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Passbolt is and always will be an engineering company, while scaling international sales and marketing to support global operations and customer success. We're looking for versatile self-motivated enthusiasts with a knack for commercial open source software, ethics and privacy, who can think out of the box and find impactful solutions to challenges.</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">See <a href=\"https://www.passbolt.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https://www.passbolt.com</a></span></p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold\">Description</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">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.</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">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. From refining REST API entry points and business logic to ensuring robust cryptographic mechanisms and zero-trust data validation, you will contribute to every stage of development.</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">You and your team will be responsible for shipping the features requested by our community of users while maintaining an outstanding level of quality throughout the process. After gaining expertise and product knowledge, you’ll help us develop innovative approaches to complex technical problems, find ways to make our most demanding community members happy, and cultivate a reputation for excellence among a vast community of developers.</span></p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold\">Technologies</span></p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Programming Languages: PHP (CakePHP), SQL</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Complementary Programming Languages: Bash</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Markup and Styling: HTML, CSS, Less​</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Cryptography: OpenPGP, GnuPG</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; 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