Laravel Developer

About us

We are the largest online legal / tax / compliance service providers in India. Our business is technology driven and our app is already servicing customers across India and abroad. Our dev team comprises seasoned and experienced developers along with Senior Resources for mentoring. We are looking forward to expanding our team.

Engineering at Vakilsearch

At Vakilsearch, our customers come first. We're a small, close-knit team. We work purposefully and think big when it comes to our growth as a team and individuals. 

We encourage you to spend time with our users, and our empathy for our customers sets the bar really high for the products and experiences we ship. We welcome people who are passionate about building a digital legal / tax / compliance future without reliance on humans and subject matter experts. If you have the curiosity, passion, and collaborative spirit, work with us, and let’s move the world forward, together!

Job brief

Do you like writing mean and clean Ruby code? We believe in designing, building and maintaining efficient, reusable, and reliable applications on Ruby. Come join our team and help us build amazing things. We’re looking for someone with a passion for programming and for writing beautiful code. You will join a team of exceptional developers working in a fast-paced environment to deliver world-class software.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of developers to write clean, maintainable and efficient code.
• Design robust, scalable and secure features.
• Drive continuous adoption and integration of relevant new technologies into design.
• Ability to work independently on challenging compound problems as well as collaborating with other team members to solve major goals.
• Identify bottlenecks and bugs, and devise solutions to these problems.
• Present complex ideas and approaches in simple communicable terms across engineering and management and manage stakeholder relationships.

Requirements

• Minimum 6 years of software development experience. 
• Minimum 2 years of experience being a senior engineer and working on end-to-end scalable solutions.
• Demonstrable knowledge of front-end technologies such as ReactJS, JQuery.
• Penchant to learn new technologies like NodeJS, Golang for relevant solutions.
• A firm grasp of MVC architecture.
• Passion for writing great, simple, clean, efficient code.
• Good knowledge of relational databases. Working knowledge of Postgres/MySQL database.
• Test-driven development with RSpec, Capybara, Jasmine.

Senior Developer should have exposure to building logistics products.

Skilled in RESTful & GraphQL APIs, microservices, and database optimization (MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB).

• Experienced in authentication (OAuth, JWT), caching (Redis, Memcached), and real-time applications (WebSockets).

• Strong knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud deployment (AWS, GCP, Azure).

• Passionate about scalability, performance tuning, security best practices, and clean code architecture.

1. PHP Developer/Sr. PHP Developer:

• Reviewing (if already developed) current system workflow and database design.
• Analyzing the needs of system and producing detailed specification document
• Create a step by step flow chart or psudocode for computing systems that shows how program code must be written in order to work properly.
• Develop a functional modules according as required under deadline.
• Integrating 3rd party tools wherever required.
• Perform and document unit testing for developed functions.
• System maintenance by monitoring and correcting software defects.
• Continuously updating technical knowledge and skills as per industry standards.
• Contribute to technical writers to create users documents.
• All tasks must be carried out at the highest standards.

• Strong experience on any of the modern PHP based frameworks like Laravel, Cake PHP, Symphony, etc.
• Ability to create Data Structures and Algorithms.

Experience of developing highly scalable web services and APIs using PHP.

• Development skills of Database design and information schema using NoSQL/SQL.
• Source control management (e.g. Git, SVN, Mercurial) to enable teams to work together to manage source code.
• Working over cloud computing platform like Amazon Web Service (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Microsoft Azure
• Strong designing / problem solving skills.

• Education: BCA, MCA, Msc IT, Bsc IT or any equivalent qualification
• Work Experience: 2-6 year of experience in same field
• Good Communication skill (Preferred)
• Can work under pressure
• Meet deadlines

Required Skills:

• 3+ year of experience in Development in JAVA technology.
• Strong Java Basics
• SpringBoot or Spring MVC
• Hands on experience on Relational Databases (SQL query or Hibernate) + Mongo (JSON parsing)
• Proficient in REST API development
• Messaging Queue (RabitMQ or Kafka)
• Microservices
• Any Caching Mechanism
• Good at problem solving

Good to Have Skills:

• 3+ years of experience in using Java/J2EE tech stacks
• Good understanding of data structures and algorithms.
• Excellent analytical and problem solving skills.
• Ability to work in a fast paced internet start-up environment.
• Experience in technical mentorship/coaching is highly desirable.
• Understanding of AI/ML algorithms is a plus.

• Should have knowledge in Core PHP and object-oriented programming.
• You will be responsible in developing applications using Laravel/ wordpress/ Codeignitor - preffered (Laravel)
• Responsible for Developing High-Quality Web Applications, Admin dashboards and PHP Scripts, APIs.
• Should be able to Develop, record and maintain cutting edge web-based php applications on portal plus permiium service platforms
• Need to Identify and fix bugs that are found within code.
• Strong knowledge to Interact with SQL databases.
• Must be Creative problem-solving skills with a focus on delivering business value quickly
• Knowledge of MySQL and ability to write/ Maintain complex queries.
• Understanding of object-oriented PHP programming, Jquery and Javascript
• Should have good communication skills

• knowledge of PHP frameworks {Laravel, CakePHP, etc.}
• Understanding of MVC design patterns
• Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3
• Knowledge of object-oriented PHP programming
• knowledge of the common PHP or web server exploits and their solutions
• Understanding fundamental design principles behind a scalable application
• User authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments
• Integration of multiple data sources and databases into one system
• Creating database schemas that represent and support business processes
• Familiarity with SQL/NoSQL, MariaDB databases, and their declarative query languages
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git

Role:

• Design and Develop scalable high performance server applications
• Contribute towards scalable Design / Architecture for various modules / complete application
• Deliver high quality, robust, bug free code

Details

• Location – Pune
• Reporting to – CEO
• Team – To be built

This is what you will do

• Interface with the QA teams to ensure that the product meets desired quality standards
• Strong individual contributor who can develops excellent application without much supervision
• Excellent team player who can collaborate with other engineers to ship quality product in timely manner
• Assist Engineers in estimating effort, assigning tasks to engineers and tracking deliverables
• Research on new technologies, libraries and frameworks as per project needs
• Help maintain code quality, follow coding standards and guidelines
• Communicate on assignment progress / completion on a frequent basis

Educational Background:

• Engineering Graduate / Post Graduate Degree holder / MCA

Professional Experience:

• 4 – 7 Years of software development experience using Java/J2EE

Tech Skills

• Have very good hands on experience of Core Java, Spring, Hibernate and related JEE technologies
• Have good understanding of data structure and algorithms
• Good in programming fundamentals
• Basic understanding of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Web technologies
• Basic understanding of RDBMS concepts, preferably using MySQL
• Good understanding of client-server architecture and multi-threading
• Knowledge of Web Services, XML and socket programming is plus
• Have very strong problem-solving skills

Other Skills

• Good listener
• Confident approach
• Strong problem-solving skill
• Highly proficient with MS Office
• Ability to structure processes and lay down the foundation for a department

Personality and attitude traits

• Passionate about work – We like people who like to work, and want their work to mean something
• Self-starter and motivator – We do not believe in monitoring or tracking team members
• Eager and quick to learn – If you are not excited to learn new things, then tech companies are not for you
• Individual contributor – We are a small team, and everyone has hands on contribution
• Start-up savvy