Staff Full Stack Developer

Time To Pet, a DaySmart company, is focused on building business management software for pet sitters and dog walkers. Our SaaS product is designed to help pet sitters and dog walkers start, grow and better manage their businesses. We pride ourselves on our ability to rapidly deliver exciting new features to our clients, to provide unmatched support, and to help them build the best business possible. We do this by finding great people, using systems to manage and improve our processes, staying lean and nimble, listening to the needs of our clients, fully committing to customer success and our product. At Time To Pet, product is essential to our mission. Delivering a stable, well designed, and constantly improving product is critical to our success.

Position

We are looking for a Staff Full Stack Developer to join our team. The position will act as a team and own API excellence, with a focus on API development, documentation, and maintenance. Additionally, they lead the development of new features, and own and maintain an existing codebase that helps tackle challenging and important problems impacting thousands of local pet care providers who rely on Time To Pet to run their businesses in real time. The ideal candidate will be able to operate well in ambiguity and come to a great solution. As a Full Stack Developer, you will work closely with cross-functional teams to design, develop, and maintain our platform, using PHP, Laravel, and JavaScript.

Responsibilities

• Own API excellence by developing a modern, well-architected, well-documented API
• Design and develop high-quality new features with a focus on scalability, reliability, and performance.
• Maintain the existing code base by fixing bugs and driving improvements as needed.
• Collaborate with development team to ensure the successful delivery of software features and updates.
• Write clean, maintainable, and testable code, with a focus on best practices and coding standards.
• Map real-world customer issues to product solutions.
• Participate in code reviews, design discussions, and other collaborative activities to ensure the quality and consistency of our codebase.
• Act as feature lead on some projects by driving technical planning and architecture decisions.
• Contribute to the development of our technical roadmap, with a focus on innovation, efficiency, and growth.
• Stay current with the latest trends and best practices in web development and continuously improve your skills and knowledge.
• Participate in an on-call Incident Response rotation

Requirements

• Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field; or equivalent experience.
• 5 years of experience building and maintaining a REST API.
• Experience creating and owning API documentation.
• 5 years developing web apps with PHP.
• Exposure/experience with Laravel.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in a fast-paced and dynamic Agile environment.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
• Comfortable navigating large codebases and relational databases at scale.
• Driven and self-disciplined with the ability to own projects from start to finish.

Preferred

• Experience with modern JavaScript frameworks (Vue.js, React, etc.)
• Experience with AlpineJS and/or jQuery.
• Experience developing cloud ready (AWS) products and/or migrating products to the cloud.
• Experience using development containers.
• Experience working remotely.

The salary for this role is $160,000 - $170,000 per year. Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to education, work experience, certifications, internal equity, etc.

What We Offer

• Competitive salary and benefits including medical, dental, vision, HSA, FSA, and more!
• 401k plan with company match on your contributions.
• Open PTO and a generous paid holiday schedule.
• Supportive work environment with the flexibility to work where/how you want – in-office, remote, or hybrid.
• Opportunities to ensure you are always learning and growing.

How You Will Work

This position is based in Austin, Texas. The expectation would be to work from our office several days per week to foster close collaboration with the rest of the Time To Pet team. Our other office locations:-

• Ann Arbor, MI
• Scottsdale, AZ
• Wayne, PA

DaySmart is committed to creating a diverse employee environment and is a proud equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, age, or veteran status.

Salary : $160,000 - $170,000