PHP Developer

We are looking for an experienced Laravel developer with strong expertise in PHP (Laravel framework), MySQL, and complex SQL query writing to develop and enhance our Education ERP platform. The ideal candidate should have hands-on experience working on large-scale ERP applications, handling high-volume data, and integrating AI-powered solutions into business workflows.

This is a permanent work-from-home opportunity for professionals passionate about building scalable and high-performance ERP solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain, and enhance Education ERP modules using Laravel.
• Design and optimize complex SQL queries, stored procedures, views, and database structures for high-performance applications.
• Develop secure REST APIs and integrate third-party services.
• Handle large datasets and optimize application performance for enterprise-level usage.
• Debug, troubleshoot, and resolve application and database performance issues.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver scalable and reliable solutions.
• Implement AI-powered features using LLMs, AI APIs, or automation tools to improve product capabilities and developer productivity.
• Follow coding standards, perform code reviews, and contribute to continuous product improvements.

Required Skills

• PHP
• Laravel Framework
• Core PHP
• MySQL
• Advanced SQL Query Writing
• Database Design & Optimization
• Query Performance Tuning
• REST API Development
• JavaScript
• jQuery
• HTML5
• CSS3
• Git/GitHub
• JSON
• AJAX
• AI Tools (ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot, Claude, Gemini, Cursor, etc.)
• AI API Integration (OpenAI, Gemini, Anthropic, or similar)

Mandatory Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional experience in Laravel development.
• Strong expertise in writing and optimizing complex SQL queries.
• Experience handling bulk data processing and database optimization.
• Hands-on experience in Education ERP or University/College ERP development.
• Practical experience integrating AI capabilities or using AI-assisted development tools.
• Good understanding of software architecture, security, and coding best practices.
• Excellent debugging and problem-solving skills.
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Preferred Experience

• Experience developing ERP solutions for Universities, Colleges, or Educational Institutions.
• Experience working on enterprise-scale applications with high concurrent users.
• Knowledge of ERP modules including Admissions, Fees, Examination, HR, Payroll, Inventory, Finance, Hostel, Transport, and LMS.
• Experience integrating payment gateways, SMS, email services, and third-party APIs.

Why Join Us?

• Permanent Work From Home.
• Opportunity to work on a large-scale education ERP product.
• Exposure to AI-driven product development.
• Challenging technical environment with opportunities to learn and grow.
• Long-term career growth with ownership of impactful projects.

Company Description

We are an SF-based stealth mode AI startup, building AI agents and automation tools for Marketing use-cases. We are ex-Big Tech, currently bootstrapped and working with a few design partners/early customers. We will be starting a fundraise in Q3 2024.

Role Description

This is a part-time remote role for a Founding Engineer (first engineering hire). This is an equity-only role, meaning compensation will be in the form of equity rather than a salary.

This role will be 30% applied research and 70% product engineering. The expectation is that you will be able to commit 15 hours per week for this role to begin with.

You will -

• Experiment with the latest AI technologies and research and put them into implementation.
• Have the freedom and responsibility to design and own projects from start to finish.
• Have opportunities to directly talk with customers and solve their problems!

About you

• Love to keep up with and dive into latest technologies in AI
• Move fast, ship quickly, has high urgency
• Energized about going from 0 to 1
• Enjoy high ownership and responsibility
• Familiar with no-code tools and frameworks
• Excited about working on AI-native user experiences

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or higher degree in Computer Science or a related field (Also open to university students for the right candidate)
• Knowledge of gen-AI systems (LLMs, model training/fine-tuning, agent frameworks, evaluation frameworks, vector DBs, RAG, etc)
• Experience in building and scaling backend systems and infrastructure
• Strong generalist, skilled with Python, cloud infrastructure (AWS).

What we offer

• Technical Ownership: You will own high level (and lower level) technical decisions for an early-stage startup, with mentorship from seasoned Engineering leaders from Silicon Valley.
• Equity: As a key initial hire, you will receive significant founding equity and ownership in the company.
• Growth: You will have a natural on-ramp to come onboard as a full-time, salaried Founding Engineer after a fundraise event.

Who We Are?

Bectran, the industry leading SaaS platform, has grown rapidly over the last 10 years to become the companion toolkit for the Credit Department just as CRM is for the Sales Department. From simple to complex organizations, SMEs to Fortune 500 companies, Bectran has helped companies cut down the time to process and approve credit by as much as 90% whilst significantly lowering the risk of credit defaults and the cost of collections. Our customers enjoy the ease, speed and cost-effectiveness of adopting the Bectran platform. Credit Professionals in various industries have described the Bectran platform as the future of the credit department.

Mid-Level Software Engineer (Java Fullstack Engineer/Developer)

This dynamic opportunity in a fast growing and multi-technology SaaS platform is for you!! As a Software Engineer at Bectran, it is essential that you have the breadth of knowledge to participate in design and development of a contemporary SaaS-based architecture. Practical development experience using Java/J2EE is required for the right candidate to succeed. You should be curious about technology and open to learning and applying new innovations.

What You’ll Do:

• Enable and exercise your problem solving and analytical skills.
• Design and develop Java/J2EE based full stack software components including complex modeling, MVC based UI, etc.
• Ensure applications are implemented to meet business and technical requirements.
• Work with high performing engineering teams across global locations.

.What You Need to Be Successful:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
• Solid 4-8 years hands-on design and coding experience.
• Familiarity with Agile development, JSF/Primefaces, JPA/Hibernate, Spring, ActiveMQ.
• Strong object-oriented design, Java/J2EE and MVC architecture based programming skills.
• Solid relational DBMS skills using MySQL, or other RDBMS products.
• Desirable - Experience in Big Data Technologies (Hadoop, ElasticSearch, Kafka, MongoDB, etc.)
• Nice to have - Real-world experience in large scale, and high availability implementations.
• Experience developing web services using REST and SOAP approaches.

What You’ll Love About Bectran:

• Developing strategic industry knowledge and driving your own success.
• Watching your hard work have a direct impact on success of the company and global customer base.
• All standard benefits.

As Bectran continues to expand in the Fintech SaaS industry, we are seeking intelligent, hard-working and highly skilled individuals to join our growing Engineering team. If you are ready to expand your knowledge as you solve complex problems, we want to hear from you!

Job Description

We are looking for applicant from top schools and product based technology companies who can play a key technical leadership role.

Responsibilities

• Lead the technical direction of the product.
• Document current, intermediate, and future state technical architectures that support the product’s vision and mission.
• Assist product development teams to provide technical leadership and guidance
• Facilitate and collaborate with scrum teams and product owners to create technical architectural documentation as required.
• Responsible for contributing to the technical direction of the product for the next 3-5 years by incorporating best of breed technologies.
• Provide ongoing evaluation of technology solutions and capabilities to ensure appropriate alignment of business objectives.
• Assess options, risks and cost-benefit analyses as they pertain to data architecture, security, and other technology issues.
• Outline technical recommendations and identify technological requirements that support the product roadmap.
• Develop a technical roadmap that maps to the product’s future state.
• Promote technical standards, guidelines, best practices and quality control measures for enabling and implementing software systems.
• Develop a foundational strategy to scale our platform to meet upcoming growth
• Hands-on coding, code reviews, and leadership of the technical team
• Continuous drive to explore, improve, enhance, automate, and optimise systems and tools to best meet evolving business and market needs
• Attention to detail, coupled with ability to think abstractly
• Create prototypes and proof-of-concepts for iterative development
• Keen to learn new technologies and apply the knowledge in production systems
• Take complete ownership of projects and their development cycle

Additional Requirements:

1. 10+ years of Software Development background.
2. Min 3 Years of working experience as an Architect.
3. Deep background knowledge in software development and architecture with Java for Enterprise solutions.
4. A solid grounding in Computer Science fundamentals (based on a BS or MS in CS or related field) from IITs and Premier Engineering College.
5. Excellent Object Orientation, coupled with excellent problem solving and debugging skills.
6. Highly skilled at Java and related technologies, including Java Frameworks like Spring-boot or Drop wizard, RESTful web services, J SON, Servlet, JSP, MySQL, MongoDB, Kafka, AWS, Solr.
7. Must have hands-on experience in building scalable and secure back-end systems.
8. Have hands-on experience with systems that are asynchronous, RESTful and demand concurrency
9. Good to have knowledge of best software engineering practices for all stages of the software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, testing, deployment.
10. 5-9 years of software development experience in Java with web architecture and scalable design.
11. Experience with agile development, continuous delivery, and DevOps and related tools.
12. Proactive and communicative to be closely aligned within the Product Management and customer requirements.
13. Strong communication and influencing skills with the ability to develop technical and business artifacts.

1. Exposure to Bigdata related technologies / tools.
2. Exposure to Elastic Search.
3. Large scale application development.
4. Able to manage large data structure and huge volume of data.
5. Exposure of developing interactive graphs and business intelligence tools
6. Object-Oriented design, patterns, algorithms, data structures
7. Exposure to business process workflow.
8. Start up work culture mindset.

ABOUT IDEAPOKE
Emerging Technologies | Bengaluru, India

Ideapoke is a global, fast growing start-up with offices in Bengaluru, Bay Area, Tokyo and Shanghai. Our software, search and insights power the innovation agenda of the largest Fortune 500 and Global 2000 companies worldwide.

Our growth is powered by our people and their unwavering commitment to the company-wide vision, strong work ethic and an entrepreneurial do-it-all spirit. We push the boundaries and break existing thought processes with the strong belief that innovation amplifies success in every piece of work we do and by extension, amplifying the success of our clients.

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