NAMI Looking for PHP Software Developer at Arlington, VA Full Time

Come join a creative and curious team dedicated to improving the lives of folks impacted by mental illness. We are the National Alliance on Mental Health (NAMI), and produce software used by the 700 affiliate non-profits in our Alliance, doing on-the-ground work at the state and community levels. You will help shape our software, joining the team that designs, develops, and deploys systems that make this key work more successful. This role will primarily be working on systems which support our Alliance (which ranges from CRM, to event management, to a learning management system, and reporting tools). You’ll be responsible for writing code that connects systems together, provide reporting dashboards and exports, and developing new features. You’ll be a core member of our empathetic and engaged team of seven within Information Systems.

This position is grant funded, through August 2026, and will be re-evaluated at that time.

Salary Range: $85,000 – $90,000

This full-time position can be based in Arlington, VA (hybrid) or remote.

What You’ll Bring

You need demonstrated professional experience with web or software development within a web framework. There’s no specific educational background required. You want to build and maintain solid software, understand how our software works, and how we see it working well (or not!). And you want to partner with users to take individual asks and turn them into long-term iterative improvements. We want to build software that includes and integrates the diverse perspectives and experiences of our community members and makes software better.

Just as important as the technical skills, we’re looking for someone who is optimistic, focused on getting the details right, building for accessibility, excited to learn new skills and new technologies, and enjoys working with other people on a cross-functional team.

In The First Year You’ll Work On Projects Like

• Empower our members with tools. Our member organizations would love to display up-to-date NAMI data on their own websites, but right now it’s all siloed on the national website. You’ll build from our PHP backed web services to allow them to repurpose their data for their local communities.
• Collaborate with users within Affiliates to prioritize what features will help them make the most impacts, define how they’ll work, implement them, and test whether they new features are well-adopted.
• Create sustainable features. You’ll write test coverage while developing new features, and ensure releases are well documented to our users.

What’s Our Tech Stack

• Laravel + WordPress for web infrastructure. We use WordPress for most of our websites (and our learning management system), and we use Laravel for our core line-of-business applications.
• Salesforce is our core CRM, and also supports our entire non-profit Alliance network in tracking their membership.
• Slack and Asana for collaboration and project management.

Key Responsibilities

• Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code to improve Laravel and WordPress web applications
• Build or improve reporting from our web applications ensuring the data consistency
• Stay up to date on the features available in our software tools, and make recommendations on when enhancements should be adopted
• Develop technical specifications for core business platforms, and validates them with stakeholders
• Develop and maintain documentation for technical audiences and non-technical user support
• Work with tooling for observability, uptime, and performance monitoring
• Be a collaborative colleague who learns from and educates their team
• Proactively communicates, maintains expectations, and keeps work records up to date in project management systems and team communication channels

Requirements

• 4+ years of experience in web application development
• Experience with front-end technologies such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
• Experience with RESTful APIs
• Excellent debugging skills
• Familiarity with Git or other version-control systems
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team
• Attention to detail and a commitment to delivering high-quality work
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills
• Comfort in an environment with both onsite and remote employees

We’re Also Be Interested If You Have Experience With

• Test Driven Development (TDD)
• Strong proficiency in PHP, WordPress, and Laravel
• Javascript frameworks such as React or Node
• Salesforce SDK, or writing SOQL
• Other REST APIs
• Accessibility
• Using data visualization libraries, programmatic diagramming, or building dashboards
• Server-side technologies such as Nginx or Apache
• Non-Profit work

Benefits

NAMI offers a range of standard and unique benefits that are reviewed annually

Your salary is only one component of the total compensation package.

• Generous and comprehensive Health, Dental, and Vision Plans
• Paid Time Off: Vacation, Personal, and Sick Leave
• Paid Parental Leave
• 403(b) retirement plan
• Flexible Spending Accounts for health care, dependent care and commuter expenses
• Life Insurance and Disability coverage paid by NAMI
• Flexible Work and Telework programs
• Professional Development Reimbursement program
• A variety of wellness offerings to support team members
• Employee Referral Program
• The Employee Assistance Program (EAP) which provides support for personal and family problems common in contemporary life

NAMI is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workforce. NAMI prohibits discrimination and harassment against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, marital status, age, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions, genetic information or any other legally protected group status. We also provide reasonable accommodation for candidates with disability.

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