Description:

Company Overview:

SteadyRain, an award-winning digital agency headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri is seeking an experienced PHP Solutions Architect to join our growing Development team. As a firm, we provide a unique blend of digital strategy consulting, user interface and user experience design, web development, software development and digital marketing campaign strategy and management services.

SteadyRain is composed of people who passionately love their work and strive to provide exceptional results. We are a hardworking, determined team focused on industry leadership through providing value and innovation for our customers. We aren't just a group of employees working hard for customersâ€”we nurture, support, and celebrate one another as we grow together to make the impossible possible. Our company is proudly employee-owned, so we all have a direct stake in the success of our solutions (and one another). Employees pitch in across teams to deliver the best strategy, highest level of services, and strongest solutions, making our collective impact greater than the sum of our parts.

As a PHP Solutions Architect, you will personally make an impact by:

Leading the establishment of an IT Architecture practice, and the adoption of an architecture and standards methodology
Developing coding best practices, playbooks, frameworks and solutions for our customers and internal team
Working with our team to create great products for our customers
Writing clean, maintainable and performance code
Outlining architectural best practices for our platform
Optimizing applications for maximum speed and scalability
Helping to drive, document and continually refine platform standards
Helping to drive new tech research and experimentation
Collaborating with other team members and stakeholders

Requirements:

Minimum of five (5) years writing PHP
Minimum five (5) years working in WordPress
Experience with at least one PHP framework like Symphony, Laravel, CodeIgniter or an understanding of PHP-open source projects like WordPress, Joomla or Drupal
Experience leading IT Architecture decisions
Knowledge working with common third-party APIs
Knowledge and experience with W3 Standards and cross-browser compatibility
Experience with source control such as Git or Mercurial
Experience in guiding and mentoring junior developers
Flexibility in a fast-paced dynamic environment with shifting roles and responsibilities
Technically creative and open-minded
Experience working at a digital agency
Ability to solve complex performance problems and architectural challenges
Great communication and problem-solving skills
Comfortable working on PC platform
Detail oriented and focus on quality assurance of work
Online portfolio or personal website with samples of relevant work a plus

Benefits:

Full Time
Flexible Scheduling
Remote Work Options
Paid Time Off & Vacation
Matching 401k Plan
ESOP
100% Coverage of Health Insurance for Employee
Dental Insurance
Vision Insurance
FSA Plan
Life Insurance
Long Term Disability

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