The Insomnia Cookies in-house technology team is constantly pushing forward on both our customer and in-store digital experiences to exceed our guests’ expectations.  In order to ensure the success and continued quality of these products, we are adding a Lead Full Stack Developer to our growing team to provide additional front and back-end systems support and proper system integrations.

Sweet Position Perks:

• A competitive base salary plus annual bonus compensation package

• Eligibility for our Long-Term Incentive Program

• Excellent comprehensive benefits coverage that includes medical, dental, vision, prescription plans and pet insurance

• 401K with contribution match

• Paid vacation plus 2 Insomnia Cookies personal wellness days

Job Responsibilities:

• Writing maintainable, extensible, and thoroughly tested code in a variety of languages that support our ecosystem of web and  mobile applications.
• Learning our stack, which consists of: ReactJS, PHP/Laravel, and MySQL.
• Work closely with our team of software and QA engineers to develop and maintain our applications, while simultaneously contributing to our ever-increasing quality standards.
• Lead and mentor a team of offshore contract developers.
• Conduct thorough code reviews and testing to ensure high-quality deliverables.
• Estimate timelines for features and participate in story grooming.
• Assist with planning sessions and perform end-of-sprint reviews.
• Contribute to the codebase and complete tasks that require immediate attention.
• Collaborate with product managers to align development efforts with business goals.
• Continuously improve development processes and systems.

Desired Skills & Experience:

• 5+ years of progressive engineering/developer work experience.
• Completed Bachelor’s in computer science, engineering, or technical discipline or equivalent years of work experience.
• Problem solver mentality with a strong focus on quality, both in hands-on development as well as    code reviews and functional reviews.
• Strong communication and leadership skills.
• Work well in a high output, short-cycle Agile or continuous release environment.
• Strong, object-oriented and/or event-driven programming skills with a scripting language (JavaScript, Python, Perl, Ruby, PHP).
• Understanding of common programming principles and practices that are used to help structure maintainable and extensible codebases.
• Familiarity with APM tools for troubleshooting, diagnosis, feature tracking, and application monitoring.
• Proficiency with UML modeling techniques.
• Strong understanding of unit and integration testing. We have a growing suite of tests on our APIs and front-end applications, with aspirations of maintaining significant coverage of our codebases.
• Experience with front-end development technologies, esp. Angular, React, or Ember, plus strong structured HTML5, event driven Javascript, and CSS. Excellent if you know any CSS frameworks!
• Experience with using and creating RESTful API systems. GraphQL experience is a plus.
• Dev/ITOps experience is a plus. We have a robust set of CI/CD pipelines which we rely on as part of our development process.
• Experience with an ORM such as Eloquent, Django, Active Record, Entity Framework.
• Development experience with SQL databases preferred, bonus if MySQL or Postgres.
• Willingness to participate in an on-call schedule to support issues during evenings or weekends

About us:

Insomnia Cookies was founded in a college dorm room by then-student, Seth Berkowitz. Fast forward 20 years and so... many....cookies... later, our innovative bakery + delivery concept has become a cult brand known for its rabid following of cookie lovers who crave Insomnia’s warm, delicious delivery all day and late into the night. With an expanding footprint of over 300 stores globally, an experiential, “sweet-easy” concept as the brand’s flagship in Philadelphia, Pa. (where Insomnia Cookies is headquartered), and a rapidly-growing nationwide shipping and gifting portfolio... Insomnia Cookies is revolutionizing the cookie game by truly " Imagining What’s Possible"!