\nSummary\n\nPHP runs a lot of what we do here at Help Scout. It drives most new features, integrations and all our back-end admin tools. We have ambitious plans for the future and are looking for customer-driven engineers to help us craft a wonderful product experience. You’ll be joining three other senior level engineers on our Platform team to create software used by over 4,000 (and growing!) companies around the world.\n\nTools We Use\n\n\n* PHP - the test-driven, object-oriented kind\n\n* Backbone.js, Marionette and jQuery\n\n* Node.js\n\n* RabbitMQ\n\n* Java (APIs)\n\n* MySQL and MongoDB\n\n* Git + Github\n\n* AWS\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Role\n\n\n* The engineering team currently has about fourteen people, three of whom will be your teammates on the Platform team. On a typical day you may help a customer with an issue, add a feature to our back-end admin tool or start work on a third party integration.\n\n* The Help Scout front-end is built with Backbone.js and Marionette, so you’ll be writing JavaScript as well. Building something new usually involves pulling in data from a Java API endpoint, creating a PHP passthrough and implementing the front-end components in JavaScript.\n\n* Your team works in two-week sprints and communicates mostly via Slack. When you finish a project and send a pull request, your teammates review the code and test cases (often over a screen-sharing session) before pushing to production.  You’ll work autonomously for the most part and we trust you to get work done when/where you can be productive.\n\n* The Platform team is the first line of engineering support when a question can’t be answered by our in-house support team. We’ll get you up-to-speed with engineering support so you can help us craft a customer experience that’s always getting better.\n\n\n