Software Engineer III (Senior PHP Developer)

About PDI

For nearly 40 years, PDI has helped convenience retailers and petroleum wholesalers adapt to changes in the industry by leveraging the latest technologies. Simplifying the complexity in your world is our main focus. That's why we're delivering an integrated portfolio of global, cloud-based solutions and services to meet our customers needs today and well into the future. From the back office to fuel logistics, and the latest wave of consumer demands and digital commerce, PDI solutions and services are designed to give you a competitive edge. Our deep domain knowledge is backed by our industry-specific software offerings and a people-first approach. Serving the entire supply chain means that we’ve had to solve a wide range of industry challenges and deliver measurable value. To address the increasingly dynamic convenience retail and petroleum wholesale industry, PDI leads the way with converged digital, cloud-optimized, secure, and scalable solutions including ERP, Loyalty, Fuel Pricing, Point-of-Sale and Logistics to create a broader industry ecosystem. The result is unparalleled insights, simplified operations, and higher profitability for your employees and business. We’re dedicated to helping our more than 1,500 customers in over 50 countries, providing solutions and services to over 200,000 sites.

Job Summary

Do you love building software that thrills your customers? Do you insist on the highest standards for the software your team develops? Are you a progressive software engineer, an advocate of agile development practices, and a proponent of continuous improvement? Well if this is you, then join and energetic team of engineers building next generation development applications for PDI!

You will play a key role in designing and building our market leading software products as we drive to continuously increase our cloud maturity and mobility. You will be working as a key part of an agile team to design, build, test, and support PDI's enterprise software solutions. You will review, recommend & implement system enhancements that will improve the quality, performance, and maintainability of our products. You will be responsible for contributing to an always improving Engineering environment by ensuring all stakeholders (engineers, architects, product owners, SREs, IT Ops…) are informed of status and supported in their roles.

With the variety of environments, platforms, technologies & languages, you must be comfortable working in both Windows & Linux environments and learning a variety of programming languages.

Responsibilities

Oversee and contribute to design decisions for new and existing application development, proactively escalating issues and seeking assistance to overcome obstaclesLead small and medium sized projectsGuides and trains less experienced engineersWork with Architecture and DevOps teams to evaluate tools, process, and technologies.Partner with Product Management to consult on solution feasibility and high-level effort estimationPrepare and provide project status and risk assessments to their manager with appropriate levels of detail to ensure that programs stay on scheduleMake recommendation for data model and framework improvement, analyzing trends, patterns and best practices for softwareActively develop software solutions for PDI productsPerform testing to ensure systems meet documented user requirementsUse a disciplined approach in an Agile environment to assist in analysis and determination of preferred solutions to technical challengesTroubleshoot, test, and validate software issues; resolve issues with due urgency and maintain thorough documentation of all software solutionsCompile test results to provide data for use in solving problemsPerform engineering level tests to find defects; troubleshoot and debug development and production issues, collaborating with QA Engineers to develop optimal product test plansWork with Product Owner to clarify and estimate feature workWork with QA Engineers to develop optimal product test plans and resolve new feature issues as QA finds bugs during release stabilization

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

7-9 years experience designing and developing new or maintaining existing software applications in a software product development environmentProficiency required in all of the following: PHP 5 and 7, MS SQL SERVER, HTML, CSS, JavaScript Web Frameworks (e.g. Angular)Familiarity with the NetBeans IDE and the use of Azure DevOps or Jira1+ year of experience serving as a technical team lead preferred2+ years of practical experience with Agile development methodologiesHighly motivated self-starter with a desire to help others and take actionRequires strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to translate technical concepts into non-technical termsAbility to independently work as a contributing member in a high-paced and focused teamAbility to multi-task and prioritize tasks with competing deadlinesStrong problem-solving and analytical skills with the ability to work under pressureAbility to socialize ideas and influence decisions without direct authorityCollaborative in nature with a strong desire to dig in and learn independently and as well as through asking questionsConsiders ‘best-practice’ standards, as well as departmental policies and proceduresComputer science fundamentals: OOP, design patterns, data structures & algorithmsExperience working in retail or payments solution is preferred.

Key Skills

• OOP
• Agile