PHP and Node.js Developer

About Role

We are seeking a skilled Backend Engineer with 2+ years of experience to join our dynamic team, focusing on building scalable web applications using Python frameworks (Django/FastAPI) and cloud technologies. You'll be instrumental in developing and maintaining our cloud-native backend services.

Responsibilities:

1. Design and develop scalable backend services using Django and FastAPI
2. Create and maintain RESTful APIs
3. Implement efficient database schemas and optimize queries
4. Implement containerisation using Docker and container orchestration
5. Design and implement cloud-native solutions using microservices architecture
6. Participate in technical design discussions, code reviews and maintain coding standards
7. Document technical specifications and APIs
8. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather requirements, prioritise tasks, and contribute to project completion.

Requirements:

1. Experience with Django and/or Fast-API (2+ years)
2. Proficiency in SQL and ORM frameworks
3. Docker containerisation and orchestration
4. Proficiency in shell scripting (Bash/Power-Shell)
5. Understanding of micro-services architecture
6. Experience building server-less back end
7. Knowledge of deployment and debugging on cloud platforms (AWS/Azure)

Oister Global (www.oisterglobal.com) is India’s premier Alternative Assets Manager. We combine robust diligence, deep domain expertise, and an extensive network to create high quality private market opportunities for our investors.

We are seeking a Senior Backend Developer who will be pivotal in architecting and developing scalable, reliable backend systems from scratch. You will work closely with product managers, designers, and other engineers to build new products, design backend architectures, and ensure high performance and responsiveness of the systems. This role requires strong backend fundamentals, cloud experience, a deep understanding of databases, and a passion for system design and architecture.

Key Responsibilities:

● Product Development: Architect, design, develop, test, and deploy new backend products and features from scratch.

● System Design: Take ownership of system design and architecture decisions for new modules, ensuring scalability, reliability, and security. ● API Development: Build efficient and reusable APIs and backend services using Node.js.

● Database Management: Design data models, optimize queries, and manage MongoDB clusters efficiently.

● Cloud Management: Deploy, maintain, and optimize services on AWS, ensuring high availability and performance.

● Best Practices: Maintain coding standards, ensure code reviews, and champion best practices in security, testing, and maintainability.

● Collaboration: Work closely with frontend developers, product managers, QA, and other cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features.

● Performance Optimization: Monitor system performance and ensure system uptime and responsiveness.

● Mentorship: Provide guidance and mentorship to junior developers as required.

● Documentation: Maintain thorough documentation of systems, processes, and best practices. Must-Have

Qualifications:

● Education: Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field.

● Experience: 4–5+ years of hands-on backend development experience.

● Expertise in: Node.js (Express.js, Nest.js or similar frameworks) MongoDB (including indexing, replication, sharding concepts) AWS Services (EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS, API Gateway, CloudWatch, IAM, etc.) Proficient in: System design principles Microservices architecture Event-driven architecture Strong understanding of: RESTful APIs.Authentication and authorization best practices (OAuth, JWT) Experience with: CI/CD pipelines Docker and containerization principles Hands-on experience in: Building scalable, distributed, and fault-tolerant systems Good knowledge of : Logging, monitoring, and debugging distributed applications

My Client's India is its largest studio outside USA with 400+ people and growing rapidly. It manages some of the biggest global games in the Casual Gaming, Action Strategy, Match-3, Slots, and Invest Express genres. The game teams are responsible for the long term-vision of the game, its entire Game Design & Tuning, Product Roadmap, Features, Content & Creative decisions, Art work (2D, 3D, Animation), Development, QA/Testing, Analytics & Performance Tracking, User Acquisition & Live Operations.

The India team is full of passionate gamers, who love to play, build great products, and have fun doing it. Studio I expect continued growth and is looking for strong leaders to expand the studio into this next growth phase.

As a Principal Software Engineer, you will be responsible for the software design of large scale applications and features & enhancements which reaches millions of players. You should be passionate about players, performance, scalability and holds a very high bar for quality of the game.

Responsibilities

• Work with Product Management to translate business requirements into technical requirements.
• Owns technical roadmap, design and review for end-to-end games, ensure design quality and integrity
• Modernizing the tech stack
• Bring tech innovations in the game which will help in growth of the games
• Design, code, and develop new features/fix bugs/add enhancements
• Analyze and improve efficiency, scalability and stability of various system resources
• Lead and Mentor junior engineers and drive a culture of technical perfection.
• Drive creative and innovative solutions to complex problems, exemplifying good technical discernment.
• Drive improvements and new approaches to address potential systemic pain points and technical debt, anticipate and avoid problems.
• Take a hands-on approach in the development of prototypes, independently and with others, to establish design decisions and/or technical feasibility.

Required Skills

• Masters or Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent
• A minimum of 7 years of professional experience in software development, mobile, desktop or web application development with hands on coding experience covering full stack
• Experience coding in C#, C++, Python, Javascript and SQL
• Working knowledge of mobile landscape, architectures, trends, and emerging technologies.
• A proven foundation in computer science, with strong competencies in data structures, algorithms, OOPS and software design
• Strong problem solving and debugging skills
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to work effectively in a team environment.

Desired Skills

• Experience with mobile development – Android/iOS/Native OR on game engines such as Cocos-2D, Unity or other.

• Experience with Amazon Web Services (EC2, ELBs, ElastiCache, DynamoDB, terraform etc)
• Experience with setting up server monitoring, alerting and server provisioning
• Familiarity with micro service architecture, containers and related technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, ECS)
• Experience with development tools & integrated build systems: XCode, IntelliJ, Git/Jenkins
• Experience of driving activities, review process to ensure software and product quality.
• Willing to pick up any languages, technologies, or methodologies necessary to smite a challenge—and if a conventional solution does not exist, then innovate as necessary.

What we offer you:

• Work in a studio that has complete P&L ownership of games
• Competitive salary, discretionary annual bonus scheme and  RSUs
• Full medical, accident as well as life insurance benefits
• Catered breakfast, lunch and evening snacks
• Child care facilities for women employees and discounted facilities for male employees
• Well stocked pantry
• Generous Paid Maternity/Paternity leave
• Employee Assistance Programs
• Active Employee Resource Groups – Women 
• Frequent employee events
• Additional leave options for most employees
• Flexible working hours on many teams
• Casual dress every single day
• Work with cool people and impact millions of daily players!

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer (Backend) with 5+ years of experience in backend technologies and at least 2+ years in GoLang. You will be working with a team of problem solvers working collaboratively to build custom solutions for Appointy’s enterprise clients. If you are excited to learn new things and thrive in a team-based culture, and if you are looking for hyper-growth in your career then Appointy could be a place for you! 

Appointy is a platform software company with offices in India, Singapore and US. Our low code platform, SaaStack, is being used globally by multiple fortune 500 companies. In the last 4 years, the company has shown 300% growth in terms of employee’s growth. Our dynamic and diversified engineering team, work on a remote-first hybrid work model.  With quarterly meetups, annual international offsites, state-of-the-art offices and facilities we ensure you have the best experience of working at a hyper-growth startup.  

• Write code that meets standard and delivery guidelines.
• Mentor other engineers on the team to develop high-quality software and perform code reviews.
• Work with the team to break user stories into tasks and delegate them to the team members.
• Playing a key role in architectural and design decisions, building toward an efficient microservices distributed architecture.
• Analyze solutions and help implement engineering best practices.
• Work with Project Managers for timely delivery and forecast.
• Lead and mentor junior engineers on technical issues. Perform blameless RCAs when issues occur and take ownership to resolve issues.

Additionally, you’ll get opportunities to:

• Work with the Product owner to write and brainstorm user stories.
• Interact directly with the clients and understand their requirements by working closely with the sales and customer support team.
• Consistently align teams with organization goals and product roadmap.

• Strong experience with backend programming languages and technologies like
• Golang (minimum 1-year experience)
• Protobuf and gRPC
• RESTful APIs
• Docker and Kubernetes
• Medium level experience with PostgreSQL and MySQL database concepts. 
• Ability to write efficient, secure, well-documented, and clean code.
• Proven ability to work with multiple teams, multitasking and prioritizing.
• Experience with Git, JIRA and Agile working methodology.
• Experience with design patterns, Event-Driven architecture and Domain Driven Designs.

• Competitive compensation
• A chance to work and contribute to  SaaStack, Appointy’s low code platform.
• Merit-Based career opportunities and to grow your career with an organization that’s scaling rapidly.
• Paid paternity and maternity leave
• Hospitalization, health  life insurance, and accident coverage
• Flexible hours and remote working flexibility
• Transparency and visibility throughout a fast-paced, successful growth organization
• Access to Appointy’s state of the art 4-acre office campus with facilities like go-Karting swimming pool, unlimited food and snacks gym and much more! 

Interested? … Apply now! Our recruitment team will screen your application and contact you.

PHP / Laravel / CI developer duties and responsibilities

• 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 frontend development 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.
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PHP / Laravel / CI developer requirements and qualifications

• Previous working experience as a PHP(Laravel/CI) developer for minimum 3 years.
• Proficient with JavaScript, JQuery and AJAX.
• In depth knowledge of object-oriented PHP (>=Laravel 7 or >=CI 4.0) framework.
• Should know about source version control like GIT or SVN
• Familiar with AWS & Linux command line will be added advantage.
• Understanding and implementing security and data protection
• Must be a team player with good communications.
• Ability to solve problems quickly and efficiently.
• Great aptitude and attitude towards learning.
• Take full responsibility for task/project execution.
• Ability to prioritize own work and respect deadlines.

You will be responsible for developing features on the application and integrations end to end. You will be working closely with the Technical Team to come up with high-quality, resilient, and highly performant applications.

• Design and develop SaaS-based applications based on microservices architecture.
• Work on the core backend and ensure it meets the performance benchmarks.
• API and Integrations.
• Designing and developing APIs for the front end to consume.
• Constantly improve the architecture of the application by clearing the technical backlog.
• Meeting both technical and consumer needs.
• Staying abreast of developments in web applications and programming languages.
• Work on the front end with ReactJS is a plus point.

• An enthusiastic individual with the following skills. We are open to promising candidates who are passionate about their work and are team players.
• A subset of the below skills should be fine as long as you are good.🙂
• OAuth, API Integrations.
• Agnostic/Polyglot with multiple tech stacks.
• Worked on open source technologies – NodeJS, ReactJS, MySQL, NoSQL, MongoDB, CouchDB, DynamoDB, Clickhouse, Kafka
• Backend exposure – good knowledge of building and integrating APIs
• Efficient in building microservices in combining server & front-end.
• Knowledge of cloud architecture.
• Excellent knowledge and understanding skills on OAuth.
• Should have sound working experience with relational and columnar DB.
• Should be innovative and communicative in approach.
• Will be responsible for functional/technical track of a project.

You will closely work with the engineering team and support the Product Team of Compass.

A wholesome opportunity in a fast-paced environment will enable you to juggle between concepts yet maintain the quality of content, interact, share your ideas, and have loads of learning while at work. Work with a team of highly talented young professionals and enjoy the benefits of being at Xoxoday.

A fast-growing SaaS commerce company based in Bangalore with offices in Delhi, Mumbai, SF, Dubai, Singapore, and Dublin. We have three products in our portfolio: Plum, Empuls, and Compass. Xoxoday works with over 1000 global clients. We help our clients engage and motivate their employees, sales teams, channel partners, or consumers for better business results.

We look forward to connecting with you. As you may take time to review this opportunity, we will wait for a reasonable time of around 3-5 days before we screen the collected applications and start lining up job discussions with the hiring manager. However, we assure you that we will attempt to maintain a reasonable time window for successfully closing this requirement. The candidates will be kept informed and updated on the feedback and application status.