PHP Developer

Your actions will act as a catalyst in revolutionising the digital footprint of 200 million micro businesses worldwide.

Our ideal candidate for this role is an entrepreneurial and creative out-of-the-box thinking tech geek with a get-things-done attitude, who wants to thrive in a fast-paced international environment.

If you are qualify and are excited about joining us, read about our functional asks below.

• Participate in the entire product development lifecycle, focusing on coding and debugging.
• Translate high level business problems into scalable solutions. These include building self learning modules for dynamic pricing, contextual recommendations, in-house analytics, advanced real-time backend systems, etc.
• Develop Web APIs and end-to-end web services to support various internal & external.
• Develop unit test plans to deliver quality components.
• Building reusable code and libraries for future use.
• Optimization of the software platform for maximum speed and scalability.
• Collaborating with the front-end developers and other team members to establish objectives and design more functional, cohesive codes to enhance the user experience.
• Developing ideas for new programs, products, or features by monitoring industry developments and trends.
• Perform UI tests to optimize performance.
• Provide training and support to internal teams.
• Follow emerging technologies.

• Expertise in PHP and Laravel or CodeIgnitor, MySQL or PostgreSQL, Nginx, LEMP setup
• Developing REST APIs & integrating 3rd party APIs (oAuth 2.0), Git
• Hands-on experience in application deployment on linux servers
• You can easily navigate volatile environment where you are constantly getting challenged to push your own boundaries to make sense of ambiguous and complex signals of uncertainty into simple winning outcomes.
• What separates you from other developers is your relentless drive for running new tests and experiments on a regular basis. You love programming, but even more, you actually love implementing changes based on user data and create highly scalable technology based solutions.

A crazy ambitious role with potential for sky-rocketing growth, global exposure and immense monetary upside within a fast-growing start-up.

Websites.co.in is considered to be the world's easiest website builder platform that lets micro business owners create their website within 15 minutes and helps them grow their business online.

With the vision to champion the world’s 200 million micro business owners, Websites.co.in was started in Mumbai, India in 2017.

Since then, over a 1 million+ people from 200+ countries engaged with websites.co.in in 98 world languages to create their website. The 4.5 out of 5 stars with over 11000 reviews is testimony that we are on the right track.

Navtech is looking for a PHP Wordpress Developer to work on cutting edge technologies combined with an ability to be innovative while creating solutions in a team environment.

Working as PHP Wordpress Developer at Navtech, you will:

• Write reusable, testable, and efficient code. Test and debug programs.
• Participate in full development life-cycle: concept, design, build, deploy, test and release.
• Integrate user-facing elements with server-side logic.
• Integrate data storage solutions like MongoDB, MySQL etc.
• Work with product teams on new product ideas, designs, prototypes, and estimates.
• Drive a best practices approach to the continuous improvement of our products, processes, and tools.
• Write and maintain documentation for all features in development.
• Develop back-end components to improve responsiveness and overall performance.
• Implement security and data protection solutions.
• Coordinate, guide, and mentor other software engineers within the team to
• understand user requirements and provide better technical solutions.

Who Are We Looking For Exactly?

• 1-3 years of experience as a PHP Wordpress Developer.
• Knowledge of object-relational mapping (ORM).
• Able to integrate multiple data sources and databases like MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB into one system.
• Familiarity with Python, JavaScript, MySQL, Apache, Nginx, APIs, HTML, etc.
• Working experience in wordpress is a plus.
• Proficient understanding of any of the code versioning tools like Git, SVN etc.
• Understanding of open source projects like Joomla, Drupal etc.
• Familiarity with NoSQL database (Redis, Cassandra).
• Ability to work in a cloud environment. Experience on AWS or Azure would be an added advantage.
• Should have a Master’s Degree /Bachelor's (BS) in computer science, Software
• Engineering, IT, Technology Management or related degrees and throughout education in English Medium.
• Should have good logical, analytical and communication skills with client interaction experience.

Why Navtech?

• Performance review and Appraisal Twice a year.
• Competitive pay package with additional bonus & benefits.
• Work with US, UK & Europe based industry renowned clients for exponential technical growth.
• Medical Insurance cover for self & immediate family.
• Work with a culturally diverse team from different geographies.

About us:

Navtech is a premier IT software and Services provider. Navtech’s mission is to increase public cloud adoption and build cloud-first solutions that become trendsetting platforms of the future. We have been recognized as the Best Cloud Service Provider at GoodFirms for ensuring good results with quality services. Here, we strive to innovate and push technology and service boundaries to provide best-in-class technology solutions to our clients at scale. We deliver to our clients globally from our state-of-the-art design and development centers in the US, Hyderabad, and Pune.

We’re a fast-growing company with clients in the United States, UK, and Europe. You will join a team of talented developers, quality engineers, product managers whose mission is to impact above 100 million people across the world with technological services by the year 2030.

At Upswing, we are a passionate and self-driven team of thinkers who aspire to build the rails to connect the legacy financial sector with financial innovators through a simple and powerful banking-as-a-service (BaaS) platform. We’re building our platform putting the focus on pragmatism, reliability, and maintainability. We believe that keeping the engineering complexity under control is key to preserving the development productivity and long-term evolution of a platform.

To bring this vision to life, we are building the infrastructure using Microservices architecture using the latest set of technologies that are also fun to work with such as Java, Scala, Postgres, Akka, Kafka with a completely automated DevOps pipeline from the get-go using tools like Chef, Jenkins, Grafana, Graylog.

We are looking for motivated engineers who will be working in a highly creative and cutting-edge technology environment to build a world-class financial services suite.

Why you should join us:

• You will redefine the financial services landscape for India in the coming years.
• Be part of a core Engineering team that will create innovative and scalable Fintech solutions.
• Work with passionate and experienced engineering, product & business workforce that believes in teamwork, and that helps fast-track learning on solving complex technical challenges.
• We are funded by the leading fintech VC `QED Investors` and other established Founders and Executives of awesome Indian companies.

What you will do if you join us:

• Propose solutions to solve complex system architecture challenges and actively lead the end-to-end development of the system.
• Create robust, flexible, consistent, and easy-to-use APIs
• Continuously strive for performance improvements, code reusability, and readability
• Understand the product in detail and predict potential issues in feature development.
• Mentor and lead junior members of the team

You should have:

• Ability to think of out of the box
• Tech or a higher degree in computer science or a related field.
• 3+ years of experience working on the back-end development for complex distributed systems who are willing to adopt any Programming language as per the requirement.
• Familiarity with any of the following – Java, C++, Scala, Kotlin, and frameworks like Spring, Play, Hibernate, Django, etc.
• Good understanding of Algorithms, Data Structure, OOP, Design patterns, Parallel programming, Multithreading concepts & Event-Driven Systems.
• Understanding of micro-services architecture and best practices.
• Experience with Relational databases such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, or any NoSQL database.

It is a plus if you have:

• Familiarity with cloud platforms like AWS (Amazon Web Services), Azure or Google Cloud

• Design and implement high performance server side application solutions for the targeted domain.
• Develop integrated solutions between the product server side components and customer systems.
• Participate in the full life-cycle development process from software definition, through design, development, test (Unit & Integration), release and maintenance.
• Developing JSON, REST and SOAP APIs/web services.
• Code review and code management on versioning control system.
• Document the development process, architecture, and standard components
• Collaborate with different teams
• Mentor team members
• Keep abreast of new trends and best practices in web development

• In depth knowledge of object-oriented PHP and Laravel Framework
• Must have previous experience in development of high-end web applications in PHP, MYSQL and AJAX
• Previously built applications/websites in MVC frameworks, especially CodeIgniter
• Strong understanding of front-end technologies, such as JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3
• Strong knowledge of JavaScript and JavaScript frameworks, preferably jQuery
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git, Bitbucket
• Familiarity with SQL/NoSQL databases and their declarative query languages
• Familiarity with limitations of PHP as a platform and its workarounds
• Strong knowledge of coding best practices, server deployment and troubleshooting