
Lead Fullstack Developer (Django)
at A Fashion tech startup offering a personal styling service
We are looking for a high-performing Lead Developer to build our Ecommerce platform and API framework powered by Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence. Candidates for this role will be passionate about well written code, testing, and excel at coming up with simple approaches to complex problems.
Our work culture is #overachiever, very amiable, and at the same time always charged with excitement. We encourage our team members to take responsibility and grow into future leaders in the industry.
Job Responsibilities:
- Understand project requirements, writing bug free clean code and ensure that the solution works per the agreed architecture, SLAs, KPIs and business model
- Integrate Django backend with third party API
- 100% Hands on role
- Make architecture decisions that contribute to maintainable systems
- Adapt to rapidly evolving requirements and changing priorities and drive the team accordingly
- Responsible to drive and support Ecommerce project activities and ensure marketplace implementation, deepen customer engagement, satisfaction, and user engagement
- Reverse engineer for debugging errors in code and ensure quality control in the process.
- Continually drive products towards a meaningful balance between user needs, business objectives and technical feasibility
- Documentation and reference preparation for users by writing operating instructions including changes and revisions.
- Operate in a hyper-collaborative way and follow these guiding principles: Value common sense and simplicity over complexity, make decisions quickly and move nimbly, celebrate diverse ideas, Succeed and fail together as a team
Qualifications:
- Bachelor or Master Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering from a reputed University
- 5 to 10 years of experience working in eCommerce domain, specifically at-least 3-5 years of experience working in Django and Python.
- React and/or Angular for front end
- Proficiency in MongoDB and MySql
- Technical Skills: JIRA, Gitlab, Rest API, GCP or AWS
- Integration experience with Payment gateway, shipping company and VAT, database concepts, Experience of web services
- Experience in performance profiling, tuning, and optimization, caching mechanisms with Enterprise level applicants
- Analytical, debugging, and troubleshooting skill with proven experience troubleshooting and fixing production bugs
- Experience in writing unit testing and test case automation.
- Ability to operate in Agile environment with a start-up mentality and unstructured environment, Energy, drive and passion to work, and operate in a digital world.

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Back End development of websites and applications using PHP,
AJAX and JS and their frameworks to create and integrate
functional web standard projects. Taking ready HTML/CSS files
from front end developers and executing the project based on the
logic and wireframes provided by designers
Solid knowledge of PHP, MySQL, JSON, and XML
● Proven experience building data-driven web
applications
● Experience working with API development
● Familiarity with design patterns such as MVC
● Experience with Open Source PHP CMS such as
WordPress or Drupal or Magento
● Comfortable with data modeling, stored
procedures, and views
● Ability to work closely with front end developers
● Knowledge of JavaScript / jQuery skills / HTML / CSS
● Experience building large, scalable applications
● Experience building custom
content management
systems
● Awareness of current development trends in the
coding and development like Docker, Micro
services and an understanding of how these
technologies can improve and impact projects
● Knowledge of GIT or any other version control
software.
What are we looking for? :
- Experience of upto 3 years in PHP or other backend programming languages.
- Understanding of MVC structures, OOPs concepts and Frameworks.
- Experience working with Linux, Nginx or Apache and Git, REST APIs.
- Experience with Third party API integrations and using various vendor libraries.
- Have knowledge of Database schemas, structures and migrations.
- Experience in Laravel would be a huge plus.
What you will be doing?:
- Collaborate with team members and solve new challenges through tech and research.
- Take end-to-end ownership of delivering new modules - analyze customer usage & feedback, review business requirements, develop functionalities and test code.
- Write clean readable code and also follow best practices for efficiency and performance.
- Self learn and work independently, Also collaborate with the team when required.
- Communicate constructively and value user experience and feedback.
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What can you expect to learn?:
- Exposure to latest web technologies and frameworks like Angular, Laravel, PHP, Magento, PWAs, REST APIs, Elastic search and Web services.
- Develop custom functionalities and modules in Laravel to implement business ideas and user requirements.
- Best coding practices and various methodologies to optimize performance and produce the best quality product. Various caching techniques and optimization standards.
- Microservices architecture and Scalability using cloud services, Automation of manual tasks using linux and shell scripting, Data migrations, SQL and Version control tools like bitbucket.
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- Competitive salary
- Flexible work hours
- No dress code
- Group outings
- Supportive work culture
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- Object-oriented programming in PHP.
- Front-end technologies such as JavaScript, HTML, and CSS.
- Complex SQL queries and database schema design.
- MVC frameworks (Laravel, Yii2, Any Framework).
- Working in a collaborative team environment using tools like JIRA and Git.
- Consuming and creating web services.
- Stable work history and an ability to collaborate effectively.
- Demonstrable knowledge of web technologies including HTML, CSS, Javascript, AJAX, MYSQL,JQuery,Bootstrap ,Web services etc..
- Consuming and creating web services.
- Stable work history and an ability to collaborate effectively. ,
•Development experience with object oriented JavaScript, ES6 Features
•Development experience with nodejs libraries like express, MySql, mongoose etc,
•Understanding the nature of asynchronous programming
•Hands on experience with MySql, MongoDB [RDBMS, No SQL DB]
•Able to write complex MySql queries, Stored procedure
•Familiarity with API optimization techniques
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