



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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