Headquartered in Jersey City, NJ, Neptune Retail Solutions is the nation’s premier retail marketing services company. We are experts at influencing buying behaviors through disruptive, innovative, and results-oriented solutions, including in-store, home-delivered, and digital media tactics. Our powerful advertising and promotional programs are supported through rich data and insights. The country’s largest consumer packaged goods manufacturers rely on NRS for unparalleled consumer reach and engagement.

NRS’s digital portfolio is making its mark on the industry. NRS digital products include Checkout 51, Freedom Platform, digital media tools/services (digital display, premium mobile, social, email, DOOH, and digital in-store). We continue to strengthen these existing tactics while expanding our product offerings, partnerships, and capabilities. We offer unique and data-led strategies for our clients to reach their most valuable shoppers. Our products continue to evolve to include best-in-class methods to deliver engaging content at the most impactful time in the most relevant geographies.

NRS' portfolio of omni-channel marketing solutions includes the Freedom API, a platform for creating and distributing cashback offers into retailer loyalty programs, and 3rd party cashback apps.

You’ll be responsible for:

• Enhancing the Freedom Platform with new features and functionality
• Writing code that will scale with our growing user base and data stores
• Writing tests and performing code reviews to ensure that we’re shipping reliable, readable, and reusable code on a daily basis
• Working with the team on software design principles, including object-oriented design principles
• Identifying technical debt and devising strategies to manage and remediate it
• Identifying design patterns that improve the maintainability of our code base, and refactoring code towards those patterns
• Helping the team improve their refactoring and unit testing skills
• Own the technical implementation of projects from planning to production release and monitoring post-release
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to the junior members of the Engineering team

What we're looking for:

• 5 years of experience with the LAMP stack and Amazon Web Services
• Experience with PHP MVC Frameworks like Symfony and Laravel
• Experience writing, maintaining and testing REST and GraphQL APIs
• Experience with React, Typescript, HTML and CSS
• Good knowledge of relational databases and query optimization for performance
• The ability to explain complex technical concepts to collaborating teams
• Adept at writing unit and functional tests for your code
• Source control (Git) is second nature to you
• Know your way around the command line (we develop on Macs and host on Linux servers)
• You want to take ownership of what you work on. You’re ready to explain it to your colleagues and support it in production
• You jump at the chance to help out co-workers find solutions for tough problems
• Possess a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience

Bonus points if you:

• Have experience working with high-traffic, high-load applications
• Love automating, optimizing and making things faster
• Have experience working with DevOps concepts and CI/CD systems

About Us:

• We’re flexible and value a good work-life balance! We work remotely.
• We use many of the AWS products (ex: ec2, lambda, s3, rds, aurora, elasticache, redis, redshift, beanstalk, ecs).
• We use several tools to help us every day - GitHub, Jira, PHPStorm, New Relic, Cloud Watch, SumoLogic, Pager Duty.
• We are currently working in Scrum with 2-week sprints centered around product roadmap delivery, as well as implementing system and process improvements. 

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