Senior Backend Developer

Senior Backend Developer

Department: Technical Services

Location: Gobal / Remote

Reports To: Technical Team Lead

Position Summary

As a hands-on Senior Backend Developer specializing in PHP (Laravel) and Node.js, you will build functional, scalable, and performant backend applications.

This role requires a high degree and breadth of technical expertise and adaptability to tackle a mix of new builds and support engagements across a diverse client base. Your day-to-day execution will focus on two core areas:

• New Delivery: Developing new application backends, complex integrations, and ETL processes that connect e-commerce and enterprise systems.
• Support & Optimization: Enhancing and supporting existing solutions to serve evolving client needs.

To ensure successful delivery, you will collaborate directly with clients and cross-functional teams from project kick-off through deployment.

Organizational Values

At CQL, our Values drive everything we do as a company. You'll see them often in company communications, annual reviews, kudos and more.

• Relentlessly Client-Centric - We prioritize our clients' results ahead of everything. We make decisions from our clients' POV.
• Trusted and Consultative - We earn our clients' trust by guiding and consulting them through difficult decisions. We do what we say we're going to do, internally and externally.
• Collaborative, Approachable, and Authentic - We operate as one team, internally and externally. We're empathetic with one another and our clients. We're kind in all circumstances. 
• Adaptable and Constantly Learning - And have fun doing it. We deliver work we're proud of with excellence and care. We constantly strive for our clients and team members.
• Passionate to Achieve and Win - We learn quickly and create positive change.

Essential Responsibilities

• Develop and deploy high-quality, production-ready code for core backend services across multiple client projects.
• Provide comprehensive, end-to-end estimates to drive PM sprint planning, release mapping, and client level of effort communication.
• Analyze requirements and work with team and clients to determine the implementation direction
• Know when to ask for additional resources for higher complexity tasks
• Provide input into the acceptance criteria definition to ensure the technical components of the software solution are fully accounted for 
• Proactively communicate task status, blockers and maintain up-to-date Jira tickets.
• Submit ongoing work for review by peers or Technical Lead. Review, test, and provide peer feedback on work of others
• Provide clear testing and release instructions to Tech Lead, QA and clients
• Debug existing issues, rapidly respond to production problems
• Identify tech debt and proactively recommend changes
• Accumulate domain knowledge around existing clients solutions to assist with ongoing needs
• Complete training to learn new skills, technologies, libraries and patterns to better support client use-cases

Education & Experience Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree specializing in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, or related field or equivalent work experience
• At least 5 years of PHP development with knowledge of the Laravel framework
• At least 2 years of Node.js development experience
• At least 2  years of experience in Ecommerce web development
• At least 1 year of experience in the Shopify Plus platform
• Strong proficiency in relational databases, particularly MySQL
• React experience a plus
• Proven ability to troubleshoot complex issues
• Working knowledge of Cloud platforms (AWS, Azure) is a plus
• Strong Git and GitHub knowledge
• 6 hours of your daily work hours must overlap with US Central Time zone business hours (8am - 5pm CT)

Other Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

• Experience working in a team environment is a must
• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate effectively at both a business and technical level
• Proven ability to employ root cause analysis techniques to diagnose and resolve complex, high-impact technical issues delivering architecturally and business-minded solutions
• Ability to manage time and tasks well across multiple competing projects and clients; comfortable asking questions and reporting concerns to leadership
• Ability to pay close attention to detail; asking clarifying questions to gather all relevant information
• Welcome constructive feedback and apply it to future performance
• Dedicated to improving your craft and having a positive outlook
• Possess a willingness to mentor and train others

This job description does not list all duties of the job. Employees may be asked by management to perform other duties as needed. The Company reserves the right to revise this job description at any time. This job description is not a contract for employment and does not infringe upon the Company’s at-will employment status.