1 month ago
Limassol, CyprusSenior
Responsibilities
- Own features end to end from specification and implementation through testing, deployment, monitoring, and production operation.
- Translate loosely defined requests into precise written specifications and resolve ambiguity with stakeholders.
- Use AI-assisted and agentic engineering tools daily, including automated pull-request review and reusable team skills.
- Write tests for every change, exercise failure cases, and provide evidence of correctness with pull requests.
- Review code, identify design problems, mentor earlier-career engineers, and influence through design, code, and review.
- Participate in the on-call rotation, own incidents, document corrective actions, and remove operational toil.
- Work safely in unfamiliar parts of the hosting platform and improve instrumentation and documentation.
- Identify and coordinate cross-team dependencies directly with the responsible engineers.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in software engineering building and operating production software, with ownership after launch.
- 5+ years of experience with Perl or PHP.
- 5+ years of experience with relational databases.
- Depth in at least one area of a production system and the ability to understand unfamiliar system areas and code languages.
- Daily hands-on experience with AI-assisted engineering, including precise specification and critical review of generated code.
- A consistent testing and evidence-based development practice, including changed-code coverage gating and failure-case testing.
- Experience participating in production on-call rotations, owning an incident, and contributing to a post-incident write-up that led to changes.
- Clear written communication and effective collaboration in remote, distributed teams across time zones.
- Preferred: 5+ years of experience with CDN, WAF, and server security.
- Preferred: experience in managed hosting, cloud, or another high-availability service business.
Benefits
- Visa support and relocation assistance are offered.
- Daily lunches are provided in the office.
- Medical insurance is provided.
- Competitive salary and necessary equipment are provided.
- The role offers an international professional team, comfortable working conditions, and opportunities to improve English.
Tech Stack
PerlPHP
Categories
About Nexcess
Nexcess provides managed hosting and specialty cloud services for SMBs, agencies, developers, and ecommerce teams running WordPress, WooCommerce, and Magento. Its subscription offerings include optimized cloud and dedicated environments with managed compliance and support for complex configurations. The privately held company is headquartered in Lansing, Michigan and serves customers worldwide.