Backend Developer
Responsibilities:
- Write well designed, testable, scalable and efficient code and oversee assigned programs (e.g. conduct code review) and provide guidance to team members
- Apply design principles to ensure code modularity and error handling at appropriate levels
- Communicate software requirements to development teams
- Evaluate and select appropriate software or hardware and suggest integration methods
- Address technical concerns, ideas and suggestions and provide technological solution to it
- Monitor systems to ensure they meet both user needs and business goals
- Design the overall structure of the platform and oversee programs to ensure the proper implementation of the architecture
Desired Skills and Experience
- 2-7years of relevant experience in an online start-up with a record of substantial achievements
in the specific role
- Strong programming foundation in PHP, MySQL, Oops Concepts and can develop core PHP based applications
- Must have worked on MVC frameworks – Laravel, CodeIgniter, Cake PHP or Zend.
- Experience with JavaScript and jQuery for producing AJAX applications.
- HTML5, CSS3, XML knowledge is mandatory
- Ability to make modifications to the systems with little or no interruption of service
- Solid exposure to API integrations and familiar with various design & architectural patterns
- Understanding fundamental design principles behind a scalable application
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment
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Job Description
This is a remote position.
Requirements
- You need to be excited about the problem that we are trying to solve
- Should have excellent command over designing systems with a minimum experience of 4 years.
- Should have experience with various database flavors and writing complex queries. We work with Postgres, Redshift, ElasticSearch, TimescaleDB, and Redis.
- Additional knowledge in Golang will be an advantage
- Strong Data Structures and Algorithms knowledge
- Should have created APIs from scratch which is being used in Production
- Should be comfortable with creating systems handling up to 100k requests per minute, and have a mindset that understands scale
- Ability to give clarity and communicate well with the team, including Product, Backend and Dev-Ops (if and when needed)
- Ability to use profiling tools well, getting to root causes of bugs fast
- Ability to pick and work on adjacent technologies if and when required (Eg: If the best performance monitoring solution needs a basic firebase setup, that should not be a blocker for you to go ahead and do so)
- Knowledge of how to set up relevant test cases
- You need to be comfortable working in a remote environment (Good internet connection and availability on phone is required)
- App Development experience
- Experience in Test Driven Development
- Ability to tell Product what creates better User Experience, ability to tell frontend what API responses will help the user get a faster load time
- Inquisitiveness to understand the system as a whole, and not only be stuck to your domain of expertise (Eg: Figure out why excessive APIs calls are being made, brainstorm with Product and Frontend team to reduce the same without harming the UX )
- Experience in working on a Social Media Product
- Good knowledge of Graphs, and their applications
- Data-Driven Approach to monitoring
Benefits
- Work timings - You are the master of your time. However, with great freedom comes great responsibility. If you have committed something to the team, we expect that you will give it your best to make sure that commitment is done and is done on time.
- Leave policy - Take a leave whenever for whatever reason you want. You don't need to explain yourself to us
- Health insurance for you and your family
Responsibilities:
Skills:
- Strong knowledge of PHP web frameworks {such as Laravel, CI, etc depending on your technology stack}
- Understanding the fully synchronous behavior of PHP
- Understanding of MVC design patterns
Your Impact:
• Implements Digital Consumer experiences based on a foundation of SFCC (Salesforce commerce cloud) to meet expected quality standards
• Ensures functional requirements and high-level solution designs are understood and are translated into detailed technical design
• Implement proofs of concept to prove any new technologies, application flows or integration scenarios and identify customizations needed to SFCC platform for meeting client requirements
• Guides the performance tuning and scalability of the ecommerce solution
• Diagnose and solve technical problems during implementation and support phases
Your Skills & Experience:
• 4-8 Years with 2+ years of implementing commerce application on any eCommerce platform in last 3 years
• If you have not worked in eCommerce platform, we can still discuss with you if you are expert in Java/.Net and understand REST/SOAP webservices.
• Demonstrate proficiency in build and release management using CI/CD strategies (leveraging tools like Jenkins and DevOps practices), implement Mocha/Chai unit and functional test cases in order to reduce costs while ensuring quality
• Contributes to designing, implementing and documenting the build release process as well as system configuration and deployment characteristics of the applications
• Participates in technical walkthroughs/ code reviews of other team members’ components, test plans and results and help them with gaps
• Collaborate with architect to define implementation processes and quality gates and standards
• Identifies risks and issues, and help monitor them
• Guides the development of reference and resource materials
• Mentors developers in improving their platform knowledge and development skills
• Communicate technical design to the developers and help/guide them in the implementation
• Participates in Agile sprints
Set Yourself Apart With:
• eCommerce platform certification
• Security considerations – OWASP, CSRF, reCAPTCHA etc. – Basic knowledge or experience
• Git Development workflow – Proficient
• Visual Studio Code IDE or Eclipse IDE - Proficient
• Knowledge on Agile methodology and desired tools like Jira, confluence etc.
• Scripting/development experience with Node.js, Mocha/Chai
• Experience working in any Salesforce cloud environment like SFMC, SFSC etc.
• Excellent written, verbal communication and articulation skills & Good team player
• Self-starter and self-learner with keen interest to grow
• Process orientation and the ability to define and setup processes
• Ability to provide necessary coaching to bring team members up to speed on the technology
• Ability to prioritize and manage multiple tasks
• Excellent and innovative approach to problem solving and finding solutions
• Flexible and proactive/self-motivated working style with excellent personal ownership of problem resolution
1. As a founding backend engineer, design, build and evolve the backend architecture
of our product to support customer-facing and internal features to serve 1000s of
customers and millions of data requests per hour
2. You will engage in technical decisions from choosing the optimal database design to
best-practice infrastructure decisions
3. You will proactively incorporate best practices for security, analytics, and monitoring
4. You will contribute to DevOps by building procedures for deployment,
troubleshooting, and maintenance
5. You will work directly with the CTO to set the tone for the engineering culture
This role is tailor-made for you if
1. You have 4+ years of experience designing, building, and deploying production-level
large-scale web applications
2. You have hands-on experience with Node JS and other programming languages
(Ruby, Go, Python)
3. You have worked previously on PostgreSQL, SQL, and Message Queue 4. Practical
knowledge and experience in deploying and managing big data applications on a cloud
platform like AWS or Google Cloud.
5. You are comfortable conducting code reviews and giving feedback to ensure high
standards of code maintainability and extensibility.
6. You are energized by ambiguity and can create structure in a dynamic, fast-paced
environment
7. You’ve high confidence, low ego, and are generally a good human being :)
You earn brownie points if
1. You love Slack (we are a Slack first company)
2. You have been part of an early/mid-stage start-up before
3. You love TechCrunch. We are obsessed with reading and talking about startups
4. You have created some amazing open-source projects
What will I be doing? 👩💻👨💻
Leading parts of the product from inception to launch, and own large parts of the product’s execution.
Working with our Sales and frontend team to build products with the goal of delighting and increasing the success of our users.
Architecting, building, testing, and releasing product-facing features.
Contributing to our side projects and free tools for the education industry.
What do I need? 🤓
1-2 years of industry experience in a software engineering role, preferably building a SaaS product. You can demonstrate significant impact that your work has had on the product and/or the team.
Deep knowledge of a high-level programming language (for example, PHP, Python, etc.) but it doesn’t need to be a language that we use here! Great people are effective and learn what we use quickly (or introduce us to better ways of working)
Deep knowledge of SQL Databases
Experience with scalable distributed systems, both built from scratch as well as on AWS primitives
Willingness to learn and use new technologies
Extremely data-driven
Ability to debug complex systems
Brownie points 🍰
Using a framework (for example, Laravel, Code Igniter, Django)
Understanding of containerisation (Docker/Kubernetes) along with ability to deploy to AWS ECS (or similar tools)
Feel free to apply even if you feel unsure about whether you meet every single requirement in this posting. As long as you're a quick learner, and are excited about changing the status quo for tech recruitment, we're happy to support you as you come up to speed with our tech stack.
Perks 😍
Flexible vacation
Take a tutorial, on us
Monthly remote meals
Tech stack 🔨
PHP
Laravel
NodeJS
VueJS
Ionic Angular
Digital Ocean
AWS
MySQL
Why Classcard? 🚀
We are still in the early stages of our journey. You will be working closely with our users, acting on both their feedback and what our data says. Things you build here will have tremendous impact on both our business and Classcard as a company.
What happens after I apply? 🤔
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Quick phone call with a member of our engineering team to find out more about your experience and why you want to work at Classcard.
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Video interview:
Technical discussion with a senior engineer
Pairing on an interesting problem
Meet the founders
WebGile Solutions is a fast growing IT services and solutions company. We combine cutting-edge technologies with strategic expertise to help customers meet their business requirements. We utilize the latest technology to provide sophisticated and secure IT solutions and deliver it using our onsite offshore model to ensure flexibility and agility. We are a highly talented team of dedicated professionals providing our valued customers with bespoke solutions and great-value services.
Industry Type: IT Software Services
Employment Type: Full-time
Job Location: Nagpur
Education Qualification: B.E (CS/ IT) / B.Tech /MCA
Experience Required: 1 to 4 years
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Skills Required:
HTML5, CSS3, Javascript, Jquery, MySQL, PHP, Wordpress
Knowledge in Codeigniter and Laravel will be an added advantage
Good Communication skills and go getter attitude
Roles & Responsibilities:
- Must be able to perform all aspects of the development tasks, including front- end, back- end, and database development.
- Develop web sites, applications and rich multi- media experiences according to the brief and technical specifications.
- Will be handling a team and multiple projects.
- Adhering to project coding standards and recommending improvements, modifying existing software to correct errors, allowing it to function in new operating environments.
- Designing and building the website front-end.
- Creating the website architecture.
- Designing and managing the website back-end including database and server integration.
- Generating WordPress themes and plugins.
- Troubleshooting content issues.
- Monitoring the performance of the live website.
Node.js Developer Responsibilities:
- Developing and maintaining all server-side network components.
- Ensuring optimal performance of the central database and responsiveness to front-end requests.
- Collaborating with front-end developers on the integration of elements.
- Designing customer-facing UI and back-end services for various business processes.
- Developing high-performance applications by writing testable, reusable, and efficient code.
- Implementing effective security protocols, data protection measures, and storage solutions.
- Running diagnostic tests, repairing defects, and providing technical support.
- Documenting Node.js processes, including database schemas, as well as preparing reports.
- Recommending and implementing improvements to processes and technologies.
- Keeping informed of advancements in the field of Node.js development.
Node.js Developer Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, information science, or similar.
- At least two years' experience as a Node.js developer.
- Extensive knowledge of JavaScript, web stacks, libraries, and frameworks.
- Knowledge of front-end technologies such as HTML5 and CSS3.
- Superb interpersonal, communication, and collaboration skills.
- Exceptional analytical and problem-solving aptitude.
- Great organizational and time management skills.
- Availability to resolve urgent web application issues outside of business hours.