PHP/Laravel Developer

Qualifications:

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).

- At least 7 years of experience in back-end development, specifically with Node.js.

- Strong understanding of JavaScript and TypeScript would be a plus.

- Experience with asynchronous programming and event-driven architecture.

- Familiarity with RESTful APIs and/or GraphQL.

- Proficient in working with databases (e.g., PostgreSQL).

- Knowledge of version control systems, particularly Git.

- Experience with cloud services (e.g., Azure Cloud) and containerization tools (e.g., Docker).

- Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to work independently as well as part of a team.

- Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

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 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 PHP web frameworks such as Codeigniter
• Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as JavaScript, JQuery, HTML, and CSS
• Familiarity with MySQL databases and their declarative query languages
• Understanding of MVC design patterns
• Knowledge of object oriented PHP programming
• Strong knowledge of the common PHP or web server exploits and their solutions
• Understanding fundamental design principles behind a scalable application
• Good problem-solving skills.
• Good team player that is enthusiastic about delivering results

Education Should be ME/MCS/MCA/BE

Experience: 3-5 Years Experience

Skills:

Javascript, Node JS, HTML, CSS, Advanced JS


Location : Ahmedabad 

3+ yrs of exp develp'g in PHP and open source language, knowledge in MySQL, JQuery, Javascript, and other popular& widely used server technologies like Drupal, WordPress, Joomla used to implement php web applications. Knowledge of UNIX & Web Hosting.

Role IT Project Lead

Industry Type IT Services & Consulting

Functional Area Project & Program Management

Role Category Technology / IT
Location:Hyderabad

What are we looking for? :

- Experience of upto 3 years in PHP or other backend programming languages.

- Understanding of MVC structures, OOPs concepts and Frameworks.

- Experience working with Linux, Nginx or Apache and Git, REST APIs.

- Experience with Third party API integrations and using various vendor libraries.

- Have knowledge of Database schemas, structures and migrations.

- Experience in Laravel would be a huge plus.

What you will be doing?:

- Collaborate with team members and solve new challenges through tech and research.

- Take end-to-end ownership of delivering new modules - analyze customer usage & feedback, review business requirements, develop functionalities and test code.

- Write clean readable code and also follow best practices for efficiency and performance.

- Self learn and work independently, Also collaborate with the team when required.

- Communicate constructively and value user experience and feedback.

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What can you expect to learn?:

- Exposure to latest web technologies and frameworks like Angular, Laravel, PHP, Magento, PWAs, REST APIs, Elastic search and Web services.

- Develop custom functionalities and modules in Laravel to implement business ideas and user requirements.

- Best coding practices and various methodologies to optimize performance and produce the best quality product. Various caching techniques and optimization standards.

- Microservices architecture and Scalability using cloud services, Automation of manual tasks using linux and shell scripting, Data migrations, SQL and Version control tools like bitbucket.

Perks : 

- Competitive salary

- Flexible work hours

- No dress code

- Group outings

- Supportive work culture

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.

• Job Title:- Fullstack Developer
• Experience:- 2-5 years of experience
• Job Location:- WFH
• Number of Vacancy:- 01, 5days working.
• Notice Period:- Can join less than a month
• Resources must have sound knowledge in Angular2+, http://asp.net/">ASP.NET Core, WEB API, Angular

Job Description:-

• Minimum 2-5 years of experience.
• Should have good understanding in Object Oriented Programming (OOP) concepts.
• Sound knowledge in Angular2+, http://asp.net/">ASP.NET Core, WEB API, Angular is desired.
• Exposure to complex enterprise application component development and maintenance.
• Good understanding of design patterns & principles.
• Ability to discuss normally encountered technical issues through verbally and oral to client/management team.
• Ability to work as an individual contributor /as a collaborative team member.
• Willingness to learn new technologies.
• Knowledge of Microsoft Azure, Oracle is an added advantage.
• Nice to have Docker and Azure container knowledge/experience.
• Basic knowledge of micro services.
• Nice to have Azure DevOps knowledge.
• Experience in CI/CD

About us:

Strata is a commercial real estate investment platform that offers investors the opportunity to invest in pre-leased commercial assets such as offices, warehouses, and retail spaces across India.

We are one of the fastest-growing PropTech platforms in India and are backed by Elevation Capital, Mayfield, Kotak Investment Advisors, Gruhas (a venture by Nikhil Kamath of Zerodha) and DLF Family Office.

Our headquarter is in Bangalore, India.

We are a small yet close-knit team of 35+ people.

About you:

You have a knack for product and strongly equipped with engineering skills to make it a reality. You don’t jump into implementation unless you have clearly understood the problem/requirements and have a written design. You don’t hesitate asking questions and giving critical reviews while respecting others’ opinions. You are a fearless engineer, and not afraid to fail, not on production though ;) You have a strong sense of ownership. You have a startup experience. You don’t feel annoyed if required to work on off days in case of production incidents (no development).

Your responsibilities:

You will primarily work on the backend maintaining the existing platform and writing new enhancements and features. Apart from your own features, as a senior member of the team you will be expected to be actively involved in overall design discussions and peer code reviews. You will factor in extensibility, maintainability, scalability and security in designs and code. You will ensure that best engineering practices are followed. You will support your team members when they are facing challenges, and mentor them when appropriate. You will strive for overall engineering excellence.

Must-have Skills:

• 4-8 years of total experience
• 2+ years of experience in Django and DRF. You must be pro at it. The team will be looking up to you for making most out of DRF.
• Designing and building  scalable web applications
• Good understanding of REST principles
• SQL database design and queries
• Working knowledge of AWS

Good-To-Have Skills:

• Angular or any other JavaScript frontend framework
• Designing microservices
• DevOps experience

FAQ's.

1. Your technology ingredients?

Programming languages:
Our backend is written in Python using Django framework. And the frontend is in AngularJS. Currently there is no mobile app.

Infrastructure:
We are an AWS shop and use their services for most needs, Docker for containerization and ECS as orchestrator, RDS as database, S3 for storage and SQS as messaging backend.

Other tools:
BitBucket for Git and CI/CD pipeline, Trello for project management; and Google Meets and Slack for communication.

2. Your hiring plan?

Currently the engineering team comprises of 3 engineers, and we plan to grow it to 8 by the end of 2021.

3. Your Interview process?

We will try to finish the process within two weeks. In case we can’t go ahead with  your candidature, we will clearly and immediately let you know. But in case of competing applications, we may request you to wait for a week or two.

1. 15 minutes introductory call to discuss requirements and expectations
2. 30 minutes online coding assignment on a screen sharing session
3. 1 hour technical interview covering problem solving, code review and aptitude
4. 15 minutes call with co-founder for final discussion

In case of inability to come to a conclusion from either side, we may go for an additional round.

4. Your WFH and WFO policy?

Due to Covid-19 the team is working from home and will continue till March-2022. After that we will work from the Bangalore or Pune office (yet to be finalised). You should be open to relocate to any of the cities.

5. Your funding status?

In March 2020, Strata raised $1.5 million in seed funding; and $6 million in Series-A in July 2021.