Technologies

• Programming Languages: PHP (CakePHP), SQL
• Complementary Programming Languages: Bash
• Markup and Styling: HTML, CSS, Less
• Cryptography: OpenPGP, GnuPG
• Testing Frameworks: PHPUnit
• Package Managers: composer
• Version Control and Containerization: Git, Docker
• Operating Systems: Linux, MacOS
• Modeling Language: UML
• Development Methodologies: Agile Scrum

Main responsibilities

Development & Testing

• Develop new features in PHP and CakePHP for existing products used daily by over half a million users.
• Maintain, improve and fix bugs on the existing codebase.
• Transform functional specifications into reliable API workflows, ensuring backward compatibility and security.
• Participate in code reviews to identify defects prior to launch.
• Write unit tests aiming for 80% coverage to ensure functionality and prevent regressions.
• Develop end-to-end tests to ensure critical user journeys function correctly across various scenarios.
• Maintain a focus on quality and simplicity; we adhere to the principle that less is more.
• Ensure compatibility across multiple platforms and environments to maintain Passbolt's versatility.
• Optimize code for performance and scalability to handle growth and increased demand efficiently.

Analyze & documentation

• Support the support team in refining upcoming feature requests or bug reports from clients and the community.
• Support product owners proposing functional approaches to new business cases.
• Define comprehensive and iterative technical approaches to functional problems.
• Identify opportunities for long-term structural or architectural improvements and raise proposals.
• Contribute to our extensive online documentation, including OpenAPI specifications, SDKs, and user and admin guides.
• Share findings and best practices internally through documentation and presentations.

Deployment and reliability

• Assist the release lead during releases by preparing release readiness and supporting rollout activities to minimize or eliminate downtime.
• Collaborate closely with SRE teams to maintain robust CI/CD pipelines, reducing deployment risks and streamlining releases.
• Provide technical support during incidents by investigating issues and implementing fixes that restore system stability.
• Participate in blameless postmortems by contributing to root cause analysis and ensuring corrective actions are implemented in the codebase.

Management & collaboration

• Manage your own priorities, deadlines, and deliverables to meet team commitments.
• Communicate progress, risks, and decisions early and clearly to the team.
• Support co-workers through pairing and knowledge sharing.

Data Privacy & Security

• Ensure each request for change includes a risk analysis that identifies and proposes mitigations for newly introduced security issues or risks.
• Follow secure coding/design practices to ensure all components adhere to the highest security standards.
• Monitor project dependencies for vulnerabilities and assist the security team in analyzing their impact.
• Patch project dependencies' vulnerabilities and ensure these updates do not introduce regressions.
• Ensure that data handled by the product development team complies with GDPR and other data protection regulations.
• Collaborate with the security and senior management teams to maintain up-to-date company policies and risk registers.
• Assist the security team in enforcing least privilege access and ensure proper segregation of roles and responsibilities.
• Participate in security exercises and help refine processes and crisis management procedures.

Skills required / qualifications

Technical Skills

• Bachelor of Science or University degree relevant to Software Engineering (e.g. Computer Science, Electronics) and/or comparable work experience/certification.
• 3+ years of experience building PHP applications.
• Proficient in building back-end applications with CakePHP, Laravel or Symfony.
• Proficient in testing applications with PHPUnit.
• Familiar with OpenAPI Specifications.
• Familiar with Git and branching models.
• Strong understanding of OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities and secure coding practices.
• Proficient with another programming language: JavaScript, Bash, Python, Go or Rust.

Considered a plus:

• Experience developing large high-availability software systems.
• Experience with end-to-end or performance testing.
• Familiar with evolutionary database design.
• Experience with authentication systems: OAuth, JWT, WebAuthn, Duo, Yubico.
• Experience integrating user directories and similar systems: LDAP, Active Directory, SCIM.
• Familiarity with UML documentation and a willingness to use it.
• Experience maintaining a long lived-project.
• Experience contributing to an open source project.

Soft Skills

• Fluent in English, both verbal and written and preferably one other language.
• Strong analytical skills and a simple solution-oriented mindset.
• Ability to balance technical excellence with business priorities and strategic goals.
• Comfortable working in full autonomy while collaborating effectively within a team.
• Receptive to feedback and able to collaborate effectively in a team setting.
• Inspired by cybersecurity or privacy related issues. You believe in an ethical web. You understand what open source means. You live on the internet.

Considered a plus:

• Experience collaborating with remote teams in an asynchronous workflow.
• Experience writing technical blog posts or sharing knowledge through articles or talks.

Benefits of working at Passbolt

We put a lot of effort into creating a workplace where everyone has room to learn, have fun, evolve and become the best version of themselves.

Here are some benefits, provided by default:

• Work from anywhere, or from our headquarter located in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg.
• Work/life balance: to keep the flow going, it’s important to take regular breaks and disconnect. We provide 26 days of paid holidays / year.
• Equity for everyone. We are all in the same boat, we win together.
• When you grow, we grow: we invest in your professional as well as personal growth, through paid trainings of all types.
• In tune with yourself: Passbolt is built on strong values which we stand for: transparency, openness, privacy, people-first. Read more about what we believe in here.

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