Full-stack PHP Developer ([email protected])

About Plum

We are making health insurance - simple, accessible and affordable. Hundreds of businesses of all sizes from startups to large corporates trust Plum for their employee's health protection.

Healthcare in India is seeing a phenomenal shift. Healthcare cost is seeing an inflation that is three times the general inflation. Treatments of diseases including Covid-19 can wipe out entire household savings. Majority of Indians won't be able to afford a health insurance on their own. As many as 600mn Indians would depend on employer-sponsored insurance.

Enter Plum. Plum is re-imagining the health insurance stack, and accelerating the penetration of health insurance in India to 100%. Plum has forged new underwriting and fraud detection algorithms to enable companies as small as 2 to benefit from a group insurance. The platform enables realtime insurance design & pricing to enable companies to buy insurance in 3-clicks. And offers employees a hassle-free claims experience through an integrated digital process.

Plum is backed by leading global investors including Tiger Global, Sequoia Capital, Tanglin Ventures and Incubate Fund (read more https://www.plumhq.com/blog/plum-series-a-funding">here)

About the role

Having found exceptional product/market fit, we’re in the midst of transitioning from 'start-up' to ‘scale-up’, and looking for a full stack engineer to help us scale Plum.

You will have a direct impact on the customer experience through the design and implementation of new features and functionalities in our product. You'll work as part of a small but rapidly growing high-energy team delivering incredible, creative improvements to our product. You'll be in charge of reviewing the implementation of applications following code standards and style guides.

• Spec, build, test, and deliver new features while improving the performance and quality of the product.
• Run test-harness to guarantee the structure, integrity, and design of the application.
• Solve complex CSS, HTML, and User Interface compatibility issues across browsers.
• Optimize JavaScript implementations to ensure that code remains performant.
• Implement front-end development workflows: build systems, dependency management, quality checkers (linting), etc.
• Push things over the line, ship awesome features, and delight customers.

• 4+ years of hands-on experience building web applications with Nodejs, React.
• Comfortable with Responsive Web Design and Development and weave out beautiful code in React.
• Strong product and design sensibilities and has an obsessive attention to detail.
• Write testable, maintainable code that's easy to understand.
• Understand complex problems and break them down into smaller tasks.
• Strong sense of ownership and integrity demonstrated through clear communication and collaboration.

Description

Zycus is looking for a Meanstack/Mernstack Developer, who is motivated to combine the art of design with the art of programming. Responsibilities include implementing visual elements and their behavior with user interactions.. You will also be playing an active role on front end as well as backend development, and defining how the application looks and functions. We are looking for candidates with strong experience in MongoDB, Express.js, Angular, Node.js, Javascript, HTML, CSS, Jquery, Ajax. If you are a Mean Stack or full stack developer with a strong technical experience, then you could be the best fit for the role!

Roles & Responsibilities

· Creating Apps by working on all layers of architecture Understanding the flow of code and how it interacts with different components.

· Creating technical design documents by understanding requirements, and product objectives.

· Writing effective Unit tests

· Good analytical skills and innovative mind.

· Source code management.

· Excellent communication skills.

Requirements

· Total experience of 5 - 8 years

· Experience on Mean Stack/Mernstack (MongoDB, Express.js, Angular, Node.js)

· Strong understanding of JavaScript, object-oriented JS, its quirks, and workarounds·

· Strong hands on experience in JavaScript· Strong proficiency with JavaScript or CoffeeScript depending on your technology stack.·

· Good understanding of server-side CSS preprocessors such as Stylus, Less·

· Basic understanding of web markup, including HTML5 and CSS3· Good understanding of asynchronous request handling, partial page updates, JQuery, and AJAX·

· Proficient understanding of cross-browser compatibility issues and ways to work around such issues· Familiarity with JavaScript module loaders, such as Require.js and AMD·

· Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as SVN· Good understanding of browser rendering behaviour and performance

· Key Programming Skills: MEAN stack, full stack, Angular, Java, HTML/CSS, Javascript, Bootstrap.

· Experience working with Rest based APIs

Five Reasons Why You Should Join Zycus

1. Cloud Product Company: We are a Cloud SaaS Company and our products are created by using the latest technologies like ML and AI. Our UI is in Angular JS and we are developing our mobile apps using React.

2. A Market Leader: Zycus is recognized by Gartner (world’s leading market research analyst) as a Leader in Procurement Software Suites.

3. Move between Roles: We believe that change leads to growth and therefore we allow our employees to shift careers and move to different roles and functions within the organization

4. Get a Global Exposure: You get to work and deal with our global customers.

5. Create an Impact: Zycus gives you the environment to create an impact on the product and transform your ideas into reality. Even our junior engineers get the opportunity to work on different product features.

Job Requirements

Must have:

• Experience working on Node.js with Typescript and Express.
• Experience working with SQL and NoSQL databases. Experience with PostgreSQL and DynamoDB would be preferred.

Nice to have:

• Experience in ReactJS and its main fundamentals like JSX, Virtual DOM, component lifecycle, etc.
• Strong proficiency in JavaScript, object model, DOM manipulation and event handlers, data structures, algorithms.
• Knowledge of Unit testing frameworks

.

Job Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain software applications.
• Write well-designed, testable, efficient code by using best software development practices.

• Design and implementation of the overall web architecture
• Pixel-perfect implementation and integration of our approved user interface
• Design and construction of REST API
• Build efficient, testable, and reusable PHP modules
• Design and deployment of database
• Integration of data storage solutions including various databases, blob stores, key-value pairs, etc.
• Solve complex performance problems and architectural challenges
• Ensuring the entire stack is designed and built for speed and scalability
• Design and implementation of continuous integration and deployment
• Handle overall website deployment and build process
• Work closely with different stakeholders to both develop detailed specification documents with clear project deliverables and timelines, and to ensure timely completion of deliverables.

• 3-5 years of experience in web development and coding within a cross-disciplinary environment
• Good at writing HTML, CSS,Bootstrap and JavaScript. Being up on the latest practices is a must, e.g., HTML5, CSS3, and ECMAScript 6 (minimum)
• Good experience in JQuery, JavaScript
• Must have exp. on PHP, MYSQL, MVC, Linux, logging, Unit testing, Subversion, Restful/soap
• Experience with Source Control tools (Subversion
• Expert in back-end programming language PHP with Laravel framework and IDE
• Good experience in JQuery, JavaScript.
• ReactJS, AngularJS or VueJS would be preferred
• Experience with Source Control tools (Subversion)
• Ideally, familiarity with CSS preprocessors, bundlers, and associated languages/ syntaxes/ libraries
• Database design and management with No-SQL, Mysql, including being up on the latest practices and associated version
• Familiarity with databases (e.g. MySQL, MongoDB), web servers (e.g. Apache) and UI/UX design
• Excellent communication and teamwork skills
• Familiarity with a relevant and globally supported framework both front-end and back-end
• Thorough understanding of user experience and possibly even product strategy
• Experience implementing testing platforms and unit tests
• Proficiency with version control system preferred Git
• Appreciation for clean and well-documented code
• Experienced in full web development life cycle from requirements gathering to Server management and deployment for the relevant environment
• WordPress Experience is a plus.
• Understanding of SEO principles.

You should have

• Degree in Computer Science or relevant field
• Strong knowledge and understanding of JavaScript and TypeScript
• Knowledge of multiple frontend languages and frameworks including HTML, CSS, SCSS, JavaScript and React.
• Knowledge of backend languages and frameworks primarily Node.js
• Familiarity with SQL databases (e.g. PostgreSQL)
• Knowledge of Docker, and Kubernetes would be a plus.
• Leadership skills for guiding and mentoring teammates.
• Understanding of CI/CD Concepts
• Awareness of key concepts in DevOps and Agile principles

Perks

• Flexible working hours - employee tracking is never a thing
• A fun and close-knit agile team.
• Open office layout that promotes collaboration, conversation, and camaraderie – the result-oriented team.
• Recreational activities to keep you away from the screen and live, laugh, and enjoy with the team.

We are searching for Full Stack PHP Developers to join our Tech team. You will work as a part of a Full-stack Tech team that is responsible for all aspects of the ongoing product & services development from the initial specification, through to developing, testing, and launching.

You will be responsible for building multiple platforms; integrating new templates/themes on the platform, maintain the platform etc – end to end development & maintenance of the products & services along with your team of developers.

● PHP 5 or later, MVC frameworks such as Laravel, Code Igniter
● Web services, REST API
● Candidate should have sound knowledge/understanding of Front-end technologies such as HTML & CSS,
JQuery Ajax, Node.js, React JS, Responsive design.
● Server management knowledge such as AWS, apache configuration, linux apt-get, crontab scheduling etc
● Working with MYSQL, writing stored procedures, query optimization.
● Problem solver and go getter
● Write clean, readable code and tests
● Skills of development of basic mobile apps is an addon.
● Candidate's role will require them to communicate with project managers, clients solution architects in the
team and overseas counterparts.
● Be a self-motivated, independent, detail oriented, responsible team-player and exhibit exceptional
relationship management skills
● Help TL/PM in project estimations as & when required

Required Experience and Skills:

• Hands-on experience in ReactJS 6.x+, HTML5, CSS, Bootstrap, Node js
• 1+ years of experience in cross-browser compatible responsive web application development using React.
• Good knowledge about Reactive programming using RxJS and Redux.
• Knowledge and use of Restful web services, Gulp / Grunt.
• Experience working with debugging/testing tools like Firebug Lite, Chrome or Safari web inspectors.
• Version Control – GIT
• Servers / Application frameworks – Apache / Nginx / ExpressJS
• Selecting and deploying appropriate CI/CD tools
• Strive for continuous improvement and build continuous integration, continuous development, and constant deployment pipeline (CI/CD Pipeline)

Responsibilities:

• Ability to translate Wireframes and PSD to high quality designs and functional web apps using HTML5, ReactJS, Node.js, and Mongo
• Develop interactive, user-friendly applications using the ReactJS
• Binding of UI elements to JavaScript object models
• Creating RESTful services with Node.js
• Architect scalable web architectures
• Developing for Back-end Web Applications using NodeJS and Express
• Creating servers and databases for functionality
• API design, creation and integrations
• Staying abreast of developments in web applications, app development and programming languages
• Effective communication with different stakeholders.

• Improving customer experience, not only for borrowers, but also other partners on the platform.
• Ensure seamless integration with data/ service providers and lending partners.
• When not doing any of above, write tests to prevent any regressions.

• Full-stack development experience.
• Experience with Ruby on Rails.
• Self-starter: Someone who can develop independently.
• Passionate about problem solving, ability to see the big picture.
• Realizes the value of 80-20

• Regular participation on Codechef, Topcoder etc. ( If yes, please cite your rank and pass on a link to your profile! )
• Prior experience at a bank / fin-tech / non-banking financial player in a technical role.