PHP Developer

Job Description:

We are looking for a skilled and motivated Laravel Developer with 1-3 years of experience to join our dynamic development team. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience in building modern web applications using Laravel and a strong understanding of PHP. As a Laravel Developer, you will be responsible for developing, maintaining, and optimizing various web applications, while ensuring high performance, scalability, and security.

Responsibilities:

• Build high-quality web applications from scratch using Laravel.
• Troubleshooting issues in the implementation and debug builds.
• Design, build, and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable code to ensure the applications' best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness.
• Contribute to all phases of the development lifecycle.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features.
• Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency.
• Prepare and maintain all applications utilizing standard development tools.
• Keep abreast of new trends and best practices in web development.
• Learn new Software/frameworks/ languages/technologies with ease.
• Finalizing back-end features and testing web applications.
• Refactor, optimize, and improve the existing codebase for maintenance and scale.
• Solve complex performance problems and architectural challenges.

Requirements:

• Good working knowledge of the PHP-based MVC framework Laravel.
• Good knowledge of PHP, HTML, CSS & JavaScript, and understanding of Database concepts & working knowledge of MySQL.
• Understanding the fully synchronous behavior of PHP.
• Understanding of MVC design patterns.
• A clear understanding of RESTful API development standards.
• Passion for best design and coding practices, and a desire to develop new bold ideas.
• Understanding fundamental design principles behind a scalable application.
• Creating database schemas that represent and support business processes
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git
• Excellent problem-solving skills.
• Understanding and managing Linux servers & AWS/GCP
• Hands-on experience with Redis will be an added advantage

Preferred Skills:

• Experience with front-end frameworks (Vue.js, React, etc.).
• Familiarity with testing frameworks such as PHPUnit.
• Knowledge of cloud platforms and deployment (AWS, DigitalOcean, GCP, etc.).

Education:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field (or equivalent work experience).

Benefits & Perks:

• Vibrant & engaging work culture. 
• Flexible working hours & leave policy.
• Performance-based rewards & incentives.
• Best place to learn, work & grow.
• Free coffee bar to keep the employees energetic.

• Clarify feature requirements with product team
• Design end to end feature flow
• Write scalable and bug free code
• Take care of test and deployment pipeline
• Maintaining the existing products

• Must have experience with any scripting language (Javascript/NodeJS preferred)
• Experience with API-driven and highly scalable application is a plus
• Good knowledge of non relational DB (MongoDB preferred)
• Good with data structure and algorithms
• Good to have an experience with testing framework and CI/CD pipeline

• Must have hands-on experience in web applications development, and open-source technologies stack (Node.JS, React JS, Gatsby, PHP, etc.).
• Resolution conflicts and understands the logical implementation to find optimal solutions.
• Experience in developing end-to-end solutions and backend architecture.
• Ability to apply advanced concepts, and contribute to the development of innovative principles and ideas.
• Advanced knowledge of back-end configuration and deployments.
• Advanced understanding of RDBMS and NoSQL databases.
• Advanced knowledge Git source code management.
• Minimum 8 years of experience required.

💥 What will you do?

As a Lead Backend Engineer, you will

• Build out and help scale our Django (+ReactJS / VueJS) based web application as we add new features and customers

• Help us transition from monolithic system architecture to microservices and serverless system architecture to help meet our future scaling requirements

• Collaborate on a daily basis with a small, nimble team of product managers, engineers, and UX designers to understand business requirements and user experience goals and pain points.
• Build out features to enable multi-channel customer acquisition include partner channels, enterprise channels, and government channels
• Integrate third-party plugins to enhance customer experience and internal tooling build internal tooling to improve internal team efficiencies.
• Actively participate in code reviews
• Work with our quality assurance team to improve coverage on our automated testing suites

🙋 What are we looking for? 

While we do not have a strict list of requirements for candidates interested in this role, some indicators that you would fit this role and our engineering culture are 

• Prior experience of a few years (3+ years) with python based frameworks as Django or Flask would be essential to work on our application stack.

• You actively promote a culture of engineering excellence some of which could be writing efficient code, use of elegant design patterns, and styling your code through code-linting policies.

• You enjoy designing software architecture by collaborating with engineering managers, architects, and other lead engineers to explore existing systems, determining areas of complexity, potential risks to successful implementation.

• You enjoy coaching folks to achieve outcomes through nudges.

📢 Other information you may want to consider 

• We will be flexible for the rest of the pandemic and work remotely; however, we are not a remote-first company, and the work location would be Bangalore when things settle.
• Our backend tech stack includes Django, FastAPI, Postgres, Redis, Clickhouse, and TigerGraph. Our environments are managed through Docker, Kubernetes, and Terraform.

• Designing and Developing web applications using Laravel 7 / 8
• Closely working front-end and back-end developers on projects.
• Hands on experience with handing MySQL queries
• Excellent logical and analytics skill
• Experience on handling and developing API end points
• Experience with Payment Gateway integrations and implementations
• Knowledge on any Frontend Framework - Bootstrap / Foundation / Backbone (Secondary skills, added advantage)

• Follow standard coding structure with Security first approach to avoid vulnerabilities such as SQL Injection and XSS
• Sound knowledge on integrating multiple payment gateway

Collabsports Technologies Pvt Ltd is a sports-tech startup based in Pune, India. We are a small team, passionate about Sports & Technology. Our product, Scorpad is a mobile app with a mission “Sporting Made Smarter”, helps athletes in recording, analysing & improving their game while collaborating with their friends and other like-minded athletes. For more information, visit https://scorpad.com">https://scorpad.com

You need to be passionate about technology with strong OOPS background.

Must have strong PHP skills with PGSQL/ MYSQL

Good understanding of MVC & API Development

Experience in Bootstrap, Symphony/ CodeIgnitor

Willingness to learn new technologies

You should have a desire to work in startup fast-paced environment, able to self-manage and work remotely, when required.