PHP Developer

About Astra:

Astra is a cyber security SaaS company that makes otherwise chaotic pentests a breeze with its one of a kind Pentest Platform. Astra's continuous vulnerability scanner emulates hacker behavior to scan applications for 9300+ security tests. CTOs & CISOs love Astra because it helps them fix vulnerabilities in record time and move from DevOps to DevSecOps with Astra's CI/CD integrations.

Astra is loved by 650+ companies across the globe. In 2023 Astra uncovered 2 million+ vulnerabilities for its customers, saving customers $69M+ in potential losses due to security vulnerabilities. 

We've been awarded by the President of France Mr. François Hollande at the La French Tech program and Prime Minister of India Shri Narendra Modi at the Global Conference on Cyber Security. Loom, MamaEarth, Muthoot Finance, Canara Robeco, ScripBox etc. are a few of Astra’s customers.

Role Overview:

As an SDE 2 back-end engineer you will be responsible for leading the development and maintenance of the platform/dashboard backend. This would involve architecting, developing & maintaining RESTful services for vulnerability management, scan orchestration, inventory management and platform features such as on-boarding, trust centers, certificates, payment integrations, vulnerability ingestion, authentication etc. 

You should have a strong background in backend programming (Symfony preferred, or Laravel) and have experience with an event driven, async & distributed architecture. 

During the first 6 months of your role, you will be involved in the 0->1 journey of two of our upcoming products in our platform along with the respective product owners.

Love solving hard problems? Want to build high impact products rooted in first principles? Is coding your poetry? Join us in shaping the future of cyber security.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Lead the design, development, and maintenance of backend services and APIs using Symfony PHP framework. What you create is also what you own.
• Collaborate with front-end developers to integrate user-facing elements with server-side logic.
• Collaborate with scanner teams to orchestrate scans, ingest vulnerabilities, configure scanners etc.
• Write clean, well-documented, and efficient code.
• Optimize and refactor existing code to improve performance and reliability.
• Implement security and data protection measures.
• Triage, troubleshoot and upgrade existing systems.
• Ship code to production multiple times a day/week.
• Ensure timely delivery of the features.
• Test your own features, and write test cases for continuous automated testing.
• Troubleshoot complex issues, debug, and upgrade existing systems.
• Mentor junior engineers and lead code reviews, promoting best practices and high standards.
• Drive architectural decisions and technical strategy for backend systems.

What we are looking for:

• 4-6 years experience in a similar role or similar working experience.
• Advanced proficiency in PHP backend programming. Symfony preferred, or Laravel.
• Strong understanding of system design, software architecture principles and performance optimization.
• Experience with an event driven (subscribers/listeners), async (MessageHandlers & job queues) & distributed (load-balanced) architecture.
• Experience with PostgreSQL database and data modeling.
• Understanding of concepts such as Dependency Injection, ORM, data validation, error handling etc.
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions (good to have).
• Experience with Agile methodologies.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to think strategically about technical solutions.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional remote teams.
• Demonstrated track record of delivering high-quality software products on schedule.
• Knowledge of industry best practices in software development, security, and compliance.
• Knowledge of application & infrastructure security - helps you stand out.

What We offer:

• Adrenalin rush of being a part of a fast-growing company, and working on hard problems that matter.
• Fully remote, agile working environment.
• Good engineering culture with full ownership in design, development, release lifecycle.
• A wholesome opportunity where you get to build things from scratch, improve and ship code to production in hours, not weeks.
• Holistic understanding of SaaS and enterprise security business.
• Experience with security side of things.
• Annual trips to beaches or mountains (next one is to Wayanad).
• Open and supportive culture.
• Health insurance & other benefits for you and your spouse. Maternity benefits included.

About Company:

Our client is a luxury home decor brand. It's nothing less than a revolution in the home decor industry- where technology enables world-class home interior design. We use technology combined with internationally trained designers to help our customers achieve the style they want to express.

Our services include unique technology-driven processes and analytics, consulting, execution, and supervision – all within schedule and planned budget, so they can relax and enjoy their space transformation with peace of mind.

We encourage our consumers to explore and discover their own self-expression while amazing their senses with new cultures and design techniques, tasteful décor, and ambiance.

Role and Responsibilities:

• Write code and tests, build prototypes, solve issues, profile, and analyze bottlenecks

• Design performance gauging, building robust APIs to support mobile and desktop clients

• Manage and optimize scalable distributed systems on the cloud

• Optimization of web applications for performance and scalability

• Develop automated tests to ensure business needs are met and allow for regression testing

 • Participate in the entire application lifecycle, focusing on coding and debugging

• Write clean code to develop functional web applications

• Troubleshoot and debug applications

• Perform UI tests to optimize performance

• Manage cutting-edge technologies to improve legacy applications

• Collaborate with Front-end developers to integrate user-facing elements with server[1]side logic

. • Gather and address technical and design requirements

• Provide training and support to internal teams

• Build reusable code and libraries for future use.

Skills:

• Good communication skill to communicate with stakeholders, project managers, quality assurance teams, Regularly and other developers regarding progress on the long-term technology roadmap

 • Curious and progressive mind to Create and maintain workflows with teams to provide visibility and to ensure workload balance for consistent visual designs

 • Good technical knowledge to Produce quality code, raising the bar for the whole team on quality and speed

 • Through analytical skills to Recommend system solutions by comparing advantages and disadvantages of custom development and purchase alternatives.

Requirements.

• Experience with core AWS web-enabling technologies

• Growth mindset, challenging status quo to find new solutions and out-of-the-box ideas

• Experience designing RESTful APIs, specifically for mobile apps

• Computer science degree or equivalent experience

• Experience leading a team is a bonus.

• 3+ Years of relevant experience.

• PHP Laravel Framework, PHP Design Patterns.

•Proficient in MySQL. MongoDB knowledge is plus.

•APIs, REST API, API Security.

• Laravel Events, Queue, Observers.

• Excellent foundation in computer science, algorithms, and web design

• Experience writing highly secure web applications.

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 2 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.

Your responsibilities as an Engineer: 

•     Determines operational feasibility by evaluating analysis, problem definition, requirements, solution development, and proposed solutions.

•     Documents and demonstrates solutions by developing documentation, flowcharts, layouts, diagrams, charts, code comments and clear code.

•     Prepares and installs solutions by determining and designing system specifications, standards, and programming.

•     Improves operations by conducting systems analysis; recommending changes in policies and procedures.

•     Obtains and licenses software by obtaining required information from vendors; recommending purchases; testing and approving products.

•     Updates job knowledge by studying state-of-the-art development tools, programming techniques, and computing equipment

•     Participate in educational opportunities & read professional publications;

•     Protects operations by keeping information confidential.

•     Provides information by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing development and service issues.

•     Accomplishes engineering and organization mission by completing related results as needed.

•     Develops software solutions by studying information needs; conferring with users; studying systems flow, data usage, and work processes; investigating problem areas; following the software development lifecycle.

Skill sets we require:

•     Proven work experience as a Software Engineer or Software Developer

•     Experience designing interactive applications

•     Ability to develop software in or other programming languages like JIRA or Postman

•     Excellent knowledge of relational databases, MYSQL and Restful API

•     Experience developing web applications using at least one popular web framework (Laravlel, Codeigniter and Magento)

•     Experience with test-driven development

•     Proficiency in software engineering tools

•     Ability to document requirements and specifications

Educational Qualification: 

•     Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Computer Science Engineering or equivalent 

Following are the things that we are looking for in our NodeJS developer:

• Full SDLC knowledge, preferably in an agile environment.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills. Strong critical thinking & problem solving skills.
• Understanding of Unix / Linux based systems.
• Hands-on exposure to deeply linked relational databases – preferably in MySQL
• Ability to take a feature or product through the full Software Development Life Cycle.
• Strong communication skills, including the ability to both collaborate well and also the ability to convey technical ideas and concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
• Identify the interaction needs and how the API. must be developed based on design comps, product specs, etc.
• Continuously evaluate and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency.
• Address and prioritize production level bugs and application performance improvements.
• An adaptable attitude and understanding of the agile methodology.
• Unit-test code for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and release new features.

Job Description :

Our goal is to hire an individual Mid/Senior web developer, who is capable of working independently and accepting guidance from senior leads. Responsibilities are centered around helping the maintenance and ongoing development of our existing platform.

We are looking for a motivated, intelligent individual with a passion for information technology, who can hit the ground running within our existing systems.

Specific responsibilities include:

Develop and improve website functionalities to facilitate online experience through custom programming and installing third-party API solutions.

Work closely with internal teams to ensure the development of sites and applications meet business needs and standards.

Maintain the current websites for smooth functionalities.

Qualifications:

3 years+ experience in website development using HTML, CSS, Javascript, JSON and Ajax.

2 years+ experience with MySQL and PHP

Familiarity with responsive design.

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent degree.

Be able to learn new programming/scripting languages.

Version control (Git etc.)

You need to be self-motivated, reliable, organized, details and results-oriented. We value work ethic and integrity.

We are an IIT Bombay incubated, early stage healthcare start up developing a mobile based Ai technology to help reduce health risks for women during their pregnancy. Our Founders are Harvard and Columbia University alums with extensive experience in digital health in the US and India.

Role: Back end developer ( Python + Flask/Django, Location Mumbai, Marol):

Must have:

• 1-4 years hands on experience in Core Python with preferably Flask framework for complex web and mobile applications. 
• Deployment experience
• Must have experience with Mongodb, MySQL and AWS
• Experience in Redis, Aerospike 
• Good command of API development and deployment ( G Unicorn, Supervisor, Jenkins) Algorithms, system design, OOPS concepts.
• Agility and flexibility to in start up environement with focus on customer, excellent communication skills, and high level of responsibility and responsiveness.
• Project management, scheduling, allocation and delivery.
• Proven experience in agile development, sprint planning and backlog management.

Good to Have:

Experience in Machine Learning, Dialogflow or Rasa for NLP,