Senior Backend Developer

Location: Toronto, Full-Time, Permanent role

Who we are:

Valnet Inc. is a digital media company that specializes in content distribution. Valnet has rapidly grown to become a leader and global trendsetter in content creation and distribution.

A place of cutting edge innovation and fierce digital content experts, Valnet is taking editorial and video publishing to the next level. Our overarching vision and mission statement: distribute editorial and video content to millions of viewers daily across our websites, YouTube Channels, and Social Media platforms.

Why choose us:

At Valnet, we believe success happens when creativity sparks your passions. When we’re not hitting content goals and changing the landscape of online content distribution, we enjoy the many perks of a sweet life at Valnet: a fully-stocked kitchen, catered breakfasts and lunches, quarterly 5 à 7, sports activities and more company-wide events!

Our team is ambitious and dissolves the boundaries between work, fun, and achieving milestones! As such, Valnet offers unrivaled opportunity for performance-oriented and excitable career-seekers. Our culture is based on the belief that hard work and innovation deserve an inspiring workplace with great perks such as 50% off your gym membership and many opportunities for generous performance-based incentive structures!

What you will be doing:

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  In charge of new development and maintaining all public sites to optimal performance and developing CMS features for Valnet multidisciplinary teams for their day to day operations.
• Have an active role in the analysis phase when defining the features with the tech lead.
• In charge of maintaining all of the digital assets for optimal loading time using the latest technologies in order to have optimal code and programming standards.
• Be highly interested and curious about the latest web development standards and development tools.

Technical requirements:

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  3+ years experience as a back-end developer.
• Strong knowledge of object-oriented programming.
• Solid experience with Symfony frameworks (Symfony 4 a plus).
• Strong knowledge of modularization and library development approach.
• Good knowledge of Javascript (ability to code without a framework/library an asset).
• LEMP (Linux, Nginx, MySQL, PHP).

Technical Assets:

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  BitBucket, JIRA, GIT, PHPStorm, Jenkins.
• Shell Script (Bash).
• Knowledge of HTML5 and CSS3, SCSS.
• Good understanding of SEO practice / Google Analytics / Google page speed.
• Experience working with high traffic websites.

Other:

• Strong team player, analytical and dynamic.
• Efficient problem solver.
• Deadline and results-driven.
• Performance-oriented.
• Extremely motivated.

You may also know this role as: Senior Full Stack Developer, Senior Web Developer, Dev Ops

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