Senior Software Engineer

MailChimp is the world's leading email marketing service. More than 10 million people and businesses use MailChimp to design and send 1 billion emails a day. We empower small businesses with a suite of powerful and easy-to-use email, marketing automation, and analytics tools that integrate with hundreds of popular applications and services.

We’re seeking an experienced software engineer to help us build and support MailChimp products. We have a PHP codebase like no other, and our application stack includes Linux, MySQL, Postgres, Puppet, Elasticsearch, Redis, and Kafka. We use a variety of hosting services around the world in AWS as well as in MailChimp’s own Colocation facilities.

* Set technical direction for and own the design and implementation of the overall system architecture and infrastructure * Develop new and enhance existing features as well as investigate and resolve defects * Empower team members - including other developers as well as the Technical Support, Compliance, and Delivery teams - through technical mentoring, contributions to the team’s documentation libraries, and providing automation for manual tasks where appropriate * Define and adhere to internal coding standards, development processes, and design best practices * Ensure quality by performing thorough testing and leveraging peer reviews for your work and the work of others * Help scope, estimate, and prioritize work * Embrace and demonstrate our values: humility, creativity, and independence

* 5+ years experience in a software development environment, preferably building distributed server products * Experience designing and implementing application architectures and code that are highly scalable, available, intelligent, and performant * Ability to work independently, with minimal supervision * A portfolio of code you've written and systems you’ve designed * Passion for building great web applications and thirst for learning new ways to deliver great software products