PHP Developer

PinnacleWorks has an urgent opening for a Senior Laravel Developer having a rich experience in web development & strong knowledge of Object-Oriented Programming & Database concepts. You will be responsible for building high-performing, scalable,enterprise-grade applications.

What will you do?

• 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 in 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/ technology 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.
• Will be incharge of a small team of Developers.
• Will take ownership of one or more modules of a platform.

Skills Required

• Excellent working knowledge of PHP-based MVC framework Laravel
• Excellent knowledge of PHP, HTML, CSS & Javascript and understanding of Database concepts & working knowledge of MySQL
• Prior Experience of managing/handling a small team of developers would be an added advantage.
• 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 managing Linux servers & AWS/GCP
• Hands-on experience with Redis

About the Organization: 

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 120 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. 

As a full-stack engineer, you will be working to create scalable, maintainable, bug repellent state of art web applications. 

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 full lifecycle development
• Work closely with product managers and UI/UX designers to analyze requirements
• Review peer code changes
• Make recommendations for design and implementation improvements
• Integrating the Frontend UI with Backend APIs.
• Design and implement APIs for web/mobile (both Android & IOS) applications.
• Work with the Product team in prioritizing development activities for weekly sprints

Experience & Skills Required

• Prior experience- not mandatory 
• Ability to quickly learn - PHP, MySql, JQuery, Ajax, Git
• Have familiarity with- HTML, CSS, JS 
• Strong team player with an open mindset to learn new technologies and Knowledge of common SDLC.
• A passion for solving problems and providing workable solutions

Preference will be given to those with 

• Internships experience
• Worked on own projects 
• Experience in PHP, MySql 

Job Description : 

• Strong knowledge of PHP web frameworks -Laravel, CodeIgnitor
• Must have 2 years of experience in PHP Laravel or Codelgnitor
• Understanding the fully synchronous behavior of PHP
• Understanding of MVC design patterns
• Thorough understanding of front-end technologies, such as JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3

Roles and Responsibilities

• Develop and manage highly trafficked, highly scalable web properties with PHP5 using Laravel/ZEND CodeIgniter/Yii/Symfony framework.
• Understand the specifications to define system requirements.
• Collaborate and communicate project updates and progress to team members and clients.
• Analyze, design, code, debug, test, document and deploy changes to the system.

• Preferably 5+ years of experience in LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, & PHP) development stack
• Proven software development experience in PHP and of developing REST (JSON) / SOAP (XML) based web services
• Experience in Cloud platform like AWS/Azure
• Experience with HTML5 / JavaScript (JQuery) / CSS / AJAX / Angular / Yii Framework is preferred
• Experience in caching solutions like Redis and Memcached
• Experience in tools like Ansible, Docker
• Knowledge of source control systems such as GIT is a plus

• Be able to work in cross-function teams
• Write high-quality code per industry standards and best practices
• Test the code for quality assurance, debug identified bugs and resolve issues
• Support in deploying and maintenance of product and services
• Documenting product services progress, status, and manuals
• Participate in team meetings and planning & review sessions