Job Description

This is a 100% fully remote role. Work virtually from anywhere in the U.S.

Why Join Us

Varis is a well-funded and fast-growing technology startup. Our incredible team includes top industry leaders with decades of experience. We are innovation driven, customer centric, and ready to transform eProcurement. Our culture is focused on bold vision, launching the simplest (yet still valuable) initial solution to learn, then either failing or scaling fast. We seek teammates who drive value creation, are great problem solvers, have strong interpersonal savvy, and can successfully learn on the fly! Varis is a bold new company that formed in early 2021. Joining us now is a ground-floor opportunity to shape our limitless future. On our team you will: see and feel the direct impact of your work; be surrounded by passionate people; learn how to be an entrepreneur; and be at the center of a highly dynamic business model with tremendous individual and collective potential.

As Lead Software Development Engineer - PHP, you will build and maintain high-quality technology solutions that deliver an exceptional customer experience. Working as an integral part of an Agile development team, this role will require close and continuous collaboration with the team Lead Developers, Product Manager, Business Analysts and fellow team members to translate user stories and functional requirements into resilient & secure technical designs which will be implemented as production-ready application code using PHP.

What You'll Do

• Translate user stories and functional requirements into resilient & secure technical designs.
• Design, build and maintain high-quality technology solutions that deliver an exceptional customer experience.
• Ensure application SLAs are met by employing appropriate monitoring and alerting tools as required by each supported application.
• Guide the development team in overall application technology design activities. Lead the identification and definition of key architectures, components and interfaces, design of data models and data/information flows.
• Work with product owners to develop team roadmaps, prioritize features, and estimate effort levels.
• Focus on professional development through our wide array of learning opportunities for continued growth within the Office Depot team.

What You'll Need

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years' experience coding in PHP
• Experience guiding less-experienced software engineers in collaboration with software development managers.
• Prior participation in software product architecture and design.

A working knowledge of:

• 1 or more public cloud platforms
• Application containerization (e.g. Kubernetes / Docker etc.)
• Symfony and/or Magento
• Composer
• Git
• Unit tests, performance and integration tests (PHPUnit, jMeter/k6 & Postman/Newman)
• NoSQL DB (e.g. MongoDB)
• RDMS (e.g. MYSQL)
• RESTful APIs
• Linux/Unix basics

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by associates assigned to this classification and are not intended to be a complete list of all required responsibilities and skills. Other duties and special projects may be assigned per business needs. Job descriptions are subject to change at any time with or without notice. Varis is wholly owned by The ODP Corporation, which is the legal employer of Varis associates. ODP is an Equal Opportunity Employer.