PHP Developer

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. 

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 

Your Impact 

We’re looking for passionate and self-driven Backend Engineers who can combine technical depth with strategic product thinking. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys working with modern backend stacks, brings strong critical thinking to the table, and can balance short-term delivery with long-term technical vision. 

• Build scalable and reliable backend services and APIs that power the product.
• Design, implement, and maintain databases, ensuring data integrity, security, and efficient retrieval. 
• Implement the core logic that makes applications work, handling data processing, user requests, and system operations. 
• Contribute actively to system architecture, be part of discussions for new features and services.
• Optimize systems for performance, scalability, and security 
• Stay up-to-date with new technologies and frameworks, contributing to the advancement of software development practices 
• Drive code quality through writing unit tests, code reviews, and documentation.
• Take ownership of end-to-end feature development — from design to deployment and monitoring.

What skills do you need? 

• Extensive (Must have) hands-on experience in JavaScript / TypeScript, backend development using Node.js and Express.js, and database management with MySQL.
• Strong command of JavaScript and understanding of its quirks and best practices
•  Exposure to system design and interest in building scalable, high-availability systems.
• Experience from a high-growth product-based startup is a must-have.
• Ability to think strategically when designing systems—not just how to build, but why
• Prior work on B2C applications with a focus on performance and user experience
•  Ensure that applications can handle increasing loads and maintain performance, even under heavy traffic 
• Work with complex queries for performing sophisticated data manipulation, analysis, and reporting. 
• Knowledge of Sequelize, MongoDB, and AWS would be an advantage. 
• Experience in optimizing backend systems for speed and scalability.
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Why choose a career at RockED? 

• Remote-first culture with initial in-office training at our Bangalore HQ to help you settle in and connect with the team.
• Company-sponsored travel and stay during quarterly in-person meetups.
• Comprehensive health insurance – ₹10 lakh coverage for you and your family, fully paid by RockED.
• A rare opportunity to learn directly from our investors, who have built and exited multi-million dollar companies.
• Direct access to leadership with experience at top global companies like Adobe, Microsoft, Walmart, and more.
• Be part of a diverse and global team working across the US, India, and Germany.
• Unlimited leave policy – built on trust and so far used responsibly by our team.

Sr. Software Developer ( 4years – 5years)

Required:

1. Extensive experience in Ruby on Rails (4-5)years, software designing and architecture.
2. Experience in microservice architecture (2-3)years
3. Experience in Elastic Search/Redis/Sidekiq
4. Experience in writing Rspec Test cases
5. Experience in cloud services such as AWS
6. Experience in Postgres/Mysql, Database Modelling
7. Excellent problem solving capabilities

Good To have:

1. Experience in design pattern
2. Experience in managing teams

• Previous working experience as a PHP Developer for 3 years
• BS/MS  in Computer Science, Engineering or a similar relevant field
• User authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments
• Integration of multiple data sources and databases into one system
• Familiarity with limitations of PHP as a platform and its workarounds
• Proficient in PHP, HTML5, JavaScript, JQuery Expert
• Experience with PHP MVC frameworks (Symfony)

Desired Candidate Profile

• Collaborating with the front-end developers and other team members to establish objectives and design more functional, cohesive codes to enhance the user experience.
• Own code for the products with responsibilities including but not limited to designing, developing, testing, maintenance of products.
• Building RESTful services and do DevOps.
• Talking to customers and business teams to suggest improvement areas in product flows.
• Create peer learnings for team members and build context for new teammates
• Help with building the company's tech team and iterating on the hiring framework.
• Provide regular feedback to your team (peers and managers) to ensure continuous improvement.
• Keeping abreast with the latest technologies and working on your skills regularly.

Skills & Requirements

• Good knowledge and experience of working with backend systems; designing server-side architecture, including production maintenance experience are must-haves.
• At least 1-8 years of experience in any programming languages like Java, Ruby, PHP, Python, and Node.js(Node.js preferred).
• Understanding of micro-services-oriented architecture.
• Experience with Databases design (SQL, NoSQL) and analytics
• Experience in driving and delivering complex features/software modules from technical design to launch.
• Expertise with unit testing & Test Driven Development (TDD)
• Have empathy for the users you build for

Good to have

• Experience in the fintech industry
• Experience leading design and implementation of robust and secure web services