If you read the below description and feel this position excites you, but your experience does not add up 100%, we encourage you to still apply and tell us why! We look forward to learning what makes you passionate and purposeful.
Are you fanatical about great customer experiences? Do you love digging into a customer’s pains, industry trends, market conditions, and more, all to evaluate the information, chew it up, and deliver a solution?
Join us as Senior Software Development Engineer in the New Orleans office, and be instrumental in helping achieve our vision to change behavior and revolutionize payment in the gigantic and increasingly tech-savvy construction industry.
If you have the right stuff to join us, you’ll join passionate professionals who are disrupting a $1 Trillion industry, in a dynamic, rapidly growing, and professionally challenging environment. The role demands passion and zeal for the Engineering craft, great technical depth, empathy for users who may be nothing like you, and a stubborn ability to look at how everyone else is approaching a problem and not conforming.
Build and shape highly impactful software that makes a real difference in good people’s lives;
Work in the globally massive construction technology sector that is red-hot (http://news.crunchbase.com/news/investor-momentum-builds-for-construction-tech/) with investor interest;
Build a category (http://hbr.org/2013/03/why-it-pays-to-be-a-category-creator) around the impactful problem of construction payment (http://www.linkedin.com/pulse/construction-has-payment-emergency-more-regulation-fake-wolfe-jr/) ;
Work with a thoughtful and inspiring team who are working together on the meaningful cause of empowering people in the construction industry to always get what they earn.
Job Description
As a senior software engineer at Levelset you will be responsible for working closely with Technical Leads to develop new features and redesign existing modules of our application to be more scalable and efficient. You will help us improve our application’s architecture, and will work on engineering solutions to different challenging opportunities. You will get a chance to contribute to a fast-growing successful web application that is adopted and used daily by several enterprise companies.
Our software engineers have a strong background in software development and computer science, good problem-solving skills, are knowledgeable about algorithms and data structures, and are well versed in coding using different technologies. Our backend development is done primarily in PHP, but we use other technologies and languages as it makes sense.
One of our Core Values is the “Most Important Place to Work.” Our team members are ambassadors of our brand, and help make the company the “Most Important Place to Work” to team members at all levels. You should be passionate about what you do, and drive that excitement to your team.
Job Duties
Plan, design, develop, debug, implement and support web-based software applications and services
Modify existing software to add new features, correct errors, allow it to function in new operating environments, or improve performance
Comply with project coding standards and industry best practices
Work on a shared codebase, in a team environment, cooperating with co-located and remote team members
Improve software quality by conducting systems analysis, and recommending changes in policies and procedures
Produce detailed software design and specifications
Participate in planning for software development projects, and ensure projects are concluded according to the planned delivery dates
Represent the team in collaborations with partners and clients as needed
What You Bring
Excellent understanding of software engineering and design concepts
Excellent problem solving and research skills
Excellent understanding of the full web stack
Excellent knowledge of algorithms and data structures
Excellent understanding of structured database design concepts and practices
Strong understanding of HTML/JS/CSS concepts
Strong debugging and tracing skills
Experience in using MySQL engine and advanced features
Experience in writing complex SQL queries
Experience in working with git code versioning
Experience in web application optimization techniques
Experience in API development
Good understanding of Linux administration and DevOps principles
Excellent verbal and written English communication skills
Comfortable to work in a fast-paced environment
Self motivated and driven to improve
Experience in software solution and architecture design is a plus
Experience in building microservices is a plus
Experience in building on top of AWS stack is a plus
Experience in Messaging protocols is a plus
Experience in code refactoring is a plus
Familiarity with PHP is a huge plus, but not required
Familiarity with PHP MVC frameworks is a plus, but also not required
5-10 years of software development experience
About Levelset
Levelset has been named one of the “Best Places to Work” by New Orleans CityBusiness four years in a row for our mission-driven culture and commitment to internal and external growth. We are growing rapidly and looking for new exciting team members to add their unique talents to our mission. We empower contractors to always get what they earn, and our software platform makes lien rights, payment paperwork, and compliance in the construction industry simple and stress-free, so contractors and suppliers can get paid faster, have easier access to capital, and less surprises.
With the recent $500 Million acquisition (https://www.levelset.com/blog/levelset-and-procore-are-joining-forces-to-improve-payments-and-risk-in-construction/) by Procore, a leading provider of construction management software, Levelset will continue to empower people in construction to get payment under control, facilitating smooth payments and successful projects. Together both companies will deliver on our joint missions to improve the lives of everyone in construction even faster!
With offices in Austin, Texas, Cairo, Egypt and headquartered in New Orleans, Louisiana Levelset team is 350+ people and growing.
Why Levelset
We’re a rapidly growing team working on interesting and worthwhile problems
With a newly distributed workforce, we make engagement and employee wellness even more of a priority. We want you to love your job!
We believe professional growth (i.e. building your skills) is essential. Working here provides the opportunity for increased responsibility, continuous learning, and more.
We have a very welcoming culture that starts at the top with our CEO.
Nothing is a secret here, we think honesty and transparency create a productive workplace.
Recognition for hard work and demonstrating our core values is important to us.
Benefits
Competitive health benefits, including mental, emotional, and behavioral health benefits and an easy to use Employee Assistance Program.
Flexible sick & personal leave policy needed for health, family, and parenting during this tough time.
Open vacation policy without a cap on the number of days-off. We do require employees to take a minimum of 5 days off in a row each year.
Subsidized International Travel: We subsidize international travel starting at 6 months, and increasing each year
Equity , per company’s general stock grant plan
401k account through Betterment which allows you to seamlessly save money for retirement directly from your paycheck
Learning and Development Opportunities: in the spirit of our core value to Learn Enough, we offer a book reimbursement program. If you share what you learned from a book with the team, we’ll reimburse you for it. We also provide ample room for learning and development opportunities through Coursera online courses, outside speakers, and opportunities to learn skills from your colleagues.
We are committed to fighting injustice throughout the construction industry, and fairness is key to our company’s purpose. We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate.
Read more about why being on a rocket ship is the best of your career options from Levelset’s CEO here (https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-growth-companies-your-best-early-careeroption-scott-wolfe-jr/) .
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