PHP Developer

About the Organization: 

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 120 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 full lifecycle development
• Work closely with product managers and UI/UX designers to analyze requirements
• Review peer code changes
• Make recommendations for design and implementation improvements
• Integrating the Frontend UI with Backend APIs.
• Design and implement APIs for web/mobile (both Android & IOS) applications.
• Work with the Product team in prioritizing development activities for weekly sprints

Experience & Skills Required:

• Prior experience- not mandatory 
• Ability to quickly learn - PHP, MySql, JQuery, Ajax, Git
• Have familiarity with- HTML, CSS, JS 
• Strong team player with an open mindset to learn new technologies and Knowledge of common SDLC.
• A passion for solving problems and providing workable solutions

Preference will be given to those with:

• Internships experience
• Worked on own projects 
• Experience in PHP, MySql 

• Previous working experience as a MySQL Developer for at least 3 years
• Identify opportunities for improved performance in SQL operations and implementations
• Oversee the operations of the production and staging environments databases
• Give design recommendations for database functions that meet business operating standards while improving the efficiency of business processes
• Train and mentor junior personnel on best practices

Candidate Profile:

• Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science
• At least 5+ years of relevant experience as a database programmer
• Excellent MySQL/PostgreSQL/MS-SQL development skills
• Experience in writing stored views, procedures, triggers etc.
• Excellent knowledge in RDBMS (important features)
• Strong problem-solving skills, technical troubleshooting, and diagnosing
• Solid knowledge of RDBMS and NoSQL technologies
• Experience in developing back-ends for enterprise systems
• Knowledge of debugging, performance and optimization techniques
• Experience in RDBMS technologies like MySQL, PostgreSQL etc.
• Experience in No SQL technologies like MongoDB, Cassandra etc.
• Knowledge of Caching DB like Redis, Memcached etc.
• Knowledge of Search DB like Solr, Elasticsearch etc.
• Demonstrated ability to deliver in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities :

- Assist in requirements gathering and technical planning to design solutions that meet client needs

- Create clean, well-documented, efficient, and standards-compliant code with an eye towards

performance optimization

- Define, design, develop, integrate, test, deploy, maintain, troubleshoot, and enhance applications

and tools written in PHP, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and other languages, as necessary

- Develop custom modules for integration into ERP, accounting, fulfillment, and marketing systems

- Actively troubleshoot and support applications in production-- critical environments

- Account for client short- and long-term goals when recommending a solution

- Set up, configure, and optimize enterprise-level e-commerce software and servers

- Provide technical leadership in the development and delivery of solutions

- Troubleshoot production application issues under pressure and define a path to resolve them

- Perform team code reviews and provide technical oversight

- Implement and maintain Magento development standards and best practices

- Tracks the work against plan and reports the status on agreed time without fail.

- Interface with the clients to understand and document their needs.

-Ability to mentor team members in core skills

Primary Technical Skills:

Magento

PHP

OOPS

Javascript

XML

JSON

Payment Gateway

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Design Patterns

MVC

Soft Skills

Excellent oral and written communication.

Required Skills:

- 2 to 8 years of experience building scalable, robust Web or e-commerce applications in OOP PHP

- Experience with Magento 2.x

-Minimum 1+ yrs exp in Magento 2.x

- Experience working with the following technologies: Javascript (Prototype and JQuery), XML, JSON,

SQL, PHP, CSS2, CSS3

- Experience with HTML, tableless layout design, and standards-compliant markup

- Experience with OOP PHP (3+ years)

- Experience with site optimization

- Experiences with theme integration and customization

- Knowledge of online payment gateways (e.g., Authorize.net, PayPal, etc.)

- Understanding of the MVC design pattern

- Proficient in authoring, editing, and presenting technical documents

- Prior consulting experience

- Demonstrated ability to adapt and work with team members of various experience levels

- Ability to work with minimal direction with a focus on customer satisfaction

- Excellent written and verbal communication skills

- Some travel will be required for this position

Secondary Skills :

- In-depth knowledge of PCI compliance and other e-commerce industry topics

- Experience with AWS or similar cloud platforms

- Knowledge of caching, and scaling techniques

- Multi-website, store view deploymentRestricted

We are looking for a high-performing Developer to build our ecommerce platform and API framework powered by Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence. Candidates for this role will be passionate about well-written code, testing, and excel at coming up with simple approaches to complex problems.

Our work culture is overachiever, very amiable, and at the same time always charged with excitement. We encourage our team members to take responsibility and grow into future leaders in the industry.

Job Responsibilities:

• Understand project requirements, writing bug-free clean code and ensure that the solution works per the agreed architecture, SLAs, KPIs and business model
• Integrate Django backend with third party API
• 100% Hands-on role
• Adapt to rapidly evolving requirements and changing priorities and drive the team accordingly
• Reverse engineer for debugging errors in code and ensure quality control in the process.
• Continually drive products towards a meaningful balance between user needs, business objectives and technical feasibility
• Operate in a hyper-collaborative way and follow these guiding principles: Value common sense and simplicity over complexity.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor or Master Degree in Computer Science from a reputed University
• 3 to 5 years of experience working in Django and Python.
• React and/or Angular for front end
• Proficiency in MongoDB and MySql
• Technical Skills: JIRA, Gitlab, Rest API, GCP or AWS
• Experience in performance profiling, tuning, and optimization, caching mechanisms with Enterprise level applicants
• Experience in writing unit testing and test case automation.
• Ability to operate in an Agile environment with a start-up mentality and unstructured environment, Energy, drive and passion to work, and operate in a digital world.