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We are seeking an experienced Senior Full-Stack Developer to join our cross-functional team. This is a key individual contributor role for a developer with a passion for building high-quality software in a balanced 50/50 split of backend and frontend technologies.
You will take ownership of features from conception to deployment, working on a mix of greenfield and brownfield projects. You will be responsible for building and maintaining new PHP-based microservices and APIs while also building and enhancing our modern React-based single-page applications.
In this role, you will be expected to contribute to component and feature design, write comprehensive tests, and occasionally set up deployment pipelines for new services. You'll thrive in our environment if you have a high degree of autonomy, strong collaborative skills, and an eagerness to adapt and learn.
Key Responsibilities- Backend Development: Design, build, and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable PHP code for our backend services and APIs.
- Frontend Development: Develop new user-facing features and complex UIs using React.
- Testing: Write comprehensive unit and integration tests to ensure code quality and stability.
- Collaboration: Collaborate regularly with product managers, designers, and other engineers in an agile environment.
- Technical Design: Contribute to technical design discussions and decisions for new features and components.
- DevOps/Lifecycle: Take ownership of the full development lifecycle, including occasional setup of CI/CD pipelines for new services.
- Problem Solving: Identify bottlenecks and bugs, and devise solutions to these problems.
- Experience: 8+ years of professional software development experience (14+ years preferred).
- Core Backend Skills: Deep expertise in backend development using PHP, including experience building and maintaining services outside of a monolithic framework.
- Frontend Skills: Strong proficiency in frontend development using React and its ecosystem.
- State Management: Hands-on experience with Redux / RTK for state management.
- API Design: Proven experience designing, building, and maintaining RESTful APIs.
- Database: Strong experience with PostgreSQL, including basic ORM and query knowledge.
- Infrastructure: Required experience with Docker and Kubernetes for containerization and orchestration.
- Testing Mindset: A strong belief in automated testing and experience writing comprehensive unit and integration tests.
- Soft Skills: Demonstrated autonomy, high ownership, and excellent communication and collaboration skills.
- Experience with Laravel or Symfony.
- Familiarity with TypeScript.
- Experience with other backend languages like Python or Golang
At.Monks, we believe in fostering an environment where a diversity of perspectives can thrive. We proactively work to design hiring processes that promote equity and inclusion while mitigating bias. We celebrate diversity and are committed to building a team that reflects the communities we serve. We welcome and encourage qualified applicants, from all backgrounds, who are excited to contribute to our mission.
What We Offer.Monks has provided a compensation range that represents its good faith estimate of what Media.Monks may pay for the position at the time of posting .Monks may ultimately pay more or less than the posted compensation range. The salary offered to the selected candidate will be determined based on job-related factors, but not based on a candidate’s sex or any other protected status.
Salary range$127,827.37 — $140,478.54 CAD
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This role is subject to our Return to Office (RTO) policy. If you reside within a commutable distance of one of our office locations, you will be expected to work from the office a set number of days per week. The specific details, including the number of required office days, will be in accordance with the company’s then-current RTO policy, which is subject to change from time to time.
Monks has provided a compensation range that represents its good faith estimate of what Monks may pay for the position at the time of posting. Monks may ultimately pay more or less than the posted compensation range. The salary offered to the selected candidate will be determined based on job-related factors, but not based on a candidate’s sex or any other protected status.
About Monks
Monks is the global, purely digital, unitary operating brand of S4Capital plc. With a legacy of innovation and specialized expertise, Monks combines an extraordinary range of global marketing and technology services to accelerate business possibilities and redefine how brands and businesses interact with the world. Its integration of systems and workflows delivers unfettered content production, scaled experiences, enterprise-grade technology and data science fueled by AI—managed by the industry’s best and most diverse digital talent—to help the world’s trailblazing companies outmaneuver and outpace their competition.
Monks was named a Contender in The Forrester Wave™: Global Marketing Services. It has remained a constant presence on Adweek’s Fastest Growing lists (2019-23), ranks among Cannes Lions' Top 10 Creative Companies (2022-23) and is the only partner to have been placed in AdExchanger’s Programmatic Power Players list every year (2020-24). In addition to being named Adweek’s first AI Agency of the Year (2023), Monks has been recognized by Business Intelligence in its 2024 Excellence in Artificial Intelligence Awards program in three categories: the Individual category, Organizational Winner in AI Strategic Planning and AI Product for its service Monks.Flow. Monks has also garnered the title of Webby Production Company of the Year (2021-24), won a record number of FWAs and has earned a spot on Newsweek’s Top 100 Global Most Loved Workplaces 2023.
We are an equal-opportunity employer committed to building a respectful and empowering work environment for all people to freely express themselves amongst colleagues who embrace diversity in all respects. Including fresh voices and unique points of view in all aspects of our business not only creates an environment where we can all grow and thrive but also increases our potential to produce work that better represents—and resonates with—the world around us.
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