Senior Software Engineer, Internal Services

We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our Internal Services team. This role provides the opportunity to guide a multi-faceted engineering team in the design, implementation and maintenance of ActiveCampaign’s internal ARC platform. You’ll also collaborate with the team to perform full-stack engineering, while designing and building new features and capabilities, and solving technical problems. 

What your day could consist of:

• Produce quality, tested code. 
• Advocate for coding standards and best practices. 
• Troubleshoot and debug large scale systems  (user base of 50K+). 
• Validate designs by building performance and load testing tools. 
• Measure, optimize and re-architect production systems. 
• Work cross-functionally to design services and APIs that enable feature work across our engineering organization. 
• Participate in code reviews. 
• Document architectural technical decisions.

Technical Environment

• Object-oriented languages including: PHP and Python
• Front-end languages including: JavaScript, React, JQuery and HTML
• Data stores including: MySQL DB, DynamoDB and DocumentDB
• Develop REST APIs, SaaS systems, micro-services on Kubernetes, and integrations with 3rd party software
• Tooling including: Gitlab, Vault and Jira
• Other services including: Kafka and AWS services

What is needed:

• 6+ years of professional software engineering experience. 
• Technical degree or equivalent work experience in a software engineering role.
• Professional development experience in PHP, mySQL and front end javascript-based languages. 
• Leadership experience with a demonstrated history of leading projects from concept to completion.
• Interest and experience in upleveling teams, improving team development standards and advocating for efficiencies.  
• Experience creating test plans, writing automated test suites or implementing an automated test framework.
• Subject matter expertise on a given technology, domain or system.
• Experience working in an Agile development methodology.
• Ability to participate in the team’s on-call rotation as a service owner.

About ActiveCampaign:We are a category-defining Customer Experience Automation Platform (CXA) that helps over 185,000 businesses in 170 countries meaningfully engage with their customers. The platform gives businesses of all sizes access to 850+ pre-built automations that combine email marketing, marketing automation, CRM, and machine learning for powerful segmentation and personalization across social, email, messaging, chat, and text. 
As a global multicultural company, we are proud of our inclusive culture which embraces diverse voices, backgrounds, and perspectives. We don’t just celebrate our differences, we believe our diversity is what empowers our innovation and success. You can find out more about our DEI initiatives here. 
As one of the fastest-growing SaaS companies in the world, we are scaling rapidly to keep up with market demand. We are growing all of our teams and looking for people who share our values, deliver innovation frequently, and join us in our mission to grow our customer base from 185,000 today to millions. We have been ranked #4 Best Place to Work on Built In Chicago in 2021, a best workplace for remote employees by Quartz and received recognition as a great place to work across all of our regions,  and continue to be globally recognized for our employee-centric culture here.
Perks and benefits:ActiveCampaign is an employee-first culture. We take care of our employees at work and outside of work. You can see more of the details here, but some of our most popular benefits include:
-Comprehensive health and wellness benefits (including no premiums for employees on our HSA plan,  telehealth and tele-mental health, and access to the Calm app for meditation)-Open paid time off-Generous 401(k) matching with no vesting-Generous stipend to outfit your remote office-Access to life coaches via Modern Health-Cool swag
ActiveCampaign is an equal opportunity employer. We recruit, hire, pay, grow and promote no matter of gender, race, color, sexual orientation, religion, age, protected veteran status, physical and mental abilities, or any other identities protected by law.
Our Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) strive to foster a diverse inclusive environment by supporting each other, building a strong sense of belonging, and creating opportunities for mentorship and professional growth for their members.