PHP Laravel Developer - Remote Work

About Astra:

Astra is a cyber security SaaS company that makes otherwise chaotic pentests a breeze with its one of a kind Pentest Platform. Astra's continuous vulnerability scanner emulates hacker behavior to scan applications for 9300+ security tests. CTOs & CISOs love Astra because it helps them fix vulnerabilities in record time and move from DevOps to DevSecOps with Astra's CI/CD integrations.

Astra is loved by 650+ companies across the globe. In 2023 Astra uncovered 2 million+ vulnerabilities for its customers, saving customers $69M+ in potential losses due to security vulnerabilities. 

We've been awarded by the President of France Mr. François Hollande at the La French Tech program and Prime Minister of India Shri Narendra Modi at the Global Conference on Cyber Security. Loom, MamaEarth, Muthoot Finance, Canara Robeco, ScripBox etc. are a few of Astra’s customers.

Role Overview:

As an SDE 2 back-end engineer you will be responsible for leading the development and maintenance of the platform/dashboard backend. This would involve architecting, developing & maintaining RESTful services for vulnerability management, scan orchestration, inventory management and platform features such as on-boarding, trust centers, certificates, payment integrations, vulnerability ingestion, authentication etc. 

You should have a strong background in backend programming (Symfony preferred, or Laravel) and have experience with an event driven, async & distributed architecture. 

During the first 6 months of your role, you will be involved in the 0->1 journey of two of our upcoming products in our platform along with the respective product owners.

Love solving hard problems? Want to build high impact products rooted in first principles? Is coding your poetry? Join us in shaping the future of cyber security.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Lead the design, development, and maintenance of backend services and APIs using Symfony PHP framework. What you create is also what you own.
• Collaborate with front-end developers to integrate user-facing elements with server-side logic.
• Collaborate with scanner teams to orchestrate scans, ingest vulnerabilities, configure scanners etc.
• Write clean, well-documented, and efficient code.
• Optimize and refactor existing code to improve performance and reliability.
• Implement security and data protection measures.
• Triage, troubleshoot and upgrade existing systems.
• Ship code to production multiple times a day/week.
• Ensure timely delivery of the features.
• Test your own features, and write test cases for continuous automated testing.
• Troubleshoot complex issues, debug, and upgrade existing systems.
• Mentor junior engineers and lead code reviews, promoting best practices and high standards.
• Drive architectural decisions and technical strategy for backend systems.

What we are looking for:

• 4-6 years experience in a similar role or similar working experience.
• Advanced proficiency in PHP backend programming. Symfony preferred, or Laravel.
• Strong understanding of system design, software architecture principles and performance optimization.
• Experience with an event driven (subscribers/listeners), async (MessageHandlers & job queues) & distributed (load-balanced) architecture.
• Experience with PostgreSQL database and data modeling.
• Understanding of concepts such as Dependency Injection, ORM, data validation, error handling etc.
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions (good to have).
• Experience with Agile methodologies.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to think strategically about technical solutions.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional remote teams.
• Demonstrated track record of delivering high-quality software products on schedule.
• Knowledge of industry best practices in software development, security, and compliance.
• Knowledge of application & infrastructure security - helps you stand out.

What We offer:

• Adrenalin rush of being a part of a fast-growing company, and working on hard problems that matter.
• Fully remote, agile working environment.
• Good engineering culture with full ownership in design, development, release lifecycle.
• A wholesome opportunity where you get to build things from scratch, improve and ship code to production in hours, not weeks.
• Holistic understanding of SaaS and enterprise security business.
• Experience with security side of things.
• Annual trips to beaches or mountains (next one is to Wayanad).
• Open and supportive culture.
• Health insurance & other benefits for you and your spouse. Maternity benefits included.

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Technologies we use: LAMP with Yii framework

Why should you join us?

- We are a 6 years old start-up with a quite small tech team. Hence, you will have a lot to learn.

- We are growing really quickly with more than 5 lac users every month and have a team size of 65 members as on today.

- We do offer ESOP along with salary if you are well on our expectations.

- We like people who love to learn and grow. We equally contribute to your learning by allowing you enough time to participate in online courses or sessions.

- 24 paid leaves in a year. Work from home option available occasionally.

I think we gave you a lot of reasons to join our team.

**Please apply only if you are well versed in LAMP stack. We do not accept applications from freshers, you should have worked in an organization for at least 6 months before applying.

Job description

Company Description

Honeycomb Creative Support is an integrated marketing communication agency, with

nearly 14 years of experience marketing in diverse sectors such as lifestyles, IT,

pharmaceuticals, healthcare, education, manufacturing, and automotive. The firm

provides creative design and marketing services to local and international clients

using creative vision, information analysis, strategic thinking, and execution to sell

ideas and unique products to the target audience. Honeycomb provides services such

as Web Design & Development, Graphic Design, Corporate and Product Video

Production, Digital Marketing, Branding, Fine-Art Printing and On-site Creative

Studio at Client Location.

Role Description

If you are looking for an exciting opportunity to work with an established marketing

communications agency, you have come to the right place. We are looking for a full-

time On-Site Back End developer Laravel | Exp: 2 to 3 Years | 3 - 5 LPA, based in

Greater Bengaluru Area. As a Back End Engineer at Honeycomb Creative Support,

you will be a part of our development team, responsible for building server

applications and APIs.

Qualifications

• PHP and PHP Frameworks

• Laravel and CodeIgniter must

• Good Knowledge in any MVC Frameworks.

• Basic knowledge of AWS

• MySQL

• Basic knowledge in Node.js

• Experience with building RESTful APIs and API development

• Knowledge of GIT-based source control

• Understanding of how to test and debug web applications

• Understanding of modern PHP development practices, design patterns, and SOLID principles

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or equivalent

• Good problem-solving skills and attention to detail.

Responsibilities:

●     Design and develop websites and web applications from initial concept, site architecture, and user interface to finished deliverables.

●     Write clean, secure, test-driven, easily maintainable and modular codes adhering to the technical standards.

●     Database designing and maintenance.

●     Create and update reusable code libraries to streamline the development cycle.

●     Ensure HTML, CSS, and shared JavaScript is valid and consistent across applications

●     Collaborate and work with front-end/mobile developers on the backend needs of projects.

●     Client communication (verbal/written) as and when required.

Required Skills:

●     Previous working experience as a PHP / Laravel developer. Experience in CMS like Drupal and WordPress will be an added advantage.

●     Excellent knowledge of the Laravel framework and experience building factories/facades/libraries using abstract classes, interfaces, and traits.

●     Good knowledge of RDBMS (MySQL/MS SQL/PostgreSQL), database designing and query optimization techniques.

●     Good core knowledge of HTML5, CSS3, jQuery and Bootstrap framework.

●     Hands-on experience in RESTful API design and development, including implementing oAuth2.0 for authentication and authorization.

●     Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.

●     Excellent communication (verbal/written) skills.

• 5-7 years of web application and web site development with Drupal (corporate web sites, ecommerce sites, portals, mobile sites).
• 4+ years managing web application projects.
• Thorough understanding of the Software Development Lifecycle (e.g. Requirements, Design, Development, Testing) and exposure to Agile or iterative SDLCs.
• Experience with one or more modern JavaScript frameworks (React, Angular, Vue) React preferred
• Experience writing semantic, responsive HTML.
• Experience writing object-oriented PHP.
• Experience implementing web solutions in Drupal and PHP.
• Experience with Drupal’s theme layer.
• Experience with Drupal’s module system and experience writing or extending modules.
• Experience with Drupal’s Migrate framework.
• Experience with Drupal JavaScript behaviors.
• Experience with Acquia provided tooling and development workflows for Drupal 8/9 preferred.
• Experience implementing, accessibility standards (Section 508, WCAG).
• Experience with CSS preprocessors (Sass, Less).
• Experience with version control tools (Git).

Responsibilities

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

2-Build efficient, testable, and reusable PHP modules

3-Solve complex performance problems and architectural challenges

4-Integration of data storage solutions (may include databases, key-value stores, blob stores, etc.

Skills and Qualifications

1-Strong knowledge of PHP web frameworks (such as Code igniter, Core PHP depending on your technology stack).

2-Understanding the fully synchronous behavior of PHP.

3-Understanding of MVC design patterns.

4-Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as JavaScript, Jquery, Ajax, HTML5, and CSS3.

5-Knowledge of object oriented PHP programming.

6-Understanding accessibility and security compliance (Depending on the specific project)

7-Strong knowledge of the common PHP or web server exploits and their solutions.

8-User authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments

9-Integration of multiple data sources and databases into one system.

10-Familiarity with limitations of PHP as a platform and its workarounds.

11-Creating database schemas that represent and support business processes

12-Familiarity with SQL/MySQL databases and their declarative query languages