UI/UX)
• Scaling systems that process millions of pages and PDFs
• Improving performance of MySQL queries and data models
• Designing and evolving system architecture as we grow
• Debugging complex issues across multiple services and languages
• Writing well-tested, maintainable code with a focus on fast and effective tests

Requirements:

• Strong experience building and shipping production systems
• Comfortable working across the full stack, including modern frontend (Angular or similar)
• Deep understanding of relational databases and performance at scale
• Ability to debug and solve ambiguous and complex problems independently
• Solid grasp of software architecture principles
• Experience with or interest in Domain-Driven Design
• Strong opinions on code quality, and the discipline to back them up
• Experience with TDD or similar testing practices (microtesting preferred)
• Self-directed and comfortable in a low-process environment
• Able to learn new tools/languages quickly when needed
• Willing to take ownership of problems, not just tasks
• Experience working with large-scale data processing systems
• Familiarity with parsing or analyzing web/PDF content
• Exposure to accessibility standards
• Experience with AWS