Database Developer

Job Title: PHP Developer

Company: Aertrip

Location: Ghitorni, Delhi

Experience: Minimum 3 Years

Employment Type: Full-time

About Aertrip:

Aertrip is a fast-growing travel technology company providing seamless flight, hotel, and holiday booking experiences. We focus on delivering innovative, scalable, and efficient digital travel solutions to enhance customer satisfaction and business growth.

About the Role:

We are seeking an experienced PHP Developer to join our dynamic technology team. The ideal candidate should have strong command over PHP and related frameworks (especially CodeIgniter/Laravel), a passion for clean coding, and experience in building and maintaining scalable web applications.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop, test, and maintain dynamic web applications using PHP and frameworks (CodeIgniter/Laravel).
• Write clean, efficient, and well-documented code.
• Collaborate with front-end developers, designers, and product managers to deliver high-quality solutions.
• Build and maintain RESTful APIs and integrate third-party services.
• Optimize applications for performance, scalability, and security.
• Troubleshoot, debug, and resolve software issues promptly.
• Participate in code reviews and contribute to improving coding standards and best practices.

Required Skills:

• Strong knowledge of Core PHP and Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) concepts.
• Hands-on experience with CodeIgniter (mandatory); knowledge of Laravel is a plus.
• Good understanding of MySQL, database design, and query optimization.
• Experience working with RESTful APIs and third-party integrations.
• Proficiency in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and jQuery.
• Familiarity with Git/GitHub or other version control systems.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• Minimum 3 years of professional experience in PHP development.
• Experience in both new project development and maintenance of existing systems.

Key Skills Required :

1. Proficiency in Python 3.x based web and backend development
2. Solid understanding of Python concepts
3. Strong experience in building web applications using Django
4. Experience building REST APIs using DRF or Flask
5. Experience with some form of Machine Learning (ML)
6. Experience in using libraries such as Numpy and Pandas
7. Hands on experience with RDBMS such as Postgres or MySQL including querying
8. Comfort with Git repositories, branching and deployment using Git
9. Working experience with Docker
10. Basic working knowledge of ReactJs
11. Experience in deploying Django applications to AWS,Digital Ocean or Heroku

Responsibilities :

1. Understanding requirement and congributing to engineering solutions at a conceptual stage to provide the best possible solution to the task/challenge
2. Building high quality code using coding standards based on the SRS/Documentation
3. Building component based, maintainable, scalable and reusable backend libraries/modules.
4. Building & documenting scalable APIs on the Open Spec standard
5. Unit testing development modules and APIs
6. Conducting code reviews to ensure that the highest quality standard are maintained
7. Securing backend applications and APIs using industry best practices
8. Troubleshooting issues and fixing bugs raised by the QA team efficiently.
9. Optimizing code
10. Building and deploying the applications

About Hop:

We are a London, UK based FinTech startup with a subsidiary in India. Hop is working towards building the next generation digital banking platform for seamless and economical currency exchange, with technology at the crux of it. In a technology driven era, many financial services platforms still lack the customer experience and are cumbersome to use. Hop aims at building a ‘state of the art’ tech-centric, customer focused solution.

moneyHOP is India’s first cross-border neo-bank providing millennials the ability to ‘Send’ & ‘Spend’ conveniently and economically across the globe using HOPRemit (An online remittance portal) and HOP app + Card (A multi-currency bank account).

This position is a crucially important position in the firm and the person hired will have the liberty to drive the product and provide direction in line with business needs.

About Individual

Looking for an enthusiastic individual who is passionate about technology and has worked with either a start-up or a blue-chip firm in the past.

The candidate needs to be a multi-tasker, highly self-motivated, self-starter and have the ability to work in a high stress environment. He/she should be tech savvy and willing to embrace new technology comfortably.

Ideally, the candidate should have experience working with the technology stack in the scalable and high growth mobile application software.

General Skills

• 1-2 years of experience in backend development.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Science, or equivalent practical experience.
• Exposure to Behaviour Driven Development and experience in programming and testing.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Good time management and organizational skills.
• Dependability
• Accountability and Ownership
• Right attitude and growth mindset
• Trust-worthiness
• Ability to embrace new technologies
• Ability to get work done
• Has good code reviewing skills for conformance.
• Has good software testing skills and good code writing skills.

Technical Skills

• Exposure with back-end programming languages with hands on JAVA, Node JS etc along with Spring framework.
• Database administration and management of a hosting environment such as AWS.
• Sound understanding of relational and non-relational DB systems such as MySQL, Post-gres, MongoDB etc.
• Has experience dealing with JIRA (issue tracking tools), Confluence (knowledge management) tools.
• Experience with building and maintaining microservices.
• Experience with building and integrating the core system with external APIS.
• Good to have: Domain knowledge in the BFSI tech stack.
• Has handled scalability and worked on backend security protocols.
• Has worked on both mobile and web development.
• Has experience and inclination to work on architectural design and review.

Day-to-Day Responsibilities 

1. Contribute in all phases of the software development life cycle.
2. Partake in software and architectural development activities.
3. Conduct software analysis, programming, unit-testing and debugging.
4. Transforming requirements into functional modules.
5. Recommend changes to improve established application processes.
6. Work quickly with a clear bias towards actions and continuous development.
7. Participate in regular code reviews of peers and be open to pairing when necessary.

Mandatory Skills:

1. Good Coding Skills
2. Hands on Experience on C#
3. Indexer
4. Object Oriented concepts using C#
5. Linq
6. Generics
7. Delegates
8. File IO
9. GAC concepts
10. MVC
11. Entity framework
12. .Net Core Concepts
13. Web-API
14. Sql Queries

Secondary Skills:

• Knowledge of Angular/React/Vue/Java Script/ Type Script
• Knowledge of HTML and CSS
• SQL Server and PL/SQL
• Understanding of Design Patterns

Interpersonal Skills:

1. Good in communications (Verbal and Written)
2. Should have worked individually or in team

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