PHP Developer - Laravel/MySQL

Responsibilities:

• Lead simultaneous development for multiple business verticals.
• Design & develop highly scalable, reliable, secure, and fault-tolerant systems.
• Ensure that exceptional standards are maintained in all aspects of engineering.
• Collaborate with other engineering teams to learn and share best practices.
• Take ownership of technical performance metrics and strive actively to improve them.
• Mentors junior members of the team and contributes to code reviews.

Requirements:

• A passion to solve tough engineering/data challenges.
• Be well versed with cloud computing platforms AWS/GCP
• Experience with SQL technologies (MySQL, PostgreSQL)
• Experience working with NoSQL technologies (MongoDB, ElasticSearch)
• Excellent Programming skills in Python/Java/GoLang
• Big Data streaming services (Kinesis, Kafka, RabbitMQ)
• Distributed cache systems(Redis, Memcache)
• Advanced data solutions(BigQuery, RedShift, DynamoDB, Cassandra)
• Automated testing frameworks and CI/CD pipelines Infrastructure orchestration(Docker/Kubernetes/Nginx)
• Cloud-native tech like Lambda, ASG, CDN, ELB, SNS/SQS, S3 Route53 SES

We are looking for a Sr. PHP Laravel Developer/ TL for building high-performing, scalable,
enterprise-grade applications. You will be responsible for web application development
while providing expertise in the full software development lifecycle, from concept to
design to testing. A commitment to collaborative problem solving, sophisticated design, and product quality are essential.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Build a high-quality web application from scratch.
• Responsive and adaptive web page implementation.
• Identify and communicate best practices for front-end engineering.
• Design, build and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable code to ensure the applications' best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness.
• Implement automated testing platforms and unit tests.
• Prepare and maintain all applications utilizing standard development tools.
• Keep abreast of new trends and best practices in web development.
• Must possess excellent attention to detail and be able to familiarize and quickly.
• Learn new Software/frameworks/ languages/ technology with ease.
• Must be able to apply innovative thinking at work.

Desired Skills:

• Good working knowledge of PHP-based MVC framework Laravel.
• Good knowledge of PHP, HTML, CSS & Javascript and understanding of Database concepts & working knowledge of MySQL.
• A clear understanding of RESTful API development standards.
• Excellent problem-solving skills.
• Knowledge of AngularJS is an added advantage.
• Understanding managing Linux servers & AWS/GCP

Should have deep knowledge in Laravel framework.

＃Must be proficient in PHP 5/7, JavaScript/Jquery, HTML5, CSS, Database designing, MySQL, NoSQL databases

＃Knowledge of version control systems like GIT

＃Must have capacity to work independently and also as a part of team

＃Understanding client requirements & functional specifications

＃Excellent coding Skills.

＃Good debugging skills, code flow analysis and the ability to read and modify existing code

＃Ability to perform as a good team player

＃Excellent aptitude and problem solving skills

＃Knowledge of Node JS, React JS would be a plus but not mandatory.

StoryXpress (a Techstars-backed company) is an end-to-end video platform and is an efficient and effective way of humanizing the way you promote and sell your product or services, and communicate with your customers. With a suite of professional video tools (Video Creator, Video Recorder, Video Hosting and Analytics, Video APIs, and SDKs), we help small and medium-sized businesses drive more revenue through the strategic use of video. Founded in 2014, StoryXpress has a rich community of 500K+ users including small enterprises to Fortune 500 companies.

Why Work with Us:

• Get an opportunity to contribute to an exciting, forward-thinking and fast-moving Start-Up.

• Shape-Up your career by working with young and supportive teams and peers!

• Innovation and Creativity is all what matters!

• Friendly Policies, good competitive salaries, team outings and what not!
  
  

Job Description:

We're looking for an enthusiast Back End Developer who will be an integral part of the early StoryXpress team and can produce scalable solutions. The creativity and intelligence are much more essential to us than the experience with our stack.Thus, you’ll be part of a cross-functional team that’s responsible for the full software development life cycle, from conception to deployment, in order to strive for excellence!

If you’re also familiar with Agile methodologies, we’d like to meet you :)

Job Responsibilities:

Building and scaling web products that directly impact our customers or partners.

Translate several RESTful data sources to be used in a front-end application.

Dig into bugs and feature requests.

Monitor reliability and performance through dashboards and tools to ensure availability.

Help other engineers on the team and across StoryXpress.

Work with our team to engineer new growth initiatives.

Job Requirements:

• Skills: Node.js, Express.js, REST APIs, Express.js, MySQL, Git, Go
• Proficiency JavaScript developer.
• Should have a good understanding of micro-server architecture and REST API.
• Thorough understanding of MVC principles and JS design patterns. *Node.js, Express.js, MySQL should be thoroughly worked upon
• GIT, GitOps and standard versioning management tools should be known.
• Knowledge of User authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments.

Brownie Points For:

• Knowledge of Go will be a big plus
• Experience with Redis and TypeScript would fetch you a brownie point

• Strong proficiency in MySQL database administration, migrations /up-gradation, patching, cloning, capacity planning, designing, and automation of database tasks.
• Good experience with the latest versions of the database
• In-depth experience configuring database replication on multiple versions
• Strong experience in Monitoring, DB Performance Tuning, DB Availability, DR, Security, Storage
• Analyzes and provides recommendations to optimize the database for improved performance, manageability, and scalability
• Expertise in enterprise backups, recovery, and performing point-in-time recovery Experience in deploying and integrating PM tools
• Experience in data partitioning and encryption
• Knowledge of de-facto standards and best practices in MySQL and MongoDB
• Proficient in writing and optimizing SQL statements and Knowledge of MySQL features, such as its event scheduler
• Familiarity with other SQL/NoSQL databases such as PostgreSQL, MongoDB, etc.
• Knowledge of limitations in MySQL and their workarounds in contrast to other popular relational databases
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools such as Git / Mercurial / SVN