Mid & Sr PHP Developer

Job Description:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science.
• Proven experience in leading a team of backend engineers
• Strong organizational and project management skills.
• Proficiency with fundamental front end languages such as HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
• Familiarity with Android development - kotlin, RX-java, design pattern.
• Proficiency with server-side languages such as Spring boot, Hibernate.
• Familiarity with database technology such as MySQL and MongoDB.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms(GCP).
• Experience with Agile/Scrum methodologies
• Excellent verbal communication skills.
• Good problem-solving skills.
• Attention to detail.

At Upswing, we are a passionate and self-driven team of thinkers who aspire to build the rails to connect the legacy financial sector with financial innovators through a simple and powerful banking-as-a-service (BaaS) platform.

We’re building our platform putting the focus on pragmatism, reliability, and maintainability. We believe that keeping the engineering complexity under control is key to preserving the development productivity and long-term evolution of a platform.

To bring this vision to life, we are building the infrastructure using Microservices architecture using the latest set of technologies that are also fun to work with such as Java, Scala, Postgres, Akka, Kafka with a completely automated DevOps pipeline from the get-go using tools like Chef, Jenkins, Grafana, Graylog.

We are looking for motivated engineers who will be working in a highly creative and cutting edge technology environment to build a world-class financial services suite.

Why you should join us:

• You will redefine the financial services landscape for India in the coming years.
• Be part of a core Engineering team that will create innovative and scalable Fintech solutions.
• Work with passionate and experienced engineering, product & business workforce that believes in teamwork, and that helps fast-track your learning on solving complex technical challenges.
• We are funded by the leading fintech VC `QED Investors` and other established Founders and Executives of awesome Indian companies.

What you will do if you join us:

• Propose solutions to solve complex system architecture challenges and actively lead the end-to-end development of the system.
• Create robust, flexible, consistent, and easy-to-use APIs
• Continuously strive for performance improvements, code reusability, and readability

You should have:

• Tech or a higher degree in computer science or a related field.
• 1+ years of experience working on the back-end development for complex distributed systems who are willing to adopt any Programming language as per the requirement.
• Familiarity with any of the following – Java, C++, Scala, Kotlin, and frameworks like Spring, Play, Hibernate, Django, etc.
• Good understanding of Algorithms, Data Structure, OOP, Design patterns, Parallel programming, Multithreading concepts & Event-Driven Systems.
• Experience with Relational databases such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, or any NoSQL database.

It’s a plus if you have:

• Familiarity with cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud
• Worked on Micro-services architecture

Job Description:

• Develop, test, and maintain applications to specified designs & standards in Laravel.
• Develop & implement modern web services using service-oriented architecture, RESTful APIs, and SOAP.
• Write and execute unit tests.
• Implement front-end interfaces & experiences with modern HTML/CSS/jQuery.
• Test, troubleshoot, and optimize application components for maximum speed, security, stability, and scalability.

Skills & Experience:

• 4+ years of experience in Laravel.
• Experience in Core PHP using MVC Architecture.
• Ability to write APIs including Restful APIs.
• Knowledge of database operations with MySQL/MariaDB, Stored procedures.
• Knowledge of front-end technologies (HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery, etc.).
• Knowledge and experience of OOPS.
• Knowledge of engineering practices like CI-CD.
• Strong documentation, communication, and team collaboration skills.
• Working knowledge of Lumen (preferred).
• Must have full knowledge of latest version of Laravel & PHP

If you are a PHP developer & have a good understanding of web technologies you may apply for this positoin. As a Developer, you will be a part of our web development team and will be working with some very experienced developers on challenging and interesting projects. You will be a part of an Agile delivery team and work closely with Requirement Analysts, Scrum Masters, Development & Design team and QA team.

Responsibilities

1. Write clean, maintainable and efficient code.
2. Design robust, scalable and secure features
3. Collaborate with team members to develop and ship web applications within tight timeframes.
4. Write unit and functional testcases.
5. Work on bug fixing, identifying performance issues and improving application performance
6. Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency.
7. Handling complex technical issues

Technical Skills

1. PHP - 4.5 Years Experience along with HTML5, CSS Bootstrap, JQuery, JS, MySQL/MongoDB, JSON Web Services and API Services
2. PHP Frameworks: Min. 2 Years with anyone (Laravel, Symfony, CakePHP, Yii etc.)
3. PHP Reporting Tools (Jasper etc.)
4. NET Exposure - Good to have
5. Understanding of responsive design frameworks such as bootstrap
6. MEAN Stack - Good to have
7. Angular / React - Good to have
   
   

Perks, Benefits & Culture: 

We are offering amazing career growth opportunities, great compensation, and benefits. This begins with -

- weekly lunches

- alternate weekends-off

- annual medical checkups

- Social engagement 

- financial assistance 

- and more...