PHP Developer

• Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and improve software and new user-facing features across Novo’s products and services.
• Drive technical decisions on a multi-functional, Agile team alongside product management, product design, and engineering.
• Optimize applications for maximum speed and scalability and analyze feedback from customers and internal teams to identify issues and improvement opportunities. 
• Champion a passion for engineering best practices such as code quality, linting, and testing.
• Ensure our software is reliable, extensible, maintainable, debuggable, secure, well-tested and performs well under load.
• Mentor junior engineers in all aspects of planning, development and testing.
• Stay engaged with latest technologies and evaluate strategies to keep the Novo technology stack up to date.

• 5+ years experience in a highly technical role at a hyper-growth startup or fast-paced company.
• Extensive background designing, developing, testing, deploying, maintaining, and improving software.
• Good understanding of Node.js & Javascript.
• Demonstrated ability to translate business goals and initiatives into technical requirements.
• Strong understanding of SQL database.
• Demonstrable experience architecting scalable and cost effective solutions to ensure and support customer growth.
• Experience mentoring junior engineers in all aspects of planning, development and testing.
• Strong understanding of system design and architecture.
• Interest in engaging with latest technologies and evaluating strategies to keep the Novo technology stack up to date.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to collaborate with both technical and non-technical teams effectively.

• Understand the requirement and convert that into API design.
• Write the code independently 
• Unit testing and bug fixing
• Write code with standards and conventions and follow best practices.
• Know how to engineer a full-fledged system and not just write code to make things work.
• Knowledge of agile methodologies, scrum.
• Should be able to guide juniors.
• Communication with clients for requirement understanding.
• Code Merging and deployment

• REST APIs in Spring Boot and Spring Framework
• MySQL Database, complex SQL queries (like joining multiple tables)
• Spring Security, JWT Tokens
• Third party Integration
• Unix basic commands
• Apache Tomcat, Deployment of War in Unix environment.
• Jira or any other Issue/Task tracking systems.

WordPress JD Below:-

• Designing and building the website front-end.
• Creating the website architecture.
• Designing and managing the website back-end including database and server integration.
• Should know WordPress Customization of themes and plugins.
• Conducting website performance tests.
• Troubleshooting content issues.
• Monitoring the performance of the live website.
• Must have hands on experience with JavaScript
• Job Location- Rajkot

• Deliver features in an end-to-end manner: technical design, development, testing, deployment, and maintenance.
• Provide technical leadership and own specific areas of the platform.
• Work closely with Product Managers to translate product requirements to engineering specifications.
• Lead code review efforts and quality efforts in your area of ownership.
• Participate in product discussions, taking ownership and initiative.
• Work independently in a fast-paced environment.
• Mentored and guide junior engineers.

Must Haves:

• Minimum 2 years of working experience in Ruby on Rails/ Python/ Node.JS.
• Strong problem-solving skills, data structures, and algorithms.
• Excellent experience on databases like MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc.
• Familiarity with tools for code reviews, version control (GIT).
• A knack for writing clean, readable Ruby/ Python/Node.JS code.
• Experience in application server hosting and monitoring.
• Understanding of fundamental design principles behind a scalable application.

Nice to Have:

• Hands-on with search platforms (Solr, Elasticsearch, etc).
• Prior experience with microservices-based architecture/SOA/distributed systems.
• Able to implement automated testing platforms and unit tests.
• Experience with common AWS service EC2, RDS, S3, SES, etc.

Key Competencies:

• Building Effective Team
• Solving Problems Creatively
• Learning Agility
• Drive For Result

a. Expert in Core PHP & OOP Concepts

b. Medium in Mysql DB

c. Expert in HTML & JS/Jquery

d. Knowledge on CSS id preferred

e. Experience on any one of the MVC framework is mandatory

• Build efficient, testable, and reusable PHP modules
• Write all clean object-oriented PHP as well as efficient SQL
• Integrate features and improvements that can support our large-and-growing SAAS product.
• Take initiative and contribute to technical solutions, R&D.
• Contribute to internal tools/processes that help us manage the product and QA cycle
• Perform Unit testing.
• Opportunity to learn and work on interesting solutions like Application Scaling, Microservices, Batch Processing, Javascript frameworks like ReactJS.
• Keep abreast of new trends and best practices in web development
• Adhere to milestones assigned

Skills:

• Must require solid programming proficiency with Core PHP.
• Strong knowledge of OOPS and how to apply it in application code is a must.
• Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3
• Familiarity with SQL databases and their declarative query languages.
• Exposure to designing and building APIs (REST/HTTP/Soap) is highly preferred.
• Understanding the fully synchronous behavior of PHP
• Experience with any MVC framework is an added advantage.
• Proficient understanding of software testing
• Understanding of code versioning tools, such as Bitbucket, Git is an advantage
• Understanding of product development environments and methodologies like Agile highly preferred
• Good problem-solving skills.

Desired Profile:

• Minimum 1.5 years of experience developing web applications and understanding modern PHP standards.
• The candidate should be willing to work with a startup/mid-size company.
• The candidate must love to code and must possess a thorough knowledge of web technologies.
• Motivated and ambitious to learn new technologies, grow as a leader in quick time.
• Good communication skills - must be able to explain work and provide answers in English