Principal Engineer

Who we are. 

What you’ll do & how you’ll make your mark 

• Work with a high-performance team of software engineers to design & develop world- class, highly available, scalable & reliable products and distributed software solutions. 

• Understand requirements, own, collaborate and deliver new features and services at a fast pace. 

• Use MVC frameworks, OOP concepts, SOA concepts to build loosely coupled applications, scalable applications, based on the WordPress OS CMS and Shopify. 

• Participate in the entire lifecycle of the product - design, documentation, coding, testing and deployment. 

• Participate in the prioritization, scoping and scheduling processes for new products and features. 

• Learn new technology & practices, mentor the team and conduct training sessions - devote time for learning and continuous improvement of self and team. 

• Build platforms, frameworks, APIs, libraries & automated tools to facilitate rapid issue resolution and development & deployment of new features and changes. 

• Imbibe and maintain a strong customer service oriented attitude while designing and building products. 

• Participate in recruiting the best possible additions for your team. 

**Preference given to candidates that are able to work 1 day per week onsite in Wijchen.

Who you are & what you’ll need to succeed 

• Strong interpersonal communication skills (including listening, speaking, and writing) and ability to work well in a diverse, team-focused environment with other engineers, product managers, etc 

• 5+ years in a professional software engineer role with strong experience in PHP (strongly preferred) or any other OOP language 

• Great understanding of design patterns 

• Experience with RDBMS like MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc 

• Experience in building distributed applications, SOA, RESTful applications 

• Experience with building a performant frontend (React and Tailwind would be a plus) 

• Experience with Refactoring 

• Experience with Test Driven Development, Unit Testing and tools like PHPUnit and Jest 

• Experience with Agile methodologies like Scrum and Kanban 

• Experience with Git/SVN/CVS, continuous integration & continuous delivery 

• Preferred experiences: delivering a high-quality distributed product in a high-paced release cycle and working with geographically-distributed coworkers. 

• PHP and/or WordPress plugin experience are considered a plus 

Why you’ll love us. 

• Work-life balance. Our work is thrilling and meaningful, but we know balance is key to living well. 

• We celebrate one another’s differences.  We’re proud of our culture of diversity and inclusion. We foster a culture of belonging. Our company and customers benefit when employees bring their authentic selves to work. We have programs that bring us together on important issues and provide learning and development opportunities for all employees.  We have 20 + affinity groups where you can network and connect with Newfolders globally.  

• We care about you. Yoast provides learning and development opportunities; 10% of your annual salary is used towards a training budget and a personal trainer. If you reside in the Netherlands, the Yoast Car is available to all employees, events throughout the year, a pension scheme where we pay 100% of the pension premium, Thursday afternoon drinks, and much more!

• Where can we take you? We’re fans of helping our employees learn different aspects of the business, be challenged with new tasks, be mentored, and grow their careers. Unfold new possibilities with Yoast #teamnewfold!  

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