PHP Developer

Senior Software Engineer (Backend) – Credit Cards Platform

Experience required - 5+ years

Job Location - Hyderabad & Ahmedabad

What you'll do:

· Perform complex application programming activities with an emphasis on mobile development: Node.js, TypeScript, JavaScript, RESTful APIs and related backend frameworks

· Assist in the definition of system architecture and detailed solution design that are scalable and extensible

· Collaborate with Product Owners, Designers, and other engineers on different permutations to find the best solution possible

· Own the quality of code and do your own testing. Write unit test and improve test coverage.

· Deliver amazing solutions to production that knock everyone’s socks off

· Mentor junior developers on the team

What we’re looking for:

· Amazing technical instincts. You know how to evaluate and choose the right technology and approach for the job. You have stories you could share about what problem you thought you were solving at first, but through testing and iteration, came to solve a much bigger and better problem that resulted in positive outcomes all-around.

· A love for learning. Technology is continually evolving around us, and you want to keep up to date to ensure we are using the right tech at the right time.

· A love for working in ambiguity—and making sense of it. You can take in a lot of disparate information and find common themes, recommend clear paths forward and iterate along the way. You don’t form an opinion and sell it as if it’s gospel; this is all about being flexible, agile, dependable, and responsive in the face of many moving parts.

· Flexible and willing to accept change in priorities, as necessary

· Demonstrable passion for technology (e.g., personal projects, open-source involvement)

· Enthusiastic embrace of DevOps culture and collaborative software engineering

· Ability and desire to work in a dynamic, fast paced, and agile team environment

· Enthusiasm for cloud computing platforms such as AWS or Azure

· Excellent written and verbal communications skills

Preferred Qualifications:

· Experience with Apache Cordova framework

· Demonstrable knowledge of native coding background in iOS, Android

· Experience developing and deploying applications within Kubernetes based containers

· Experience in Agile and SCRUM development techniques

Experience – 1-2 yrs

Qualification- MCA /B. Tech.

Job Nature - Permanent

Skills - PHP,Laravel, Codeigniter, MySQL, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript with ES6, Ajax,Theme development & Plugin 

Working days - 5

Job location- Lucknow

 Responsibilities:

•        Developing and maintaining high-performing, scalable, and robust themes and plugins.
•        Implementing different aspects of coding standards for JavaScript, PHP, and WordPress.
•        Understanding the project requirements, preparing the flow, and planning the solution to accomplish the job optimally.
•        Designing and implementing new features and functionality.
•        Establishing and guiding the website’s architecture and custom requirements.
•        Ensure high performance and availability, and manage all technical aspects of the CMS.
•        Must be able to create themes and plugins from scratch by following WordPress theme and plugin development standards.
•        Strong understanding of Backend technologies, including PHP, OOP concepts, Ajax, and API integrations.
•        Strong understanding of front-end technologies, including HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, and jQuery.
•        In-depth experience with WordPress terminologies like Post, Page, Category, Tags, Template hierarchy, etc.
•        Excellent problem-solving and learning skills.
•        Experience in working with WooCommerce and its add-ons, developing payment gateways, shipping, tax solutions, and REST API integrations.
•        Have a deep understanding of WordPress database structure, built-in queries, and security practices.
•        Comfortable working with debugging tools like Firebug, Chrome Inspector, etc.

Good to Have :

•        Experience working with WordPress Multisite development
•        Proficient understanding of code versioning tools such as Git, BitBucket, SVN, and Mercurial.
•        Have worked with 3rd party API integrations with WordPress via plugins and themes.
•        Knowledge of how to interact with RESTful APIs and formats (JSON, XML)
•        Knowledge of WPRest API and WP-CLI
•        Package management tools like NPM and Composer

Position: Backend Developer

Organization: A Funded global healthcare platform connecting doctors, thereby enabling exchange of information on a quick and real time basis, founded in the year 2013.Currently there are 3 lakh doctors using this platform and everyday there are 400 new doctors joining it.

The platform promotes exchange of viewpoints, ideas, and information on various medical practices amongst healthcare professionals. This saves both time and money as solutions to several health issues can be accessed on a real time basis. There are 1.3 million registered doctors and 400+ daily publications on its platform and they operate across 16+countries.

Roles & Responsibilities

You’re Awesome At -

• Have strong experience in Python (FLASK framework).
• Have a Deep understanding of how RESTful APIs work.
• Familiar with various design and architectural patterns that can work at scale.
• Sound knowledge of NoSQL/SQL Databases (Mongo DB preferred).
• Strong experience with at-Cloud technology, preferably AWS or GCP, or Azure.
• Core experience in developing complex backend systems.
• Ability to communicate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Passionate about application scalability, availability, reliability, and security.

Your Academic Qualifications -

BE/BTech in Computer Science preferred.

You’ll Be Improving & Responsible For –

• A team that is building products used by 300k + doctors every single day.
• Work on PetaByte Scale Streaming Systems - more than 500 million hours of video have been streamed.
• Lead high volume VOD streaming (think of systems as sophisticated as Netflix and Amazon prime).
• Challenge oneself on Security, Scalability, and Stability
• Maintain code and write automated tests to ensure the product is of the highest quality.
• Reach out to the open-source community to encourage and help implement mission-critical software fixes

Your Experience Across the Years in the Roles You’ve Played -

2-4 Years of experience in Backend Development.

About the role:

What we are looking for? 

• Strong proficiency in MySQL database administration, migrations /up-gradation, patching, cloning, capacity planning, designing and automation of database tasks.
• Good experience with latest versions of the database
• In-depth experience configuring database replication on multiple versions
• Strong experience in Monitoring, DB Performance Tuning, DB Availability, DR, Security, Storage
• Analyzes and provides recommendations to optimize database for improved performance, manageability and scalability
• Expertise in enterprise backups, recovery and performing point in-time recovery Experience in deploying and integrating PMM tools
• Experience in data partitioning and encryption
• Knowledge of de-facto standards and best practices in MySQL and MongoDB
• Proficient in writing and optimizing SQL statements and Knowledge of MySQL features, such as its event scheduler
• Familiarity with other SQL/NoSQL databases such as PostgreSQL, MongoDB, etc.
• Knowledge of limitations in MySQL and their workarounds in contrast to other popular relational databases
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools such as Git / Mercurial / SVN

Something we will like in you -

You enjoy the excitement of developing new software, mobile apps, and you have a vision for building stable, reliable, and performant systems.

You must have solid foundational knowledge in software development and debugging.

You might have a Computer Science or Engineering degree, or you might not. Your university is not what we're looking for. We care about what you can do at work and how you do it.

This is a remote job. You're free to work where you work best, anywhere in the world: home, co-working space, coffee shops.

Do you recognize yourself in these statements:

• You are comfortable under pressure, and you enjoy working on a broad array of projects with different technical requirements.
• You love unwinding tricky problems, finding the causes, and fixing them for good.
• You take pride in your work with or without accolades from others.
• You care about your coworkers and want to make their lives better.
• You enjoy working across teams to help ship new features and fix bugs.
• You approach your work with curiosity, enthusiasm, and tenacity.

Pay and benefits

• The salary for this position is INR 20000 - INR 30,000
  We assess your seniority relative to the team at Shimbi Labs during the interviewing process. It doesn't matter how many years you worked before.
• Work from anywhere.
• Allowance for the Internet connection.
• Laptop and power backup (After a year).
• 21 days paid leaves.
• Health insurance after a year with us (After a year).