Magento Developer

WeMakeScholars is an organization funded and supported by the Ministry of IT, Government of India under the 'Digital India Campaign'. We offer international education finance via scholarships and education loans, to study abroad aspirants. We are currently a 220 members team. Last financial year, we disbursed 2200 Cr in education loans to 8300 students across India.

We are looking for a PHP Developer who is keen to work in a startup environment esp. a product-based company. 

Job Overview

We are hiring developers (from 0 to 10 experience) with relevant knowledge and experience with the development and deployment of large-scale cloud-native enterprise systems on PHP, REST APIs, Node Js, Flutter, AWS & MySql. 

About Tech Department:

• Our internal tech team is responsible for end-to-end in-house tech support which includes and is not limited to design, development & deployment. 
• We are continuously developing and improvising our products to enhance customer and team experience.
• As we are in the Fintech space, our team has to ensure the database security of the application.

Job Summary 

• Participate in the full development life cycle, working within broadly defined parameters including design, development, testing, and maintenance of the existing application with minimal supervision.
• Work on optimization and performance improvement activities. Instrument and test performance metrics.
• Participate in peer-to-peer code reviews to improve the quality and maintenance of the codebase.
• Collaboration with multiple internal/external stakeholders such as product, business, DBA, and Dev Ops.
• Design and implement APIs for web/mobile (both Android & iOS) applications.
• To be available on call for the projects or features developed by you. Things break, and you will be responsible to fix it when it does.

Experience & Skills Required

• 2+ years of experience (we are hiring freshers too for junior positions)
• Hands-on experience and knowledge of engineering end-to-end systems.
• Understanding of the complete software development life cycle, including coding standards, and code reviews.
• Familiarity with multiple software development practices and tools
• Ability to write clean, modular, and loosely coupled code by the use of design patterns.
• Proficiency in the implementation of algorithms and the use of advanced data structures to solve problems in computing.
• A solid foundation and implementing principles of computer science are a must. Ex: object-oriented programming, concurrency, fundamentals of computer science, SQL databases. 

We are seeking for an accomplished professional with minimum 2 years of experience. The ideal candidate needs to be a self-motivator who is willing to work in a bright, busy, deadline-driven environment. The candidate will be a part of a technical team that is responsible for all aspects of the ongoing software development from the initial specification, through to developing, testing and launching.

Required skills: Excellent knowledge of working with Core PHP & MySql. Expertise in any of the PHP based framework like: CodeIgniter, Lumen, laravel, cakephp, Zend Framework. Good Knowledge and relevant work experience in CSS, HTML5, PHP, MySQL, HTML/XHTML, XML, JavaScript, JQuery and AJAX. Should have Knowledge in developing Rest APIs. Additional knowledge in web technologies like AngularJS, Node.JS and React.JS is a plus.

Required Candidate profile: Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Minimum of 2 years experience in PHP application development. Experience of hospitality/travel Domain would be an advantage.

Hiring PHP Developer

Job description

Should have proven work experience of 1-2 years as a PHP - Laravel based development in a competitive environment

Proficient in developing applications based on Laravel 5 or greater

Proficient in handling MySQL database. (Experience in PostgreSQL is a plus)

Experience in other PHP Frameworks like Yii, Zend , Cake PHP, CodeIgniter are added advantage

Experience in analyzing & modifying existing open source / plugin code & extensions jQuery, XML, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, AJAX

Experience in SOAP, REST and web services

Technical:

• Expertise in WordPress customization, development and knowledge of plugins and API integration Should be well versed in WordPress.
• Must have knowledge to create their own theme and able to do customization in existing/premium theme.
• Must have experience of plugin customization and also aware about a new plugin development.
• Must have the Knowledge of existing WordPress’s functions, hooks, plugins.
• Experience in WordPress is mandatory, other Open Sources/frameworks experience would be considered as an added advantage.
• WordPress integration directly from PSD/AI/Sketch would be considered as an added advantage.
• Must have knowledge of basic php and MYSQL concepts.

Non-Technical:

• Interpersonal skills
• Good communication
• Decision making
• Good Team player
• Good Listener

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Designing and implementing new features and functionality
• Establishing and guiding the website’s architecture
• Ensuring high-performance and availability, and managing all technical aspects of the CMS
• Helping to formulate an effective, responsive design and turning it into a working theme and plugin.

Responsibilities:

• Meeting with the design team to discuss the needs of the company.
• Building and configuring Magento 2 x eCommerce websites.
• Coding of the Magento templates.
• Developing Magento modules in PHP using best practices.
• Designing themes & interfaces.
• Setting performance tasks & goals.
• Troubleshooting integration issues.
• Updating website features & security patches.
• Expert in writing quality code following web standards and unit testing.
• Ability to work both independently and as part of a team with strong communication, collaboration, and analytical solving skills.

Requirements:

• Strong hands-on Magento 2 CMS, and JavaScript frameworks such as jQuery
• Depth knowledge of Magento CMS, PHP5 AJAX, JQuery, Javascript, OOPs. HTML5 CSS3
• Experience with Theme Integration, Customization, Third Party API Integrations.
• Excellent knowledge of SQL scripting and My SQL database administration.
• Sound understanding of OOP and MVC development.
• Hands-on experience on customization of Magento Themes, Magento Modules Development, Extension Development
• Experience in customizing Magento s front-end components using layout XML, blocks, and templates.

Position: Senior Software Engineer

Location : Gurgaon ( WFH untill Pandamic ) 

You'll be responsible for developing web applications for managing various working aspects of e-commerce, warehousing & supply chain systems. Your primary focus will be the development of server-side logic and client-side interfaces, ensuring high performance and responsiveness to requests from the front-end.

Responsibilities:

● Design, develop, test, deploy, and maintain highly scalable user-facing software applications.

● Participate in business discussions and present software solutions to their various problems.

● Coordinate full cycle product development activities with executive management, product management, quality assurance, support, and operations teams.

● Build software modules, libraries, and frameworks that support complex back-end applications as per the specifications and on time.

● Design schema for SQL and NoSQL database.

● Setup metrics tracking and inspect server code for speed optimization.

● Assign tasks to team members and gauge progress of various projects.

● Should open to work on PHP/Laravel.

Requirements:

● 4+ years hands-on experience on writing and deploying production quality code.

● Solid foundation in computer science with strong competency in data structures, algorithms and software design.

● Have created enterprise level applications in any programming language.

● Professional experience using PHP, Python and Golang among others.

● Development experience with Unix/Linux.

● Strong Experience with relational SQL and NoSQL databases.

● Hands on experience in using AWS technologies like EC2, lambda functions, SNS, SQS and worked on serverless architecture.

● Follow right back-end engineering practices and desire to continually keep up with its advancements.

● Constantly improve product quality, security, and performance.

● Experience in leading the team and working with cross-functional teams in a dynamic environment is a plus.

● Domain knowledge of warehousing operation related processes and ecommerce workflows is preferred.

● Should open to work on PHP/Laravel.