PHP WEB DEVELOPER

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 220 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 the full development life cycle, working within broadly defined parameters including design, development, testing, and maintenance of the existing application with minimal supervision.
• Work on optimization and performance improvement activities. Instrument and test performance metrics.
• Participate in peer-to-peer code reviews to improve the quality and maintenance of the codebase.
• Collaboration with multiple internal/external stakeholders such as product, business, DBA, and Dev Ops.
• Design and implement APIs for web/mobile (both Android & iOS) applications.
• To be available on call for the projects or features developed by you. Things break, and you will be responsible to fix it when it does.

Experience & Skills Required

• 2+ years of experience (we are hiring freshers too for junior positions)
• Hands-on experience and knowledge of engineering end-to-end systems.
• Understanding of the complete software development life cycle, including coding standards, and code reviews.
• Familiarity with multiple software development practices and tools
• Ability to write clean, modular, and loosely coupled code by the use of design patterns.
• Proficiency in the implementation of algorithms and the use of advanced data structures to solve problems in computing.
• A solid foundation and implementing principles of computer science are a must. Ex: object-oriented programming, concurrency, fundamentals of computer science, SQL databases. 

Responsibilities for PHP Developer

·        Develop, record and maintain cutting edge web-based PHP applications on portal plus premium service platforms

·        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

·        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 liaison between development staff and project manager

·        Keep abreast of new trends and best practices in web development

·        Previous working experience as a PHP / Laravel developer for (x) year(s)

·        In depth knowledge of object-oriented PHP and Laravel 5 PHP Framework

·        Hands on experience with SQL schema design, SOLID principles, REST API design 

·        Software testing (PHPUnit, PHPSpec, Behat)

·        MySQL profiling and query optimization

·        Creative and efficient problem solver

Relevant Experience

3 to 10 years

Job Description and Key Skills Required:

• Hands-on with any of the programming languages like NodeJS/ExpressJS, Python, Java, Php or any.
• Design and create efficient RESTful API endpoints for both internal and public consumption
• Strong understanding of database technologies such as MySQL, Postgress, Oracle , relational Database.
• Work closely with front end developers to understand required data model
• Comfortable deploying applications on AWS, and have a strong working knowledge of EC2, RDS and S3.
• Must understand overall system design, architecture , improve design and implement new processes.
• Strong understanding of sessions, cookies & local storage is must.
• Experience with in memory databases like redis basic, Memcache
• Independently think of solutions to complex requirements; possess exceptional logical skills.
• Analyse current products in development, including performance, scalability, diagnosis and troubleshooting.
• Work with the existing framework and evolve it by building reusable code & libraries
• Search and introduce new software related technologies, processes and tools.
• Bonus: You're fluent with React.
• Bonus: Interested in full-stack development.
• Bonus: Any experience of iOS/Android mobile development.
• Bonus: Experience with CI servers such as Jenkins, Travis or similar types
• Bonus: Experience with web server like Nginx

What will you do?

• Website development using LAMP technologies.
• Responsible for the development of new applications and enhancements in an existing application.
• Responsible for testing of the application, performance analysis, etc.
• Good communication skills.
• Strong Analytical and troubleshooting skills.
• Ability to meet deadlines while staying focused.
• Attention to detail and ability to work with 100% efficiency.

What does it need?

• This is a role for a talented and ambitious PHP Developer. Experience in web development preferred with graduation in a similar field.
• Minimum 2 years of experience.
• Knowledge of PHP & MySQL is a must.
• Should be capable of deploying application on Apache Web Server.
• Knowledge of HTML, CSS & JavaScript.
• Knowledge of Linux/Ubuntu etc will be an added advantage.
• Knowledge of jQuery and Ajax will be an added advantage.

Locus is a global decision- making platform in the supply chain that uses deep learning and proprietary algorithms to provide route optimization, real-time tracking, insights and analytics, beat optimization, efficient warehouse management, vehicle allocation and utilization, intuitive 3D packing and measurement of packages. Locus automates human decisions required to transport a package or a person, between any two points on earth, delivering gains along efficiency, consistency, and transparency in operations.

Locus, which has achieved a peak of 1 million orders processed in a day (200,000 orders an hour) and is trained & tested on over 100 million+ order deliveries, works in 75 cities across the globe. Locus works with several large-scale market leaders like Urban Ladder, Tata Group of Companies, Droplet, Licious, Rollick, Lenskart, other global FMCG, pharma, e-commerce, 3PL and logistics conglomerates.

Locus is backed by some of the biggest names in the market and recently raised $22 MN in Series B funding and also $4 Mn in a pre-Series B round. Earlier, In 2016, Locus raised $2.75 Mn (INR 18.3 Cr) in a Series A funding.

Locus was started by Nishith Rastogi and Geet Garg, two ex-Amazon engineers on a mission to democratize logistics intelligence for businesses across industries. Nishith was profiled by Forbes Asia in their ’30 Under 30’ 2018 list. Geet, on the other hand, holds a dual degree (BTech and MTech) in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology. Our team constitutes of engineers from Indian Institute of Technology and Birla Institute of Technology & Science- Pilani, and Data Scientists with PhDs from Carnegie Mellon University and Tata Institute of Fundamental Research. Our multifaced product and business team is led by senior members from Barclays, Google & Goldman Sachs with immense operational execution experience.

Job Description

• Design & implement backend APIs at Locus.sh
• Mentor junior developers technically.
• Actively work to reduce tech debt in the Locus backend
• Work towards more stability & scalability of the backend
• Tech stack - Java, AWS, Aurora etc.

Eligibility

• 4-8 years of product company experience
• OOP implementation experience. Programming language does not matter, We use Java internally but have hired folks from non Java background.
• Hands on experience in SQL, Dynamo DB, Postgres etc preferred.
• Prior experience building REST APIs
• Advanced understanding of AWS stack
• Prior knowledge of solving problems at scale.

Perks:

• Healthy catered meals at office
• You decide your own Work From Home (WFH) and Out Of Office (OOO)
• Pet-friendly - bring your pets to the office any day. Locus family already has a Rottweiler and a Beagle