PHP Developer

• Role: Senior .NET Developer – Lead
• Work Mode: On-site (WFO), Full-Time
• Experience: 5 – 7 Years
• Location: Pune
• Working Hours: 4 PM – 1 AM IST
• Benefits: Drop & Dinner Facility Provided 

Job Overview:

• This is a hands-on leadership role involving full-stack .NET development and team mentorship. The candidate should be experienced in building scalable applications and working across web and desktop environments.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead and mentor a team of developers
• Design and maintain scalable, secure applications using ASP.NET, MVC, WinForms, and Angular
• Optimize SQL Server databases and implement RESTful APIs
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure timely delivery

Required Technical Skills:

• ASP.NET Core & Framework, MVC, WinForms, C#
• Angular, JavaScript, HTML/CSS
• SQL Server, Stored Procedures, Indexing, Query Optimization
• RESTful APIs, Entity Framework, LINQ, DI

Preferred Skills:

• Experience with Azure/AWS
• CI/CD & DevOps familiarity
• Agile/Scrum methodology

Qualifications: Bachelor’s/master’s in computer science or related field

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.

You will leverage your technical expertise to drive the development of our website, property manager tools.

What are we looking for?

• 2+ years of experience
• Excellent in cross-browser web development using Python/Django.
• Really good understanding of HTML, CSS, Jquery
• Strong database concepts 
• Experience with DevOps practices and platforms (AWS, Fabric, Apache/Linux etc)
• Really good UX/UI sense
• Experience with caching technologies, NoSql databases
• Leadership skills, ability to handle, mentor junior developers
• Prior startup experience is a plus

What you will be doing?

• Develop high-volume, low-latency global products
• Take ownership of all web based product feature enhancements
• Ability to work on multiple projects at a time
• Work with product/design team to come up with an awesome product design/workflow
• Write well designed, testable, efficient, reusable code. 
• Investigate and present technology solutions and contribute to architectural improvements
• Mentor/Lead junior developers

What you need to have:

What’s in it for you?

• You’ll understand how a fast-growing start-up works in terms of revenue generation as you will be handling one of the most important aspects of the company's revenue - lead generation implementations
• You’ll have end-to-end liberty to work and implement any technology that will bring value to the team
• You’ll get to work with and understand a wide range of tools and integrations that are already in place - how they work and why they are important

Roles and responsibilities

• You will be owning the landing repository and reviewing all code that goes into it.  
• Manage and own the production systems for the landing website.
• Work on any integration that links the product to the leads pipeline. 
• Manage and maintain the page speed score and SEO standards for the content pages.  
• Deploy code that goes into production. 

Requirements

1. Experience in building web applications with proficiency in PHP/Laravel
2. Extensive knowledge of advanced JavaScript concepts
3. Ability to implement and work with 3rd party APIs and other REST-Based APIs.
4. Experienced in HTML5/CSS3, jQuery, and responsive design.
5. Understanding of how a CDN works. 
6. Understanding of security and data protection in web applications
7. Knowledge of code versioning tools like Git or SVN. 
8. Basic understanding of RDBMS.
9. Knowledge of CSS preprocessors like SASS. 
10. Solid Foundation in data structures, algorithms, and system designs.
11. 2 - 5 years experience

Good to have

1. Understanding of CRM tool like Hubspot
2. Have worked in developing SEO friendly pages
3. Basic knowledge of AWS
4. Understanding of WordPress codebase and plugin development