PHP Developer - Laravel/YII/CakePHP

Job Description: Backend Developer – Design Qandy

Who are we?

Design Qandy delivers personalised luxury interior design to India’s discerning homeowners and corporates. Led by highly admired luxury brand builders, internationally trained designers, world-class technology professionals and curated teams of turnkey project execution specailists. We seek perfection in design and are committed to bringing back trust and excitement in the design process.

Know more about us on designqandy.com and https://instagram.com/designqandy?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

Our work culture?

We are a lean team of high performing go-getters, we take ownership in our roles and lead with knowledge. Debates and discussions are an important part of our culture and we encourage people to bring unique perspectives to their conversations. Most importantly, we love solving problems.

Each day is inspiring and we encourage you to apply for this role and experience it for yourself.

What would you be required to do?

·      Write code and tests, build prototypes, solve issues, profile, and analyze bottlenecks

·      Design performance gauging, building robust APIs to support mobile and desktop clients

·      Manage and optimize scalable distributed systems on the cloud

·      Optimization of web applications for performance and scalability

·      Develop automated tests to ensure business needs are met and allow for regression testing

·      Participate in the entire application lifecycle, focusing on coding and debugging

·      Write clean code to develop functional web applications

·      Troubleshoot and debug applications

·      Perform UI tests to optimize performance

·      Manage cutting-edge technologies to improve legacy applications

·      Collaborate with Front-end developers to integrate user-facing elements with server-side logic.

·      Gather and address technical and design requirements

·      Provide training and support to internal teams

·      Build reusable code and libraries for future use

What skills we are looking for?

·      Good communication skill to communicate with stakeholders, project managers, quality assurance teams, Regularly and other developers regarding progress on the long-term technology roadmap

·      Curious and progressive mind to Create and maintain workflows with teams to provide visibility and to ensure workload balance for consistent visual designs

·      Good technical knowledge to Produce quality code, raising the bar for the whole team on quality and speed

·      Through analytical skills to Recommend system solutions by comparing advantages and disadvantages of custom development and purchase alternatives

Skills Needed:

·      PHP Laravel Framework, PHP Design Patterns.

·      Proficient in MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB

·      APIs, REST API, SOAP API, API Security, Open APIs

·      Push Notifications, Laravel Events, Queue, Observers

·      Excellent foundation in computer science, algorithms, and web design

·      Experience writing highly secure web applications

·      Experience with core AWS web-enabling technologies

·      Growth mindset, challenging status quo to find new solutions and out-of-the-box ideas

·      Experience designing RESTful APIs, specifically for mobile apps

·      Computer science degree or equivalent experience

·      Experience leading a team

·      3-6 Years’ experience in back-end development.

Are you an experienced, ambitious Software Developer looking for a challenging role where you can learn lots more?

We are looking for a motivated PHP Developer with skills in other PHP-based frameworks to come to join our fast-paced, fun, and rewarding agile team of professionals.

If you are passionate about technology, constantly seeking to learn and improve your skillset, then you are the type of person we are looking for!

We are offering superb career growth opportunities, great compensation, and benefits.

Software Developer duties and responsibilities

• Experience with PHP MVC frameworks (Laravel, CodeIgniter, Zend, Drupal etc.)
• Writing back-end code and building efficient PHP modules.
• Developing back-end portals with an optimized database.
• Troubleshooting application and code issues.
• Troubleshoot, test, and maintain the core product software along with the databases to ensure strong functionality and optimization.
• Contribute to all the software development phases.
• Develop and deploy the latest features that facilitate the relevant tools and procedures if required.
• Convey effectively with all task progress, evaluations, suggestions, schedules along with technical and process issues

• 1+ years of experience as PHP Developer, Software Developer, Web Developer, or related roles.
• Proficient in PHP, HTML5, JavaScript, JQuery Expert
• Experience with PHP MVC frameworks (Laravel, CodeIgniter, Zend, Drupal etc.)
• Experience in implementing the common 3rd party APIs such as Facebook, Google, etc.
• Knowledge of developing web services will be preferred.
• Should possess a passion for coding practices and best designs.
• User authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments
• Experience with building restful JSON web services
• Knowledge of APIs, such as Twitter, Facebook, Google maps, Instagram, etc.
• Understanding of responsive design frameworks such as bootstrap

Perks & Benefits

• Work from home / Hybrid working model 
• 5 days working 
• Leave compensations 
• Flexible working hours 
• Exposure to the international market 
• Medical Insurance 

• Using the latest technologies to solve real problems for our customers at a massive scale
• Collaborating closely with other engineers as a valuable member of a cross-functional team
• Sharing your knowledge and building creative solutions while helping the team evolve best practices
• Designing, developing, and deploying backend services with a focus on high availability, low latency, and scalability
• Taking end-to-end responsibility for the services that are owned by your team, including taking part in an on-call rotation

Who you are

• A minimum of B.S. degree in Information Technology or Computer Science or 5+ years in a similar position
• Able to adapt, change and grow quickly as we scale the organization
• Passionate about engineering practices like agile, continuous delivery, test-driven development, traceability, and observability
• Growth mentality is curious and not afraid to be experimental.
• You share your ideas and continuously improve yourself and the team around you
• Solid experience as an Engineer designing, developing and maintaining API driven solutions
• Strong communication skills, high integrity, and great attention to detail

You’ll get to work with:

• Docker and Kubernetes
• Go and/or PHP
• PostgreSQL, Elastic Search, RabbitMQ
• Memcache, Redis
• Microservices architecture
• ELK, Jaeger, Prometheus & Grafana

• Strong understanding of PHP back-end development, including creating WordPress themes and plugins plus customizing them.
• Good understanding of front-end technologies, including HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery
• Ability to convert comprehensive layout and wireframes into working HTML pages
• Knowledge of how to interact with RESTful APIs and formats (JSON, XML)
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools (such as Git, SVN, and Mercurial)
• Experience building user interfaces for websites and/or web applications
• Experience designing and developing responsive design websites
• Comfortable working with debugging tools like Firebug, Chrome inspector, etc.
• Ability to understand CSS changes and their ramifications to ensure consistent style across platforms and browsers

Must have -

1- Magento 2 working experience for minimum 2 years

2- Work with Magento integration systems, viz CMS/CRM/Payment gatway/shipping etc

3- Analyse, code, debug, test, document & deploy application

4- Experiance building REST API

5- Knowledge of GTM and FB integration

Good to have-

1- Magento 2 certification

2- Experience in fronted tech like HTML5, CSS3, JQuery and ReactJS

3- Experience of working on PWA apps