American eCommerce’s Landing Experiences Team is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to help improve the user experience for buyers coming to their website from sources like Google Search and social media. The team wants to introduce buyers to the brand through branded, curated content, and make it easy for them to find items they’re interested in.

An ideal candidate will: 

Have extensive experience building web technologies and employ a customer-centric and product focus 

Be comfortable collaborating closely with product managers and designers, providing estimates or product ideas that will influence the team’s roadmap 

Have a “leave it better than you found it” mentality, working with and improving upon existing code 

Love to experiment and use data to drive decision-making 

Enjoy mentoring other engineers 

Be a mindful, transparent, and communicative member of the team 

Take ownership of work from ideation through completion

Requirements 

5+ years of PHP experience at a company, ideally with >50 employees 

5+ years of Javascript experience Exposure to JQuery and React frameworks 

Experience working with CSS frameworks (e.g. Bootstrap) 

Ability to reason about web performance issues (i.e. working with Chrome Debugger and Google Lighthouse) 

Experience with git 

Experience working directly with product managers and designers

Experience working in a legacy codebase