What you’ll be doing:
- Ideate, develop, release, and maintain features across our core system.
- Work directly with large data pools that power analysis, historical tracking, and client management.
- Make key technical decisions in open forums, guiding the team toward maintainability and growth.
- Handle migrations and refactors to stay up to date with modern tools and best practices.
- Own integrations with external services and middleware for data ingest, processing, and automation.
- Improve observability, performance, and technical mapping across the platform.
- Take initiative on everything from quick bug fixes to major re-architecture efforts.
- Use your expertise to empower teammates and refine development practices.
- Collaborate with stakeholders across the business, communicating clearly about trade-offs and solutions.
- Enhance productivity with AI-assisted tools such as JetBrains, Cursor, Claude Code, and CodeRabbit.
- Stay current with the latest frameworks, design patterns, and development practices.
What you’ll bring:
- Languages & Frameworks
- PHP 8.x, Laravel (Eloquent, Queues/Jobs, Events, Policies, Resources, Migrations)
- MySQL (indexes, query plans, transactions, deadlock diagnosis, migration strategies)
- Python (scripting automations & AWS Lambdas)
- Classic Web (HTML, CSS, JavaScript)
- AWS (RDS MySQL, Lambda, DynamoDB, ElastiCache, ECS, Step Functions, EventBridge, etc.)
- Bonus: AWS ML (Athena/SageMaker w/ Jupyter Notebooks)
- Containers & IaC (Docker, Ansible)
- CI/CD (GitHub Actions for build/test/deploy automation)
- Observability & QA (Sentry, CloudWatch, metrics/logs/traces)
- APIs & Integrations (REST best practices, OAuth2/JWT, webhook design, rate limiting)
- Systems thinking with clear boundaries and contracts
- Event-driven patterns (async processing, backpressure strategies)
- Safe refactor and migration strategies (blue/green, canary, expand-and-contract, feature toggles)
- Performance & reliability (caching, read/write splitting, query tuning)
- Security by default (least privilege IAM, secrets management, PII handling)
Top Skills
What We Do
5 was formed with a single mission – to help people. Today we set the standard for energy advisory firms in North America.
We provide advice to clients on procurement and risk management, demand-side management, sustainability, and resiliency throughout the US and Mexico. Clients include Fortune 100 companies, government entities, commercial real estate, cold storage, higher education, manufacturers, industrials, hospitals, religious organizations, restaurants, nonprofits, and more.
5’s team is comprised of energy market innovators, engineers, commodity traders, technologists and business development professionals joined by a common purpose - To deliver unparalleled energy procurement services and advice that result in cutting-edge energy solutions for our clients. No company is better situated than 5 to help clients manage their exposure to volatile energy prices in an ever-changing market.
5 is a fast-growing company with an award-winning culture that includes the following accolades for innovation, leadership, growth, and incredible company culture:
• Best Workplaces in America, Inc. Magazine
• Inc. 5000 Fastest Growing Company List, Inc. Magazine
• Best Companies to Work for in Texas, Texas Monthly
• Entrepreneur 360, Most Entrepreneurial Companies in America, Entrepreneur
• Aggie 100 Fastest Growing Aggie-Owned Companies
• Best Small Workplaces in America, Fortune
• Best Workplaces in Texas, Fortune
• Dallas 100 Fastest-Growing Small Business
• Fastest Growing Companies in the Americas, Financial Times
• Dallas Business Journal Middle Market 50
• Tech Titans, Fast Tech Honoree
