Backend Developer, PHP

Key Result Areas :

● Communication skills and clearness in your reporting and communication.

● Knowledge in the Java programming languages you use.

● Knowledge in the Spring Framework and libraries you use.

● Knowledge in the tool-sets you use.

● Analytical thinking and experience (practical when you design the architecture of the

“thing” prior to coding it).

● Technological understanding (ability to see your new “thing” in a wider perspective, for

example how a small library fits into a large project or product).

● Creativity (finding better ways to achieve your project goals).

● Coding (testable code, clean reusable code, maintainable code, readable code, bug-

free code, beautiful code).

● Correctness (few bugs, few iterations with refactoring).

● Learning (your ability to learn about and use new technologies, protocols, libraries, or

even languages as needed).

● Durability (to stay on track no matter what, even when you feel dead bored, or in way

over your head).

● Adherence to Effort and Schedule

● Team hand holding for day to day activities with team and monitor their progress

● Lead the team technically for the on time delivery and best efforts.

Essentials Skills:

● Strong Hands-on experience in Core Java, Spring framework, Maven, Rational Database.

● Comfortable with source code repository Github.

● Experience in developing REST APIs using Spring-MVC, Play Framework.

● Good to have No Sql, Neo4J, Cassandra, Elasticsearch.

● Experience in developing apache samza jobs (optional).

● Good understanding of CI-CD pipeline.

What You’ll Do:

• Work closely with the core team to understand their needs and ensure that our products are meeting the needs of the market.
• Designing database structure that are easy to maintain, improves data consistency and are cost effective in terms of disk storage space
• Identify, prioritise and execute tasks in the software development life cycle
• Develop tools and applications by producing clean, efficient code
• Document and demonstrate solutions by developing documentation, flowcharts, layouts, diagrams, charts, code comments and clear code
• Build efficient, testable, and reusable PHP modules

What You’ll Bring

• Bachelor's in Computer Science, Software Engineering or a related field.
• A 5+ years of experience in developing desktop and mobile web applications
• Strong knowledge of core PHP with experience of working with MVC framework such as CodeIgniter & Laravel
• Experience with object-oriented PHP programming
• Experience with third party API integration
• Experience in managing AWS services
• Previous experience creating scalable applications
• Knowledge of multiple front-end languages and libraries (e.g. HTML/ CSS, JavaScript, XML, jQuery)

About Us

At Toddle, we are on a mission to help schools around the world deliver better learning. We are a team of 2x founders – before founding Toddle, we set up a network of preschools and schools in India. We continue to operate these preschools and schools as it gives us a unique vantage

point into the challenges faced by schools.

Our belief is that real impact in education can only be achieved by improving schools. That’s because children spend more than 80% of their learning time in school and schools are here to stay as schools are not just about teaching & learning, they also play a pivotal social role in our lives. So while most Edtech companies are trying to solve for education by working outside the school system, we think that the focus needs to be on taking our schools to the next level.

Our first product is a collaboration platform for teaching teams – we say that Toddle is to teaching, what Figma is to design. In its current version, Toddle empowers teachers to work together and better across all stages of the teaching-learning process – right from curriculum

planning and assessments to progress-tracking and family communication.

Here are some key facts about us:

1. Currently used by 1,000+ schools and 30,000+ teachers from 107 countries

2. Global revenue – 40% from Americas, 30% from EMEA, 30% from APAC

3. NRR > 115%

4. NPS > 70

5. Annual churn < 5%

6. Inbound led GTM motion fuelled by positive word of mouth

We love solving for

1. Creating delightful experiences that help teaching teams collaborate better & be more effective

2. Building tools that help teachers personalise learning for their students

3. Helping teachers around the world connect with each other meaningfully

We are at a series A stage right now, growing fast in the SAAS Ed-tech space, and have been funded by Sequoia, Matrix, Beenext, and Better Capital among others.

Here’s what you’ll be doing

We are looking for a passionate and skilled Backend engineer, one who partners with us in creating beautiful products for teachers, students and parents alike. As a Backend engineer, you will play a major role in designing, developing and deploying high-quality web platforms. In

this multifaceted role, you will get the opportunity to work along curriculum experts, teachers, and students, and user-test the product in real school settings.

Required Skills:

Frameworks & Technologies: Node.js, Express, GraphQL, JWT

Database: SQL query writing and optimisation.

Tools: Git basics, Scripting basics

Good to have:

DevOps experience with AWS, CI/CD

Working experience in PostgreSQL

Is this someone that looks like you?

• Education: B.E/B.Tech degree

• Experience: 1 to 3 years of relevant working experience (SaaS preferred)

• Soft Skills: Having a bias towards action, a good sense of design, empathy, and good communication skills

• We deeply value building the right culture at Toddle, and these are a few things that we look for in each hire - Coach-ability, Curiosity, Ownership, Hustle and Humility

Excited about the role?

Here are a few more benefits:

1. Work from anywhere - Work from where you like - home, co-working space, cafe or the hills

2. Exposure to diverse learning opportunities

Work across different projects & teams to develop skills outside of your core expertise

Access to a small budget towards learning (e.g. books, online courses, substacks)

3. Uncapped leave policy

We trust you fully on your commitment to our mission and your judgement on planning your time and taking leaves:

No cap on the number of sick or casual leaves

Special paid leaves for childbirth, wedding etc.

And if in any circumstance you feel burnt out - there is a little something for this too!

No questions asked menstrual leave

4. Flexible working hours - Block “no-meeting hours” to enable uninterrupted focused work

5. No bell curve performance evaluations

6. And yes, a super fun and smart group of folks to collaborate and grow with.

Still with us? Here’s the process:

1. Shortlisting:

• Apply for the role.

• We’ll check out your application and assess it for a fit

• You will hear back from us within 2-3 days of the submission if shortlisted

2. Once shortlisted, we usually do about 2-3 rounds of interviews, a written assignment, and deep reference checks.

3. We value everyone’s time hence we make it a point to communicate proactively at all stages of your application. You can always reach out to us for any questions.

We want a MEAN stack developer who is definitely not mean but is enthusiastic, quick at grasping, and has experience in handling multiple projects and codebases.

You should be energetic, authoritative, focused, and experimental at work.

We are looking for experienced backend engineers only.

Apply only if you have 8 YES out of the following 10 qualifying criteria :

-Strong grip over HTML, CSS, and Angular 9+

-Good with CSS styling and theming

-Expert at API development using NodeJS

-Experienced with MongoDB DB

-Self-starter with good communication skills

-At least 2+ years of experience

-Must be willing to work from Bangalore (HSR)

-Have than 2 years of experience with multiple frontend projects in MEAN Stack?

-HAVE worked in a B2C Startup for at least a year?

-CAN join in within 30-45 days?

Responsibilities

1-Integration of user-facing elements developed by front-end developers

2-Build efficient, testable, and reusable PHP modules

3-Solve complex performance problems and architectural challenges

4-Integration of data storage solutions (may include databases, key-value stores, blob stores, etc.

Skills and Qualifications

1-Strong knowledge of PHP web frameworks (such as Code igniter, Core PHP depending on your technology stack).

2-Understanding the fully synchronous behavior of PHP.

3-Understanding of MVC design patterns.

4-Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as JavaScript, Jquery, Ajax, HTML5, and CSS3.

5-Knowledge of object oriented PHP programming.

6-Understanding accessibility and security compliance (Depending on the specific project)

7-Strong knowledge of the common PHP or web server exploits and their solutions.

8-User authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments

9-Integration of multiple data sources and databases into one system.

10-Familiarity with limitations of PHP as a platform and its workarounds.

11-Creating database schemas that represent and support business processes

12-Familiarity with SQL/MySQL databases and their declarative query languages