PHP fullstack developer

Founded by a Harvard Business School and IIT Kharagpur alumna, is revolutionizing what and how students learn in the 21st century. With 1000+ subjects outside the school on which structured thinking and effective communication are developed.

The academy provides children with curated, Harvard-like content that inspires them every day, and exposes them to a wide range of topics, careers, and leaders. Here the student will enhance both the knowledge as well as skills of the 21st century.

Job Details: Full Stack Engineer - FSE - 1

Role Scope:

We are looking for a MEAN/MERN Stack developer to join our Technology team.

As a full-stack developer, you will work closely with our Technical Architectural members to develop microservices that focus on the educational needs of Parents and Students globally.

If you have excellent programming skills and a passion for developing applications from scratch, we would like to meet you. Working at Early Steps Academy is one of the best opportunities to get first-hand experience in an early-stage startup, explore different domains, and achieve your career goals.

Preferred Qualifications & Skills

A minimum of 3 years of relevant experience

Strong programming skills in Javascript/Typescript with Object-oriented design

Hands-on expertise in building reusable components and independently publishable packages

Strong experience in HTML, Angular(2+)/React, ExpressJS, MongoDB, NodeJS and CSS frameworks

Practitioner of IaC (AWS), CI/CD, Containerization(Docker), Accessibility, Server Side Rendering, Pre-rendering, Serverless and Agile Ability to adapt quickly to a new direction.

Location - Bangalore

Our front-end applications are written in React with TypeScript using Gatsby and Next.js. For our REST and GraphQL APIs we use TypeScript and NodeJS, with PostgreSQL and ElasticSearch behind the scenes.

All of our services are hosted on AWS using Elastic Kubernetes Service. CI/CD is handled by Jenkins, with automated Docker builds and deployments to staging. We use Github and JIRA to help us keep on top of our tasks, manage and host our code.

We have a strong culture for testing. We are individually responsible for our work and are immensely proud of the quality we produce. We try and automate as much of the testing as possible.

We have a learning and development budget for keeping up to date which can be spent on conferences, courses, and even books. We encourage sharing what we learn with the rest of the team and the wider community.

We are truly cross-functional: as well as designers and product managers, our teams include data analysts, mortgage advisers and marketing specialists. We’re focused on results: meetings are banned two days a week, and if you need to work from home to finish a project or leave early to manage your energy we encourage you to take it.

About the Role

• Develop scalable web applications for award-winning consumer-facing financial tools
• Develop quick internal admin tools for analysts to create and maintain critical rule sets around consumer financial data
• Integrate new external APIs from vendors or other teams into platform
• Work with UX and design team to transform wireframes into living products
• Build new REST and/or GraphQL endpoints for representing our data to consumer applications
• Own full development requirements and implementation, release management, QA regression scripts, and deployment to containerized production environments
• Communicate results and impact to business stakeholders

About You

• Experience with Node.js and a UI framework (React a plus)
• Experience with unit, integration and end to end testing tools and practices
• Experience with documenting, creating, and consuming REST APIs (GraphQL a plus)
• Keen eye for detail when translating design and requirements into working code
• Proficiency with security requirements, authentication and authorization layers (OAuth2, Google Sign-in)
• Aware of front-end performance implications and best practices
• Familiarity working in the cloud, especially as it pertains to the front end: (Amazon S3 or Azure Blob, Cloudfront, Cloudflare, Fastly, etc.)
• Familiarity with tag and event tracking libraries (e.g. Segment, Google Analytics)
• Fluent at using Git
• Excellent communication, collaboration and writing skills
• You feel comfortable that our values - being brave, investing in each other, making it simple, and owning it - reflect aspects of your personality and approach to work.

• Expert knowledge in WordPress installation, configuration, Administration, security, and optimization.
• Experience with WordPress Theme, Widgets and Plugin customizing and developing new wordpress themes, Plugin modification/development and widgets development.
• Strong understanding and hands-on in HTML, DHTML, XML, CSS, JavaScript, JQuery/Prototype and AJAX.
• Develop high performance, highly scalable, custom development and/or plugin development for WordPress sites
• Experience with parent themes, caching systems (WP Super Cache, W3 Total Cache etc.), HyperDB, Yoast SEO.
• Strong PHP background to implement core WP functions, template tags & hooks in the theme.
• Experience in common third-party APIs (Google, Facebook, ebay etc)
• Very strong understanding of database technologies and SQL Optimization.

Core Competency:

Professional development experience, working the full stack on large scale B2B, SaaS products. • Expertise with learning new technologies and strong experience with our tech stack AngularJS, JavaScript, Node.js, Go, React.js and Postgres. • Bachelor’sin Computer Scienceorsolid knowledgeof CS fundamentals(OOP, designpatterns, algorithms, etc...) • Experience and adesire towork in a fast-paced environment. • We are a leading cloud-based open platform used by some of the most prestigious companies around • You will get to work with some of the most complex technologies on the market today • You will have an opportunity to work at all levels of the organization.

JOB DESCRIPTION

Full Stack Developer Responsibilities:

• Developing front-end website architecture.
• Designing user interactions on web pages.
• Developing back-end website applications.
• Creating servers and databases for functionality.
• Ensuring cross-platform optimization for mobile phones.
• Ensuring responsiveness of applications.
• Seeing through a project from conception to finished product
• Meeting both technical and consumer needs.
• Staying abreast of developments in web applications and programming languages.

Requirements:

• Degree in computer science, I.T
• Strong organizational and project management skills.
• Proficiency with fundamental front-end languages such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, WordPress
• Proficiency with PHP
• Familiarity with database technology such as MySQL, Oracle, and MongoDB.
• Excellent verbal communication skills.
• Good problem-solving skills.
• Attention to detail.

About Company:

ESDA is a Software Development firm with a mission of providing innovative services and a vision of serving clients across the globe. It is a customer-centric Information Technology Company that specializes in Business Application Development. ESDA’s offerings are highly customizable and scalable. It also provides Web Development services and believes in providing 360-degree support to its clients. ESDA provides Web Development services like Web Designing, App Development, Digital Marketing, Graphic Designing, Hosting, Time and Material, and Gap Analysis Consultancy apart from these services, it is also working towards launching applications/software for the online market as its products.

We are looking for a highly skilled full-stack developer, who will be responsible for designing and developing front end web architecture, ensuring the responsiveness of applications, and working alongside the product owner, architects, analysts and designers for web services and web design features, among other duties

We Need a Driven Individual Who Can

• Design, develop, deploy in-premise products as well as robust, scalable cloud components for multi-tenant SaaS products
• Open to explore, adapt and apply multiple technologies
• Maintain attention to detail while working in a fast-paced environment
• Think creatively and justify design and code decisions
• Passionate about learning and experimenting with new cutting-edge technologies
• Ability to lead change and hands-on approach

Qualifications

• Experience in developing web applications and user interfaces
• Architecting solutions using ReactJS 
• Proficiency with NodeJS is a plus
• Proficiency with cloud services from AWS and Lambda functions is a plus
• Familiarity with tools like WebPack, Babel, Jest, Cypress, ESLint, and NPM/Yarn
• Strong grasp of data structures and algorithm design

What We Have To Offer

• Work with a performance-oriented team driven by ownership and open to experiments.
• Learn to design systems for high accuracy, efficiency, and scalability.
• No strict deadlines focus on delivering quality work.
• Meritocracy-driven, candid culture. No politics.
• Being an early hire will come with its own opportunities to hack your growth

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