PHP Developer

We are looking for passionate people who love solving interesting and complex technology challenges, who are enthusiastic about building an industry first innovative product to solve new age real world problems. This role requires strategic leadership, the ability to manage complex technical challenges, and the ability to drive innovation while ensuring operational excellence. As a Backend SDE-2, you will collaborate with key stakeholders across the business, product management, and operations to ensure alignment with the organization's goals and play a critical role in shaping the technology roadmap and engineering culture.

Key Responsibilities

• Strategic Planning: Work closely with senior leadership to develop and implement engineering strategies that support business objectives. Understand broader organization goals and prepare technology roadmaps.
• Technical Excellence: Guide the team in designing and implementing scalable, extensible and secure software systems. Drive the adoption of best practices in technical architecture, coding standards, and software testing to ensure product delivery with highest speed AND quality.
• Project and Program Management: Setting up aggressive as well as realistic timelines with all the stakeholders, ensure the successful delivery of engineering projects as per the defined timelines with best quality standards ensuring budget constraints are met. Use agile methodologies to manage the development process and resolve bottlenecks.
• Cross-functional collaboration: Collaborate with Product Management, Design, Business, and Operations teams to define project requirements and deliverables. Ensure the smooth integration of engineering efforts across the organization.
• Risk Management: Anticipate and mitigate technical risks and roadblocks. Proactively identify areas of technical debt and drive initiatives to reduce it.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• 1-3 years of experience in software engineering
• Excellent problem-solving skills, with the ability to diagnose and resolve complex technical challenges.
• Proven track record of successfully delivering large-scale, high-impact software projects.
• Strong understanding of software design principles and patterns.
• Expertise in multiple programming languages and modern development frameworks.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS), microservices, and distributed systems.
• Experience with releational and non-relational databases.
• Experience with Redis, ElasticSearch.
• Experience in DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure automation.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence and inspire teams and stakeholders at all levels.

Skills:- MySQL, Python, Django, AWS, NoSQL, Kafka, Redis, ElasticSearch

We are a fast-growing startup based in Gurgaon, and have just raised our Pre Series A! We are happy to offer the right compensation, the right ESOPs, and the right freedom and autonomy to the right candidate! 

We are looking for a Senior Backend Developer to take our product to the next level. 

* Development with NodeJS and front-end languages/frameworks (jQuery, ReactJS/AngularJS, CSS3, HTML5)
* 4+ years of SQL experience (MySQL preferred)
* Experience developing RESTful Web Services, Web APIs, and micro-services.
* Integrating with a third-party system via RESTful APIs.
* 4+ years of solid experience with SQL and NoSQL-based solutions.
* Experience with AWS deployments.
* Troubleshoot and resolve issues in production and non-production environments.
* Ability to write clean, modular, reusable code (using design patterns) and experience with a unit-test-driven approach to development.

* Familiarity with Elasticsearch is an advantage
* Experience with Redis is an advantage

• Implement best practices for the engineering team across code hygiene, overall architecture design, testing, and deployment activities
• Drive technical decisions for building data pipelines, data lakes, and analyst access.
• Act as a leader within the engineering team, providing support and mentorship for teammates across functions
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or equivalent job experience
• Experienced developer in large data environments
• Experience using Git productively in a team environment
• Experience with Docker
• Experience with Amazon Web Services
• Ability to sit with business or technical SMEs to listen, learn and propose technical solutions to business problems

·       Experience using and adapting to new technologies

·       Take and understand business requirements and goals

·       Work collaboratively with project managers and stakeholders to make sure that all aspects of the project are delivered as planned

·       Strong SQL skills with MySQL or PostgreSQL

• Experience with non-relational databases and their role in web architectures desired

 Knowledge and Experience:

• Good experience with Elixir and functional programming a plus

• Several years of python experience
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
• Excellent organizational skills

Proven verbal and written cross-department and customer communication skills

Senior PHP Laravel Developer

Position: Senior PHP Laravel Developer
Experience Required: up to 3 years
Positions: 03

About us:

Saakh is building a social networking platform for businesses who sell on credit in order to solve for their payment collection challenges faced by every seller on a day to day basis. Our vision is to make payments collections timely and automatic for these businesses. Saakh is building a community of trustable businesses. We are building an eco-system where a business who has cheated once can never cheat again.  

Job description

You will be responsible for handling entire back-end infrastructure of Saakh. You will work closely with founder and CTO to discuss the strategy and to implement the said aforesaid within the deadlines. Saakh is a fast-moving start-up who is at the early stages, timely execution is of paramount importance.

Job responsibilities

• Build innovative, state-of-the-art applications.
• Ensure HTML, CSS, and shared JavaScript is valid and consistent across applications.
• Prepare and maintain all applications utilizing standard development tools.
• Utilize backend data services and contribute to increasing existing data services API.
• Lead the entire web application development life cycle right from concept stage to delivery and

post launch support.

• Convey effectively with all task progress, evaluations, suggestions, schedules along with

technical and process issues.

• Document the development process, architecture, and standard components.
• Coordinates with co-developers and keeps project managers well informed of the status of

development effort and serves as liaison between development staff and project manager.

• Keep abreast of new trends and best practices in web development.

Desired profile

• Previous working experience as a Laravel developer for 4+ years.
• BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering, IT or similar relevant field.
• In depth knowledge of object-Oriented PHP and Laravel PHP Framework.
• MySQL profiling and query optimization.
• Creative and efficient problem solver.
• Excellent command on Core PHP and MySQL using MVC Architecture.
• Excellent skills in PHP/Javascript.
• Knowledge of At least one CMS (WordPress, Magento or Drupal)
• Excellent of Laravel framework.
• Strong object-oriented programming skills.
• General knowledge of both front-end and back-end web development from a consumer.
• Perspective Knowledge of eCommerce integration.
• Should know about child theme and its structure.
• Should know about creating plugins for theme customization
• It is must to have a high sense of integrity.

Are you one of us?

We welcome you to Saakh’s family.

Responsibilities

Design Develop and maintain web functionalities

Work with Tech Lead to propose a technical solution

Liaise with designer to implement the UI/UX elements for web and mobile interfaces

Troubleshoot production problems and provide user support.

Design and conduct tests:

• Integrate multiple systems from different vendors with seamless data flow
• Investigate new technologies and continue to update your technical skills
• Write well-structured and testable code following the set guidelines

Requirements

Degree in IT or equivalent

More than 3 years of web-based application development experience in PHP.

Strong knowledge of PHP web frameworks: CodeIgniter, Laravel, Bootstrap, AngularJs, Angular Material, Symphony, Zend, Cake and Flask.

Languages

PHP, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Python.

Databases: MySql

Operating Systems: Ubuntu, Windows and Macintosh.

Others: jQuery, AJAX, JSON, Celery, Git, API, AWS, Facebook API, Twitter API, Google API,PayPal Integration, nginx, Apache,AmCharts, Mpdf and PhantomJs.

Mandatory:

Strong knowledge in Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery tools, e.g. Jenkins

Strong knowledge in planning for testing strategy, test suites and test cases.

Proficient understanding of code versioning tools (e.g. Git)

Understands web trends, including social media integration and the impact of the growth of mobile/tablet browsing

More than 3 years of web service (REST, SOAP) and API development and management

Strong Knowledge of security standards and techniques for web applications

Strong technical knowledge in software development methodologies, design patterns and implementation

Proven ability to carry a feature from start to finish, including prototypes, design specifications, constructive coding, unit testing and problem resolution

Preferred

Strong in SQL & PL/SQL and have good working knowledge on the relational database(s) (MySQL)

Experience With Selenium Web, Appium, Endtest.io Automated Regression Tools

Advantage

Experience with other server-side stacks (Node.js, Python, Java etc.) a plus

Experience developing native or hybrid mobile applications for IOS and/or Android a plus

Experience in the development and production of standards-based websites using HTML/5, CSS/3, JavaScript, jQuery, AJAX, JSON across multiple browsers a plus