Join the Workana team

We are looking for web developers skilled in modern PHP (PSR-2, DI, PDO, Templates, TDD) to be part of our team. We believe in working in small teams, where everyone has a strong sense of commitment and ownership.

Intangible Benefits:

• You’ll be working at one of the most popular startups in Latin America.
• You’ll be promoting remote and independent work.
• You’ll be working alongside the founders and high-caliber colleagues.
• Startup flexibility, with experienced entrepreneurs.

Working in our Team:

• Agile methodology.
• Small team: you will be largely responsible for the success of the company.
• Great decision-making authority when designing the architecture to solve the problem.
• A flexible schedule, which does not mean you work less, quite the contrary.
• Extremely interesting work, in contact with new technologies.

Tangible Benefits :)

• Professional and enjoyable work environment. We have a barbecue grill on the balcony for weekly “asados”!
• Our goal is to learn, everybody learns here.
• Competitive wage, based on your experience.
• 4 week vacation per year. Yes, we want people to work at their 100%, but we don’t want them to get burn out.
• Our offices are located in the vibrant Palermo neighbourhood.
• Full access to the gym and pool in the building.
• Free snacks and beverages at the office (and you’ll be able to add items to our grocery list).
• Complete schedule flexibility. We all work from home on Wednesdays.

Required Skills:

• Willingness to keep learning every day.
• Proficiency with modern PHP: Composer, Dependency Injection, PHPUnit, PHP-FIG PSRs.
• Experience working in (and enjoying) projects in which unit testing is crucial.
• Experience with a full stack framework (Symfony, Laravel, etc.).
• Experience with Doctrine or another ORM.
• Knowledge of Software Architecture (Patterns, DDD, etc.).
• Experience using source version control (Git, SVN, etc.).

Knowing one or more of the following technologies is a plus:

• Knowledge of deployment tools, such as Fabric.
• Knowledge of cloud platforms, such as AWS or Google Cloud Platform.
• Experience with Elastic Search.
• Experience with Redis.
• Experience with job queues, such as Beanstalkd, Rabbitmq.

Given the job description, we are not sure there is anyone 100% ready for it, but it is part of our culture to tackle problems you don’t know much about. We are looking for individuals who are not afraid to get their hands dirty to find good solutions to problems knowing that the best solution is not always possible considering the value for money equation.

About Workana

Workana is a tech startup based in Buenos Aires. We're revolutionizing the way that people think about work in Latin America, and we're looking for great people to join us.

Help shape how people work! With over 400 thousand freelance professionals and thousands of completed projects, Workana is changing the way people think about work. Join a team singularly focused on building the best platform for online work in Latin America.

Job Description

You’ll work on cross-product and cross-team initiatives, working closely with cross-functional team members to refine and evolve our projects, functionalities and the Workana platform.

In this technical role, you will work closely with our Product and Growth teams to shape and develop Workana. You will lead efforts to craft scalable solutions for automation, growth, functionalities and business insights so our decision-making is based on accurate and reliable data. You’ll be involved from project inception to design through to delivery.

You are crazy about data and how to extract them. You are a self-starter with good knowledge of BI tools and approaches. You can "crunch the numbers" one minute, and critically think through business problems and communicate to stakeholders the next. You like searching the data to find that next big breakthrough that will move our product forward.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with Workana’s management to understand their needs and develop BI strategy to fulfill and scale.

Work closely with Product and Growth to shape and drive the data infrastructure and methods to deliver scalable business insights.

Manage the company’s analytics, dashboards and data mining.

Minimum Qualifications

• BA/BS degree with quantitative focus (e.g., Economics, Systems Engineering or IT, Actuary, etc.) or equivalent practical experience.
• 2-4 years’ experience in similar positions.
• Database experience including experience in SQL, query optimization, and interaction with logs-level data.
• Of course, we're looking for self-starters - candidates who can jump in quickly without a lot of direction, and learn by asking the right questions.
• Genuine excitement and passion for developing complex data sets and converting them into the information/insights that drive business decisions at all levels of the organization.
• Distinctive problem-solving and analytical skills combined with strong business acumen; demonstrated ability to multi-task and apply initiative and creativity on challenging projects.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in manipulating data from a variety of systems.
• Understanding of software life cycles and ability to communicate effectively with engineering counterparts.
• Programming experience in Go, Python, PHP.