Staff Backend Software Engineer - PHP

About This Role

As a Staff Software Engineer at Fandom, you will help us build the web experience on the world’s biggest platform for fans, with over 2.5 billion page views and 300 million users a month!

Our Community Platform underlies some of the biggest fan knowledge bases in the world, including communities built around pop culture phenomena like Star Wars, Minecraft, Marvel Comics, and thousands of others.

As a developer, you'll work on one of our goal-oriented and autonomous teams focused on delivering features to and improving the experience of our various users (casual users, content creators, moderators, administrators).

We are looking for people who are driven by solving business problems on a very big scale. It’s OK if you’re more specialized in either front-end or back-end or prefer to be a balanced web developer that solves problems equally on both sides of the HTTP protocol - if you’re good at solving problems and you enjoy the pop culture, there is a big chance you’ll find yourself at home at Fandom!

You Will...

Help build one of the biggest community platforms on the Internet
Take part in (and eventually lead) an end-to-end app and feature design process
Improve web apps to perform best at a very big scale
Help your team find the best processes to solve our various business challenges
Share knowledge with others
Provide mentorship to the less experienced engineers on your team

You Have...

Experience in web development
An ability to code in PHP
Courage for learning new technologies and stepping out of your comfort zone
A drive to solve business problems
A strong eye for performance and scalability
An ability to resolve technical and operational issues
Passion for delivering well-structured, tested, maintainable and useful software
Ability to communicate in English

Bonus Points if You Have...

Passion for pop culture (Movies, Games, TV Shows, Anime, etc.)
Experience with app security
Experience with creating developer tools or platforms
Experience working with highly-scaled web apps
Experience with Docker and Kubernetes
An ability to code in Java or Golang

Benefits & Perks

MacBook Pro and all the gear you need for work
Free access to a multitude of popular online courses and books sponsored by the company
An on-demand budget for education, training, and conferences
Company stock options
Company swag packages
Cafeteria Benefit Program (including private medical care, gym membership, shopping/wellness bonus, etc.)
VTO (Voluntary Time Off) - a day off every quarter for volunteering non-profit
Frequent team bonding events
Flexible work hours & time-off
Employee Interest and Hobby Groups supported by the company
Open, energetic and fan-focused, international work environment

Fandom is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Benefits
Extracted with AI

MacBook Pro and all necessary gear
Free access to online courses and books
On-demand budget for education, training, and conferences
Company stock options
Company swag packages
Cafeteria Benefit Program (including private medical care, gym membership, shopping/wellness bonus)
Voluntary Time Off (VTO) - a day off every quarter for volunteering
Frequent team bonding events
Flexible work hours & time-off
Employee Interest and Hobby Groups