PHP Developer

Our client is a rapid growth stage Edtech start-up focused on solving the teacher shortage crisis in the US education system using technology by bringing teachers to the classrooms and giving them access to the right tools to teach students in a highly engaging manner.

They have a development center in Mumbai and they are looking to scale up the teams in Pune and Bangalore as well.

What does the role entail:

● Design, develop, and maintain software applications using .NET Core ,C#

● Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code

● Collaborate with cross-functional teams to analyze requirements, design solutions, and implement new features

● Develop and implement unit tests and integration tests to ensure software quality

● Participate in code reviews and provide constructive feedback to peers

● Lead requirements/tasks and guide/mentor junior software engineers in the development process and help them grow their technical skills

Required Skills:

● B.E/B.Tech in computer science

● 4 - 7 years of experience

● Hands-on experience following skills

MS Technologies: NET CORE 5+, C#

Backend : MSSQL/MySQL/Postgres 

● Good understanding of Cloud technologies like Azure/AWS.

● Strong understanding of Design Principles, Design patterns and Microservices Architecture.

● Excellent problem-solving, critical thinking, and communication skills

● Must understand full stack development frameworks including knowledge of building scalable APIs, interfaces, software components, schema design, availability, and latency preferably in a cloud environment.

● Worked in fast-paced environment product startup/startup-like culture in an Agile software development environment

What you need to have:

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer (Backend) with 5+ years of experience in backend technologies and at least 2+ years in GoLang. You will be working with a team of problem solvers working collaboratively to build custom solutions for Appointy’s enterprise clients. If you are excited to learn new things and thrive in a team-based culture, and if you are looking for hyper-growth in your career then Appointy could be a place for you! 

Appointy is a platform software company with offices in India, Singapore and US. Our low code platform, SaaStack, is being used globally by multiple fortune 500 companies. In the last 4 years, the company has shown 300% growth in terms of employee’s growth. Our dynamic and diversified engineering team, work on a remote-first hybrid work model.  With quarterly meetups, annual international offsites, state-of-the-art offices and facilities we ensure you have the best experience of working at a hyper-growth startup.  

• Write code that meets standard and delivery guidelines.
• Mentor other engineers on the team to develop high-quality software and perform code reviews.
• Work with the team to break user stories into tasks and delegate them to the team members.
• Playing a key role in architectural and design decisions, building toward an efficient microservices distributed architecture.
• Analyze solutions and help implement engineering best practices.
• Work with Project Managers for timely delivery and forecast.
• Lead and mentor junior engineers on technical issues. Perform blameless RCAs when issues occur and take ownership to resolve issues.

Additionally, you’ll get opportunities to:

• Work with the Product owner to write and brainstorm user stories.
• Interact directly with the clients and understand their requirements by working closely with the sales and customer support team.
• Consistently align teams with organization goals and product roadmap.

• Strong experience with backend programming languages and technologies like
• Golang (minimum 1-year experience)
• Protobuf and gRPC
• RESTful APIs
• Docker and Kubernetes
• Medium level experience with PostgreSQL and MySQL database concepts. 
• Ability to write efficient, secure, well-documented, and clean code.
• Proven ability to work with multiple teams, multitasking and prioritizing.
• Experience with Git, JIRA and Agile working methodology.
• Experience with design patterns, Event-Driven architecture and Domain Driven Designs.

• Competitive compensation
• A chance to work and contribute to  SaaStack, Appointy’s low code platform.
• Merit-Based career opportunities and to grow your career with an organization that’s scaling rapidly.
• Paid paternity and maternity leave
• Hospitalization, health  life insurance, and accident coverage
• Flexible hours and remote working flexibility
• Transparency and visibility throughout a fast-paced, successful growth organization
• Access to Appointy’s state of the art 4-acre office campus with facilities like go-Karting swimming pool, unlimited food and snacks gym and much more! 

Interested? … Apply now! Our recruitment team will screen your application and contact you.

• Integration of user-facing elements developed by front-end developers.
• Build efficient, testable, and reusable PHP modules.
• Solve complex performance problems and architectural challenges.
• Integration of data storage solutions may include databases, key-value stores, blob stores, etc.
• Add other responsibilities here that are relevant.

Talent Requirements

• Strong knowledge of PHP web frameworks such as Laravel, Yii, Code igniter, etc depending on your technology stack.
• Understanding the fully synchronous behavior of PHP.
• Understanding of MVC design patterns.
• Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3.
• Knowledge of object-oriented PHP programming.
• Understanding accessibility and security compliance.
• Strong knowledge of the common PHP or web server exploits and their solutions.
• Understanding fundamental design principles behind a scalable application.
• User authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments.
• Integration of multiple data sources and databases into one system
• Familiarity with the limitations of PHP as a platform and its workarounds.
• Creating database schemas that represent and support business processes.
• Familiarity with SQL/NoSQL databases and their declarative query languages.
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, up to date.
• Diploma, BCA, BE, B-Tech or equivalent.

• Play a complete Backend development role for Magento store development, maintenance, upgradation and customization projects. Also provide support to clients, via project management tool. Handle the complete project and achieve 100% client satisfaction.
• Must posses fair, clear understanding of fundamentals and concepts of Magento 1/2, PHP, Zend Framework
• Knowledge in Magento Extension development.
• Write well-engineered source code that complies with accepted web standards.
• Good experience in Magento 2 Store development - design implementation, creating themes, create custom modules;
• Strong Knowledge of Magento Best Practices, including experience developing custom extensions and extending third party extensions
• Ability to develop and manage e-commerce websites, web applications, and websites.
• Can understand the goals and create strategies for each project.

Technical Skills:

• Possess good exposure on Magento, CMS, CodeIgnitor, OpenCart, JavaScript/ jQuery.
• Extensive experience of PHP and MySQL.
• Focused on Object-Oriented Programming (OOP),
• Demonstrable knowledge of XML, XHTML, CSS, Modules i.e. API integration, Payment Gateways, XML with a focus on standards.

Architectural:

Design and implement a software architecture

Select a technology stack

Design and configure infrastructure

Select a development toolkit (IDE, etc.)

Design and implement a database design

Improve and optimise the application architecture

Ensure scalability of the application

Ensure scalability of the infrastructure

Explore new technologies and decide whether to implement them

Strategy, planning, and design:

• Take end-to-end ownership of the product, identify technology requirements, define the future product vision, create preliminary design concepts for add-on modules and shape overall technology and product roadmap by collaborating with the founders, business development, and marketing team.
• Ensure user oriented design is the primary approach to product development across multiple screens, based on user behaviour data and direct customer feedback.

Implementation and deployment:

• Manage Product Release, QA cycles, feature implementation and on time delivery through in-house team and vendors.
• Collaborate with team and customers to define use cases.
• Creation of wireframes/prototypes, site maps and user-flows for web and mobile platforms.

Operational management :

• Support marketing by implementing technical requirements for SEO/product analytics.
• Establish and supervise a quality assurance process, including integration & system testing.
• Rigorously monitor key performance metrics and coordinate with various teams to take corrective actions if needed.
• Establish and forecast ROI of features and succinctly articulate competitive advantage.
• Set-up data collection and analysis system in collaboration with CEO to track key performance.

metrics.

Strong fundamentals in computer science/engineering and algorithm design.

Practical knowledge of computer software algorithms in machine/deep learning, NLP, Computer Vision etc.

Personal Requirements:

• Min of 7+ years of Hands on experience in Web app development, payment gateways implementation, architecture design, product management, databases and UI/UX in consumer facing applications.
• Experience on projects involving engineering and algorithmic functions, machine learning, deep learning and artificial intelligence is very advantageous.
• Creative self-starter who is comfortable with both taking initiative and working in teams.
• Strong communication skills.
• Willingness to learn and utilise emerging technologies.
• Sincere passion to use disruptive technologies that can be globally significant