Senior Backend Engineer
What does Pangaea do?
Pangaea collects and analyzes consumer purchase and behavioral data to create premium, international-first brands for the world’s fastest growing e-commerce markets. Our brands are built on a proprietary internationalization platform with competencies across warehousing/logistics, globally distributed performance creative, compliance and payments. We are backed by Google's AI fund Gradient Ventures.
Responsibilities:
- Help architect, design and develop product features
- Assist in code reviews for other engineers
- Collaborate across engineers about best practices, tools and architecture
- Fix bugs and other urgent issues in our software
- Contribute code for assigned product team
- Design and model database and system architectures to best meet requirements.
Requirements:
- 5 years of experience working with Backend Systems, experience with PHP / Laravel
- Knowledge of modern RDBMS databases (MySQL, Postgres)
- Familiarity with cloud technologies (AWS, etc)
- Deep understanding of modern distributed computing
- Understanding of modern version control system (Git)
- Familiarity with the limitations of PHP as a platform and its workarounds
- Understanding of fundamental design principles behind a scalable application
- Strong and solid understanding of the laravel framework
- Understanding of the front end will be an added advantage. We use React.
- Bonus points for No-sql knowledge.
Pangaea is on a mission to connect consumers around the world with brands they love. We believe that what you buy is an expression of who you are. By empowering brands to reach a global scale, we’re building a smaller, more expressive world.
We collect and analyze consumer purchase and behavioral data to create premium, international-first brands for the world’s fastest growing e-commerce markets. Our brands are built on a proprietary internationalization platform with competencies across warehousing/logistics, globally distributed performance creative, compliance and payments.
Since our launch in 2018, we’ve sold our products in 60 different countries. We have grown to over 100 employees and contractors across several locations in the world. Backed by Google’s AI Gradient Ventures, we’re a rapidly growing startup poised to become a leader in the Direct to Consumer industry.