PHP Developer

At Upswing, we are a passionate and self-driven team of thinkers who aspire to build the rails to connect the legacy financial sector with financial innovators through a simple and powerful banking-as-a-service (BaaS) platform.

We’re building our platform putting the focus on pragmatism, reliability, and maintainability. We believe that keeping the engineering complexity under control is key to preserving the development productivity and long-term evolution of a platform.

To bring this vision to life, we are building the infrastructure using Microservices architecture using the latest set of technologies that are also fun to work with such as Java, Scala, Postgres, Akka, Kafka with a completely automated DevOps pipeline from the get-go using tools like Chef, Jenkins, Grafana, Graylog.

We are looking for motivated engineers who will be working in a highly creative and cutting edge technology environment to build a world-class financial services suite.

Why you should join us:

• You will redefine the financial services landscape for India in the coming years.
• Be part of a core Engineering team that will create innovative and scalable Fintech solutions.
• Work with passionate and experienced engineering, product & business workforce that believes in teamwork, and that helps fast-track your learning on solving complex technical challenges.
• We are funded by the leading fintech VC `QED Investors` and other established Founders and Executives of awesome Indian companies.

What you will do if you join us:

• Propose solutions to solve complex system architecture challenges and actively lead the end-to-end development of the system.
• Create robust, flexible, consistent, and easy-to-use APIs
• Continuously strive for performance improvements, code reusability, and readability

You should have:

• Tech or a higher degree in computer science or a related field.
• 1+ years of experience working on the back-end development for complex distributed systems who are willing to adopt any Programming language as per the requirement.
• Familiarity with any of the following – Java, C++, Scala, Kotlin, and frameworks like Spring, Play, Hibernate, Django, etc.
• Good understanding of Algorithms, Data Structure, OOP, Design patterns, Parallel programming, Multithreading concepts & Event-Driven Systems.
• Experience with Relational databases such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, or any NoSQL database.

It’s a plus if you have:

• Familiarity with cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud
• Worked on Micro-services architecture

We are seeking a skilled PHP Developer with experience in the CodeIgniter framework to join our team. The successful candidate will be responsible for developing and maintaining web applications using PHP and CodeIgniter.

Responsibilities :

• Develop web applications using PHP and CodeIgniter
• Write clean, secure, and well-documented code
• Integrate front-end technologies such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript with back-end functionalities
• Collaborate with other team members to design and implement new features
• Test and debug code to ensure high-quality standards are met
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues with existing applications
• Keep up-to-date with the latest web development trends and technologies

Requirements :

• At least 2 years of experience in PHP development with a strong focus on CodeIgniter
• Proficient in web technologies such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and jQuery
• Experience with MySQL database design and development
• Knowledge of version control systems such as Git
• Familiarity with Agile software development methodologies
• Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Bonus Skills :

• Experience with other PHP frameworks such as Laravel or Symfony
• Familiarity with front-end frameworks such as Vue.js or React
• Knowledge of server management and deployment using tools such as Apache and Docker
• If you are a self-motivated and talented PHP Developer with a passion for web development and a strong desire to learn and grow, we encourage you to apply for this exciting opportunity.

Task:

• Develop, record, and maintain cutting-edge web-based PHP applications.
• Build innovative, state-of-the-art applications and collaborate with the User Experience (UX) team
• Ensure HTML, CSS, and shared JavaScript is valid and consistent across applications.
• Prepare and maintain all applications utilizing standard development tools.
• Utilize backend data services and contribute to increase existing data services API.
• Lead the entire web application development life cycle right from concept stage to delivery and post launch support.
• Refactor, optimize, and improve the existing codebase for maintenance and scale.
• Use test driven development and acceptance tests to ensure feature quality
• Convey effectively with all task progress, evaluations, suggestions, schedules along with technical and process issues.
• Document the development process, architecture, and standard components.
• Coordinate with co-developers and keeps project manager well informed of the status of development effort and serves as a liaison between development staff and project manager.
• Keep abreast of new trends and best practices in web development.

We wish:

• Previous working experience as a PHP Developer for 4 year(s)
• 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, Laravel, Yii, CodeIgniter, Zend, etc.)
• Excellent relational database skills with MySQL
• Experience with building restful JSON web services
• Knowledge of API’s, such as Twitter, Facebook, Google maps, Instagram, etc.
• Understanding of responsive design frameworks such as bootstrap

Desirable:

• Should have problem-solving skills
• Good experience in oops concept
• Good experience  in MVC
• Good experience in jQuery & JavaScript
• Learn & work on new technologies/ frameworks.
• Knowledge of bootstrap

We Offer:

• Freedom to realize your ideas & individual career & development opportunities.
• A motivating work environment, flat hierarchical structure, numerous company events that cannot be forgotten, and fun at the workplace with flexibilities.
• Professional challenges and career development opportunities.

Job Description:-

• Job Title:- PHP Developers
• :- 2-4 years
• Work Location:- CG Road, Ahmedabad
• Job Type: Full-time
• Day shift:- Monday to Saturday
• Office 10 to 7:30pm

Skills:-

• Strong experience with PHP / WordPress / Laravel. Laravel is a must.
• Strong experience with JavaScript / JQuery
• Experience with HTML / CSS
• Experience with MySQL with profiling and query optimization and Linux understanding is a must.
• In depth knowledge of object-oriented PHP and Laravel 5 PHP Framework
• Strong skills in PHP based framework
• Developers with deep knowledge and experience of building WordPress CMS websites, plugins, theme development & customization.
• Experience with MVC, Entity Framework, Webform, Web API, and business layer and front-end technologies Understanding of front-end technologies such as HTML5, CSS3
• Knowledge in AngularJS, NodeJS, MongoDB preferred.
• Solve complex performance problems and architectural challenges.
• Keep abreast of new trends and best practices in web development.

Location – Pune, Gandhinagar (Currently Work from Home till 2022)

Educational Qualification - B.E / B.Tech, MCA, M.Tech, or any equivalent IT graduation or post-graduation

• J2EE - Sprint Boot Microservices.
• At least 8+ years of experience in Java development (J2EE, J2SE 8).
• Extensive experience with Spring, Spring Boot Micro Services, JPA, Hibernate.
• Extensive experience in REST and SOAP Webservices Services.
• Excellent knowledge of databases( PostgreSQL, MySQL).
• Experience in testing tools (JUnit, SOAP UI, Postman).
• Experience in build tools – Maven, Gradle. Knowledge of modern authorization mechanisms, such as JSON Web Token.
• Experience in web application servers - Tomcat, etc.
• Understanding of Agile Development methodology – SCRUM.
• Understanding of continuous integration - Jenkins, and Code versioning tools- Git