Full Stack Engineer — Build Scalable APIs & Backends (Hybrid)

Pixieset; Vancouver; Hybrid; CAD 80,000 - 107,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work environment (2 in-office)

Vacation & paid time off

RRSP matching

Health & lifestyle budget

Education budget

Charitable donation matching

Comprehensive benefits

MacBook & home office budget

Anniversary rewards & Pixieset premium

Team-building activities

Great Place to Work recognition

Job summary

Pixieset is hiring a Software Developer, Full Stack to join our Platform team, which builds and operates the communication services that support email delivery, notifications, abuse prevention, and reliability across Pixieset’s products.

You’ll contribute to backend services and APIs that help keep communication scalable and trustworthy for 1.6 million photographers and creatives worldwide, learning production systems and taking ownership from development through release.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience as a Full Stack Software Developer building custom web applications.
• Experience with PHP and preferably its frameworks (Laravel, Yii, or Symfony).
• Experience with relational database management (MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc.)
• Good understanding of basic data structures and algorithms, and web technologies, including HTTP, RESTful services, Docker, and cloud platforms such as AWS.

Responsibilities

• Write clean, efficient, and well-documented code to support scalable backend systems and user-facing functionality
• Contribute to user-facing improvements, backend optimizations, and scalable system enhancements
• Help improve and maintain the Pixieset product architecture, APIs, databases, and infrastructure
• Collaborate with stakeholders to deliver high-quality solutions
• Participate in code reviews and ensure adherence to coding standards and best practices
• Learn and apply new technologies to enhance performance, security, and the development process

Skills

PHP

Laravel

RESTful APIs

Docker

AWS

Web technologies

Data structures

Tools

MySQL

PostgreSQL

Job description

Pixieset is hiring a Software Developer, Full Stack to join our Platform team, which builds and operates the communication services that support email delivery, notifications, abuse prevention, and reliability across Pixieset’s products.

You’ll contribute to backend services and APIs that help keep communication scalable and trustworthy for 1.6 million photographers and creatives worldwide, learning production systems and taking ownership from development through release.