PHP Developer

Principal Software Engineer

 

Opportunity in this role / Why should you join here?

 

You will enjoy working with us if you are looking to work in a stimulating, flexible, open environment. You will experience ownership and independence at the same time providing technical solutions that work.

 

You will be part of the madness and thrill of growing the business from scratch. You get to make decisions, fail fast and learn fast. You get to contribute, add value to the organization by thinking like an entrepreneur. You are supported by the best talent in the industry and work with creative teams. You are rewarded as you go on proving yourself.

 

Requirements:

 

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering/Computer Science or related field
• At least 6+ years of experience with at least 4 years of software application design experience
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills
• A full stack generalist with experience in both front-end and back-end technologies
• Proven experience in high-level programming languages, like Java and Development of scalable Web Applications and Web Services
• Experience in JavaScript frameworks like Angular, React, NodeJS
• Passion for delivering products end-to-end, from ideation to implementation
• Proven experience building complex web applications and micro services
• Strong experience with Spring Boot stack (spring cloud, spring-data)
• Extensive experience in developing and consuming REST APIs
• Experience in PHP is a plus advantage

 

 

Responsibilities:

 

• Participate in design reviews and recommend improvements
• Provide technical guidance in software design and development activities
• Recommend new technologies to ensure quality and improve productivity
• Support in all phases of SDLC and ensure delivery of high-quality products
• Analyse business requirements and design/develop most effective technical solution
• Analyse and troubleshoot application issues in a timely fashion
• Work with other engineers in planning, prioritising and executing assigned tasks within deadlines

x• Work with QA team in preparing test cases and assist in automation

• Mentor other Engineers as and when required
• Assist in maintenances and upgrades of existing software applications
• Assist in risk assessment and mitigation activities.
• Assist in technical audits and make sure to implement audit recommendations.

• Delivering a complete front end application
• Ensuring high performance on mobile and desktop
• Writing tested, idiomatic, and documented JavaScript, HTML and CSS
• Coordinating the workflow between the graphic designer, the HTML coder, and yourself
• Cooperating with the back-end developer in the process of building the RESTful API
• Communicating with external web services
• Integration of client-side elements developed by a frontend developers with server side logic
• Develop back-end components to improve responsiveness and overall performance
• Building reusable code and libraries for future use
• Test and debug programs
• Improve functionality of existing systems
• Implement security and data protection solutions
• Assess and prioritize feature requests
• Coordinate with other team members to understand user requirements and provide technical solutions
• Ability to lead a team

 

Skills and Competencies:

• Proficiency with JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML and CSS
• Fundamental Knowledge of an SPA (Single page application)
• Deep knowledge of AngularJS practices and commonly used modules based on extensive work experience
• Creating self-contained, reusable, and testable modules and components
• Ensuring a clear dependency chain, in regard to the app logic as well as the file system
• Ability to provide SEO solutions for single page apps
• Thorough understanding of the responsibilities of the platform, database, API, caching layer, proxies, and other web services used in the system
• Validating user actions on the client side and providing responsive feedback
• Writing non-blocking, optimized, reusable and scalable code
•  Creating custom, general use modules and components which extend the elements and modules of core Angular
•  Experience with building the infrastructure for serving the front-end app and assets
•  Architecting and automating the build process for production, using task runners or scripts
• Documenting the code inline using JSDoc or other conventions
• Creating e2e test suites for all components, and running them with Protractor (or a well reasoned alternative)
• Creating configuration, build, and test scripts for Continuous Integration environments
• Professional, precise communication skills
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools such as git is required
• Excellent presentation, problem-solving and team working skills
• Understanding of modern development methodologies and tools including Agile (XP and Scrum), Rapid Application Development, etc.
• Proficient knowledge of Python with a backend server framework like Flask or Django
• Implementing user authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments
• Understanding accessibility and security compliance from the Business statement & implement them accordingly
• Building API services from scratch - Project structuring, setting up environment objects, build reusable components, etc
• Integration of multiple data sources and databases into the application code
• Management of hosting environment, including database administration and scaling an application to support load changes
• Creating database schemas that represent and support the business use case
• Experience with scripting for task automation and data analysis
• Implementing automated testing and unit tests cases using tools like Postman or any other libraries
• Basic understanding of front-end technologies and platforms, such as JavaScript, HTML, and CSS would be a value-add
• Professional, precise communication skills

 

Qualification and Experience:

• B.E. / B. Tech. / MCA / PGDCA / M.Sc. (CS) /M.E. / M. Tech
• 4+ years of experience in Web Application and Backend Development
• Proven expertise in testing of application software to assure accuracy, integrity, completeness to achieve desired results
• Experience with AngularJS (v1.x.x) would be a value-add
• Proficient knowledge of Python or any other back-end programming language
• Demonstrated experience with Object Oriented design and development
• Proven expertise in testing of application software to assure accuracy, integrity, completeness to achieve desired results
• Experience in working with MongoDB or other NoSQL databases would be a value-add
• Knowledge of Microservices, Dockers, Kubernetes
• Exposure to Google Cloud Platform and/or Amazon Web Services

 

Required Skills (more the better):

• PHP, Laravel, MySQL/ MariaDB, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, AJAX/ Fetch, jQuery, Web services and APIs
• MVC framework, Design Patterns, Authentication, Eloquent, Providers, Middleware, Supervisor, Cron Jobs, Postman etc.
• Experience of entire software development lifecycle
• Project delivery experience and has handled clients directly

• Managed a team of at least 4 developers
• Client Interaction and requirements management

 

Additional Skills:

• Versioning tools such as Git, Bit Bucket, and concepts like branching
• DevOps: Knowledge of operating systems, hosting and deployment on cloud platforms like Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, Azure etc will be added advantage

 

Responsibilities will include:

• Writing clean, well-designed code
• Debugging code and fixing bugs
• Ensuring code quality and security by following industry standards
• Managing code repositories and deploying builds
• Contributing to all phases of the development lifecycle
• Participating in team meetings and client meetings/ calls
• Learning new technologies

 

Why should I join Big Rattle?

Big Rattle Technologies specializes into development of Mobile and Web applications. Our clients include Fortune 5000 companies. Over the past 9 years, we have delivered multiple projects for clients from various industries like FMCG, Restaurants, Banking and Finance, Automobiles, Ecommerce, Television and Broadcast Agencies.

 

You will have an opportunity to get end-to-end exposure in software design and development of products, web applications and mobile applications. You will also have opportunities to participate in the decision-making process and take leadership roles as you grow in the organisation.

 

The company offers benefits like

• Healthcare coverage (including Covid-19 vaccination reimbursement)
• Technical certification fee reimbursements
• Technical training fee reimbursements
• 5-day work week
• Flexible working hours
• Hybrid working

Key Accountabilities:

 Coding Magento compliant frontend and admin modules using PHP, Zend
Framework and MySQL skills
 Integrating 3rd party applications through middleware built on Magento 2 (training
app)
 Working on developing a micro-service architecture to run Magento
 Completing code reviews of your peers
 Integrating backend work into frontend UI
 Assisting the Quality Assurance team with acceptance cases and testing
 Contributing to daily stand-ups and management updates
 Document, knowledge share your work and train other developers to improve
overall quality and delivery
 Create, test and implement new features and tools in our architecture that will
create automation and efficiencies
 Package and deploy fixes and releases
 Strong functional knowledge of eCommerce domain (B2B & B2C)
 Excellent & Proactive team player and communicator

Must have strong knowledge in the following skills: -

 A commitment to best practices. Well want your opinions on operational processes, deployment
checklists, and more
 5+ years of developing software with object-oriented PHP, ideally in SOA applications
 3+ years coding to high performant standards with Magento

 5+ years working with MySQL, optimization, indexes and performance techniques
 Worked on high traffic high transactional ecommerce sites serving in to the millions of hits and
page views
 Frontend UI to backend communication using Ajax and various JavaScript frameworks
 Extensive knowledge about APIs. You can design RESTful services and integrate with other data
providers, and you know when to use JSON or XML.
 Building auto-scaling architectures and auto-scaling ready code
 Understand the importance of performance in web development and resolving PHP performance
issues
Nice to Have: (Not more than 4 each)

Over 5 years of proven industry experience as an application developer
experienced in designing and building web-based SaaS applications
Ability to program in NodeJS and AngularJS.
should have excellent debugging skills
Proven Expertise in HTML5, CSS, Angular 4+, ngrx (store) & Typescript, NodeJS, npm, bootstrap, javascript libraries (jQuery, lodash, moment js ...)
Very strong knowledge of object-oriented concepts & design patterns
Good working exposure with REST API
Highly effective and thrive in a dynamic environment with multiple, changing priorities
Critical thinker and good problem-solver

The Senior Full Stack Developer is responsible for bringing the platform to the next level and ensuring the stability of the core platform. S/he will report directly to our GM and will have the opportunity to participate in the next phase of growth at Delishop, developing the platform and adapting it to meet the needs of new verticals. S/he will have flexibility and responsibilities from day one with expectations to contribute to the growth of the company by bringing new ideas and solutions to the table.

 

Duties:

• Coordinate project work with junior staff under the supervision of the GM.
• Act as a technical lead to the junior staff
• Lead production troubleshooting.
• Participate in the ideation of how to optimise the platform.

 

Requirements:

• At least 4-5 years of working experience in development.
• Very good knowledge of ReactJS including workflows (eg: redux)
• Good knowledge of the LAMP stack (Linux, Apache/Nginx, MySQL, PHP).
• Experience creating and using APIs (REST)
• Solid experience with ExpressJS/lambda and other backend technologies
• Understand of token and authentication mechanisms (eg: JWT)
• Experience with AWS, Command line tools and Auto-Scaling Environments.
• Comfortable with GIT (CLI), including branching and merging.

 

Desirable Qualifications:

• Eager to try out and learn about new technologies and approaches every day.
• Attention to detail, problem solving and teambuilding skills.
• Able and confident to communicate in English with colleagues and clients.
• Curious about best practices and adopting them;
• Experience with leading development teams and interacting with clients.
• Works hard, party harder.

 

Compensation

• USD 1000-1200 per month
• Working Hours: TBD

Role: The role of lead is not a textbook checklist, however, there are technical responsibilities that a team must fulfill and we expect the tech lead to ensure these responsibilities are covered and be able to cover them themselves if needed. We expect tech leads to taking a collaborative approach to leading their team. This is especially important when considering the amount of experience that each of our consultants brings. Given this, we expect you to: ● Respect the other members of your team and recognise you don’t always know best. ● Spot gaps in team capability and figure out how to fix them as a team. ● Be hands on, able and willing to contribute to development, however, don’t expect to be coding all of the time. ● Encourage the team to be proactive, give them responsibility. Responsibilities ● Have a clear understanding of the deployment architecture ● Have a clear understanding of the build pipeline ● Understand how you get changes into production ● Understand how all parts of the system work together ● Facilitate technical communication with other teams, both within your engagement and across other EE clients. ● Actively seek to remove knowledge silos within the team ● Ensure you have a release / branching strategy in place ● Act as the primary point of contact for your team when communicating with other teams ● Ensure there is a technical vision for the team ● Liaise with environment specialists to ensure smooth deployments to production ● Encourage the team to follow good development practices aligned to EE technical values ● Feedback to the delivery lead or engagement manager on the quality of your team (good and bad) ● Recognise team members that have the potential to grow into team leads ● Ensure the use of new technologies or dependencies does not block the team. ● Ensure the team keeps necessary architectural documents up to date ● Keep an eye on the long term consequences of architectural choices, and remind others when necessary ● Build good relationships with your team members. Act as a mentor when required ● Keep the client informed and engaged in the technical side of the project ● Build relationships across your client community Technologies / Experience The successful candidate must have the following experience: ● Worked as the tech lead of a development/delivery team in a large organisation ● Have worked with a variety of different technical architect roles ● Be deeply proficient in at least one programming language ● Be comfortable using other languages and evidence using multiple languages ● Have hands-on experience with some form of configuration management tooling, e.g. Ansible, Chef, Puppet ● Have hands-on experience of at least one continuous integration and continuous delivery technology, e.g. Jenkins, Go, Team City or Bamboo. ● Full stack development experience from user interface through to data persistence ● A strong proponent of XP practices such as TDD ● Working with a delivery team to formulate an automated test strategy ● Worked as part of a number of agile delivery teams and seen a number of different approaches to delivery ● Good appreciation of secure coding practices and end to end system security The following exposure will also be looked on favorably: ● Performing an ‘architect’ role, while retaining hands-on involvement ● Working with cloud hosting platforms such as AWS, Rackspace, Azure etc. ● Infrastructure management technologies such as Cloud Formation or Terraform

- Backend & Frontend Development - Payment Gateway & RESTful API integrations - eCommerce & Other dynamic Features Must Haves: - Excellent PHP CODEIGNITER and MYSQLi skills - HTML, CSS, Strong Javascript skills - Comfortable working with APIs - Exceptional attention to detail and strong troubleshooting skills Nice to have: - Node.js, Angular - Familiarity with AWS / google Cloud - Experience creating APIs The ideal candidate is looking for a challenge, self-motivated and excited to be part of a new team developing our future architecture/stack.

Design overall architecture of the web application. Maintain quality and ensure responsiveness of applications. Collaborate with the rest of the engineering team to design and launch new features. Maintain code integrity and organization. Experience working with graphic designers and converting designs to visual elements. Understanding and implementation of security and data protection. Highly experienced with back-end programming languages Ex: PHP, Python, Java, JavaScript Proficient experience using advanced JavaScript libraries and frameworks such as AngularJ Proficient experience on databases like MySQL Development experience for both mobile and desktop. Understanding of server-side languages Experience with RESTful APIs and usage of push notifications. Knowledge of code versioning tools such as Git