Looking for a Sr. PHP Programmer

Job Title: Backend Developer

Location: In-Office, Bangalore, Karnataka, India

Job Summary:

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Backend Developer with a minimum of 1 year of experience in product building to join our dynamic and innovative team. In this role, you will be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining robust backend systems that drive our applications. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless integration between frontend and backend components, and your expertise will be critical in architecting scalable, secure, and high-performance backend solutions.

Annual Compensation: 6-10 LPA

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable and efficient backend systems and APIs using NodeJS.
• Architect and implement complex backend solutions, ensuring high availability and performance.
• Collaborate with product managers, frontend developers, and other stakeholders to deliver comprehensive end-to-end solutions.
• Design and optimize data storage solutions using relational databases (e.g., MySQL) and NoSQL databases (e.g., MongoDB, Redis).
• Promoting a culture of collaboration, knowledge sharing, and continuous improvement.
• Implement and enforce best practices for code quality, security, and performance optimization.
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines to automate build, test, and deployment processes.
• Ensure comprehensive test coverage, including unit testing, and implement various testing methodologies and tools to validate application functionality.
• Utilize cloud services (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) for infrastructure deployment, management, and optimization.
• Conduct system design reviews and contribute to architectural discussions.
• Stay updated with industry trends and emerging technologies to drive innovation within the team.
• Implement secure authentication and authorization mechanisms and ensure data encryption for sensitive information.
• Design and develop event-driven applications utilizing serverless computing principles to enhance scalability and efficiency.

Requirements:

• Minimum of 1 year of proven experience as a Backend Developer, with a strong portfolio of product-building projects.
• Extensive experience with JavaScript backend frameworks (e.g., Express, Socket) and a deep understanding of their ecosystems.
• Strong expertise in SQL and NoSQL databases (MySQL and MongoDB) with a focus on data modeling and scalability.
• Practical experience with Redis and caching mechanisms to enhance application performance.
• Proficient in RESTful API design and development, with a strong understanding of API security best practices.
• In-depth knowledge of asynchronous programming and event-driven architecture.
• Familiarity with the entire web stack, including protocols, web server optimization techniques, and performance tuning.
• Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes) is highly desirable.
• Proven experience working with cloud technologies (AWS/GCP/Azure) and understanding of cloud architecture principles.
• Strong understanding of fundamental design principles behind scalable applications and microservices architecture.
• Excellent problem-solving, analytical, and communication skills.
• Ability to work collaboratively in a fast-paced, agile environment and lead projects to successful completion.

How to Apply

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Key Responsibility Areas:

• Develop tools and applications by producing clean, efficient code.
• Determine operational feasibility by evaluating analysis, problem definition, requirements, solution development and proposed solutions
• Perform validation and verification testing and debud code.
• Work collaboratively with others to achieve goals
• Experience working in an agile environment

Required Skills:

• Experience in implementing Object-Oriented Python, Django.
• Good understanding on Django
• Experienced in interfacing with *third party API’s using REST
• Worked with varieties of Relational Databases (RDBMS) like SQLite, MySQL, PostgreSQL.
• Experience in Version Control with Git and Bitbucket.
• Experience with JIRA the development progress and tracking deadlines of the project

BlackLight Gaming is looking for a top-notch, ambitious and driven Node. js developer who is confident of creating, maintaining and further optimising highly scalable backend supporting our multiplayer mobile games which are played by millions of players. If you're hard-working, enthusiastic, dedicated, have fire in the belly to accept challenges, then BlackLight Games is the place for you.

What You Bring to the team:

• More than 3+ years of experience developing serverless applications using public cloud like Google Cloud/ AWS
• Knowledge of Node. js and frameworks available for it.
• Strong proficiency with JavaScript
• Understanding the nature of asynchronous programming and its quirks and workarounds.
• Distributed system development with an understanding of latency, scalability, scheduling, asynchronous programming, and reliability
• Understanding fundamental design principles behind a scalable application
• Experience with services common to serverless architectures, like: AWS Lambda, DynamoDB, IAM, Firebase Real Time Database, Google Cloud SQL, Cloud Tasks. It’s a bonus if you have worked on Google Cloud Project and Firebase.
• Solid Experience with NoSQL and SQL databases is required with proven experience of creating database schemas that represent and support business processes.
• Integration of multiple data sources and databases into one system.
• Experience with deploying, maintaining, debugging live systems, and end-to-end testing and analysis
• Experienced in creating micro-services based architectures, reusable components
• Experience building REST APIs and other common application architectures on the above services
• Experience building data processing pipelines
• Solid understanding of code, design, and development practices
• General comfort in exploring, assessing, and learning new frameworks
• High levels of integrity and professionalism, and an ability to channel maximum amounts of energy into the role delivering premium customer service at all times
• Adhere to different Project Management methodologies (Agile etc) and leverage different CI/CD tools

Extra Gems for:

• Google, AWS and/or Industry certifications.
• Familiarity with object storage such as AWS S3, Firebase Storage, in-memory caches such as Redis
• Demonstrated performance of threat modeling, risk assessment techniques, code reviews in the context of DevSecOps security
• Knowledge of Application Monitoring using tools like Google Stackdriver
• Broad familiarity with other languages like J2EE, Python as we write some code in these as well.
• Experience with Github and advanced Github features.
• Experience of working in Product industry
• Open source contributions, interesting hobby projects.

Why Us?

• High Growth Startup environment
• Company sponsored courses and education material
• Lots of learning opportunities
• Work with a super-talented team of professionals
• Informal work-culture, Casual Dress Code, multiple outings and trips
• Performance Based Bonus
• Competitive Salary
• Medical Insurance for you and your family
• Subsidies Lunch and Unlimited Snacks, Tea & Coffee in the house at all time

Your Responsibilities:

• Own the backend stack – Node.Js based, that powers our product
• Collaborate with Backend Developers (Python), Front-end developers, DevOps, and Data Scientists to design and implement new features
• Build and maintain several REST’ful Services/Endpoints which will be used both internally and externally in a Macroservices/Distributed services environment.
• Deploy and monitor the Services/Endpoints ensuring availability and scalability(ability to handle 100X traffic)
• Work on full project lifecycle starting from requirements gathering/understanding the problem to deploying and maintaining the project.

Skills that you bring Along:

• A minimum 8+ years of extensive work experience with Node.Js and related frameworks – particularly Express.Js.
• Extensive experience in designing and maintaining REST’ful API endpoints
• Extensive experience with databases such as Postgres and Mongo.
• Extensive experience in Cloud Infrastructure (AWS based) – e.g. AWS API Gateway, Lambda Functions etc.
• Experience with cache like Redis and/or Memory cache
• Good experience in Microservices/Macroservices or Event driven Architectures
• Good experience with design patterns
• Experience in writing advanced SQL-queries, good knowledge of PL/SQL
• Good understanding of Software Design Principles and domain-driven design
• Good experience with Continuous Delivery and Containerization(Docker)
• Ideally maintaining infrastructure-as-code using Terraform
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to explain complex topics in a simple manner

• Integration of user-facing elements developed by front-end developers.
• Build efficient, testable, and reusable PHP modules.
• Solve complex performance problems and architectural challenges.
• Integration of data storage solutions may include databases, key-value stores, blob stores, etc.
• Add other responsibilities here that are relevant.

Talent Requirements

• Strong knowledge of PHP web frameworks such as Laravel, Yii, Code igniter, etc depending on your technology stack.
• Understanding the fully synchronous behavior of PHP.
• Understanding of MVC design patterns.
• Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3.
• Knowledge of object-oriented PHP programming.
• Understanding accessibility and security compliance.
• Strong 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
• Familiarity with the limitations of PHP as a platform and its workarounds.
• Creating database schemas that represent and support business processes.
• Familiarity with SQL/NoSQL databases and their declarative query languages.
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, up to date.
• Diploma, BCA, BE, B-Tech or equivalent.

•  5-10 years of experience in building API services using NodeJS Express and related frameworks
• Expert level understanding of NodeJS asynchronous runtime
• Expert level understanding of Javascript concepts on callbacks and closures
• Experience with Postgres, NoSQL, Redis, and Firebase real-time database
• Experience with AWS services like Elastic Beanstalk, Cloudfront, S3, EC2, Lambda, API Gateway, SQS, etc
• Understanding of patterns and techniques for building scalable back-end infrastructure including caching, rate limiting, authentication, and authorization schemes.
• Experience in building highly scalable and high throughput services with millisecond response times
• Experience working in a collaborative team environment
• Excellent communication & interpersonal skills
• Willingness to learn and pick up new technology along with patience to mentor

Bonus skills – 

• Experience with Elastic Search, Puppeteer
• Experience writing unit test

Description

• Responsible for developing Web Applications.
• Design, Develop, enhance and test front-end, back-end web modules using Node.js, Express framework, My Sql and Mongo DB.
• Research and explore existing solutions, competition, to get a holistic understanding of the Design and development.
• Communicate and collaborate effectively with various teams for effective outcomes.
• Meet deadlines in a high intensity work environment 

Primary Skills :

• Proficient in Nodejs
• Understanding of Front-End Technologies
• Good Knowledge of Node
• Proficient in RESTful APIs and API Communications
• Good Grasp of Asynchronous Programming and Its Workarounds
• Database Schema Creation for Business Processes
• Working Knowledge in User Authentication and Authorization
• Write Efficient Code
• Implementing Data Protection
• Error-Handling Skills