Software Developer

Job Summary:

As a Software Developer at Fx5, you will be a key contributor to the evolution and delivery of our SaaS platforms. You’ll work within a collaborative Agile development team to build scalable, maintainable, and secure software that supports craft distilleries across the globe. This role is ideal for a developer who is ready to own technical workstreams, support architecture decisions, and continuously improve product outcomes.

Job Description:

Role Location: Remote, United States

Role Basis: Full Time (40 Hours/Week Salary Basis)

FIVE x 5 (Fx5) is a committed partner in the success of our partners’ spirits operations. We take pride in providing a complete distillery management software solution for their businesses to let them get back to get you back to doing what they love: making great spirits.

Our software is their most valuable employee, saving them time, money, and peace of mind. It tracks operations from grain to bottle, keeps operations compliant with required tracking and reporting, and ensures sure they never run out of what you need to with complete inventory management.

Fx5 is a wholly held, independently managed subsidiary of Volaris Group, an operating group of the publicly traded buy-and-hold acquisition firm Constellation Software, Inc. We’re proud to offer our customers a stable, long-term partner by pairing our tailor-made industry solutions with the longevity of Volaris’s 30-year track record of sustained, successful operations.

Why work for FIVE x 5?

• Find your place here. Our culture is down to earth, inclusive, and empowering; every role is important to our success, supported by the broader team, and a significant opportunity to contribute.
• The best of both worlds. As an independent business within a larger corporate family (Volaris Group), you’ll have a small-company experience with big-company opportunity, community, and best practices, all with the stability of a major international firm.
• Serious benefits. Full-time total benefits include a competitive base salary, a market-leading discretionary bonus, great benefits (including all of the usual things, plus pet insurance, an ESOP, and other optional benefits), regular social events, and great PTO allowances.
• We succeed when you succeed. We offer an annual health & wellness and work-from-home stipend to make sure you’re taken care of, and put a significant emphasis on your training, development, and success to ensure your continued growth.
• Transparency is key. We have serious annual talent management (including annual team, individual, and role development goals based on a fully visible company strategic plan), monthly company performance updates, quarterly all-hands reviews, and total visibility into company progress against our plan. You’ll always know how you and the company are doing.

What will I be doing day to day?

FIVE x 5 (Fx5) provides two SaaS solutions, DISTILL x 5 and Whiskey Systems, designed to support United States distillery operations compliance requirements and we serve partners in 20 countries. We are passionate about helping our customers succeed, making it easier for them to be great, and we see ourselves as an extension of their businesses.

As a Software Developer at Fx5, you will be a key contributor to the evolution and delivery of our SaaS platforms. You’ll work within a collaborative Agile development team to build scalable, maintainable, and secure software that supports craft distilleries across the globe. This role is ideal for a developer who is ready to own technical workstreams, support architecture decisions, and continuously improve product outcomes.
 

In more detail you will:

Full-Stack Development (50%)

• Build and maintain scalable, maintainable SaaS applications using PHP (Lumen/Laravel), JavaScript (Vue/React), and AWS.
• Write clean, reliable, and reusable code aligned with team standards and business/product requirements.
• Design and implement new features, refactor legacy code, and contribute to system performance enhancements.
• Develop and maintain the application’s data layer: model relational schemas in MySQL, optimize queries, and ensure data integrity, performance, and scalability.
• Write automated testing (unit testing, integration testing, end-to-end testing), etc. consistent with department protocols as part of the development process.
• Implement automated tests, CI/CD pipelines, and deployment workflows that reflect DevOps principles and ensure release reliability.

Agile collaboration & team participation (20%)

• Actively participate in Agile ceremonies including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, retrospectives, and demos.
• Collaborate with Product Owners to refine user stories, clarify functional specifications, and estimate development effort.
• Contribute to code reviews, team design discussions, and knowledge sharing practices that elevate team delivery quality.
• Assist in documenting code, readmes, and feature behavior to support team onboarding and maintenance readiness.

Architecture & devOps Engagement (15%)

• Partner with senior developers and technical leadership to evolve system architecture, including service decomposition and transition to microservices.
• Support DevOps-oriented workflows including CI/CD pipeline optimization, containerization, and infrastructure-as-code using tools like Docker and GitHub Actions.
• Assist in performance tuning, scalability evaluations, and resiliency improvements under guidance from technical leadership.

Continuous improvement & Product alignment (15%)

• Troubleshoot and resolve system issues, serving as an escalation point for complex production scenarios.
• Collaborate with QA, Product, and Customer Support teams to ensure smooth releases and platform stability.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of engineering practices, tooling, and documentation.
• Participate in customer feedback sessions and provide technical input when needed to align product functionality with user’s needs.

Other reasonable duties as assigned

Who will I report to?

Manager, Development

What makes me a good fit for this role?

Experience & Education

External

5+ years of full-stack development experience in SaaS or web-based environments including:

• Version control with modern version control workflows in a team environment
• Engaged with the software development lifecycle and agile development methodologies.
• Code quality and functionality process (e.g. performing code reviews and QA process in a team environment)
• Writing automated testing (unit testing, integration testing, end-to-end testing, etc.)

Preferred Experience:

A minimum of 3+ years’ experience in any of the below frameworks.

• Docker. in any of these
• Laravel
• Vue
• AWS
• Designing and deploying high-traffic internal and external API’s.
• Database performance optimization and schema evolution.

Internal

Same as external requirements.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Full-stack fluency in PHP and JavaScript, with working proficiency in modern frameworks and libraries such as Lumen, Laravel, Vue.js, and React.
• Foundational database knowledge, including designing, querying, and integrating with MySQL in application contexts.
• Cloud-aware development, with practical understanding of AWS tools (e.g., EC2, RDS, S3) and Unix-based development environments.
• Source control proficiency using Git and collaborative version control workflows.
• Agile mindset and practice, including participation in ceremonies and understanding of sprint cycles, team velocity, and backlog health.
• Familiarity with SaaS architecture patterns, including monolith and microservices, serverless components, and distributed systems.
• Comfort with development operations tooling, such as CI/CD pipelines and platforms like Jira, Confluence, and Bitbucket.
• Effective communication skills, with the ability to convey technical ideas across diverse audiences.
• Problem-solving orientation, using structured debugging, root cause analysis, and iterative thinking to improve software quality.
• Curiosity and adaptability, demonstrating a growth mindset, openness to new tools and practices, and a drive to learn.
• Customer-aware development, approaching tasks with a focus on usability, business value, and long-term maintainability.
• Awareness of compliance-sensitive development, especially in regulated or highly audited domains
• Strong technical appetite and desire to learn everything there is to know about Fx5’s products, customers and operations.
• An interest in or passion for regulated beverage and/or craft spirits or adjacent industries.

FIVE x 5 is an Equal Opportunities Employer

FIVE x 5 complies with the Colorado Equal Pay for Equal Work Act and other state and local pay transparency regulations. The base salary range represents the low and high end of the salary range for this position. Actual salaries will vary and may be above or below the range based on various factors including but not limited to location, experience, and performance, and any applicable state and local regulations that are not known at the time a candidate submits interest in an opening because of the nature of being a remote first, fully distributed workforce. The range listed is just one component of FIVE x 5 total compensation package for regular full-time employees. Benefits include medical, dental, vision, STD, LTD, life insurance options, vacation, sick/floater days, CSI or Fx5 Discretionary Bonus, 11 holidays, & 401k.

Base Compensation Range: $100,587.00 - $150,880.00

CSI Discretionary Bonus Factor: .15

This posting is open until October 16, 2026.

Application Instructions:

Internal – Apply through Workday

External – Apply through link included in job posting

Worker Type:

Regular

Number of Openings Avilable:

1