Lead Full Stack Developer

Join Our Team as a Lead Full Stack Developer

The Insomnia Cookies in-house technology team is constantly pushing forward on both our customer and in-store digital experiences to exceed our guests’ expectations. We are seeking a Lead Full Stack Developer to join our growing team and provide additional front and back-end systems support and proper system integrations.

Key Responsibilities

• Write maintainable, extensible, and thoroughly tested code in a variety of languages that support our ecosystem of web and mobile applications.
• Learn and work with our stack, which includes ReactJS, PHP/Laravel, and MySQL.
• Collaborate closely with our team of software and QA engineers to develop and maintain our applications, while simultaneously contributing to our ever-increasing quality standards.
• Lead and mentor a team of offshore contract developers.
• Conduct thorough code reviews and testing to ensure high-quality deliverables.
• Estimate timelines for features and participate in story grooming.
• Assist with planning sessions and perform end-of-sprint reviews.
• Contribute to the codebase and complete tasks that require immediate attention.
• Collaborate with product managers to align development efforts with business goals.
• Continuously improve development processes and systems.

Desired Skills & Experience

• 5+ years of progressive engineering/developer work experience.
• Completed Bachelor’s in computer science, engineering, or technical discipline or equivalent years of work experience.
• Problem solver mentality with a strong focus on quality, both in hands-on development as well as code reviews and functional reviews.
• Strong communication and leadership skills.
• Experience in a high output, short-cycle Agile or continuous release environment.
• Strong, object-oriented and/or event-driven programming skills with a scripting language (JavaScript, Python, Perl, Ruby, PHP).
• Understanding of common programming principles and practices that are used to help structure maintainable and extensible codebases.
• Familiarity with APM tools for troubleshooting, diagnosis, feature tracking, and application monitoring.
• Proficiency with UML modeling techniques.
• Strong understanding of unit and integration testing.
• Experience with front-end development technologies, especially Angular, React, or Ember, plus strong structured HTML5, event-driven JavaScript, and CSS.
• Experience with using and creating RESTful API systems. GraphQL experience is a plus.
• Dev/ITOps experience is a plus.
• Experience with an ORM such as Eloquent, Django, Active Record, Entity Framework.
• Development experience with SQL databases preferred, bonus if MySQL or Postgres.
• Willingness to participate in an on-call schedule to support issues during evenings or weekends.

Sweet Position Perks

• 4-day work week (Fridays off!)
• Competitive base salary plus annual bonus compensation package.
• Enrollment in our Cookie Jar deferred compensation program.
• Excellent comprehensive benefits coverage that includes medical, dental, vision, prescription plans, and pet insurance.
• 401K with contribution match.
• Paid vacation plus 2 Insomnia Cookies personal wellness days.

Join us in Philadelphia, PA, and be part of a team that is dedicated to delivering warm, delicious cookies and an exceptional digital experience to our customers.