Lead Application Developer

-Design and maintain efficient database solutions using RDBMS.

-Write complex SQL queries for data extraction and manipulation.

-Implement and optimize AWS services for scalable application deployment.

-Develop server-side logic using PHP and integrate front-end elements with JavaScript.

-Collaborate with teams to design, develop, and deploy web applications.

We are looking for an experienced Back-end developer to join our IT team. You will be responsible for the server side of our web applications. If you have excellent programming skills and a passion for developing applications or improving existing ones, we would like to meet you. As a Back-end developer, you’ll work closely with our engineers to ensure system consistency and improve user experience. Ultimately, you should be able to develop and maintain functional and stable web applications to meet our company’s needs.

Responsibilities-

• Participate in the entire application lifecycle, focusing on coding and debugging
• Write clean code to develop functional web applications
• Troubleshoot and debug applications
• Perform UI tests to optimize performance
• Manage cutting-edge technologies to improve legacy applications
• Gather and address technical and design requirements
• Provide training and support to internal teams
• Build reusable code and libraries for future use
• Liaise with developers, designers and system administrators to identify new features
• Follow emerging technologies

• Developing and maintaining dynamic websites and web applications
• Ensure foolproof performance of the deliverable
• Coordinate with co-developers and other related departments.
• Experience own and work on end to end on an application.
• Set Milestones and deadline.
• Fine-tuning and resolve performance issues
• Mentor colleagues and code walk through.

Must have Skills:

PHP, OOP, codeigniter, Jquery, MySQL

Location: Job Location : Senapati Bapat Marg, Elphinstone Road.

Essential duties and responsibilities include the following. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Work on a remote cross-functional team where you’ll play a critical role in designing, planning, development, deployment and observing your code in production.   
• Develop high performance, highly scalable and accessible web applications. Our web app is used by over 20 million educators, students and parents worldwide.  
• Meet tight deadlines in a rapid application development environment.  
• Collaborate with Product Management, Design, and Operations teams to create and deliver tested features to production.  
• Collaborate with specialists across web, mobile, and operations to achieve a better user experience for our product.  
• Be able to assess and bring in industry information into your decisions and learn new technologies: AWS is releasing new tools every day, there are new open source libraries to vet and you will be a party to helping us vet and pick the best tool for the job.  
• Be willing to work in any area of the codebase if needed, this can include JavaScript/TypeScript/Node, PHP, Java or other technologies.  
• Help staff, build, and form the culture around a team of 5 engineers, a product manager, designer, QAs and associated supporting roles.

Qualifications include:

• Strong CS fundamentals including familiarity with data structures and especially the asynchronous challenges that face JavaScript developers today.   
• Experience developing in at least 2 server side languages (PHP, node.js, …)  
• Experience developing in at least 1 client side JS framework (ReactJS, Angular, …)  
• Experience testing software in alignment with the Test Pyramid.  
• Experience with datastores, either SQL (MySQL preferred) or NoSQL, and the ability to talk deeply about them.  
• Able to identify the source of complex problems occurring as a result of multiple systems interacting (experience with observability tools such as datadog/newrelic is a plus).   
• Experience working on a team of 5 engineers plus supporting roles (e.g. QA, design, etc), preferably as a Senior Software Engineer.  
• Experience with code review, being able to sign-off on another team member’s code ensuring high quality standards.  
• Be self-sustained even when tackling the highest profile, most difficult work across the organization.  
• Willingness to accept responsibility and be accountable not only for your own work but the work of the team as a whole.  
• Experience working with other people’s code, how to dig into it and make tactical changes with minimal side effects.  
• A solid understanding of how to break down user stories and give estimates that include accessibility and security requirements.  
• Be able to see roadblocks far ahead, across many vectors of risk  
• Be a true team player! Ensuring their knowledge and expertise is shared amongst other team members and even cross-team and be willing to seek out opportunities to mentor teammates.  
• A commitment to learning about anything you don’t know on your own and without much supervision.  
• Superior communications, organization and relationship building skills — you’re going to be working on cross-team efforts, so this is essential.  
• Self-motivation as well as ability and desire to learn new technologies, applications, processes, and environments.  
• A belief that delivering code to production is just one step in the process. Observing and owning the code you wrote goes hand in hand with construction.  
• A desire to take on whatever challenge is most important. This could be tackling something you are familiar with, or it could require a deep dive into a whole new world. The key is having the right attitude.   

Responsibilities:

• Produce scalable software solutions.
• Responsible for the full software development life cycle, from conception to deployment.
• Handle both front-end and back-end coding, development frameworks and third-party libraries.
• Participate in our product development from ideation to deployment and beyond
• Create ground-breaking new features for our users and customers, and for internal use
• Work with our data team to make our product smarter and more intuitive to use
• Maintain and help optimize existing systems

Requirements:

• A professional experience of more than 4 years.
• Excellent problem-solving skills.
• Proactive attitude and a personal commitment.
• Experience in basic system design and architecture.
• Solid background in CorePHP, Laravel, MySQL, JS, jQuery, HTML5 CSS3, AngularJS/ReactJS/VueJS.
• Well versed in using Git, NPM, and Grunt for managing project code.
• Experience in JS libraries including Data tables and VideoJS.
• Experience in working with REST APIs, OAuth etc.
• Well versed with cross browser development fundamentals
• Knowledge of LEMP Stack is a plus
• Experience in building dashboards is a plus.
• Experience in working on scalable systems is a plus.

We are looking for a motivated PHP / Laravel Developer to come join our agile team of professionals.

If you are passionate about technology, constantly seeking to learn and improve your skillset, then you are the type of person we are looking for!

We are offering superb career growth opportunities, compensation, and benefits.

Required Skills :-

Knowledge of MVC Frameworks - Laravel is a must

Previous working experience as a PHP / Laravel developer for 1 or 2 year(s)

Basic JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3 Bootstrap

A web application development background

OOP principles

Experience with Relational Databases like MySQL

Problem-solving skills.