Drupal Developer

WeMakeScholars is an organization funded and supported by the Ministry of IT, Government of India under the 'Digital India Campaign'. We offer international education finance via scholarships and education loans, to study abroad aspirants. We are currently a 220 members team. Last financial year, we disbursed 2200 Cr in education loans to 8300 students across India.

We are looking for a PHP Developer who is keen to work in a startup environment esp. a product-based company. 

Job Overview

We are hiring developers (from 0 to 10 experience) with relevant knowledge and experience with the development and deployment of large-scale cloud-native enterprise systems on PHP, REST APIs, Node Js, Flutter, AWS & MySql. 

About Tech Department:

• Our internal tech team is responsible for end-to-end in-house tech support which includes and is not limited to design, development & deployment. 
• We are continuously developing and improvising our products to enhance customer and team experience.
• As we are in the Fintech space, our team has to ensure the database security of the application.

Job Summary 

• Participate in the full development life cycle, working within broadly defined parameters including design, development, testing, and maintenance of the existing application with minimal supervision.
• Work on optimization and performance improvement activities. Instrument and test performance metrics.
• Participate in peer-to-peer code reviews to improve the quality and maintenance of the codebase.
• Collaboration with multiple internal/external stakeholders such as product, business, DBA, and Dev Ops.
• Design and implement APIs for web/mobile (both Android & iOS) applications.
• To be available on call for the projects or features developed by you. Things break, and you will be responsible to fix it when it does.

Experience & Skills Required

• 2+ years of experience (we are hiring freshers too for junior positions)
• Hands-on experience and knowledge of engineering end-to-end systems.
• Understanding of the complete software development life cycle, including coding standards, and code reviews.
• Familiarity with multiple software development practices and tools
• Ability to write clean, modular, and loosely coupled code by the use of design patterns.
• Proficiency in the implementation of algorithms and the use of advanced data structures to solve problems in computing.
• A solid foundation and implementing principles of computer science are a must. Ex: object-oriented programming, concurrency, fundamentals of computer science, SQL databases. 

Designation: Technical Lead (ABL_SS_272)

Position description:

• Work with Product and Engineering leaders to drive and implement platform and product vision.
• Leverage deep and wide knowledge of technology stack to recommend appropriate architecture and design solutions, and provide technical leadership to a team of rock star Software Engineers.
• Translate the impact of design choices on non-functional attributes like scalability, performance, availability, and security.
• Create large-scale, multi-tiered, distributed web applications with databases, and designing web services, APIs, data models, and schemas, using SQL or NoSQL.
• Experience with Cloud environments, such as AWS.
• Comfortable working with Windows and Linux environments.
• Work with different data storage solutions such as Postgres, Oracle, SQL Server, ElasticSearch, SQL, Hadoop, or MongoDB.
• Experience delivering high-quality software following continuous delivery and using code quality tools (JIRA, GitHub, Jenkin, Hudson, Sonar, and Fortify, etc.).
• Drive adoption of best practices across the Software Engineering Lifecycle, including reviews, source control, build processes, continuous integration, and deployment.
• Develop and maintain cross-functional relationships and alignment.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Application Development using Golang / C++.

Reporting Department: Application Development and Maintenance (1991)

Educational qualifications preferred Degree: Bachelors degree

Required Skills:

• Experience of building scalable architectures
• Hands-on experience with GoLang, Node Js, C++ or Java or any other Open Source technologies/ Cloud Servers
• Experience in developing software using a formal & structured development methodology
• Ability to work in a collaborative team environment
• Experience with test-driven development & proper unit testing of code
• An iterative approach to development, using short development cycles & frequent builds
• Object-oriented programming/ Object Oriented Design (OOP/OOD)
• Ability to develop secure solutions & knowledge of industry best practices regarding information security & defensive development

• Experience working with Lamp Stack/PHP code
• Proficiency in Magento and/or WordPress is strongly preferred
• Involved in requirement analysis, design and development
• Involved in sending form data to restful API using Ajax calls
• Have experience in CSS, JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3, Jquery Mobile, Bootstrap
• Design, population, updating & editing of relational databases and RDBMS like SQL, MySql.
• Experience with using server like XAMPP is a Plus
• Known with usage of web technology like Ajax with PHP
• Having an experience with building Responsive UI Design with industry standard frameworks
• Work in a team environment creating and supporting enterprise grade applications
• Help architect, design new applications and support existing applications

• Expertise in building web applications and APIs.
• Strong knowledge in PHP core and web framework Laravel
• Basic understanding of front-end technologies such as HTML, CSS, Javascript, Bootstrap, AJAX.
• Familiar with MYSQL query language
• Knowledge of frontend backend integration
• Knowledge in Linux based OS like Ubuntu is an added advantage
• writing well designed, testable, efficient code
• Excellent Communication Skills
• Willingness to own a responsibility
• Ability to work in a team as well as an individual
• Ability to work under pressure and maintain deadlines
• Good to have worked on end to end in projects

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