Software Engineers (Backend Team)

About Passbolt

The open-source password manager for teams: secure, collaborative credential management, made in Europe.

Job Title

Software Engineer (Backend Team)

Location

Luxembourg or remote in EU timezone

Reports to

Chief Product Officer

Department

Development

Grade

5

Description

We are seeking a Software Engineer to join our Backend Team and contribute to the growing demands of Passbolt’s products, including a self-hosted Community Edition, a self-hosted Enterprise Edition, and a managed Cloud Edition. The security-first nature of Passbolt places significant responsibility on the API, handling data integrity, access rights management, and secure integrations with other systems while providing a seamless experience that can scale to organizations of all sizes. As a Software Engineer, your role will involve analyzing, implementing, and improving features across Passbolt’s API products while maintaining best-in-class security standards, performance, and usability.

Main Responsibilities

Development & Testing

• Develop new features in PHP and CakePHP for existing products used daily by over half a million users.
• Maintain, improve and fix bugs on the existing codebase.
• Transform functional specifications into reliable API workflows, ensuring backward compatibility and security.
• Participate in code reviews to identify defects prior to launch.
• Write unit tests aiming for 80% coverage to ensure functionality and prevent regressions.
• Develop end-to-end tests to ensure critical user journeys function correctly across various scenarios.
• Maintain a focus on quality and simplicity; we adhere to the principle that less is more.
• Ensure compatibility across multiple platforms and environments to maintain Passbolt’s versatility.
• Optimize code for performance and scalability to handle growth and increased demand efficiently.

Analyze & Documentation

• Support the support team in refining upcoming feature requests or bug reports from clients and the community.
• Support product owners proposing functional approaches to new business cases.
• Define comprehensive and iterative technical approaches to functional problems.
• Identify opportunities for long-term structural or architectural improvements and raise proposals.
• Contribute to our extensive online documentation, including OpenAPI specifications, SDKs, and user and admin guides.
• Share findings and best practices internally through documentation and presentations.

Deployment and Reliability

• Assist the release lead during releases by preparing release readiness and supporting rollout activities to minimize or eliminate downtime.
• Collaborate closely with SRE teams to maintain robust CI/CD pipelines, reducing deployment risks and streamlining releases.
• Provide technical support during incidents by investigating issues and implementing fixes that restore system stability.
• Participate in blameless postmortems by contributing to root cause analysis and ensuring corrective actions are taken.