PHP Developer

Job Title: Back-End Developer

Department: IT

Experience: 3.5 Years+

Location: Mohali

Shift: Rotational Shifts

Employment Type: Full-time

Job Overview:

The Senior Backend Developer will be responsible for the full lifecycle of our backend services, focusing on architecture, security, and performance.

Key Responsibilities:

• Core API Development & Logic: Design, build, and maintain robust, scalable, and secure RESTful/ GraphQL APIs using Node.js and Python to serve both internal and external consumers.
• System Architecture: Lead the design and implementation of application components, focusing on microservices architecture, ensuring services are loosely coupled and highly available.
• Database Management: Expertly manage and optimize complex database schemas and queries for both SQL (PostgreSQL/MySQL) and NoSQL (MongoDB/Redis) systems, ensuring data integrity and high performance.
• Performance and Scalability: Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks, implement caching strategies, and optimize server-side code and architecture for maximum speed and scalability.
• Code Quality and Standards: Write clean, efficient, well-documented, and testable code. Conduct thorough code reviews and mentor junior developers on best practices, design patterns, and coding standards.
• Security Implementation: Implement security and data protection settings,including authentication, authorization, and encryption protocols.
• DevOps and Deployment: Work with DevOps pipelines (CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes) for smooth and automated deployment of services to cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP).
• Collaboration: Work closely with cross-functional teams (Frontend, Product, QA) to understand requirements and translate them into technical specifications and deliver high-quality features.

Required Skills & Qualifications:

• Programming Expertise: Deep, demonstrable expertise in Node.js and Python.
• Node.js: Strong command of asynchronous programming, event loops, and related frameworks (e.g., Express.js).
• Python: Extensive experience with web frameworks (e.g., Django, Django Rest Framework, Flask).
• API Design: Proven ability to design and implement highly performant and secure RESTful APIs. Experience with GraphQL is a strong advantage.
• Databases: Expert knowledge of both Relational (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL) and NoSQL databases (e.g., MongoDB, Redis, Cassandra). Proficiency in query optimization and schema design.
• Cloud & Tools: Experience with cloud computing platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, or GCP). Proficiency with Docker and Git.
• Testing: Strong experience with unit, integration, and end-to-end testing frameworks.

Soft Skills & Leadership

• Problem-Solving: Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with a track record of troubleshooting complex production issues.
• Communication: Strong verbal and written communication skills to articulate technical decisions and collaborate effectively with diverse teams.
• Ownership: Proven ability to take ownership of complex projects, drive them to completion, and manage technical debt.

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Senior Software Developers collaborate with Business and Quality Analysts, Designers, Project Managers and more to design software solutions that will create meaningful change for our clients. They listen thoughtfully to understand the context of a business problem and write clean and iterative code to deliver a powerful end result whilst consistently advocating for better engineering practices. By balancing strong opinions with a willingness to find the right answer, Senior Software Developers bring integrity to technology, ensuring all voices are heard.

For a team to thrive, it needs collaboration and room for healthy, respectful debate. Senior Developers are the technologists who cultivate this environment while driving teams toward delivering on an aspirational tech vision and acting as mentors for more junior-level consultants. You will leverage deep technical knowledge to solve complex business problems and proactively assess your team’s health, code quality and nonfunctional requirements.

Job responsibilities

• You will learn and adopt best practices like writing clean and reusable code using TDD, pair programming and design patterns
• You will use and advocate for continuous delivery practices to deliver high-quality software as well as value to end customers as early as possible
• You will work in collaborative, value-driven teams to build innovative customer experiences for our clients
• You will create large-scale distributed systems out of microservices
• You will collaborate with a variety of teammates to build features, design concepts and interactive prototypes and ensure best practices and UX specifications are embedded along the way.
• You will apply the latest technology thinking from our Technology Radar to solve client problems
• You will efficiently utilize DevSecOps tools and practices to build and deploy software, advocating devops culture and shifting security left in development
• You will oversee or take part in the entire cycle of software consulting and delivery from ideation to deployment and everything in between
• You will act as a mentor for less-experienced peers through both your technical knowledge and leadership skills

Job qualifications:

Technical Skills

• You have experience using one or more development languages (Java, Nodejs, React, TypeScript, JavaScript, etc.) with experience in Object-Oriented programming
• You can skillfully write high-quality, well-tested code and you are comfortable with Object-Oriented programming
• You are comfortable with Agile methodologies, such as Extreme Programming (XP), Scrum and/or Kanban
• You have a good awareness of TDD, continuous integration and continuous delivery approaches/tools
• Bonus points if you have working knowledge of cloud technology such as AWS, Azure, Kubernetes and Docker

Professional Skills

• You enjoy influencing others and always advocate for technical excellence while being open to change when needed
• Presence in the external tech community: you willingly share your expertise with others via speaking engagements, contributions to open source, blogs and more
• You’re resilient in ambiguous situations and can approach challenges from multiple perspectives

Other things to know:

Learning & Development

There is no one-size-fits-all career path at Thoughtworks: however you want to develop your career is entirely up to you. But we also balance autonomy with the strength of our cultivation culture. This means your career is supported by interactive tools, numerous development programs and teammates who want to help you grow. We see value in helping each other be our best and that extends to empowering our employees in their career journeys.

Job Description

 It is a global health and fitness platform that aids users to achieve their true physical and mental potential. We started with the vision to help people transform themselves by giving them access to content and programs that work on aspects of mind, body and recovery. Everyone on this team has a unique and mutually exclusive set of skill, building this company like founders. The platform is a combination of technology, science, art and most importantly people and is therefore driven by the knowledge and experience of world’s best coaches, sports science experts, neuroscientists and psychologists. Our insight is that transformation does not need to be about setting unrealistic goals or killing oneself in the gym. We believe in a more structured, incremental and scientific approach to tap into our true potential. We believe this is not just about how the world perceives us; but more about a way of life we believe in.

Responsibilities: -

We are looking for solid senior back-end developers who are well-versed with NodeJs.

We are looking at folks who have a minimum of 5-6 years of experience in back-end development and have been strong experience.

The mindset is very different and we are looking for folks who have evolved fast in terms of skills and in terms of working on their own projects.

Practical experience in building APIs.

Experience with RabbitMQ or similar queuing system.

Experience with Redis/ElasticSearch is a plus. Familiarity with CI/CD pipeline tools like Jenkins.

Practical experience with Git.

A knack for benchmarking and optimization

Remote Workers would also do…

• Storing data and ensuring that it is displayed to that user who are supposed to have access to it
• Developing business logic for systems to process in the front end
• Managing APIs resources which work across the Product Architecture
• Participating in the architecture of a system and data science analysis
• Organizing the logic of the system which runs across various tiers
• Involving in building frameworks or the architecture to make it easier to program against
• Back-end developers should have the skill for implementing algorithms and solving system related problems

Desired Candidate Profile

• 2-5 years of experience in rest api/Database design, development and architecture
• Strong programming and debugging skills with sound understanding of data structures, algorithms, and object oriented programming
• PHP/ Mysql experience with hands on application delivery is a must
• Hands on experience with an API management
• Experience with synchronous and asynchronous interfaces and Microservice API development is a must
• Hands-on experience with version control system like Git is desirable
• Knowledge in PHP, Codeigniter, Doctrine, MySQL, ElasticSearch, ReST endpoint development
• Implementing API management using API management software (like Apigee or others) to include API proxies mashups, rate limiting, security, analytics, monetization and developer portals
• Kafka/RabbitMQ messaging architecture notification
• Knowledge of Algorithms and data structures is also essential
• An awareness of security concerns is important, as each layer has its vulnerabilities
• Knowledge of the differences between multiple delivery platforms like mobile vs. desktop
• Basic exposure to frontend techs like HTML and CSS is desirable    

-Must have experience in core Php.

-Proficiency in Php and Php based MVC frameworks like laravel.

-Good knowledge of the OOPs concepts

-Development of Php based web application

-Development of Php based APIs

-Contribute to a backend web application with clean, portable, well-documented code

-Work closely with a team to ensure the successful front end

-Taking static HTML/CSS frontend code and integrating with custom Php website and web app

-On time delivery of the projects

-Able to work in a team as well as individually.

Job Type: Full-time