PHP Developer

Job description

Opportunity

We are looking for a young and enthusiastic personality who loves coding. Who is passionate and ready to tackle some of the most difficult problems in the laundry industry. We believe that user-centric design ultimately leads to the best products, so we listen closely to our users, both external and internal. As an engineer on our close-knit, cross-functional team, you'll be an active voice in shaping our product. 

You will play a role in product planning, drive the implementation and release of major features, and be a champion of best practices for writing well-tested, well-organized code.

Tech Stack

Our tech stack is http://asp.net/">ASP.NET, MVC, Webform, WebAPI, MSSQL Server, JQuery, Javascript, Angular 2 and microservices architecture. Our platform is hosted on Google Cloud. 

Responsibilities

• Work with internal business teams and management to define requirements and develop technical specifications.
• You will be creating modules and components and coupling them together into a functional app.
• Creating self-contained, reusable, and testable modules and components
• Developing and integrating RESTful API services.
• Convert legacy code to new tech stack single-page web applications.
• You will be working with payment gateway, barcodes, QR codes, biometrics, integrating different hardware (printer, scanner, cash register, POS terminal, laundry and drycleaning machines, conveyor belt etc), map routing and distance algorithms.

What you can expect in the next 12 months

Within 1 month

• You should have acquired a good knowledge of the domain, product and process that we follow.
• Setup the dev environment and push your first small piece of code to production.
• You will start attending daily stand up.
• Dive into technology by pair-programming with your teammates and attending engineering training sessions designed and presented by your peers.
• Have a one-one chat with every member of the Quick Dry Cleaning team so you get to know everyone well and understand each other.

Within 3 months

• You'll start developing your first module all by yourself. (With some guidance)
• Write your first set of unit test cases and work with the quality engineer to set up functional testing workflows.
• Conduct your first review of a peer's code.
• Participate in several release planning sessions to get a deep understanding of the new features we're working on.
• Participate in your first production release cycle.
• Start providing support for bugs, issues, small improvements on production.
• Take over one tool (JIRA, Build Deployment, CI/CD, Git or any other)

Within 6 months

• You'll launch your first two or three modules to production.
• Take architectural and infrastructure decisions that will impact the entire product.
• Be comfortable navigating most of our stack and infrastructure.
• Be responsible for the planning, scoping, design, and implementation of new services.

Within 12 months

• You'll launch at least 3 to 4 core modules to production and completely own scaling for some more.
• Participate in interviewing and hiring, as a way to influence team growth.
• Mentor Ship - Should do code reviews for juniors, spend time and show a willingness to teach juniors, and share expertise with new team members.
• Collaborate with engineering, product, sales and customer success leadership to define priorities and set delivery goals.
• You will start owning an important workflow/ section of the product. 

Required Candidate profile

What an ideal candidate looks like

• Strong knowledge of Computer Science fundamentals in object-oriented design, data structures, algorithm design, problem-solving, complexity analysis, databases, networking, and distributed systems.
• 3-4 years of experience with product development (.ASP.Net, C#.Net, WCF, MVC, SQL Server development applications, version control, CI/CD pipelines).
• Should have a strong online presence on different forums like stack overflow etc, Github etc.
• Excellent verbal and written skills. The ability to explain sophisticated architectures to engineers, product managers, and support & operation executives. You should also be able to write a proposal for your idea/solutions and take feedback from the team.
• Previous work experience at a product-based company or startup would be a bonus.

Personality traits we really admire 

• Great attitude to ask questions, learn and suggest process improvements.
• Pays great attention to detail and helps identify edge cases.
• Gives equal importance to planning, coding, code reviews, documentation, and testing.
• Highly motivated and coming up with fresh ideas and perspectives to help us move towards our goals faster.
• Follows release cycles and absolute commitment to deadlines.

Role Software Developer

Industry Type IT Services & Consulting

Functional Area IT Software - Application Programming, Maintenance

Employment Type 

Role Category Programming & Design

About the Role 

As a result of our rapid growth, we are looking for a Java Backend Engineer to join our existing Cloud Engineering team and take the lead in the design and development of several key initiatives of our existing Miko3 product line as well as our new product development initiatives. 

Responsibilities 

•  Designing, developing and maintaining core system features, services and engines
• Collaborating with a cross functional team of the backend, Mobile application, AI, signal processing, robotics Engineers, Design, Content, and Linguistic Team to realize the requirements of a conversational social robotics platform which includes investigate design approaches, prototype new technology, and evaluate technical feasibility
• Ensure the developed backend infrastructure is optimized for scale and responsiveness 
• Ensure best practices in design, development, security, monitoring, logging, and DevOps adhere to the execution of the project. 
• Introducing new ideas, products, features by keeping track of the latest developments and industry trends 
• Operating in an Agile/Scrum environment to deliver high quality software against aggressive schedules

Requirements 

• Proficiency in distributed application development lifecycle (concepts of authentication/authorization, security, session management, load balancing, API gateway), programming techniques and tools (application of tested, proven development paradigms)  
• Proficiency in working on Linux based Operating system. 
• Proficiency in at least one server-side programming language like Java. Additional languages like Python and PHP are a plus 
• Proficiency in at least one server-side framework like Servlets, Spring, java spark (Java). 
• Proficient in using ORM/Data access frameworks like Hibernate,JPA with spring or other server-side frameworks. 
• Proficiency in at least one data serialization framework: Apache Thrift, Google ProtoBuffs, Apache Avro,Google Json,JackSon etc. 
• Proficiency in at least one of inter process communication frameworks WebSocket's, RPC, message queues, custom HTTP libraries/frameworks ( kryonet, RxJava ), etc.  
• Proficiency in multithreaded programming and Concurrency concepts (Threads, Thread Pools, Futures, asynchronous programming). 
• Experience defining system architectures and exploring technical feasibility tradeoffs (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling)
• Experience developing cloud software services and an understanding of design for scalability, performance and reliability
• Good understanding of networking and communication protocols, and proficiency in identification CPU, memory & I/O bottlenecks, solve read & write-heavy workloads. 
• Proficiency is concepts of monolithic and microservice architectural paradigms. 
• Proficiency in working on at least one of cloud hosting platforms like Amazon AWS, Google Cloud, Azure etc.   
• Proficiency in at least one of database SQL, NO-SQL, Graph databases like MySQL, MongoDB, Orientdb 
• Proficiency in at least one of testing frameworks or tools JMeter, Locusts, Taurus 
• Proficiency in at least one RPC communication framework: Apache Thrift, GRPC is an added plus 
• Proficiency in asynchronous libraries (RxJava), frameworks (Akka),Play,Vertx is an added plus 
• Proficiency in functional programming ( Scala ) languages is an added plus 
• Proficiency in working with NoSQL/graph databases is an added plus 
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git is an added plus 
• Working Knowledge of tools for server, application metrics logging and monitoring and is a plus Monit, ELK, graylog is an added plus 
• Working Knowledge of DevOps containerization utilities like Ansible, Salt, Puppet is an added plus 
• Working Knowledge of DevOps containerization technologies like Docker, LXD is an added plus  
• Working Knowledge of container orchestration platform like Kubernetes is an added plus 

StoryXpress (a Techstars-backed company) is an end-to-end video platform and is an efficient and effective way of humanizing the way you promote and sell your product or services, and communicate with your customers. With a suite of professional video tools (Video Creator, Video Recorder, Video Hosting and Analytics, Video APIs, and SDKs), we help small and medium-sized businesses drive more revenue through the strategic use of video. Founded in 2014, StoryXpress has a rich community of 500K+ users including small enterprises to Fortune 500 companies.

Why Work with Us:

• Get an opportunity to contribute to an exciting, forward-thinking and fast-moving Start-Up.

• Shape-Up your career by working with young and supportive teams and peers!

• Innovation and Creativity is all what matters!

• Friendly Policies, good competitive salaries, team outings and what not!
  
  

Job Description:

We're looking for an enthusiast Back End Developer who will be an integral part of the early StoryXpress team and can produce scalable solutions. The creativity and intelligence are much more essential to us than the experience with our stack.Thus, you’ll be part of a cross-functional team that’s responsible for the full software development life cycle, from conception to deployment, in order to strive for excellence!

If you’re also familiar with Agile methodologies, we’d like to meet you :)

Job Responsibilities:

Building and scaling web products that directly impact our customers or partners.

Translate several RESTful data sources to be used in a front-end application.

Dig into bugs and feature requests.

Monitor reliability and performance through dashboards and tools to ensure availability.

Help other engineers on the team and across StoryXpress.

Work with our team to engineer new growth initiatives.

Job Requirements:

• Skills: Node.js, Express.js, REST APIs, Express.js, MySQL, Git, Go
• Proficiency JavaScript developer.
• Should have a good understanding of micro-server architecture and REST API.
• Thorough understanding of MVC principles and JS design patterns. *Node.js, Express.js, MySQL should be thoroughly worked upon
• GIT, GitOps and standard versioning management tools should be known.
• Knowledge of User authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments.

Brownie Points For:

• Knowledge of Go will be a big plus
• Experience with Redis and TypeScript would fetch you a brownie point

Have an experience building backend server side applications in Node.js and Express.js

Have in-depth knowledge and experience of using ES6+ features and Object Oriented Principles

Have sound knowledge and are familiar with databases like MongoDb - (Preferred) and Mysql.

Have good exposure to cloud native technologies (AWS Lambda, S3, RDS, etc) 

Have working knowledge of version control (Git) and continuous deployment 

Have experience in optimising backend API’s and database queries for optimal performance.

You are good at problem solving and have analytical skills 

You are flexible in adapting new technologies and frameworks as per the projects needs

• Preferably 5+ years of experience in LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, & PHP) development stack
• Proven software development experience in PHP and of developing REST (JSON) / SOAP (XML) based web services
• Experience in Cloud platform like AWS/Azure
• Experience with HTML5 / JavaScript (JQuery) / CSS / AJAX / Angular / Yii Framework is preferred
• Experience in caching solutions like Redis and Memcached
• Experience in tools like Ansible, Docker
• Knowledge of source control systems such as GIT is a plus

• Be able to work in cross-function teams
• Write high-quality code per industry standards and best practices
• Test the code for quality assurance, debug identified bugs and resolve issues
• Support in deploying and maintenance of product and services
• Documenting product services progress, status, and manuals
• Participate in team meetings and planning & review sessions

What will you do?

• Website development using LAMP technologies.
• Responsible for the development of new applications and enhancements in an existing application.
• Responsible for testing of the application, performance analysis, etc.
• Good communication skills.
• Strong Analytical and troubleshooting skills.
• Ability to meet deadlines while staying focused.
• Attention to detail and ability to work with 100% efficiency.

What does it need?

• This is a role for a talented and ambitious PHP Developer. Experience in web development preferred with graduation in a similar field.
• Minimum 2 years of experience.
• Knowledge of PHP & MySQL is a must.
• Should be capable of deploying application on Apache Web Server.
• Knowledge of HTML, CSS & JavaScript.
• Knowledge of Linux/Ubuntu etc will be an added advantage.
• Knowledge of jQuery and Ajax will be an added advantage.