Senior Software Engineer

About Promenade

Promenade (formerly BloomNation) is a profitable startup backed by top Silicon Valley investors, building the future of local commerce. We help small businesses compete and thrive with modern tools, and we’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer to help us scale.

You’ll be joining a senior engineering team focused on building and integrating the core systems that power our online platform, POS, and merchant tools. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys working across the stack, improving legacy systems, and shaping the future of our technology.

Promenade is a mission-driven company empowering local businesses with products and services that allow them to thrive online and offline. We build vertically-focused software catered to each industry we serve, leveling the playing field between the small business and large aggregators. Promenade was originally founded in 2011 as BloomNation, the nation’s premier network for local florists, disrupting the multi-billion dollar floral industry. After helping thousands of local florists across the country, we doubled down on our mission and began helping more small businesses who carried the same challenges of acquiring and retaining their own customers. Today, Promenade creates software for four industries - BloomNation (Floral), Promenade (Food, Liquor and Butchers). The company is based in Santa Monica, CA along with Remote roles.

Additional highlights…

• Backed by premier industry investors such as Andreessen Horowitz, Spark Capital, and Crunch Fund
• Named one of Entrepreneur’s “5 Sizzling Silicon Beach Startups to Watch”
• Located one block away from the beach on the world-famous 3rd Street Promenade in Santa Monica, CA

What You'll Do

• Work across our three core platforms: Promenade Dashboard, BloomNation POS, BloomNation Premium Sites
• Build and maintain integrations with third-party and internal systems using REST and GraphQL APIs
• Write clean, scalable, and tested code using tools like PHPUnit, PHPStan, Rector, PHP-CS-Fixer, and Playwright
• Help modernize legacy systems with PHP 8.3, Symfony, and automated upgrade tooling (Rector, nikic/PHP-Parser)
• Contribute to architectural discussions and help improve team-wide best practices
• Review code, collaborate with other senior engineers, and contribute across projects where needed

It’s typical for new hires to have their first commit merged within the first day or two and to ship something to production during their first or second week.

Our Stack

• Languages: PHP 8.3, TypeScript, JavaScript
• Frameworks: Symfony, React, Vue, jQuery
• APIs: REST, GraphQL
• Tooling: PHPUnit, PHPStan, Rector, PHP-CS-Fixer, Playwright
• Infra: Docker, AWS
• Datastores: MySQL (Aurora), Redis, OpenSearch, Snowflake
• 3rd-Party Services: Stripe, and many others

What We're Looking For

• 10+ years of professional software development experience
• Deep experience with PHP and Symfony
• Experience working across both backend and frontend (TypeScript or React is a plus)
• Strong focus on clean, maintainable, and tested code
• Comfortable working with legacy systems as well as modern stacks
• Practical mindset and ability to choose the right tool for the job
• Able to operate independently in a fast-moving environment

Requirements

• Based in the US (between Eastern and Pacific time zones)
• No contractors
• No recruiters
• No sponsorships

Hiring Process

• Intro Call – With an engineering manager
• Technical Interview – With an engineering manager
• Take-Home Assignment – 1 hour of building a quick API
• Panel Review – Discussion of your solution with the team

No leet code. No "if you were a color, what color would you be". We aim to notify you within one week after each step. We keep it streamlined and transparent.

If you’re a senior engineer who knows how to move fast, write great code, and solve real-world problems, we’d love to hear from you.