Jobs at EventHelper

Available Positions

Experienced PHP Developer
In-house Internet Marketer

Experienced PHP Developer

We are looking for a hardworking in-house PHP expert to join our 3-5 person software development team in Grass Valley, CA. See below for compensation, background & tech stack details.

Benefits & Compensation:

Earning opportunities: $45,000-$55,000
W-2 employee
Accrue paid time off (80 hours/year)
24 hours/year sick pay
401k - 100% match (up to 6%) - starts after 12 months
$300 / month contribution towards group health insurance plan
Quarterly social company events
40 hours per week, flexible schedules available
Office lunches 2x per week
Massages 2x a month
A casual and fun work environment in scenic Grass Valley, CA
Growth opportunities with new technology to further your career
Free Snacks / Drinks

Exceptional candidates will possess:

4 or more years of PHP experience
A strong understanding of APIs, Databases & HTTP Request Lifecycle
Knowledge of AWS
Strong initiative
Great team skills
Great problem solving skills

Bonus Points for knowledge in:

MongoDB
SQL (Oracle, MSSQL, MySQL)
Docker
Auth0
Building Computers
Linux (Ubuntu)
Security best practices
Networking

What we expect from applicants:

Be able to focus on their task at hand without getting distracted.
Be a quick learner. We have no problem teaching & training.
Have great attention to detail. This does not mean you have to catch everything at first glance. What we are looking for is someone who takes the time to double check their work before declaring that the work is complete.
To approach problems with security and simplicity in mind.
To structure & write their code to be as simple & readable as possible.
To give their testing code as much thought and care as any other code.

Our Company

Our Company, TheEventHelper.com is the US leader in online event insurance. Event Insurance is a short term insurance policy purchased to cover weddings, birthdays, concerts & 400 other types of events. Most of the time the venue where the event is being held requires this type of policy. Hundreds of people purchase insurance through our customer service team and website everyday. We leverage technology to make the process easy for everyone, from our customers to our internal staff. All sales and company management is done online through our software. We don't have any on premise servers or infrastructure running our business.

Over the years we have been asked to provide our software as a service to other online insurance programs. We have spent the last 2 years building a hyper-customizable platform to manage and issue policies for all types of insurance. We are currently migrating the first companies to this new software platform. In coming years we are going to be hard at work adding additional features & customers to this new platform while maintaining our lead in the event insurance market.

What you can expect working for us:

You will be a part of a hardworking team of 3-5 people.
Working on adding features or fixing bugs in our backend API via pull-requests.
Working on adding integrations to our platform from third-party APIs & databases.
Using automated testing to verify that your bug fix or feature is built to spec.
Using our project management software(Asana) to keep everyone on the team up to date with your project progress.
Participate in daily 5 min meetings where everyone states the work they are doing today & any challenges they are facing.
Gaining real-world experience with new and emerging technology to further your career.

Our Tech Stack

Backend API

PHP 7, Laravel 6
Mongo 4 Enterprise, Redis 5, Auth0
E2E & Unit Testing: PhpUnit 8
Occasional SQL work is needed for client integrations
Code Structured in 7 packages & one project repo

Frontend

Angular 8, NGRX 8
E2E: Cypress 3
Unit Testing: Wallaby
Code Structured in a Mono-repo

CI / Deployment

CI: AWS CodePipeline, S3, Lamda, Fargate, RDS
Deployment: AWS ECS & MongoDB Atlas
Fully Automated: Build, Test & Deploy for all repos

Development

Local Docker testing environment
IDE: Intellij Idea
OS: Ubuntu

About our Development Processes & Practices:

Git & Github for all our code.
Automatic Build, Test & Deployment.
Pull-Requests required to modify code. Merge only on passing tests & a code review.
Features and bugs tracked through project management software Asana.
We prioritize fixing bugs over adding new features.
Complete list of work per person / per week with clear priorities.
Daily meetings that give everyone the chance to share challenges & today's tasks.
We use Test Driven Development for our development.
Quiet working environment, all music & sounds in headphones.
Intellij Idea IDE for code development.
Software pre-release with real world human testers.
Automatic Semantic Versoning for all code.
We sit down and watch people use our software as part of our development process.

Where is Grass Valley, CA?

We are fortunate to live and work in the beautiful foothills at the base of the Sierra Nevada mountains. Grass Valley is halfway between Lake Tahoe and Sacramento. In Grass Valley & Nevada City you can enjoy summer days at the Yuba River, farmers markets multiple days each week, a thriving local food & brewery scene, Gold rush era history and flare, street festivals throughout the year, fabulous performances at The Center for the Arts and The Miners' Foundry, and so much more. Enjoy the vibrant small town culture and be able to get to big box stores in 30-45 minutes. Live just below the snow line and be at fabulous ski resorts in just 45 minutes. We feel very lucky to live in such a beautiful community and hope you can join us here in the foothills if you're not already here.

To Apply, send a cover letter and resume to sharla@theeventhelper.com Please understand you may be required to write & debug PHP code during your interview process.

In-house Internet Marketer

We are looking for an in-house SEO/SEM marketer to join our 3-5 person technology team in Grass Valley, CA. See below for compensation, background & full job details.