
PHP Developer
at leading Internet pioneer providing web and email service
- Provides free and subscription-based website and email services hosted and operated at data centres in Mumbai and Hyderabad.
- Serve global audience and customers through sophisticated content delivery networks.
- Operate a service infrastructure using the latest technologies for web services and a very large storage infrastructure.
- Provides virtualized infrastructure, allows seamless migration and the addition of services for scalability.
- Pioneers and earliest adopters of public cloud and NoSQL big data store - since more than a decade.
- Provide innovative internet services with work on multiple technologies like php, java, nodejs, python and c++ to scale our services as per need.
- Has Internet infrastructure peering arrangements with all the major and minor ISPs and telecom service providers.
- Have mail traffic exchange agreements with major Internet services.
Job Details:
This job position provides competitive professional opportunity both to experienced and aspiring engineers. The company's technology and operations groups are managed by senior professionals with deep subject matter expertise.
The company believes having an open work environment offering mentoring and learning opportunities with an informal and flexible work culture, which allows professionals to actively participate and contribute to the success of our services and business.
Job Role and Responsibilties:
1. Full lifecycle (SDLC) application development.
2. Designing, coding and debugging existing code.
3. Understanding of front end and user interface engineering design.
4. Software testing and quality assurance.
5. Integration of the modules in the existing systems.
6. Evaluation and identification of the new technology developments in the work domain.
7. Maintaining standard practices and compliances.
QUALIFICATION AND EXPERIENCE
A graduate degree or senior Diploma in engineering or technology with 4-8 years of experience in some or all of the following.
- PHP, Integration with MemCache, Membase, MySQL, Oracle, CDB/BDB, Error Handling and debuggers
- Data Structures,
- HTML / XHTML, CSS, java-script, Smarty
- Web Services, SOAP, XML, REST
- Code optimization, Scaling, Session management, Version control Systems
- MIME Parsing, Large data processing in PHP (encoding, parsing, escaping for special characters etc.)

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Responsibilities:
- Develop and maintain server-side applications using PHP frameworks (such as Yii, Laravel, Symfony, and CodeIgniter) and other related technologies.
- Write clean, well-structured, and reusable code following industry best practices and coding standards.
- Collaborate with front-end developers to integrate user-facing elements with server-side logic.
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- Collaborate with database administrators to design and optimize database schemas and queries.
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- Participate in code reviews and provide constructive feedback to maintain code quality and improve team collaboration.
- Collaborate with the project management team to estimate project timelines and deliver work within specified deadlines.
- Troubleshoot and resolve production issues, provide technical support and perform maintenance tasks as required.
Requirements:
- Proven work experience as a PHP Backend Developer or similar role.
- Strong proficiency in PHP and its frameworks (Yii, Laravel, Symfony, etc.) with a good understanding of object-oriented programming principles.
- Experience with frontend technologies (HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript) and their integration with backend systems.
- Familiarity with database systems, such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, or MongoDB, and proficiency in writing efficient database queries.
- Knowledge of version control systems like Git for code collaboration and deployment.
- Familiarity with RESTful API development and integration of third-party APIs.
- Experience in optimizing application performance and implementing caching techniques.
- Understanding of security principles and best practices for web application development.
- Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills with strong attention to detail.
- Good communication and teamwork skills to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.
- Ability to work independently and handle multiple projects simultaneously.
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Responsibilities:
- Actively participate in development along with team members for as much as 50% of their time, creating modules & systems that can then be treated as a working reflection of the best practices.
- Participating in code reviews, design reviews, architecture discussions.
- Being responsible for Scaling, Performance & Quality for the team
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- Experiment with new & relevant technologies and tools, and drive adoption while measuring yourself on the impact you are able to create
- Collaborate with Product Management and Product Development leaders in developing product visions and strategies.
- Define & drive implementation of long term technology vision for your product & team
- You will be the primary owner of the architecture of your product and will also be responsible for getting it reviewed, and making sure the system is built accordingly.
- Be an evangelist for technology & represent in external forums.
- Creating architectures & designs for new solutions around existing and new problem spaces
- Drive technology & tool choices for your team & be responsible for them.
Requirements:
- Quick & Excellent Problem solving skills for complex & large scale problems
- Exposure to a wide variety of problem spaces, technologies
- Very Strong System design and OO skills with a nifty ability to craft clean interfaces and operate at the right levels of abstraction
- Solid coding skills with ability to drive teams through massive refactoring exercise & improve coding standards across large code bases
- Deep knowledge, understanding & experience of working with a large variety of multi-tier architectures.
- Awareness of pitfalls & use cases for a large variety of solutions
- Deep understanding & experience of high performance web scale & real-time response systems with experience & expertise in a variety of large scale persistent systems including large databases
- Exposure to complete product development cycles - From inception to production to scaling up, supporting new requirements, re-architectures the Principle architects should have seen it all and ideally in multiple cycles.
- Should have been part of scalable product development cycles with either large data handling or large transaction processing exposure for 5 years
- Must have worked in a small setup (either a startup or a small & reasonably independent team)
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- B Tech or higher in Computer Science or equivalent required
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Highly proficient in JavaScript, modern JavaScript, HTML,
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About Privacera
Privacera, Inc is a California based start-up company that is looking for Senior Software Engineers to work out of our Mumbai/Pune based office. Privacera is a cloud-based product which uses Cloud native services in AWS, Azure and GCP. Privacera is a fast-growing start-up and provides ample opportunity work on all Cloud services like AWS S3, DynamoDB, Kinesis, RedShift, EMR, Azure ADLS, HDInsight, GCP GCS, GCP PubSub and other services.
We are looking for motivated individuals who are keen to work on Cloud or Big Data services or have worked on Cloud and Big Data. If you want to work in a start-up culture and are ready for the challenge, then join us on our exciting journey.
Responsibilities:
- Design, code and debug cloud-native applications.
- Evaluate and identify new technologies for implementation
- Determine operational feasibility by evaluating analysis, problem definition, requirements, solution development and proposed solutions
- Write well designed, testable, efficient code
- Develop software verification plans and quality assurance procedures
- Serve as a subject matter expert
Requirements:
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5+ years of relevant experience in software development
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Deep understanding of public cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure or Google)
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Experience with large scale distributed systems
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Ability to troubleshoot distributed systems
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Prior experience with data encryption, TLS/SSL is a strong plus
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Experience with Docker and Kubernetes is a plus
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Deep experience with Java
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Excellent communication (writing, conversation, presentation) skills, consensus building, Quick learner
Good to have experience in Production support - Tier 4
Experience with these technologies are a plus: AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, Cloudera, Snowflake, Mongo DB, Oracle, Databricks, Datastax, Confluent

- Translation of complex functional requirements into technical requirements
- Design, develop and maintain complex systems using best of the breed development practices and technology.
- Responsible for the overall software development life cycle.
- Delivery of High Quality & Scalable systems and applications with a sharp focus on timelines.
- Being on the lookout for bettering the software engineering practices and tools within the organization
- Collaboration with other stakeholders to provide robust and well-rounded solutions
- Report on the status of product delivery and quality to management, customer support and product teams.
- Experience of 5+ years in designing & developing highly scalable, performant web applications
- Strong programming, debugging, and problem-solving skills
- Strong Computer Science Fundamentals (Data structures and Algorithms)
- Sound understanding of object-oriented programming and excellent software design skills.
- Good experience of Restful services using Java Springboot
- Strong understanding of database design and SQL (PostgreSQL / MySQL) development
- Good to have knowledge of NoSQL technologies like Redis, MongoDB, Cassandra or any other NoSQL database
- Knowledge of design patterns and good to have experience of large-scale applications
- Should have experience in Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ, SQS or other Queueing systems.
- Experience of working with Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Computing (GCP) would be considered as an advantage
- Experience of developing with Serverless Model will be an advantage.
- Working with the product team to develop new features focused on improving the user experience
- Improving existing features and working on streamlining client implementations through improved tools
- Improving our technical architecture and building out a continuous integration pipeline
- Modernizing our front-end in new frameworks
- Everything else - our team is small and you'll likely be involved in almost every tech-related thing going on
Requirements
- 1+ years of experience building consumer-facing web apps
- You are interested in the full-stack opportunity and love building a feature from start to finish
- Self-starter with a deep interest in tech - we want someone who will come in with opinions, and shape our engineering practices and decisions for the better
- An eye for design - you'll have an important role in making the product look great
- Believe in our mission and love the idea of working in education to help students succeed
Technologies you'll work with:
- NodeJS, http://sails.js/">Sails.JS
- http://react.js/">React.js, Redux, Redux-Saga
- Kubernetes, Postgres, ElasticSearch, Redis, RabbitMQ
- Whatever else you decide - we're constantly re-evaluating our stack and tools
- Having prior experience with the technologies is a plus, but not mandatory for skilled candidates.
Benefits
- Remote Option - You can work from any location of your choice
- Reimbursement of Home Office Setup
- Competitive Salary
- Friendly atmosphere
- Flexible paid vacation policy
Managing & mentoring a team of 5+ people
Ability to deliver projects/sprints on time
Obsessed with quality: Design reviews, code reviews, testing (system/performance)
Spending at least 50% time with hands-on coding while doing the above
Programming
Hands on experience with design and implementation of of WebApps and APIs using a PHP based framework (such as Laravel, Code Igniter, Cake or similar)
In addition to PHP, hands-on with a Python or node.js based framework
Good understanding of SQL (mySQL, postgres or similar. including clustering)
Good understanding of one no-SQL
Comfortable producing and refactoring code without assistance
Understands different major language paradigms (object oriented / functional /reactive)
Can reason about complexity of algorithms (time and space)
Basic CI/CD and DevOps






