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Who You Are:
You are a proactive, assertive, analytical person who loves to think ahead. You want a detail-oriented environment with plenty of room to achieve goals with independence and freedom.

The Opportunity: 
You will serve as a key member of our engineering team and will drive our ongoing efforts to improve our scalability, redundancy, reliability and growth by learning our codebase and systems, building and re-implementing aging services, by reimplementing portions of our legacy code in our modern PHP/Laravel environment by writing this code along with tests, monitoring and documentation.  You will also participate in on-call rotation and incident resolution.  Achieving this mission involves troubleshooting and solving (if a bug is involved) escalated technical issues from customer support by spreading the workload more evenly among the engineering team.

Who We Are: 
At BoldBrush, we know that art can transform lives and make the world a better place. That’s why for over a decade, our mission has been inspiring artists to inspire the world. We provide the art community with technology that is simple to use, empowering and beautiful. And we back that technology with live support powered by people who are passionate about art, tenacious, ingenious and driven to make every interaction remarkable.

What You’ll Do:

* Build, maintain, and improve platforms and systems infrastructure at the core of FASO.

* Building back end services to scale with our growth, especially systems we are outgrowing

* Reimplement legacy features in Laravel environment complete with tests, monitors, and documentation

* Learn existing systems & codebases to assist when we have site incidents and/or downtime

* Participate in on-call rotation and coordinate resolution effort when incident happens during your rotation

* Resolve escalated customer support technical issues (bug fixes & more technical questions & configurations).

Must-haves:

* Good analytical and troubleshooting skills

* Strong Attention to detail

* Persistence / Gets things done

* High standards

* Works well on a team

* Communication/thinks and writes clearly

* Inspired by our mission and core values. Missionary and not a mercenary.

Technical Skills needed:

PHP/Laravel (or other MVC framework with willingness to quickly learn)

SQL (Understanding relational databases and how to query)

Understanding of Git

Comfortable and experienced at troubleshooting production servers and systems. 

Details:

This is a full-time salaried job. No agencies or part-timers, sorry.

Location: San Antonio, Texas.  
This is not a remote position - you must work in the office 1-2 days per week

We typically work 1-2 days per week in office and 3-4 days per week remotely.

TO APPLY:

1.  Please read this entire job description

2.  Take our disc survey at:
https://disc.boldbrush.com

3. Prepare a cover letter outlining why you think you’d be a great fit for this position and provide it, and your resume at the following URL: 
https://jobs.recooty.com/boldbrush/senior-back-end-engineer-bo115

Please send an application with a cover letter that speaks directly to this position. There are no right answers or cookie-cutter expectations. Show us your role in BoldBush’s future and BoldBrush’s role in yours. Address some of the work we do. Introduce yourself as a colleague. Give it a deep think and take this at your speed. We’re giving you our full attention.

Make sure that you attach a current version of your resume and any other information that you think is relevant to this job opportunity.

We understand this is a lot of work and there’s a lot on the line. It’s a significant career move to consider. We appreciate the generosity and courage that go into giving us your consideration. Our conversation starts with your application.  We look forward to hearing from you.