PHP Developer

About Sun King

Sun King is the world’s leading off-grid solar energy company, delivering energy access to 1.8 billion people without reliable grid connections through innovative product design, fintech solutions, and field operations.

Key highlights:

• Connected over 20 million homes to solar power across Africa and Asia, adding 200,000 homes monthly.
• Affordable ‘pay-as-you-go’ financing model; after 1-2 years, customers own their solar equipment.
• Saved customers over $4 billion to date.
• Collect 650,000 daily payments via 28,000 field agents using mobile money systems.
• Products range from home lighting to high-energy appliances, with expansion into clean cooking, electric mobility, and entertainment.

With 2,800 staff across 12 countries, our team includes experts in various fields, all passionate about serving off-grid communities.

Diversity Commitment:

44% of our workforce are women, reflecting our commitment to gender diversity.

About the role:

The Backend Developer works remotely as part of the technology team to help Sun King’s EasyBuy business unit design and develop software to improve its field team operations.

What you will be expected to do

• Design and develop applications/systems based on wireframes and product requirements documents. 
• Design and develop logical and physical data models to meet application requirements. 
• Identify and resolve bottlenecks and bugs based on operational requirements.
• Perform unit tests on code to ensure robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability. 
• Write reusable and easily maintainable code following the principles of DRY (Don’t Repeat Yourself). 
• Integrate existing tools and business systems, both in-house and external services, such as ticketing software and communication tools. 
• Collaborate with team members and product managers to understand project requirements and contribute to the overall system design. 

You might be a strong candidate if you have/are

• Have development experience: 1-2 years backend development experience and have strong problem-solving abilities, proficiency in data structures, and algorithms. 
• Have a profound grasp of object-oriented programming (OOPS) standards and expertise in Core Java. 
• Have knowledge of SQL, MySQL, or similar database management. 
• Have Experience in integrating web services, such as SOAP, REST, JSON, and XML. 
• Have familiarity with RESTful APIs for linking Android applications to backend services. 
• Have preferred experience with version control systems like Git, but not mandatory. 
• Have additional knowledge of web technologies like HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and frameworks like Spring or Hibernate would be advantageous. 

What we offer (in addition to compensation and statutory benefits):

• A platform for professional growth in a rapidly expanding, high-impact sector.
• Immerse in a collaborative culture, energized by employees of Sun King who are collectively motivated by fostering a transformative, sustainable venture.
• A genuinely global environment: Engage and learn alongside a diverse group from varied geographies and backgrounds.
• Tailored learning pathways through the Sun King Center for Leadership to elevate your leadership and managerial capabilities.

About the company

SuperHuman Race is a technology start-up that offers measurement of 360 ̊ sustainability,

ESG and CSR automation, alignment with compliance requirements, and experiential

employee engagement. Our product is a category-creating technology implementation that

automates program management, compliance, and reporting including automated

reporting for international frameworks like GRI, GRESB, DJSI, CDP, etc.

We use data analytics, behavioral dynamics, good gaming, and impact blockchain to deliver

social purpose to companies while fulfilling their compliance requirements. This approach

has a demonstrated 4X return on profitability and generates tremendous Earned PR and

brand equity for corporates. Over 30% of our growing global clientele comprises Fortune

500 companies.

Our founding team brings 50+ years of leadership experience with Fortune 500 companies

in India & North America. Along with this, our high-performing diverse teams combine

experiences from more than 20 countries and a wide range of industries and disciplines

including aerospace, real estate, banking, social impact implementation, advanced

technology, manufacturing, sustainability, advertising, etc. Our work, as well as our

business practices, have been recognized as game-changing best practices by the United

Nations, the Commonwealth, NITI Aayog, Ministry of Earth Sciences (Government of India),

TERI, etc.!

We are an equal-opportunity employer - more than 50% of our business and technical

leadership roles are held by women.

We are looking for a PHP Developer responsible for managing back-end services and

the interchange of data between the server and the users. Your primary focus will be

the development of all server-side logic, definition, and maintenance of the central

database, and ensuring high performance and responsiveness to requests from the

front-end. You will also be responsible for integrating the front-end elements built by

your co-workers into the application. Therefore, a basic understanding of front-end

technologies is necessary as well.

Responsibilities

● Integration of user-facing elements developed by front-end developers

● Build efficient, testable, and reusable PHP modules

● Solve complex performance problems and architectural challenges

● Integration of data storage solutions

Skills And Qualifications

● Strong knowledge of Core PHP

● Understanding the fully synchronous behavior of PHP

● Understanding of MVC design patterns

● Intermediate to Advanced knowledge of MySQL, JavaScript, and AJAX

● Basic understanding of technologies such as HTML5, React.js, Node.js, and CSS3

● Knowledge of object-oriented PHP programming

● Evolved Understanding of accessibility and security compliance

● Strong knowledge of the common PHP or web server exploits and their

solutions

● Understanding fundamental design principles behind a scalable application

● User authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and

environments

● Integration of multiple data sources and databases into one system

● Familiarity with the limitations of PHP as a platform and its workarounds

● Creating database schemas that represent and support business processes

● Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git

The Ideal Candidate will have:

● A graduate or postgraduate degree in Computer Science or IT Engineering

● 2+ years of work experience developing commercially successful web products

● Experience with analytics and process automation

● Attention to detail and a disciplined mind

● Extraordinary analytical and logical prowess

● Common Sense and Curiosity

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER :

The SuperHuman Race is an equal opportunity employer and we highly value transparency.

Everything that matters in our decision-making process regarding this position is clearly

outlined in this job description

Requirements:

• Experience in Frameworks: YII
• Must have good analytical and problem solving skills.
• Good Knowledge of OOPS.
• Write error free code and follow coding standards. Able to perform Code Review job.
• Work closely with QA person to assist in the testing process. 
• Perform R&D tasks if assigned and communicate with the Designer and UI team.
• Build reusable code and libraries for future use.
• Able to work closely with the team and meet the tight deadlines where necessary.
• Strong Communication Skills.

• Should have good experience with PHP and PHP frameworks such as CodeIgniter.
• Should have good experience with HTML, CSS, JQuery.
• Should have experience with designing and writing performant APIs.
• Should have understanding or experience with good design patterns, dependency injection and MOC frameworks.
• Should have experience with data modeling and database technologies such as MySQL, SQL Server, PostGres.
• Should have experience with front end JavaScript frameworks.
• Should have experience working in an agile development environment.
• Should have experience writing unit, automated and integration tests.

Hiring:
PHP / Laravel Developer with 1 year experience in PHP / Laravel / Wordpress language

Perks:
No salary bar for the right candidate

Flexible and Friendly work environment.

Health / Medical Insurance

Enthusiastic team of developers

Supportive leadership

Opportunity to showcase your creativity

Employee overall development programs and Activities regularly

• Build innovative, state-of-the-art applications and collaborate with the User Experience (UX) team. 
• Prepare and maintain all applications utilizing standard development tools 
• Develop backend data services and contribute to increasing existing APIs 
• Ability to act individually in a complex and fast-paced environment
• Closely work with the Product and QA teams to ensure smooth delivery 
• Participate in solution designing with Tech leads and Systems Architects
• Document the development process, architecture, and standard components
• Coordinate with co-developers and keep project manager well informed of the status of development efforts 
• Keep abreast of new trends and best practices in web development 

• BE/BTech or some equivalent academic stance. 

• 2-5 years’ experience 
• A confident, self-starter, team player with drive, enthusiasm, and excellent interpersonal, communication, and negotiation skills 
• Ability to manage yourself and be a self-starter. 

• Great people skills to closely work with other teams. 
• Strong in establishing systems & processes 
• Expertise in Laravel, MySQL, and Git 
• Thorough in Object-oriented concepts 
• Knowledge of Restful Web services 
• Understanding of web applications
• Working knowledge of one or more caching, queuing systems in desirable
• Familiarity with AngularJs or React is a big plus 
• Excellent problem solving 
• Can-do attitude 

Description

• Responsible for developing Web Applications.
• Design, Develop, enhance and test front-end, back-end web modules using Node.js, Express framework, My Sql and Mongo DB.
• Research and explore existing solutions, competition, to get a holistic understanding of the Design and development.
• Communicate and collaborate effectively with various teams for effective outcomes.
• Meet deadlines in a high intensity work environment 

Primary Skills :

• Proficient in Nodejs
• Understanding of Front-End Technologies
• Good Knowledge of Node
• Proficient in RESTful APIs and API Communications
• Good Grasp of Asynchronous Programming and Its Workarounds
• Database Schema Creation for Business Processes
• Working Knowledge in User Authentication and Authorization
• Write Efficient Code
• Implementing Data Protection
• Error-Handling Skills