At Locals, We empower creators to be independent.
Founded in 2019 and based in Miami, Locals is a platform that empowers independent content creators to publish their content, engage with their supporters, and make money from subscriptions (and not ads), on their own terms.On Locals.com, Creators significantly outperform other platforms in conversion rate to paid, subscription earnings, and positive sentiment.

What you’ll be doing:

Building the infrastructure for performance optimization, technological independence, video scaling and other product improvements
Working with developers and our head of backend development to build resilient and responsive cross-platform solutions
Developing and designing APIs and MySQL queries for 3rd-party integrations, big data information processing, and the seamless coordination of our product functionality across multiple platforms, including app, web and tv

What you bring to the table:

7+ years of software engineering experience with a proven development record in PHP7, OOP and MVC
7+ years of MySQL experience - you are a master at writing scalable code as well as envisioning new frameworks and configurations to run queries with high volume data
Experience with any popular framework like Laravel
Experience with High Load / Big Data and RESTful API

Remote: Eastern Time Zone only, also willing and able to travel 10-25% of the time (mostly domestic)

EEO Statement:
Locals is an equal opportunity employer.  We promote an equal playing field where everyone has the same opportunities regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability status, or any other applicable characteristics protected by law.

Physical Demands:
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit for extended periods of time. Required to extensively talk and hear. The employee frequently is required to walk; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; and stoop and kneel. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 20 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

Locals

1 Open Position

Senior PHP Back-End Engineer