Fullstack Developer

Job description

The ideal candidate is a creative problem solver who will work in coordination with cross-functional teams to design, develop, and maintain our next generation websites and web tools. You will also lead a team of junior developers and designers to execute projects end to end. You must be comfortable working as part of a team while taking the initiative to take lead on new innovations and projects.

Responsibilities

• Development of responsive and SEO friendly web pages in WordPress from Figma designs.
• Developing and maintaining website backend in WordPress or PHP including MySQL database.
• Development of responsive front-end with HTML, CSS, Javascript, jQuery.
• Development of custom and re-usable components in form of WordPress plugins and themes.
• Doing performance testing and optimizing websites.
• Lead website development for projects, working alongside a team of developers in creating, maintaining, and updating the client's websites
• Oversee the development for website redesign projects by working closely with other internal developers
• Direct the team on sprint requirements and output
• Evaluate completed work and offer answers to roadblocks
• Troubleshoot for website issues and bugs, brainstorm options and provide client-friendly explanations for solutions
• Lead the UX strategy for new web projects to develop the proposed sitemap, wireframes, and user flows, based on the client’s needs
• Complete the front-end development tasks, including website maintenance, plugin updates, CSS improvements, and post creation
• Collaborate directly with designers to implement designs and provide feedback if necessary
• Ensure the websites are client-friendly, and have an intuitive back-end to allow for easy content and page updates
• Participate in client meetings, WordPress back-end training sessions and create training materials as needed

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science (or equivalent experience)
• A minimum of 2+ years of experience with WordPress custom theme & plugin development
• Prolific experience in WordPress
• Knowledge of front-end technologies like HTML, CSS, Javascript, jQuery.
• Understanding of responsive and SEO friendly web design.
• Strong debugging skills.
• Extensive experience in HTML and CSS
• Demonstrable experience in UX strategy & methodologies
• Prolific experience in JS and building responsive and accessible websites
• Solid understanding of web standards, cross-browser behaviour, and performance
• Develop user-friendly backend with PHP, custom fields, ACF or Gutenberg
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Working ability to translate designs into semantic, accessible front-end code
• Familiarity with web servers and deploying code with GitHub
• Prior experience with Adobe Creative Suite, Figma, or similar design applications
• Nice to have knowledge of SEO and Google Analytics
• Fluent in verbal and written English

Skill-set

PHP, WordPress, Web APIs, Database, MySQL, HTML, CSS, Javascript, jQuery, Git version control, CI/CD, SEO, Responsive web design

What we offer

• Growth-oriented culture
• Limitless learning opportunities by working with cutting-edge tech stacks and with a diverse and talented team
• Excellent compensation with competitive benefits and rejuvenation time off
• Flexible work environment
• A chance to make an impact on our business strategy using your work

Role :

We are building one of the world's best tech platforms for online giving, where we provide opportunities for people to donate to any cause, non-profit or geography that they care about, in the most simple, personalized and effective manner. We scale our impact on the lives of millions of underprivileged people every year through our workplace giving, subscription giving and crowdfunding products.

At Give, we are looking for top-talent for our engineering team - software engineers who want to solve complex problems, continually learn, and most importantly, make a real impact in the lives of others.

Responsibilities :

- Work alongside product to understand our requirements, and design, develop and iterate

- Think through complex architecture to build robust and scalable solutions

- Build well-abstracted modules and services

- Provide design reviews for other engineers, including feedback on architecture and design issues, as well as integration, performance and scalability

- Follow scrum methodology to iterate and deploy fast

- Mentor other team members and colleagues

- Contribute to documentation, process and procedures

Requirements :

- 7+ years of experience

- Expertise in various Javascript frameworks/libraries including, but not limited to NodeJS and React.js

- Advanced knowledge of JavaScript

- Understanding of the fundamental principles of asynchronous code

-The ability to write efficient, scalable, reusable code

- The ability to conceptualize, diagnose, architect, iterate and build systems, sub-systems and services that are complex and enterprise scale

- Advanced knowledge and experience in web and server-side technologies

- Experience in both NoSQL and relational databases (MongoDB, PostgreSQL or similar databases) and an advanced understanding of data modeling

- Experience in one or more OO language like Python/Flask (preferable), Java, Ruby, etc.

- Identity Management and Security (SSL protocols, data encryption, user authentication, authorization services)

- Expertise in Git

- The ability to work across all software platforms at a high level - frontend and backend, server management, CI/CD, administrate third party tools/services/integrations

- An advanced understanding of open source libraries/frameworks and integration with third party

- APIs - with a focus on Payments, Notifications and Analytics

- Advanced knowledge of client/server-side caching mechanisms across multiple layers

- Proven track record of technical leadership, software delivery, ownership and mentorship

- Superb understanding of scalable computing systems, software architecture, data structures and algorithms

- Deep understanding of service-oriented and microservice architectures

- Expertise in AWS and its related services (EC2, S3, RDS, Route53, Elastic Beanstalk and more) or an equivalent cloud provider, Linux and shell scripting

- Knowledge of Nginx, Docker, gunicorn is a plus

- The ability and the experience to proactively account for the edge cases rather than diagnosing them after the fact

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

•  Bachelors or masters in software engineering, Computer Science or other relevant disciplines
•  2+ years experience as a Back-End or Full Stack Developer with hands-on experience working with Python web application development
•  Strong Knowledge in Python v3.x Language
•  Experience in REST APIs with JSON
•  Error handling and Logging 
•  Any DB knowledge 
•  Knowledge on Sumo Logic log aggregation is a plus
• Must know how to produce high quality, “Clean” code that is performant, maintainable and secure

JavaScript, jQuery, Angular or node, HTML, CSS, API consumption, DB knowledge, building responsive web apps. 

Senior Fullstack Developer (MERN Stack) having min 4 years of relevant experience with hands-on experience in handling all aspects of Product Management internal and external facing Product development. Work with Founders to set a product vision and strategy that delivers unique value based on customer needs and expectation. Work closely with development and program management to deliver products and features.

Key Responsibilities

• Demonstrated experience managing the full product development life cycle, including product conceptualization,  prototyping, and development
• Software development experience to not just be able to solve stuff on your own but also to better communicate / manage and colloborate between team
• Hands on leader who's comfortable coding, providing code reviews, and leading complex architectural design discussions in team setting. Can set coding standards, ensure quality.
• Team leading experience
• Technical Expertise in AWS deployment
• Very deep capabilities to architect enterprise class applications on the cloud with web/mobile front ends. Microservices Architecture. Cross-platform integrations.

Stack base:

UI - Tailwind, styled components, react (familiar in Functional components and hooks) and react router

State management - Redux and redux saga,

Backend - Express and node,

Database - Redis and MongoDB with mongoose ODM