PHP Developer - CodeIgniter/Laravel/CakePHP

About Astra:

Astra is a cyber security SaaS company that makes otherwise chaotic pentests a breeze with its one of a kind Pentest Platform. Astra's continuous vulnerability scanner emulates hacker behavior to scan applications for 9300+ security tests. CTOs & CISOs love Astra because it helps them fix vulnerabilities in record time and move from DevOps to DevSecOps with Astra's CI/CD integrations.

Astra is loved by 650+ companies across the globe. In 2023 Astra uncovered 2 million+ vulnerabilities for its customers, saving customers $69M+ in potential losses due to security vulnerabilities. 

We've been awarded by the President of France Mr. François Hollande at the La French Tech program and Prime Minister of India Shri Narendra Modi at the Global Conference on Cyber Security. Loom, MamaEarth, Muthoot Finance, Canara Robeco, ScripBox etc. are a few of Astra’s customers.

Role Overview:

As an SDE 2 back-end engineer you will be responsible for leading the development and maintenance of the platform/dashboard backend. This would involve architecting, developing & maintaining RESTful services for vulnerability management, scan orchestration, inventory management and platform features such as on-boarding, trust centers, certificates, payment integrations, vulnerability ingestion, authentication etc. 

You should have a strong background in backend programming (Symfony preferred, or Laravel) and have experience with an event driven, async & distributed architecture. 

During the first 6 months of your role, you will be involved in the 0->1 journey of two of our upcoming products in our platform along with the respective product owners.

Love solving hard problems? Want to build high impact products rooted in first principles? Is coding your poetry? Join us in shaping the future of cyber security.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Lead the design, development, and maintenance of backend services and APIs using Symfony PHP framework. What you create is also what you own.
• Collaborate with front-end developers to integrate user-facing elements with server-side logic.
• Collaborate with scanner teams to orchestrate scans, ingest vulnerabilities, configure scanners etc.
• Write clean, well-documented, and efficient code.
• Optimize and refactor existing code to improve performance and reliability.
• Implement security and data protection measures.
• Triage, troubleshoot and upgrade existing systems.
• Ship code to production multiple times a day/week.
• Ensure timely delivery of the features.
• Test your own features, and write test cases for continuous automated testing.
• Troubleshoot complex issues, debug, and upgrade existing systems.
• Mentor junior engineers and lead code reviews, promoting best practices and high standards.
• Drive architectural decisions and technical strategy for backend systems.

What we are looking for:

• 4-6 years experience in a similar role or similar working experience.
• Advanced proficiency in PHP backend programming. Symfony preferred, or Laravel.
• Strong understanding of system design, software architecture principles and performance optimization.
• Experience with an event driven (subscribers/listeners), async (MessageHandlers & job queues) & distributed (load-balanced) architecture.
• Experience with PostgreSQL database and data modeling.
• Understanding of concepts such as Dependency Injection, ORM, data validation, error handling etc.
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions (good to have).
• Experience with Agile methodologies.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to think strategically about technical solutions.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional remote teams.
• Demonstrated track record of delivering high-quality software products on schedule.
• Knowledge of industry best practices in software development, security, and compliance.
• Knowledge of application & infrastructure security - helps you stand out.

What We offer:

• Adrenalin rush of being a part of a fast-growing company, and working on hard problems that matter.
• Fully remote, agile working environment.
• Good engineering culture with full ownership in design, development, release lifecycle.
• A wholesome opportunity where you get to build things from scratch, improve and ship code to production in hours, not weeks.
• Holistic understanding of SaaS and enterprise security business.
• Experience with security side of things.
• Annual trips to beaches or mountains (next one is to Wayanad).
• Open and supportive culture.
• Health insurance & other benefits for you and your spouse. Maternity benefits included.

-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

Purpose

We are looking for Sr. Laravel Developer. The candidate must have Good level of proficiency in PHP, MySQL, object-oriented JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3, AJAX, XML, JSON required and Write clean PHP code in a timely and scalable way.

Key Responsibilities

• Responsible to Code, Test, Deploy and Scale SaaS-based Products using PHP, MySQL, with Laravel and Lumen MVC framework.
• Can write functional requirement documents and guides others within the project / team.
• Develop, write and implement software programming applications following established architecture standards as well as software development and project management methodologies.
• Integrate / Develop to third-party APIs.
• Write high quality code using the guidelines and effectively debug the code; perform code review of junior members.
• Azure or Aws cloud knowledge is good to have.
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as SVN, GIT.
• Build and implement web applications and back-end services that integrate with mobile applications.
• Build reusable code and libraries for future use & Optimize application for maximum speed and scalability.
  
  

Skills

• Strong coding experience with Laravel (5.5 and above) and Lumen
• Knowledge of PHP frameworks like CodeIgniter / YII / Zend / Joomla / Drupal etc will be a plus point.
• Strong skills in OOPs PHP, MySQL, CSS, HTML5, jQuery, JavaScript, AJAX, Web Services, JSON.
• Must have used frameworks such as JQuery /Angular/ React JS/Backbone.
• Strong knowledge of design patterns and OOPs concepts.
• Experience with databases like MySQL / MariaDB / Postgres.
• Experience in Source Code Versioning GitHub / GitLab / BitBucket and continuous integration tools like Jenkins.
• Working knowledge of XML / JSON and third-party APIs.
• Good to have skills: knowledge of non-relational databases like MongoDB; Exposure to Varnish, Redis, Elastic Search, Apache Solr.
• Payment processing integration experience in a PCI compliant environment is a plus
  Understanding of web and application security (OWASP)
• Experience in common third-party APIs (Google, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc.)
• Good written and verbal communication with good analytical and multitasking skills