Looking for a Sr. PHP Programmer

Architect

Experience - 12+ yrs

About Wekan Enterprise Solutions

Wekan Enterprise Solutions is a leading Technology Consulting company and a strategic investment partner of MongoDB. We help companies drive innovation in the cloud by adopting modern technology solutions that help them achieve their performance and availability

requirements. With strong capabilities around Mobile, IOT and Cloud environments, we have an extensive track record helping Fortune 500 companies modernize their most critical legacy and on-premise applications, migrating them to the cloud and leveraging the most cutting-edge technologies.

Job Description

We are looking for passionate architects eager to be a part of our growth journey. The right candidate needs to be interested in working in high-paced and challenging environments leading technical teams, designing system architecture and reviewing peer code. Interested in

constantly upskilling, learning new technologies and expanding their domain knowledge to new industries. This candidate needs to be a team player and should be looking to help build a culture of excellence.

Do you have what it takes?

You will be working on complex data migrations, modernizing legacy applications and building new applications on the cloud for large enterprise and/or growth stage startups.

You will have the opportunity to contribute directly into mission critical projects directly interacting with business stakeholders, customer’s technical teams and MongoDB solutions Architects.

Location - Chennai or Bangalore

● Relevant experience of 12+ years building high-performance applications with at least

3+ years as an architect.

● Good problem solving skills

● Strong mentoring capabilities

● Good understanding of software development life cycle

● Strong experience in system design and architecture

● Strong focus on quality of work delivered

● Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Required Technical Skills

● Extensive hands-on experience building high-performance applications using Node.Js

(Javascript/Typescript) and .NET/ Golang / Java / Python.

● Strong experience with appropriate framework(s).

● Well versed in monolithic and microservices architecture.

● Hands-on experience with data modeling on MongoDB and any other Relational or NoSQL databases

● Experience working with 3rd party integrations ranging from authentication, cloud

services, etc.

● Hands-on experience with Kafka or RabbitMQ.

● Hands on experience with CI/CD pipelines and atleast 1 cloud provider - AWS / GCP / Azure

● Strong experience writing and maintaining clear documentation

Good to have skills:

● Experience working with frontend technologies - React.Js or Vue.Js or Angular.

● Extensive experience consulting with customers directly for defining architecture or system design.

● Technical certifications in AWS / Azure / GCP / MongoDB or other relevant technologies

💥 What will you do?

As a Lead Backend Engineer, you will

• Build out and help scale our Django (+ReactJS / VueJS) based web application as we add new features and customers

• Help us transition from monolithic system architecture to microservices and serverless system architecture to help meet our future scaling requirements

• Collaborate on a daily basis with a small, nimble team of product managers, engineers, and UX designers to understand business requirements and user experience goals and pain points.
• Build out features to enable multi-channel customer acquisition include partner channels, enterprise channels, and government channels
• Integrate third-party plugins to enhance customer experience and internal tooling build internal tooling to improve internal team efficiencies.
• Actively participate in code reviews
• Work with our quality assurance team to improve coverage on our automated testing suites

🙋 What are we looking for? 

While we do not have a strict list of requirements for candidates interested in this role, some indicators that you would fit this role and our engineering culture are 

• Prior experience of a few years (3+ years) with python based frameworks as Django or Flask would be essential to work on our application stack.

• You actively promote a culture of engineering excellence some of which could be writing efficient code, use of elegant design patterns, and styling your code through code-linting policies.

• You enjoy designing software architecture by collaborating with engineering managers, architects, and other lead engineers to explore existing systems, determining areas of complexity, potential risks to successful implementation.

• You enjoy coaching folks to achieve outcomes through nudges.

📢 Other information you may want to consider 

• We will be flexible for the rest of the pandemic and work remotely; however, we are not a remote-first company, and the work location would be Bangalore when things settle.
• Our backend tech stack includes Django, FastAPI, Postgres, Redis, Clickhouse, and TigerGraph. Our environments are managed through Docker, Kubernetes, and Terraform.

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Technologies we use: LAMP with Yii framework

Why should you join us?

- We are a 6 years old start-up with a quite small tech team. Hence, you will have a lot to learn.

- We are growing really quickly with more than 5 lac users every month and have a team size of 65 members as on today.

- We do offer ESOP along with salary if you are well on our expectations.

- We like people who love to learn and grow. We equally contribute to your learning by allowing you enough time to participate in online courses or sessions.

- 24 paid leaves in a year. Work from home option available occasionally.

I think we gave you a lot of reasons to join our team.

**Please apply only if you are well versed in LAMP stack. We do not accept applications from freshers, you should have worked in an organization for at least 6 months before applying.

About the Company:

Wolken Software provides a suite of AI-enabled, SaaS 2.0 cloud-native applications for Customer Service and Enterprise Solutions namely Wolken Service Desk, Wolken's IT Service Management, and Wolken's HR Case Management. We have replaced incumbents like Salesforce, ServiceNow Zendesk, etc. at various Fortune 500 and Fortune 1000 companies.

Backend Java developer. Should be able to work on all layers of a Java-based web application.

Skills required:

• Expertise in core Java
• Strong skills in algorithms, data structures and object-oriented programming
• Strong skills in designing scalable web systems
• Experience in working on REST services and libraries like Spring and Hibernate
• Experience in writing complex queries and understanding database concepts and configurations (MySQL)
• Understanding of design patterns.
• Experience in microservices architecture will be a plus.

Good to have:

• Experience in third-party integrations.

The ideal candidate will be responsible for developing high-quality applications. They will also be responsible for designing and implementing testable and scalable code. 

Responsibilities

• Develop quality software and web applications
• Analyze and maintain existing software applications
• Design highly scalable, testable code
• Discover and fix programming bugs

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science or related field
• Development experience with programming languages
• MongoDb database or relational database skills

Position: PHP / MYSQL Developer & NodeJS / MongoDB Developer 

  -  The selected candidate is required to work on Core PHP or NodeJS/MongoDB. 

  -   Building web services for Mobile applications. 

   Selected candidate will be a part of product development team and have to manage both maintenance and enhancement projects. 

As a PHP Developer: 

1. You love an Agile work culture and deliver as per plan  
2. You're a lively person who's passionate on what you do  
3. You're a nonstop learner and enjoy sharing the learning to your juniors 
4. You're socially connected with the team and helping others team voluntarily. 
5. You're tech- expertise and effective in tools operation and automate the regular process  
6. You're someone who loves problem- working by seeing the occasion in every challenge and you enjoy learning from failures  
7. Honestly share your experience, feedback, challenges, learning and emotions for the day in your daily diary. 
8. Think of user needs instead of system needs 

Skills & Expertise we look for: 

1. Hands-on experience in Core PHP and MySQL Database 
2. Design and implement the Restful services. 
3. Familiar with HTML, CSS, jQuery, JavaScript 
4. Good knowledge in front-end frameworks such as Angular JS / React JS 
5. Good knowledge in gathering requirements, creating technical specifications, architecture documents and project planning 
6. Maintain and improve the performance of the applications.  
7. Should good in evaluate and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency and improve the applications. 
8. Should good in communication skills and ability to work closely with diverse teams in a fast-paced environment. 
9. Should have some experience in integrating projects with third-party vendors 

The primary responsibilities include:

• Responsible for the overall software development lifecycle.
• Management and execution against project plans and delivery commitments
• Drive effective, mature Agile practices and continuous execution improvements within your teams.
• Manage stakeholder planning and communications ensuring key outcomes
• Recruit, coach, and mentor the best engineering and management talent
• Build, coach, and manage a strong team of engineers that set the standard and can up-level the overall talent of the extended organization.
• Provide a strong understanding of native mobile developer platforms and bring broad thought leadership to the next generation mobile developer experience.
• Anticipate and aggressively remove obstacles that slow down or prevent products and programs from delivering on product and program objectives.
• Balance urgent and effective action, commitment to excellence, and taking the initiative to resolve problems; holds internal stakeholders accountable where appropriate.

REQUIRED

• 8+ years of industry experience with 2+ years of senior leadership experience.
• Solid track record of over-achieving engineering and platform delivery and scaling targets in high volume, innovative and fast-paced high-pressure environment; proven results in delivery on platform product.
• Deep understanding of one or more of Java/Python/Scala. Ability to understand and critique the core library/language constructs with skilled knowledge on UI technologies like Angular 2+, React, D3.JS
• Working experience with Agile methodologies and durable team concepts.
• Knowledge in DevOps practices and tools.
• Knowledge in Cloud Technologies, CI/CD, Jenkins, Testing methodologies is preferred.
• Experience in server-side services using ElasticSearch, Kafka
• A strong track record of project delivery for large, cross-functional, projects and bringing in and growing engineering talent
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present complex technical information clearly and concisely to a variety of audiences.