Backend Engineer

FirstFiling is a FinTech startup that is managed, operated, and driven by Chartered Accountants, Company secretaries, IT engineers, and Lawyers. We provide registration and financial compliance services to businesses and individuals across India.

Our aim is to simplify the lives of people by helping individuals and businesses with mandatory compliances, filings, and statutory requirements while promoting financial literacy among the masses. 

Role: Backend Developer (2 openings)

Job Description:

We are seeking an experienced senior web developer to join our friendly team to participate in the

development of the next-generation app and who has the technical ability to implement server side

code written in the Laravel framework. Your main responsibility will be designing and implementing

applications that are written in PHP. This means you will work closely with front end developers to

integrate back-end components with the components they're creating for users to interact with.

Therefore, it is important that youre able to effectively communicate and collaborate with your

colleagues. You will take a lead role in the technical side of our company with room to grow as we

continue to grow.

Technologies/ Frameworsk:

PHP, Laravel, Lumen, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MS SQL, RESTful API, Microservice, API Gateway,

JavaScript, jQuery, Docker, Load Balancer, LMAP, Nginx

Skills Required:

• Extensive experience in PHP Laravel, API Gateway

• Hands-on experience in web services-RESTful

• Knowledge of RESTful API design patterns and Integrations technologies. JSON

Language and scripting as well as Rest Oriented Architecture (ROA)

• Knowledge of HTTP and SOAP Protocols

• Hands-on experience with MySQL / PostgreSQL / MS SQL development including data

modelling, concurrency, query optimization, stored procedure development, and tuning

• Familiarity & Expertise with Bitbucket / GitHub,

• Comfortable working with JavaScript and jQuery

• Understanding and Practising of coding best practices

• Creative and efficient problem solver

• Knowledge of AWS API Gateway, Apigee API Gateway, Azure API Gateway or any other

API Gateways.

• Hands-on experience in working with API gateways added advantage

• Understanding and experience on Data Patterns

Responsibilities:

• Ability to work closely with technical architects and architecture governance technical

team for solution development and design reviews

• Analyse, design, develop, as well as implement RESTful services and APIs

• Be involved in the development life cycle and perform definition and feasibility analysis as

well as in the API lifecycle release management

• Implement, integrate, and document a variety of software platforms through the RESTful

API framework

• API development with OpenAPI Specifications and other standards

• Apply the latest software design techniques and contribute to the technical design of new

solutions

• Modify existing programs, prepare test data and functional specifications.

• Troubleshoot issues and solve problems, identify potential process improvement areas

• Implement common APIs based on architecture guidelines and frameworks

• Responsible for mapping, designing specs for transformation between API Gateway and

backend service

• Write object-oriented, clean, and maintainable code

• Deliver quality results on time with minimal supervision

• Ensuring that integrations run smoothly.

• Scaling projects based on client feedback.

• Mentoring/training in API architecture & code quality

• Work closely with API Solutions Architect and Platform Administrators

• Work closely with the Business Product Owners, and must understand the short and

medium term strategy for the business

Requirements:

• Experience working with PHP, performing unit testing, and managing APIs such as

RESTful.

• A solid understanding of application design using Laravel.

• Knowledge of database design and querying using SQL.

• Proficiency in HTML and JavaScript.

• Practical experience using the MVC architecture.

• A portfolio of applications and programs to your name.

• Problem-solving skills and critical mindset. - Great communication skills.

• Desire and ability to learn

• 3+ years of working experience using NodeJS
• Knowledge on Express and/or React Js added advantage
• Experience in MongoDB and/or Postgres
• Experience in designing and developing serverless applications
• Knowledge of SOLID principles, Design patterns
• Good debugging skills using modern Dev Tools
• Experience with RESTful API development and integration
• Microservice experience is preferred
• Experience in Unit tests, code reviews
• Experience in cloud platforms – AWS is a plus
• Ability to up-skill in new technologies
• Innovative thinker with strong problem-solving skills

• NodeJS 
• NPM
• RESTful API
• Microservice
• MongoDB
• Postgres

• Designing And Implementing Applications
• Developing And Testing Software
• Resolving Technical Issues
• Fixing Bugs

Greetings!!!

We are hiring PHP Developer with Ionic Framework

Experience : 3 to 5 Yrs

Location : Chennai, Adyar

Mode of work : Permanent

Job Description :

· Proven software development experience in CorePHP with Advanced Versions

· A candidate with strong OOP skills as well as strong web front end skills (HTML, CSS, JS, jQuery etc.)

· Experience in any one of the PHP Frameworks (Laravel, Codeigniter, Zend)

· Mandatory to have Ionic Framework

· Experience in CMS (Joomla, Wordpress ), AWS (Amazon Web Services) will be added advantage.

· Exposure in Elastic Search, MySQL preferable.

· Passion for best design and coding practices and a desire to develop new bold ideas

· Excellent communication skills. The candidate must be able to communicate with clients in the UK directly.

HealthifyMe is a Health Tech Startup on a mission to make healthy living easy, fun and affordable for everyone by providing tech-enabled solutions. Founded in 2012, HealthifyMe is now India's largest and most loved health/fitness app with over 3 million users. The company helps consumers manage their health and fitness with diet and exercise tracking through a mix of technology intervention and human experts/coaches backed with artificial intelligence. HealthifyMe is co-founded by Tushar Vashisht (UPenn graduate, ex UID) and Sachin Shenoy (ex Google), and was incubated by Microsoft Accelerator.  HealthifyMe is the highest rated app on Google Play with a rating of 4.6/5 and has been featured by Google and Apple multiple times for its quality benchmarks. The company, delivers measurable results on eating habits, fitness, and weight and is a platform of choice by leading Corporates and Healthcare partners in India.

Leadership Skill

• Technically hands on.
• Have previous experience of leading teams.
• Have experience with agile process, and ability to guide the team to follow the process.
• Comfortable in chaotic & high-energy, high-stakes start-up environment.
• Hates wasting time in unproductive meetings, and prefers getting quick consensus to move ship forward.
• Prefers delivering in production than spending time in meeting.
• Able to technically mentor team and guide them to high performance.

Technical Skills

• Loves solving technically hard problems. 
• Have previous experience with Python(Django), MySQL.
• Have previous experience with one or more of AWS, RDS, SQS, EC2, DynamoDB, ElastiCache. 
• NoSQL experience is good to have.  
• Loves clean and structured code, and thrives to maintain it. 
• Fast at coding, fast in learning and technically solid.
• Have previous experience in building, running and managing scalable and highly availability web services.

Look forward to

• Working with a world-class team. 
• Fun & work at the same place with an amazing work culture and flexible timings. 
• Get ready to transform yourself into a health junkie