PHP Developer

About Astra:

Astra is a cyber security SaaS company that makes otherwise chaotic pentests a breeze with its one of a kind Pentest Platform. Astra's continuous vulnerability scanner emulates hacker behavior to scan applications for 9300+ security tests. CTOs & CISOs love Astra because it helps them fix vulnerabilities in record time and move from DevOps to DevSecOps with Astra's CI/CD integrations.

Astra is loved by 650+ companies across the globe. In 2023 Astra uncovered 2 million+ vulnerabilities for its customers, saving customers $69M+ in potential losses due to security vulnerabilities. 

We've been awarded by the President of France Mr. François Hollande at the La French Tech program and Prime Minister of India Shri Narendra Modi at the Global Conference on Cyber Security. Loom, MamaEarth, Muthoot Finance, Canara Robeco, ScripBox etc. are a few of Astra’s customers.

Role Overview:

As an SDE 2 back-end engineer you will be responsible for leading the development and maintenance of the platform/dashboard backend. This would involve architecting, developing & maintaining RESTful services for vulnerability management, scan orchestration, inventory management and platform features such as on-boarding, trust centers, certificates, payment integrations, vulnerability ingestion, authentication etc. 

You should have a strong background in backend programming (Symfony preferred, or Laravel) and have experience with an event driven, async & distributed architecture. 

During the first 6 months of your role, you will be involved in the 0->1 journey of two of our upcoming products in our platform along with the respective product owners.

Love solving hard problems? Want to build high impact products rooted in first principles? Is coding your poetry? Join us in shaping the future of cyber security.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Lead the design, development, and maintenance of backend services and APIs using Symfony PHP framework. What you create is also what you own.
• Collaborate with front-end developers to integrate user-facing elements with server-side logic.
• Collaborate with scanner teams to orchestrate scans, ingest vulnerabilities, configure scanners etc.
• Write clean, well-documented, and efficient code.
• Optimize and refactor existing code to improve performance and reliability.
• Implement security and data protection measures.
• Triage, troubleshoot and upgrade existing systems.
• Ship code to production multiple times a day/week.
• Ensure timely delivery of the features.
• Test your own features, and write test cases for continuous automated testing.
• Troubleshoot complex issues, debug, and upgrade existing systems.
• Mentor junior engineers and lead code reviews, promoting best practices and high standards.
• Drive architectural decisions and technical strategy for backend systems.

What we are looking for:

• 4-6 years experience in a similar role or similar working experience.
• Advanced proficiency in PHP backend programming. Symfony preferred, or Laravel.
• Strong understanding of system design, software architecture principles and performance optimization.
• Experience with an event driven (subscribers/listeners), async (MessageHandlers & job queues) & distributed (load-balanced) architecture.
• Experience with PostgreSQL database and data modeling.
• Understanding of concepts such as Dependency Injection, ORM, data validation, error handling etc.
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions (good to have).
• Experience with Agile methodologies.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to think strategically about technical solutions.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional remote teams.
• Demonstrated track record of delivering high-quality software products on schedule.
• Knowledge of industry best practices in software development, security, and compliance.
• Knowledge of application & infrastructure security - helps you stand out.

What We offer:

• Adrenalin rush of being a part of a fast-growing company, and working on hard problems that matter.
• Fully remote, agile working environment.
• Good engineering culture with full ownership in design, development, release lifecycle.
• A wholesome opportunity where you get to build things from scratch, improve and ship code to production in hours, not weeks.
• Holistic understanding of SaaS and enterprise security business.
• Experience with security side of things.
• Annual trips to beaches or mountains (next one is to Wayanad).
• Open and supportive culture.
• Health insurance & other benefits for you and your spouse. Maternity benefits included.

Job responsibility The Lead Developer contributes, to create a customer’s solution, in the building phase of the software development lifecycle. The Software Engineer is responsible for performing the detailed design of application and technical architecture components and classes in accordance to the specification provided by the Solution Architect, for coding of SW components, and for the early testing phases (component testing), and system testing support

Hands on experience in Java, Python, scripting
- Design, implement, deploy and support web-based applications and web services using server technologies stacks that include Java, MySQL
- Experience in Java/J2EE using web frameworks Play or Spring boot, REST API Development and ORM (JPA, Hibernate eBean etc.)
- In depth knowledge of Design patterns and Data structures
- Databases - MySQL, Oracle, SQL
- Solid understanding of concepts like Web Services, SOA, REST APIs, Message Queue, Caching, Distributed/Scalable Architecture
- Secure application development best practices, such as OWASP
- Document and maintain all design documents and involve in review process.
- Experienced problem solving and debugging skills.
- Good verbal and written communication and interpersonal skills
- Experience in Agile methodology is added advantage
- Knowledge of Cloud Knowledge /Azure
- Must know about Unix knowledge
- experience in Elastic search

Software Development Engineer:

Major Responsibilities:

• Translation of complex functional requirements into technical requirements, implementing and maintaining a coherent and progressive development strategy for our product line
• Design, develop and maintain complex systems using best of the breed development practices and technology.
• Responsible for the over-all software development life cycle.
• Delivery of High Quality, Scalable and Extensible systems and applications on-time and on-budget.
• Adoption and Evolution of the software engineering practices and tools within the organization
• Keep in sync with the latest technology developments and open source offerings. Evaluate and adopt them for solving business problem of organization.
• Collaborate with other technology and business teams within the organization to provide efficient robust solutions to the problems.
• Drive and manage the bug triage process
• Report on status of product delivery and quality to management, customer support and product teams.

Desired Skills

• Strong programming, debugging, and problem-solving skills
• Strong understanding of data structures and algorithms
• Sound understanding of object-oriented programming and excellent software design skills.
• Good experience of SOA/Microservices/Restful services and development of N-tier J2EE / JavaSpringboot applications (API’s).
• Strong understanding of database design and SQL (mySql/mariaDB) development
• Good to have knowledge of NoSQL technologies like MongoDB, Solr, Redis, Cassandra or any other NoSQL database
• Knowledge of design patterns and good to have experience of large-scale applications
• Should have experience in Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ or other Queueing systems.

Ideal Experience

• 3 to 8 years of industry experience.
• Bachelors or Master’s Degree in Computer Science/ IT
• Drive discussions to create/improve product, process and technology
• Provide end to end solution and design details
• Lead development of formalized solution methodologies
• Passion to work in startup like environment

Personal Characteristics

• Passion and commitment
• Strong and excellent software design intellect
• High integrity
• Self-starter

Description

We are looking for a Full Stack Developer to produce scalable software solutions. You’ll be part of a cross-functional team that’s responsible for the full software development life cycle, from conception to deployment. As a Full Stack Developer, you should be comfortable with both front-end and back-end coding languages, development frameworks and third-party libraries. You should also be a team player with a knack for visual design and utility. If you’re also familiar with Agile methodologies, we’d like to meet you.

Responsibilities

• Work with development teams and product managers to ideate software solutions
• Design client-side and server-side architecture
• Build the front-end of applications through appealing visual design
• Develop and manage well-functioning databases and applications
• Write effective APIs
• Test software to ensure responsiveness and efficiency
• Troubleshoot, debug and upgrade software
• Create security and data protection settings
• Build features and applications with a mobile responsive design
• Write technical documentation
• Work with data scientists and analysts to improve software

Requirements

• Proven experience as a Full Stack Developer or similar role
• Experience developing desktop and mobile applications
• Familiarity with common stacks
• Knowledge of multiple front-end languages and libraries (e.g. HTML/ CSS, JavaScript, XML, jQuery)
• Knowledge of multiple back-end languages (e.g. PHP, Java, Python) and JavaScript frameworks (e.g. Angular, React, Node.js)
• Familiarity with databases (e.g. PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB), web servers (e.g. Apache) and UI/UX design
• Excellent communication and teamwork skills
• Great attention to detail
• Organizational skills
• An analytical mind
• Degree in Computer Science, Statistics or relevant field

The ideal candidate would be a person having a strong technical know-how of Drupal application development & CMS concepts, backed with an equally strong hands-on experience. He / She should be fluent with the design concepts using Drupal 8 and above(Must) as well as be well versed with the best practices in the development, testing & deployment phases.

Experience : 5 – 9 years

Contract duration : 6 months

Major Accountability

• Demonstrate expertise in authoring & customizing Drupal modules as well as have experience in working with views, panels and features.
• Carry-out impact analysis & estimation for given set of requirements.
• Develop code by adhering to the Drupal, security and accessibility standards.
• Act as liaison with the client for troubleshooting: investigate, analyze, and solve software problems.
• Work self-directed and independently.

Essential Skills & Experience

• Have overall 4-8 years of IT experience on Drupal 8 platforms.
• Have expertise in developing complex websites based on Drupal 8 platforms and framework-based web applications.
• Have expertise in LAMP environment.
• Have working knowledge of web servers like Apache, Nginx etc.
• Have strong experience with source/version control systems.
• Have excellent communication, analytical & presentation skills.

Education

• Minimum education: B.E., BTech, MCA
• Languages: English written & spoken

REQUIREMENTS:

Primary Skills -

• PHP Version 7.1.33 or higher
• Codeigniter 3 or higher (PHP MVC Framework)
• MS SQL Server 2005 (DB)
• Apache 2.4.6 or higher (Web Server)Ubuntu 18.04 or higher / Red Hat Linux / Similar (Operating System on machines).

Good to Have:

The knowledge of any of the following Content Management Systems:

• Magento
• Wordpress
• Prestashop
• Drupal
• Opencar

We are looking to hire Java developers who can help us in our mission to transform ideas into applications. Our cross-functional team of motivated, skilled and experienced software engineers and designers, help the clients unlock the business values of their enterprises in a time-bound and cost-effective manner. True to our team you would be working on high-impact projects and making a dent in the Service industry on a daily basis. 

Skills :

• Excellent Communication Skills
• 4-6 years of experience in Java8 Development.
• V yAPI, Spring Boot/MVC, Spring Security
• Hibernate, JPA, MySQL/POSTGRES, Jenkins, Git
• Experience of developing high-performance and scalable web applications and APIs using frameworks such as Spring Boot/MVC, Spring Security, Hibernate, and JPA.
• Hands-on Experience of Version control(Git), MYSQL/POSTGRES, Jenkins, etc.

Responsibilities

• Server Side Programming Languages: PHP & Laravel (MUST)
• Framework: Express, Sails.js, Laravel, Node.js .
• Web Server technologies: Apache, Nginx.
• Database creation and integration: MySQL (MUST), PostgreSQL, MongoDb.
• Cloud computing integration e. g., public cloud providers like Amazon Web Services, or private cloud environments.
• Integration of user-facing elements developed by front-end developers with server side logic.
• Optimisation of the application for maximum speed and scalability.
• Implementation of security and data protection.
• Design and implementation of data storage solutions.
• Creating database schemas that represent and support business processes.
• Setup and administration of backups.
• Management of hosting environment, including database administration and scaling an application to support load changes

    Requirements

• Knowledge of presenting data in different formats
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science with minimum 5+ years of industry experience.
• Technical depth across multiple languages.
• Able to meet deadlines.
• Leadership experience.
• Strong communications skills.
• Proficient in writing REST APIs.