Back End Engineer

Quartzy is the world’s #1 lab management software, used by more than 30,000 labs at academic institutions, as well as pharma and biotech companies. Quartzy provides a helping hand so your lab gets more done, more quickly.

We’re on a quest for an extraordinary back-end engineer who will join us to help build and maintain our marketplace applications. You are a self-starter with a bias for action, and you can take projects from start to finish. You want to work as part of a small, tightly-knit team that moves quickly and pushes changes to production many times a day. You always admired your friends in science, but your knack for computers led you to programming.

* Design and implement new functionality from the ground up * Work closely with your team to design and develop features that will empower our users * Measure and improve site performance and scalability * Write well tested code that is resilient to heavy iteration

**What we're looking for** * Demonstrable experience writing clean, thoughtfully crafted PHP that scales * Experience with other parts of our technology stack: MySQL, Redis, Beanstalkd, NGINX, Git * An entrepreneurial attitude that gets high-quality projects done quickly * Ability to work efficiently and communicate clearly **What we'd love** * Experience working with money in code * Familiarity with asynchronous worker queues * Occasionally, you end the day with more lines of code removed than added; and that feels great