WeMakeScholars is an organization funded and supported by the Ministry of IT, Government of India under the 'Digital India Campaign'. We offer international education finance via scholarships and education loans, to study abroad aspirants. We are currently a 220 members team. Last financial year, we disbursed 2200 Cr in education loans to 8300 students across India.
We are looking for a PHP Developer who is keen to work in a startup environment esp. a product-based company.
Job Overview
We are hiring developers (from 0 to 10 experience) with relevant knowledge and experience with the development and deployment of large-scale cloud-native enterprise systems on PHP, REST APIs, Node Js, Flutter, AWS & MySql.
About Tech Department:
- Our internal tech team is responsible for end-to-end in-house tech support which includes and is not limited to design, development & deployment.
- We are continuously developing and improvising our products to enhance customer and team experience.
- As we are in the Fintech space, our team has to ensure the database security of the application.
Job Summary
- Participate in the full development life cycle, working within broadly defined parameters including design, development, testing, and maintenance of the existing application with minimal supervision.
- Work on optimization and performance improvement activities. Instrument and test performance metrics.
- Participate in peer-to-peer code reviews to improve the quality and maintenance of the codebase.
- Collaboration with multiple internal/external stakeholders such as product, business, DBA, and Dev Ops.
- Design and implement APIs for web/mobile (both Android & iOS) applications.
- To be available on call for the projects or features developed by you. Things break, and you will be responsible to fix it when it does.
Experience & Skills Required
- 2+ years of experience (we are hiring freshers too for junior positions)
- Hands-on experience and knowledge of engineering end-to-end systems.
- Understanding of the complete software development life cycle, including coding standards, and code reviews.
- Familiarity with multiple software development practices and tools
- Ability to write clean, modular, and loosely coupled code by the use of design patterns.
- Proficiency in the implementation of algorithms and the use of advanced data structures to solve problems in computing.
- A solid foundation and implementing principles of computer science are a must. Ex: object-oriented programming, concurrency, fundamentals of computer science, SQL databases.

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Roles and Responsibilities
1. Hands on experience in PHP frameworks Laravel
2. Experience in development of PHP based web applications, in Laravel PHP, Web Services (Json), MySQL. - Thorough understanding of OOPs concepts (Data Abstraction, Encapsulation, Inheritance, Polymorphism)
3. In-depth understanding of front-end technologies, such as HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript.
4. Ability to understand project specification/requirements, coding, implementation and debugging.
5. Zeal to take up challenges provides innovative solutions, think out of the box and open to learning.
6. Able to handle multiple projects simultaneously.
7. Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git / SVN / BIT BUCKET .
Desired Candidate Profile
1. Minimum 2 years of experience in PHP Laravel Framework
2. Experience with MySQL and REST API.
3. Proficient knowledge in Javascript, JQuery, Angular 2.0
Role: Web Developer
Industry Type: IT-Software, Software Services
Functional Area: IT Software - Application Programming, Maintenance
Employment Type: Full Time, Permanent
Role Category: Programming & Design
Education:
UG :Any Graduate in Any Specialization
What will I be doing? 👩💻👨💻
Leading parts of the product from inception to launch, and own large parts of the product’s execution.
Working with our Sales and frontend team to build products with the goal of delighting and increasing the success of our users.
Architecting, building, testing, and releasing product-facing features.
Contributing to our side projects and free tools for the education industry.
What do I need? 🤓
1-2 years of industry experience in a software engineering role, preferably building a SaaS product. You can demonstrate significant impact that your work has had on the product and/or the team.
Deep knowledge of a high-level programming language (for example, PHP, Python, etc.) but it doesn’t need to be a language that we use here! Great people are effective and learn what we use quickly (or introduce us to better ways of working)
Deep knowledge of SQL Databases
Experience with scalable distributed systems, both built from scratch as well as on AWS primitives
Willingness to learn and use new technologies
Extremely data-driven
Ability to debug complex systems
Brownie points 🍰
Using a framework (for example, Laravel, Code Igniter, Django)
Understanding of containerisation (Docker/Kubernetes) along with ability to deploy to AWS ECS (or similar tools)
Feel free to apply even if you feel unsure about whether you meet every single requirement in this posting. As long as you're a quick learner, and are excited about changing the status quo for tech recruitment, we're happy to support you as you come up to speed with our tech stack.
Perks 😍
Flexible vacation
Take a tutorial, on us
Monthly remote meals
Tech stack 🔨
PHP
Laravel
NodeJS
VueJS
Ionic Angular
Digital Ocean
AWS
MySQL
Why Classcard? 🚀
We are still in the early stages of our journey. You will be working closely with our users, acting on both their feedback and what our data says. Things you build here will have tremendous impact on both our business and Classcard as a company.
What happens after I apply? 🤔
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Quick phone call with a member of our engineering team to find out more about your experience and why you want to work at Classcard.
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Video interview:
Technical discussion with a senior engineer
Pairing on an interesting problem
Meet the founders
- Minimum 2 years of experience in Core PHP , and hands on experience in any MVC Framework.
- Should have hands on experience or knowledge in PHP Frameworks like Codeigniter/ Laravel/ CakePHP/ Yii .
- Should have knowledge about OOPS Concept.
- Good knowledge in HTML, AJAX, JQuery & MYSQL.
- Minimum 2 years of experience in Core PHP , and hands on experience in any MVC Framework.
- Should have hands on experience or knowledge in PHP Frameworks like Codeigniter/ Laravel/ CakePHP/ Yii .
- Should have knowledge about OOPS Concept.
- Good knowledge in HTML, AJAX, JQuery & MYSQL.
• No. of Openings:- 03 Openings
• Exp:- 2+ years
• Qualification:- B.E./ MCA/ M.Sc. (I.T.)/ BCA
Job Description:-
We are looking for a PHP Developer with Laravel Experience who must be able to independently work on projects and in a team.
Desired Candidate Profile:-
• Minimum 2 years of experience
• Good Knowledge of OOPs.
• Experienced with complex SQL queries and database schema design.
• Knowledge of consuming and creating Web Services.
• MySQL and Linux understanding is a must.
• Should be strong with Web-services REST API, and JSON.
• Should have worked on a variety of projects, with experience in payment gateways, maps, graphs, etc.
• Good coding standards is a must.
• Should have experience with collaboration tools
Technical Skills
- PHP 5.X/7.X, MySQL, Stored Procedures, Ajax, GIT, SVN, Doctrine 2, JSON, jQuery, JavaScript,HTML5, CSS, XML
- PHP Framework: CodeIgniter/Zend Framework/Yii/Symfony
- JS Framework: AngularJs
- Operating Systems: Linux (Ubuntu)/ Windows
- WEB Server: XAMPP, LAMP
- Payment Gateways Integration: Knowledge of Multiple Gateway
- 3rd Party API Integration
Role & Responsibilities Shall Include
- Solid OOP & design patterns background
- Strong database skills, proficient in SQL, RDBMS concepts such as indexing, transactions,concurrency, locking, performance tuning
- Solid understanding of security concepts when developing and deploying modern web applications
- Service Oriented Architecture, designing, developing, and using RESTful APIs
- Experience with server-side and client-side application frameworks like CodeIgniter, Angular etc.
- Experience with advanced JavaScript concepts, libraries and frameworks, e.g. asynchronous request handling, partial page updates, and AJAX.
- Experience with all aspects of product development lifecycle.
- Familiarity with Scrum & Agile project methodologies.
- Excellent written, oral, and visual communication skills.
- Bachelor’s degree in a related field or industry equivalent.
- Experience writing semantic, modular interfaces with HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, and jQuery that meet W3C standards, experience with responsive CSS









