PHP Engineer

Company: Age of Learning, Inc.
Location: Glendale
Posted on: September 13, 2020

Job Description:

Age of Learning is a leading education technology innovator based in Glendale, California, with a talented team of 500+ individuals comprised of nationally-renowned educators, curriculum experts, designers, animators, engineers, and more. We develop engaging, effective digital learning technology and content to help children build a strong academic foundation for lifelong success.

Our flagship product ABCmouse.com   Early Learning Academy ®is a comprehensive online curriculum and the #1 digital learning product for young children. To-date, more than 20 million children worldwide have completed over 5 billion Learning Activities on ABCmouse. We recently launched Adventure Academy, the first massively multiplayer online (MMO) game designed specifically to help elementary- and middle-school-aged children learn. It features thousands of engaging Learning Activities—including minigames, books, original animated and live action series, and more—in a fun and safe virtual world. Other Age of Learning programs include immersive English language learning products for children in China and Japan; ReadingIQ, a digital library and literacy platform; and a groundbreaking personalized, adaptive digital learning system that individualizes math instruction for every child through AI-driven technology.

We are committed to helping all children succeed. Through the Age of Learning Foundation, we make our research-proven educational products available at no cost to millions of children in need through schools, libraries, Head Start programs, community centers, and other governmental and non-governmental organizations. This work has served communities on 5 continents and continues to grow today.

As we expand our global reach and increase the educational impact of our programs, we’re looking for passionate, ambitious, and collaborative leaders to become a part of our growing team.

Summary:

We are seeking a full-time Software Engineer who can demonstrate their finesse with PHP development and build scalable API web services in a dynamic and collaborative team environment.

Responsibilities: Offer a strong contribution to the development of the platforms and libraries used throughout Age of Learning, utilizing skills in PHP and other computer science fundamentals

Develop high performant web services drawing from prior knowledge and experience

Maintain engineering best practices to ensure code quality, performance and reliability

Collaborate with other developers and departments to understand requirements and propose

technical solutions

Take initiative to identify inefficiencies in workflows and practices, while improving productivity through abstract problem solving and technical acuity

Qualifications: Enthusiasm for working in a fast-paced, high impact, collaborative tech culture

Extensive experience developing web services and a strong understanding of the fundamental differences between web service platforms

Experience writing object-oriented PHP code outside of a framework and architecting scalable web applications

Experience working with Docker, MySQL, document databases, and Postman/Swagger

A willingness to both act as a mentor and learn from your colleagues

We Provide: Highly competitive PTO policy

Casual Dress Code

Gaming room including an Arcade (2,000+ games)

Frequent team and company outings

Limitless opportunities for professional growth!

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