About the Organization:
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 120 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 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 is a must. Ex: object-oriented programming, concurrency, fundamentals of computer science, SQL databases.
Value addition
- Experience with AWS
- Working knowledge of payment gateways
- Good knowledge of Mysql Query optimization and Database design.

About WeMakeScholars.com
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Role: Backend Developer (2 openings)
Technology Profile-
The candidate must have experience in the following technologies (the more the better):
Backend:
Languages and Frameworks: PHP, NodeJS, Python, etc.
Database: MySQL, MongoDB, MariaDB, Neo4j, etc.
Extra: OAuth, Firebase
Requirements:
- Ability to reuse components
- Proven experience in working with Git and Github
- Creating and consuming a RESTful API
- You must have clear concepts of client-server architecture
- Familiarity with MVC (Model-View-Controller) design patterns
- Working experience with NoSQL and relational databases
- Understanding of OOP concepts
Furthermore, the candidate must have built or published any web app or project through which they can demonstrate their experience and knowledge of the aforementioned technologies and requirements.
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3+ years of Experience in software Design and development and familiar with technologies - Java, Java-J2EE, Spring Boot, Hibernate, Ajax, REST API, Micro services etc.
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Working knowledge of JVM internals
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Working knowledge of any database (MySQL or HSQLDB)
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Working knowledge of No-SQL database (Mongo or Dynamo DB)
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Working experience with messaging (JMS/RabbitMQ)
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R & D on new advanced cloud-based technologies in a test-driven agile development.
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Knowledge in designing and architecting systems with high scalability and performance requirements.
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Ability to understand infrastructure for performance evaluation and reporting of cloud-based services, namely AWS
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knowledge of key AWS services like EC2, S3, Lambda, CloudWatch etc.
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Certification on AWS Fundamendals
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Excellent communication skills
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ability to effectively articulate technical challenges and solutions
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skilled in interfacing with internal and external technical resources
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Good in debugging problems and mentoring teams on technical front
Senior PHP Developer
Experience: 1 year to 5 years
Although salary is not a constraint for a deserving candidate
We are looking for 1.5 yrs+ experienced candidates proficient in PHP/ MySQL to develop Websites and web applications. The desired candidate would be involved in the full software/ website development life cycle starting from requirement analysis to testing. The candidate should be able to work in a team or should be able to handle projects independently.
Job Responsibilities: -
- Hands-on experience in Core PHP along with working exposure in XHTML, HTML 5, JavaScript, CSS, Ajax, jQuery, bootstrap, APIs.
- PHP Scripting with MVC architecture Frameworks like Codeingnator and Laravel.
- Should take responsibility to develop a website and Web-Based Application using Open Source systems.
- Knowledge of Linux, Web application development, Quality software development.
- Optimizing MySQL Queries and databases to improve the performance.
- Excellent conceptual, analytical, and programming skills.
- Knowledge of Object-Oriented Programming (OOPS) concepts with Smarty and AJAX.
- Should be well versed with OS: Linux/ UNIX, Windows (LAMP and WAMP)
Good experience in Relational Database Management Systems, Database design, Normalization. - Preference will be given if you hold working knowledge with Open Source like WordPress, Shopify, and other open-source eCommerce systems.
- Good communication skills (spoken/written) will be a plus.
- Must be technically and logically strong.
Job Type: Full -Time
Education:
BE/ B. Tech/ BCS/BCA/ M. Tech/ MCA/ MCS/ MCM
Working Hours: 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM
Something we will like in you -
You enjoy the excitement of developing new software, mobile apps, and you have a vision for building stable, reliable, and performant systems.
You must have solid foundational knowledge in software development and debugging.
You might have a Computer Science or Engineering degree, or you might not. Your university is not what we're looking for. We care about what you can do at work and how you do it.
This is a remote job. You're free to work where you work best, anywhere in the world: home, co-working space, coffee shops.
Do you recognize yourself in these statements:
- You are comfortable under pressure, and you enjoy working on a broad array of projects with different technical requirements.
- You love unwinding tricky problems, finding the causes, and fixing them for good.
- You take pride in your work with or without accolades from others.
- You care about your coworkers and want to make their lives better.
- You enjoy working across teams to help ship new features and fix bugs.
- You approach your work with curiosity, enthusiasm, and tenacity.
Pay and benefits
- The salary for this position is INR 20000 - INR 30,000
We assess your seniority relative to the team at Shimbi Labs during the interviewing process. It doesn't matter how many years you worked before. - Work from anywhere.
- Allowance for the Internet connection.
- Laptop and power backup (After a year).
- 21 days paid leaves.
- Health insurance after a year with us (After a year).
Required Qualifications and Skills:
- 3-5 years of work experience in the development background, with at least 2 years experience in Java, Spring, Sprint Boot, Hibernate or JPA, MySQL, Oracle, Spring MVC.
- B.E. degree in Computer Science, Graduate in Software Engineering or equivalent
- Experience in Core JAVA, Spring, Spring Boot Frameworks.
- Experience with ORM's like Hibernate.
- Good knowledge of developing RESTful web services using Spring Boot, Java1.x,Servlet2.4, JSP2.0, JDBC3.0, Java Mail, Struts2.x, HTML, HTML5, Angular7+, JavaScript, JSF, Bootstrap2.x-3.x, JQuery & CSS 3.x, Maven 3.x, Apache Tomcat7
- Knowledge of Cloud AWS.
- Experience in any Messaging Queue e.g. Apache Kafka, ActiveMQ, etc.
- Experience on Web services with REST and SOAP.
- Experience working on tool set like Eclipse IDE, SQL clients.
- Experience using application server like Jboss, TomCat, Wildfly, glassfish.
- Experience in using tools like SOAP UI, POSTMAN
- Ability to write SQL queries to fetch data.
- Knowledge of Micro services, Redis Cache and Mongo DB (or any other NoSQL) is good to have
Responsibilities
Design Develop and maintain web functionalities
Work with Tech Lead to propose a technical solution
Liaise with designer to implement the UI/UX elements for web and mobile interfaces
Troubleshoot production problems and provide user support.
Design and conduct tests:
- Integrate multiple systems from different vendors with seamless data flow
- Investigate new technologies and continue to update your technical skills
- Write well-structured and testable code following the set guidelines
Requirements
Degree in IT or equivalent
More than 3 years of web-based application development experience in PHP.
Strong knowledge of PHP web frameworks: CodeIgniter, Laravel, Bootstrap, AngularJs, Angular Material, Symphony, Zend, Cake and Flask.
Languages
PHP, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Python.
Databases: MySql
Operating Systems: Ubuntu, Windows and Macintosh.
Others: jQuery, AJAX, JSON, Celery, Git, API, AWS, Facebook API, Twitter API, Google API,PayPal Integration, nginx, Apache,AmCharts, Mpdf and PhantomJs.
Mandatory:
Strong knowledge in Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery tools, e.g. Jenkins
Strong knowledge in planning for testing strategy, test suites and test cases.
Proficient understanding of code versioning tools (e.g. Git)
Understands web trends, including social media integration and the impact of the growth of mobile/tablet browsing
More than 3 years of web service (REST, SOAP) and API development and management
Strong Knowledge of security standards and techniques for web applications
Strong technical knowledge in software development methodologies, design patterns and implementation
Proven ability to carry a feature from start to finish, including prototypes, design specifications, constructive coding, unit testing and problem resolution
Preferred
Strong in SQL & PL/SQL and have good working knowledge on the relational database(s) (MySQL)
Experience With Selenium Web, Appium, Endtest.io Automated Regression Tools
Advantage
Experience with other server-side stacks (Node.js, Python, Java etc.) a plus
Experience developing native or hybrid mobile applications for IOS and/or Android a plus
Experience in the development and production of standards-based websites using HTML/5, CSS/3, JavaScript, jQuery, AJAX, JSON across multiple browsers a plus











