PHP Wordpress - Customization

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 

About the company

SuperHuman Race is a technology start-up that offers measurement of 360 ̊ sustainability,

ESG and CSR automation, alignment with compliance requirements, and experiential

employee engagement. Our product is a category-creating technology implementation that

automates program management, compliance, and reporting including automated

reporting for international frameworks like GRI, GRESB, DJSI, CDP, etc.

We use data analytics, behavioral dynamics, good gaming, and impact blockchain to deliver

social purpose to companies while fulfilling their compliance requirements. This approach

has a demonstrated 4X return on profitability and generates tremendous Earned PR and

brand equity for corporates. Over 30% of our growing global clientele comprises Fortune

500 companies.

Our founding team brings 50+ years of leadership experience with Fortune 500 companies

in India & North America. Along with this, our high-performing diverse teams combine

experiences from more than 20 countries and a wide range of industries and disciplines

including aerospace, real estate, banking, social impact implementation, advanced

technology, manufacturing, sustainability, advertising, etc. Our work, as well as our

business practices, have been recognized as game-changing best practices by the United

Nations, the Commonwealth, NITI Aayog, Ministry of Earth Sciences (Government of India),

TERI, etc.!

We are an equal-opportunity employer - more than 50% of our business and technical

leadership roles are held by women.

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 central

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 Core PHP

● Understanding the fully synchronous behavior of PHP

● Understanding of MVC design patterns

● Intermediate to Advanced knowledge of MySQL, JavaScript, and AJAX

● Basic understanding of technologies such as HTML5, React.js, Node.js, and CSS3

● Knowledge of object-oriented PHP programming

● Evolved Understanding of accessibility and security compliance

● Strong knowledge of the common PHP or web server exploits and their

solutions

● Understanding fundamental design principles behind a scalable application

● User authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and

environments

● Integration of multiple data sources and databases into one system

● Familiarity with the limitations of PHP as a platform and its workarounds

● Creating database schemas that represent and support business processes

● Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git

The Ideal Candidate will have:

● A graduate or postgraduate degree in Computer Science or IT Engineering

● 2+ years of work experience developing commercially successful web products

● Experience with analytics and process automation

● Attention to detail and a disciplined mind

● Extraordinary analytical and logical prowess

● Common Sense and Curiosity

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER :

The SuperHuman Race is an equal opportunity employer and we highly value transparency.

Everything that matters in our decision-making process regarding this position is clearly

outlined in this job description

• Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and improve software and new user-facing features across Novo’s products and services.
• Drive technical decisions on a multi-functional, Agile team alongside product management, product design, and engineering.
• Optimize applications for maximum speed and scalability and analyze feedback from customers and internal teams to identify issues and improvement opportunities. 
• Champion a passion for engineering best practices such as code quality, linting, and testing.
• Ensure our software is reliable, extensible, maintainable, debuggable, secure, well-tested and performs well under load.
• Mentor junior engineers in all aspects of planning, development and testing.
• Stay engaged with latest technologies and evaluate strategies to keep the Novo technology stack up to date.

• 5+ years experience in a highly technical role at a hyper-growth startup or fast-paced company.
• Extensive background designing, developing, testing, deploying, maintaining, and improving software.
• Good understanding of Node.js & Javascript.
• Demonstrated ability to translate business goals and initiatives into technical requirements.
• Strong understanding of SQL database.
• Demonstrable experience architecting scalable and cost effective solutions to ensure and support customer growth.
• Experience mentoring junior engineers in all aspects of planning, development and testing.
• Strong understanding of system design and architecture.
• Interest in engaging with latest technologies and evaluating strategies to keep the Novo technology stack up to date.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to collaborate with both technical and non-technical teams effectively.

Role & Responsibilities -:

1. Strong knowledge of PHP web frameworks such as Laravel
2. Knowledge of object oriented PHP programming & Restful API
3. Strong knowledge of Akamai CDN, Redis, AWS services
4. Understanding of LAMP and MVC design patterns
5. Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3, JS

framework

1. Knowledge of Payment Gateway
2. Familiarity with MySQL/ PgSQL/ Mongo databases
3. Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git
4. Understanding accessibility and security compliance
5. Understanding fundamental design principles behind a scalable application.
6. User authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and

environments

Skills:

1. Building and maintenance of applications.
2. Extensive understanding of project management processes, principles and

methodologies.

1. Writing maintainable and high performance code.
2. Keeping up with the trends in technology and being up for challenges.

Qualification:

1. B. Tech in Computer Science or Bachelor’s degree in Engineering
2. Master’s degree in Computer Applications /M Tec. would be preferred.