MERN Stack developer

Job Description:

We are seeking a talented WordPress Developer to join our team. The ideal candidate will have a passion for coding and be proficient in WordPress development. As a WordPress Developer, you will be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining WordPress sites for our clients. You will work closely with our design and marketing teams to ensure that our websites are visually appealing, user-friendly, and optimized for performance.

Responsibilities:

1. Develop custom WordPress themes and plugins based on client requirements.

2. Customize existing WordPress themes and plugins to enhance functionality and meet client needs.

3. Collaborate with the design team to create visually appealing website layouts and user interfaces.

4. Optimize websites for speed, performance, and search engine optimization (SEO).

5. Troubleshoot and debug issues with WordPress sites, themes, and plugins.

6. Perform website updates, backups, and maintenance tasks as needed.

7. Stay up-to-date with the latest trends and best practices in WordPress development.

Requirements:

1. Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Web Development, or a related field (or equivalent work experience).

2. Proven experience as a WordPress Developer with a strong portfolio of WordPress sites you have developed.

3. Proficiency in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and PHP.

4. Experience with responsive design principles and techniques.

5. Familiarity with popular WordPress plugins and frameworks.

6. Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.

7. Excellent communication and teamwork skills.

8. Ability to work independently and manage multiple projects simultaneously.

9. Experience with other content management systems (CMS) is a plus.

Synapsica is a growth stage HealthTech startup founded by alumni from IIT Kharagpur, AIIMS New Delhi, and IIM Ahmedabad. We believe healthcare needs to be transparent and objective, while being affordable. Every patient has the right to know exactly what is happening in their bodies and they don’t have to rely on cryptic 2 liners given to them as diagnosis.

Towards this aim, we are building an artificial intelligence enabled cloud based platform to analyze medical images and create 2.0 of advanced radiologist reporting.

We are backed by Y Combinator and other investors from India, US and Japan. We are proud to have GE, AIIMS, the Spinal Kinetics as our partners.

Join us, if you find this as exciting as we do!

Description:

We are looking for a skilled computer programmer who is comfortable with both front and back end programming. Hands-on with UI and server-side is highly desirable.

You will get hands-on experience in the latest technologies and skills including product design and architecture. This role is ideal for you if you have a background in Full Stack development and are looking for the next level of career growth in a fast paced, learning based and merit driven work environment.

Responsibilities:
- Work alongwith teams and product managers to ideate software solutions. 
- Design, build and develop front end application features.
- Design, build and develop microservices and backend server applications.
- Designing and scaling databases and servers.
- Ensuring analysis, efficiency, responsiveness and cross-platform compatibility of applications through captured  metrics, testing frameworks, and debugging methodologies.
- Owning and delivering end-to-end products, features, enhancements.
- Hands-on coding and development.
- Technical documentation through all stages of development

Requirements:
- Degree in Computer Science or related discipline with 6-10 years of experience.
- Hands on with Reactjs or similar framework/library.
- Proficiency with server side languages such as Nodejs, Python.
- Proficiency with at least one no-sql database such as MongoDB.
- Good understanding of CI/CD processes.
- Excellent verbal communication skills.
- Good problem solving skills.
- Attention to detail.
- Very high sense of ownership.
- Deep interest and passion for technology

• You will create REST/GraphQL based web services and APIs for consumption by mobile and web for distributed B2B platform 
• You will code, test and operate Nodejs based services
• You willI implement new features in a highly collaborative environment with product managers, UI/UX experts, and fellow engineers
• You will contribute to a future-ready, high quality, and performance code base
• You will share your technical solutions and product ideas with the team
• You will mentor other engineering team members
• You will contribute to team and organizational improvements in process and infrastructure
• You will be part of a truly global team
• You will work in an exciting startup environment where you can be autonomous and try new things :)

• You have experience in backend development, using languages like Node.JS and Golang
• You have used TypeScript extensions
• You are familiar with NoSQL databases such as MongoDB or CouchDB, Web services, SOA patterns
• You have good working knowledge of design patterns, building and deploying microservices on the cloud
• You have hands on experience with REST APIs or GraphQL
• You have experience with Test Driven Development and know when to apply it
• You have knowledge of web libraries and frameworks such as ReactJS/VueJS, AngularJS, and Clojure
• You have experience working on AWS or other cloud stacks and Docker 
• You have experience building / consuming OpenAPI and GraphQL specifications
• You have experience building microservices systems and testing them
• You have experience building systems with high data protection requirements, anonymous data and data encryption

• You have worked with Blockchain technology
• You have domain expertise working with decentralised identity solutions 
• You have experience of building systems that require cryptography

Here is the interview process for this role: 

• 30m interview with one of our Talent Team or Recruitment Partners
• 1h interview with our Engineers
• 1.5h pairing interview with one of our Engineers
• 3hs final interview meeting a variety of people including our CTO, Leads and other Engineers 

We can be flexible with the structure if someone's circumstances or timescales require it for good reason, just let us know! 

Please reach out if you have any specific requirements so we can be as accommodating as possible for you.

Technical Roles and Responsibilities

-  Demonstrate a systematic and disciplined architecture, system design and programming approach following a standard software development lifecycle

-  Meticulous attention to detail and strong focus on clear and practical documentation

-  Work closely with senior management, Development Manager, Project Manager, and a team of developers.

- Design, Code, Unit Test and support Software components

-  Deliver quality software in a time following standard software development processes

-  Analyze problems raised in software development or production environments and provide timely solutions

-  Develop, prepare and maintain system documentation, including program descriptions, operational procedures etc.

-  Act as the second line of support during production problems.

Mandatory Skills:

Software Engineering

u  Strong experience in agile methodologies and test driven development.

u  Experience in software development using open source technologies.

u  Experience in automated software testing.

u  Knowledge in domain-driven design, design patterns and enterprise integration patterns.

u  Must have experience in delivering software via complete Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipeline.

Software Development

u  Must be able to code in Java (SpingBoot and Spring Cloud Services).

u  Experience in some of the technologies below:

o PaaS: Pivotal Cloud Foundy/Openshift/ AWS/ Azure/ Docker/ Kubernetes

o Data: MySQL/ Postgres/ Oracle/ MongoDB/ Elasticsearch

o Cache: Redis/ Memcached

o UI: HTML5,Bootstrap, CSS, Angular 4/ ReactJS/RxJS

 - Strong knowledge in CI/CD toolset such as Ansible, Artifactory, Jenkins, BitBucket, SonarQube, Fortify,  Flyway, Jira and Confluence.

-  Strong knowledge in automated testing toolset such as jUnit, Mockito, cucumber, Selenium etc.

-  Strong knowledge in scripting languages such as Groovy and Linux shell.