PHP Developer

WeMakeScholars is an organization funded and supported by the Ministry of IT, Government of India under the 'Digital India Campaign'. We offer international education finance via scholarships and education loans, to study abroad aspirants. We are currently a 220 members team. Last financial year, we disbursed 2200 Cr in education loans to 8300 students across India.

We are looking for a PHP Developer who is keen to work in a startup environment esp. a product-based company. 

Job Overview

We are hiring developers (from 0 to 10 experience) with relevant knowledge and experience with the development and deployment of large-scale cloud-native enterprise systems on PHP, REST APIs, Node Js, Flutter, AWS & MySql. 

About Tech Department:

• Our internal tech team is responsible for end-to-end in-house tech support which includes and is not limited to design, development & deployment. 
• We are continuously developing and improvising our products to enhance customer and team experience.
• As we are in the Fintech space, our team has to ensure the database security of the application.

Job Summary 

• Participate in the full development life cycle, working within broadly defined parameters including design, development, testing, and maintenance of the existing application with minimal supervision.
• Work on optimization and performance improvement activities. Instrument and test performance metrics.
• Participate in peer-to-peer code reviews to improve the quality and maintenance of the codebase.
• Collaboration with multiple internal/external stakeholders such as product, business, DBA, and Dev Ops.
• Design and implement APIs for web/mobile (both Android & iOS) applications.
• To be available on call for the projects or features developed by you. Things break, and you will be responsible to fix it when it does.

Experience & Skills Required

• 2+ years of experience (we are hiring freshers too for junior positions)
• Hands-on experience and knowledge of engineering end-to-end systems.
• Understanding of the complete software development life cycle, including coding standards, and code reviews.
• Familiarity with multiple software development practices and tools
• Ability to write clean, modular, and loosely coupled code by the use of design patterns.
• Proficiency in the implementation of algorithms and the use of advanced data structures to solve problems in computing.
• A solid foundation and implementing principles of computer science are a must. Ex: object-oriented programming, concurrency, fundamentals of computer science, SQL databases. 

     Looking for a Web Developer with good hands-on Experience in  Laravel.

•         Candidates have good Team Interactions.

Experience : 1 to 2 years

Responsibilities :

• Strong coding knowledge in Laravel Framework.
• Responsible for handling projects independently as well as collaboratively.
• Should be capable of handling multiple PHP projects.
• Analyse scope of work and time frame accordingly.
• Should have good analytical and problem solving skills.
• Ability to motivate teammates.
• Mentor and lead a team of junior developers.
• Provide technical guidance to development team members’

Key Skills:

Php, Laravel, MySQL, JavaScript, jQuery, HTML, CSS,DB

Added advantage to have : Code igniter, Angular

• Research, design and build highly reliable, available, and scalable platforms.
• Explore design implications and work towards an appropriate balance between functionality, performance, and maintainability.
• Lead by example, mentor, and guide team members on everything from structured problem solving to development of best practices.
• Own large technical deliverables and execute in an exemplary way
• Be able to conceptualize and develop prototype quickly
• Working with a cross-discipline team (Design, Product, Engineer, Operations, Sales, Marketing).
• Active participation in the hiring process to bring quality engineers in the team. 
• Lead-out team meetings, stand-ups, and architecture/design discussions
• Writing bug-free code, participating in code reviews, designing/architecting systems of varying complexity and scope, and creating high-quality documentation supporting the design/coding tasks
• Identify areas of improvement in our frameworks, tools, processes and strive to make them better.
• Researching new technologies and adapting them to BeyondSkool’s requirements
• Own and commit to all your work, and be accountable for your results
• Using and understanding code from Open-Source projects
• Participate in a culture of code reviews, writing tech specs, and collaborating closely with other people
• Produce highly reliable systems that are thoroughly tested and benchmarked.
• Develop multi-tier scalable, high-volume performing, and reliable user-centric infrastructure that operates 24x7
• Scale distributed applications, make architectural trade-offs applying synchronous and asynchronous design patterns, and deliver with speediness and quality.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or any other relevant field.
• Experience of 5 - 7 years as a back-end engineer preferably in a microservice environment.
• Strong proficiency of Node.js and frameworks available for it such as Express.js
• Strong proficiency in Javascript and TypeScript

• Must have worked building 2+ backend system using node.js and Express.js
• Strong understanding and experience of creating highly scalable and complex database design.
• Good understanding of Data Modeling using RDBMS and NoSQL (Cassandra, MongoDB, ElasticSearch, Redis) data stores
• Strong problem-solving skills with a good understanding of data structures and algorithms
• Strong understanding of front-end technologies, such as HTML5, and CSS3
• User authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments
• Experience of creating highly scalable, fault tolerant, resilient distributed systems
• Strong knowledge of creating scalable system design and good understanding of microservice based architectures
• Understanding of caching enabled, PubSub and event driven architectures
• Hands on experience and good knowledge of AWS services
• Understanding automated testing platforms like selenium and unit tests like Chai, Mocha, Jasmine etc
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git
• Curiosity to explore the cutting-edge technologies and bake them in the products.
• Zeal and drive to take end to end ownership.

Key Responsibilities: 

• Rewrite existing APIs in NodeJS. 
• Remodel the APIs into Micro services-based architecture. 
• Implement a caching layer wherever possible. 
• Optimize the API for high performance and scalability. 
• Write unit tests for API Testing.
• Automate the code testing and deployment process.

Skills Required: 

• At least 3 years of experience developing Backends using NodeJS — should be well versed with its asynchronous nature & event loop, and know its quirks and workarounds. 
• Excellent hands-on experience using MySQL or any other SQL Database. 
• Good knowledge of MongoDB or any other NoSQL Database. 
• Good knowledge of Redis, its data types, and their use cases. 
• Experience with graph-based databases like GraphQL and Neo4j. 
• Experience developing and deploying REST APIs. 
• Good knowledge of Unit Testing and available Test Frameworks. 
• Good understanding of advanced JS libraries and frameworks. 
• Experience with Web sockets, Service Workers, and Web Push Notifications. 
• Familiar with NodeJS profiling tools. 
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools such as Git. 
• Good knowledge of creating and maintaining DevOps infrastructure on cloud platforms. 
• Should be a fast learner and a go-getter — without any fear of trying out new things Preferences. 
• Experience building a large scale social or location-based app.

As Back end developer, we expect you to be motivated in solving real-life complex problems and create compelling experiences for our Resellers. Being a small company we have a culture of creative problem solving, intellectual design, fast-paced development, and passionate product delivery. Enhance or build Restful web services for our mobile app.

Responsibilities:

• Develop server-side components, REST APIs
• Assume ownership for existing and new modules including design, development, and unit testing for enhancements of existing modules and development of new modules.
• Analyse problems logically and exercise sound judgment in defining, evaluating, and solving difficult technical and operational problems where solutions may be of a precedent-establishing nature.
• Lead the design and architectural improvements
• Participate and collaborate with team members in design discussions, determines areas of complexity, potential risks to successful implementation, suggest enhancements to architecture, implement POCs, and enhance application.
• Reduce technical debt with quality coding

Requirements:

• A solid grounding in Computer Science fundamentals (based on a BS or MS in CS or related field) from IITs and Premier Engineering College.
• Excellent Object Orientation, coupled with excellent problem solving and debugging skills.
• Highly skilled at Java and related technologies, including Java Frameworks like Spring-boot or Drop wizard, RESTful web services, JSON, Servlet, JSP, MySQL, MongoDB, Kafka, AWS Solr.
• Must have hands-on experience in building scalable and secure back end systems.
• Have hands-on experience with systems that are asynchronous, RESTful and demand concurrency
• Good to have knowledge of best software engineering practices for all stages of the software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, testing, deployment.