PHP Developer

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.

Software Programmer - PHP 

 

About us 

GRG India is a leading provider of end-to-end loyalty management services in India. We help large and mid-size companies acquire, engage, retain and influence their customers, employees and channel partners. Our clients include some of India’s top brands across BFSI, FMCG, Construction, IT, Agro Chemicals, and Automotive industries. 

 

Following are examples of what we do: 

• Design a mechanic loyalty program for a large auto ancillary company, wherein the mechanic gets incentivized every time he influences the vehicle owner to buy original OEM spare parts 
• Send promotional offers to customers of large banks to make them use specific banking channels (e.g. Net Banking, Mobile App etc.) or products (e.g. Remittance, Loans etc.) 
• Acquire and grow the customer base of a large MNC agro chemical company by using farmer referral programs and instant gratification rewards 
• Engage HNI customers of a large real estate company with high-end exclusive benefits, privileges, and rewards 

• Assist one of India’s top credit card issuing companies to reduce employee attrition and increase sales across multiple sourcing channels 

 

With a reputation that’s been built over a decade of providing successful loyalty management solutions, we’re now embarking upon a journey of creating highly modular, scalable, and mostly standardized products.  

We have recently launched a SaaS product  Let’s Buzzz, an employee engagement platform that helps drive performance and innovation at the workplace. It is a comprehensive product designed to empower business. from accelerating employee engagement to helping appreciate good work and motivating employees to deliver on business objectives.  

 

Reports to 

AVP - Technology 

 

 

3 best things about the job 

 

• Work in a rapidly evolving industry where scalable tech products have a huge impact 
• Work in a product environment which provides a greater scope for growth 
• Exposure to different technologies and frameworks 

 

Responsibilities of the role 

 

• Develop Web/App based solutions in PHP and PHP based frameworks (CodeIgniter/Laravel) having a Service Oriented Architecture (REST/SOAP) 
• Work on integration of 3rd Party libraries as required by the product 
• Unit-testing code for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability 

• Ensure the quality of the end product while adhering to quality norms 
• Creating Technical documentation wherever applicable 
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features 
• Take part in requirement understanding and contribute to solution of the requirement 

 

What you will need  

 

• Should have a sound experience in PHP, MVC Frameworks, Code Igniter. 
• Strong grasp in web development open source: CSS, HTML5, PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, jQuery, AJAX & JSON 
• Working knowledge of MySQL databases 

• Good knowledge of relational databases, version control tools and of developing web 
• Knowledge of Angular JS, Node JS will be considered as an added advantage 

 

 

●5+ years of experience in backend development.
● Experience in design, development, and deployment of the
application.
● Knowledge of Restful Web-Services, JSON, HTTP, Networking
protocols
● Knowledge of MVC architecture.
● Mandatory Tech Skills: PHP, NodeJS, JavaScript, SQL, NoSQL,
GIT.
● Good to Have: Laravel, Express, AWS
● Basic understanding of HTML, CSS

The ideal candidate will efficiently and quickly write PHP in a timely and scalable way in order to improve the code-base of the company's products in meaningful ways. This candidate will be able to test the code and make adjustments where necessary. They should also have experience in contributing to the whole software design lifecycle.

Experience: 4-5 Years

• Custom PhP website Development

• Proficiency in Laravel and / or Codeigniter

• Through knowledge of MVC structure

• Angularjs, React JS, Node JS, Vue Js (Mastery in any one)

• JS, AJAX, HTML, CSS

Skills Required

• Have thorough knowledge of PHP, JavaScript, AJAX, jQuery, HTML5, CSS3, Bootstrap
• Possess the ability in Angular js, React js
• Top-notch programming skills, ability to produce quality code that is maintainable, efficient, reliable and secure.
• Development of APIs as required. Rest or Soap API integration.
• Strong knowledge of MVC is required
• Must Know Framework like Laravel, CodeIgniter, Cake Php, Yii
• Have experience in MySQL, MariaDB databases.
• Distributed version control and regular deployments.
• Have Good Communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Write clean, well-designed code
• Troubleshoot and test core product software to ensure strong optimization
• Contribute to all phases of the development life cycle

Qualifications

• Experience of 4-5 years in Wordpress development and Application Development
• Strong knowledge of relational databases, tools and PHP skills

Employment type: Full-time

Location: Ahmedabad

Salary: as per company standards 

Job Description:-
Strong experience in customizing and extending Magento1 and
Magento2 platforms, PHP coding, MySQL administration and
optimization, and JavaScript, HTML, CSS, XML.
Desired Candidate Profile:-
 An expert level knowledge of OO PHP, MySQL, Linux
(LAMP Stack) aimed at Magento.
 Magento2 certified candidates are preferred.
 Expertise with development life-cycle methodologies and
best practice.
 A good understanding of web frontend technologies
(Javascript, HTML & CSS, SCSS)
 Proven experience building bespoke extensions for Magento
2
 Demonstrable integration experience of using third party
web services through SOAP & REST (Payment, fulfillment
etc)
 A deep understanding of the use of a git based workflow
system and git-flow.
 Good understanding of build and dependency management
tools such as Composer, Homebrew, Gulp.

What will we be building together?

1K Kirana Bazaar (1K) is building Bharat's first hyperlocal offline-online distribution platform. Our aim is to provide the benefits of technology and scale to the underserved first time internet users of Bharat. We use the efficiencies of the existing kirana store network and empower them with a full technology stack to fulfill all needs of our consumers.

Over the next 2 years our goal is to transform the lives of millions of new age consumers of Bharat and at the same time make the lives of thousands of retailers more fulfilling! With our end to end integrated supply chain and technology stack, we are already disrupting the traditional supply chain and bringing in innovation and gamification to the traditional shopping and consumption process. The growth process will demand exploration of technologies like Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence, IPFS, Distributed Computing, and IOT to name a few to fuel the idealistic model design for the making of an evolved #bharat. We visualise seamless access to every consumer or a mom & pop store in the deepest rooted corners of India.

What will you be driving with the team?

To build full-stack solutions for retail & supply chain from managing purchases to selling products to end consumers. You will work on solving some of the complex problems of the retail industry.

Your core responsibilities:

• Solve complex problems and follow good coding practices and complying with existing quality standards.
• Evaluate existing engineering processes and recommend improvements.
• Setup high-quality standards in production running code by performing diligent code reviews and rigorous unit test coverage.
• Brainstorm (sometimes, even prototype) features with the rest of the team based on your knowledge of the codebase.
• And of course, there's always bugs to fix, based on your personal experience or feedback from the team and the 1K community.

What will help you thrive in this role? 

• A bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field is preferred.
• 6 month+ experience in software development.
• Knowledge of programming languages.
• Should possess a solid grasp of object-oriented programming, data structures, and software design.
• Experience with AWS infrastructure and distributed systems is a plus.
• Highly developed attention to detail.
• Ability to work well in a fast-paced environment.

Whom you will be sharing your workday with?

We are a language-agnostic engineering team of independent thinkers who understand the priorities of a rapidly growing startup and excel at choosing high impact projects. Our core beliefs are: 

• We are at the forefront of disrupting the traditional retail & supply chain industry by building distributed systems
• We are hardcore open source lovers and believe in the strength of the open-source community.
• We believe technology can change the way information is consumed.
• We use a data-driven approach to build new products and features.
• Build new tech solutions to improve business processes and enable our various departments to help service our teams better.
• We embrace and enable DevOps culture within the organisation.

And yes! We do have new furry friends coming to our office every day.

Work Perks

• Hybrid work environment with flexibility to work from anywhere. 
• A great salary, commensurate with experience.
• Unlimited vacation policy which means Paid Vacations.
• A relaxed & flexible working atmosphere.
• Weekly parties (Unofficial).
• Paid outings to remote work locations and industry events/conferences.
• Paid Health Insurance for you and your loved ones.

Essential duties and responsibilities include the following.

• Design, create and maintain databases through multiple product lifecycle environments, from development to production systems
• Configure and maintain database servers and processes, monitor system health and performance, to ensure high levels of performance, availability, and security.
• Convert complex business requirements into technical specifcations to build scalable and reliable data solutions 
• Apply data modelling techniques to ensure development and implementation support efforts meet integration and performance expectations.
• Independently analyse, solve, and correct issues in real time on production, providing problem resolution end-to-end.
• Refine and automate regular processes, track issues, and document changes.
• Develop complex query, performance tuning, stored procedures and triggers, scheduled jobs, schema refinement.
• Flexibility to work after office hours for any production issue or production deployment.
• Perform scheduled maintenance and support release deployment activities after hours.
• Share domain and technical expertise, providing technical mentorship and cross-training to other peers and team members.

Qualifications include:

• 4+ years of database and backend development experience
• Good understanding of database systems and architectures
• Expertise in writing complex SQL queries and stored procedures
• Hands on experience with RDBMS and NoSQL data stores like  MySQL and MongoDB
• Experience working with Python scripting and application development
• Experience working with Cloud applications and data stores like AWS RDS is a plus
• In-depth understanding of data management and ETL processes

• Excellent in Jquery, HTML5, CSS, ReactJS or AngularJS.

• Excellent programming skills in PHP Codeigniter / Laravel Framework. (Laravel is mendatory)

• Experience with popular React.js workflows (such as Flux or Redux)
• Familiarity with newer specifications of EcmaScript
• Experience with data structure libraries
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs
• Must be well versed with software application design and development tools.
• Knowledge of modern authorization mechanisms, such as JSON Web Token
• Familiarity with the whole web stack, including protocols and web server optimization techniques.
• Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements
• Familiarity with code versioning tools (such as Git, SVN, and Mercurial)
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Good knowledge of PHP, Laravel, MySQL, jQuery, HTML5, Linux - Knowledge of open source platforms like Wordpress will be an added advantage. - Experience on Angular JS or React is preferable - Experience using and deploying on Linux. - Experience in teams using CI / CD Pipeline - Git, Jenkins - Experience working in agile methodology - Preference will be given to candidates who have travelled onsite or with US business Visa.