Software Engineer (PHP)

LastPass, the #1 password leader, provides password and identity management solutions that are convenient, easy to manage, and effortless to use, helping more than 32 million users and 100,000 businesses organize and protect their online lives. As a pioneer in cloud security technology, LastPass provides award-winning password and identity management solutions that are convenient, effortless, and easy to manage. LastPass values users’ privacy and security, so your sensitive information is always hidden – even from us.

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As a Software Engineer, you would work with an Agile development team to build a product that serves over 5 million active users. You would completely own and continually improve critical features to secure our customers’ digital life and work.

If you are passionate about complex problem solving and motivated by scale, then this is the role for you!

Who will you work with?

You’ll work closely with agile teams responsible for developing and maintaining authentication-related features. Collaborating with engineers, product managers, and designers. Additionally, you’ll engage with the support team to assess and evaluate incoming issues and their severity.

What are some of the exciting challenges you will be working on?

• Developing and delivering quality code
• Taking full ownership at every stage of the development and delivery – planning, designing, development, shipping and maintenance
• Debugging and troubleshooting issues to support our users
• Actively participating in the team’s life with an ownership mindset – drive conversations in meetings, maintain, follow and advocate guidelines and industry standards, highlight best practices , and keep learning new techniques.
• Proactively share knowledge, reviewing pull requests, discussing technical implementations, mentoring and helping other team members, bringing ideas to improve the product.
• Participate in requirement analysis, high level planning and estimation. Collaborate with product owners and user experience designers to deliver features while meeting team deadlines.
• Advocate for proper analysis and resolution of non-functional requirements, such as highly availability, fault tolerant, scalable, etc.
• Help Product Management in keeping cost and benefits. Avoid unnecessary features that could lead to unmanageable technical debt.
• Develop, test and maintain the solutions in the domain of your team
• Create and maintain internal technical documentation
• Participate in code reviews
• Participate in community driven decision making. Maintain our coding and design guidelines and influence the technical roadmap.
• Coach and mentor mid level engineers.

What does it take to work at LastPass?

• Experience developing web applications in PHP
• Experience in Web infrastructure, HTTP, REST
• Familiarity with OOP best practices, SOLID, Clean Code
• Experience with design patterns in PHP
• Solutions for ensuring security in PHP (against XSS, SQL Injection, etc.)
• Basic knowledge of Docker and web security
• Good written and verbal communication skills in English
• Great team player
• Creates and knowns best practices
• Efficiently participates in the completion of complex tasks
• Consistently sees the overall big picture situation, besides focusing on the details and specific tasks
• Excellent problem-solving ability
• Ability to transfer knowledge effectively

It’s great, but not required:

• Basic experience with React
• Basic experience with Redux

Why LastPass?

• Market-leading password manager
• High-growth, collaborative environment with inclusive teams
• Remote first culture
• Competitive compensation
• Flexible Paid time off policies including but not limited to: Monthly self-care days (12 extra paid days off annually), volunteering days
• Generous Parental leave
• Comprehensive health coverage, dependents included
• Home office setup support
• LastPass families free account up to 5 members
• Continuous learning and development opportunities