Are you looking for new challenges and great colleagues, who can help you grow as a developer? Then we might just have the job for you! The job offers interesting code challenges, flexible working hours and location, good salary and benefits, and a lot of responsibility.

We are looking for a junior PHP developer to further develop our main product ConsortiaManager, in a team of an experienced PHP developer, a data engineer, and a UX-designer.

This position is a great way to start your career in a small company where you will get the time and guidance to learn and grow as a developer. That in combination with a high level of responsibility and independence could be a fast track to not only learning to be a better developer but also see the inside of a fast-growing bootstrapped startup.

Are you still interested? If so, you could be building software for libraries and universities around the world, including Stanford, Yale, Cal State, the United Nations, and more than 5500 others. You will be joining the company at a very exciting time, where the world of research and publishing is changing quickly. With this change, we are expanding on both the functionality and scope of our products and that is why we need you. Together we are on a mission to change how universities spend their resources as paywalls come down and science and research become freely available to everyone. We are a profitable, bootstrapped company with a robust business model and minimal churn, allowing us to invest in the company and its employees, instead of outside stakeholders.

Responsibilities

You will become part of the ConsortiaManager product team of 4 people: A UX designer, a full-stack developer, and a data engineer. Together, the product team will be responsible for driving the development of ConsortiaManager and organize work from ideation, over the design to coding of both front- and back-end.

The ConsortiaManager-application is built as a multi-page application in PHP with a MySQL database.

As datasets and the need for data exchange grows, the integration of our own products and external data sources is becoming increasingly important. The application connects to other data sources through our AWS data warehouse or our own API. You will be given high level of responsibility for the application, and tying it together with our other products and services. You will, of course, work closely with our other developers/data engineers, who will support you in the understanding of the existing products and the requirements of those. Due to the responsibility of the position, the right candidate needs a high degree of independent drive and initiative, as well as solid proven experience with PHP coding.

Technical skills

A candidate that we will consider must have…

● Minimum 1 year experience working with PHP and relational databases

● Confidence in working with jQuery and Bootstrap

● The ability to plan development projects based on UX-designs and user stories. 

● Experience with Git (or another version control system)

A candidate that we will consider might also have…

● Some experience working with AWS services (ConsortiaManager currently makes use of EC2, S3, SES, Elasticsearch)

● Experience in writing & maintaining tests

● Experience with communication between systems (APIs, Pub/Sub or similar)

● Understanding and experience with adhering to the SOLID principles

● Experience with collaborating in project-management tools

● A degree in Computer Science or other relevant formal education

Soft skills

A candidate that we will consider must ...

● Be fluent in English (Spoken and written)

● Take pride in the work they do

● Have experience working in teams

● Be self-driven and motivated

● Be willing to learn and adjust as tasks and requirements change

Perks

● Competitive salary

● 25 days of annual paid vacation

● Great office at Lergravsvej in Copenhagen close to public transportation, free parking and the beach

● Company paid lunch

● Team activities and social events

● Continued education and conferences

Other

We are a remote company with approx.. half of the staff working from around the world, but for this position, we require the person to work out of the Copenhagen office at least 2-3 days per week.

Please notice that we are not looking to fill this position with candidates from recruiting or outsourcing firms.

About us

ConsortiaManager is a bootstrapped company, started in 2014 in Copenhagen Denmark. Currently, we serve more than 5,500 libraries around the world with our software ConsortiaManager. Recently, we have launched our second product, ROAM.plus, an acquisitions tool for libraries, with built-in workflow solutions and business insights. Our overall objective is to help libraries and universities across the world make better purchasing decisions and to save time doing so; resulting in improved processes and savings on the bottom-line. Our systems are currently handling more than €750 million of purchases every year. We have a great team of  10 people working either from the Copenhagen office or remotely.