Php developer

Company Name: Tilicho Labs

Job Title: Back End Developer

Employment Type: Full Time- Work from Office

Experience: 3 years- 5 years

Reports To: Senior Engineer/Team Lead

Company Overview

Tilicho Labs is a premier software development company dedicated to creating innovative digital solutions that drive business growth and enhance user experiences. Founded in 2015, we've been at the forefront of technological advancement, helping businesses of all sizes transform their digital presence.

Job Overview

We are looking for dedicated back-end engineers to join our team and contribute to our server-side development processes. You will be responsible for designing and maintaining scalable web services, managing databases, and collaborating with stakeholders to ensure seamless integration between the front end and back end.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain server-side applications.
• Build scalable and secure web services using NodeJS/Java. 
• Manage databases and data storage.
• Design and optimize databases on PostgreSQL MySQL, MongoDB, or SQL Server while ensuring secure and reliable data management.
• Collaborate with team members. Work closely with front-end developers, designers, and project managers to ensure alignment between server-side functionality and user interfaces.
• Implement APIs and frameworks. Design and implement RESTful APIs to facilitate communication between server-side applications and end-user systems.
• Conduct troubleshooting and debugging. Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks, security vulnerabilities, and server-side errors to maintain system stability.
• Optimize scalability and workflow. Develop reusable code and scalable solutions to accommodate future growth.
• Integrate core backend systems with multiple external parties.
• Perform test driven development.
• Develop systems with logging and observability as core tenets.

Key Technical Requirements

1.Programming Languages

• Proficient in NodeJS/Java.
• Writing clean, modular, and scalable code.

2. Frameworks & Libraries

• Experience with backend framework - ExpressJS, NestJS/ Spring Boot

3. API Development

• Strong expertise in designing and implementing RESTful APIs and GraphQL APIs.
• Understanding API Authentication (API Keys).
• Familiar with API documentation tools (Swagger/OpenAPI).

4. Database Management

• Experience with RDBMS (PostgreSQL, MySQL, MS SQL) and NoSQL databases (MongoDB).
• Writing optimized queries and knowledge of schema design and indexing.

5. Microservices Architecture

• Understanding and experience in building scalable microservices.
• Knowledge of message brokers like Kafka, RabbitMQ

6. Security Best Practices

• Knowledge of securing APIs (rate limiting, CORS, input sanitization).

7. Cloud Platforms

• Experience with cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Containerization using Docker and orchestration with Kubernetes. (Bonus Skillset)
• CI/CD pipelines using tools like Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or GitLab CI.

8. Version Control

• Proficient in using Git, GitHub/GitLab/Bitbucket workflows.

9. Testing & Debugging

• Writing unit, integration, and performance tests using frameworks like PyTest, JUnit, Mocha, or Postman.
• Proficient in debugging and profiling tools.

10. Monitoring & Logging

• Familiarity with logging frameworks (ELK Stack, Prometheus, Grafana).
• Error monitoring with tools like Sentry, Datadog, or New Relic.

11. Agile Development

• Comfortable working in Agile/Scrum teams.

Soft Skills

1.Strong communication and stakeholder management.

2.Ability to work as an individual contributor and team member.

3.Problem solving.

Selection Process:

● AI Call

● Online Technical Interview

● Face-to-face Interview in Visakhapatnam (Mandatory)

• 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.

• 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.
• Working alongside graphic designers for web design features.
• Seeing through a project from conception to finished product.
• Designing and developing APIs.
• Meeting both technical and consumer needs.
• Staying abreast of developments in web applications and programming languages.

• Degree in computer science.
• Strong organizational and project management skills.
• Proficiency with fundamental front-end languages such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
• Familiarity with JavaScript frameworks React.js.
• Proficiency with Ruby on Rails
• Familiarity with database technology such as MySQL or Oracle or PostgreSQL.
• Excellent verbal communication skills.
• Good problem-solving skills.
• Attention to detail.

• 5 working days
• Flexible timings
• Work from home granted

Responsibilities:

Develop new user-facing features and behavior

Build reusable code and libraries for future use

Optimize applications for maximum speed and scalability.

Collaborate with other team members and stakeholders

Skills:

Proficiency with fundamental front end languages such as Photoshop, HTML5, CSS3, Bootstrap, and JavaScript.

Knowledge of WordPress frontend as well as backend. 

Familiarity with JavaScript frameworks such as Angular JS. Proficiency in server-side languages such as PHP.

Familiarity with database technology such as MySQL.

• Develop scalable, secured, and efficient backend for the website, mobile app, and browser extension.
• Integration of user-facing elements developed by front-end developers
• Solve complex performance problems and architectural challenges
• Ensure HTML, CSS, and shared JavaScript is valid and consistent across related applications
• API development for mobile app, browser extension, web
• Design and maintain a database
• Develop components of the database such as storage, queries, and triggers
• Create reusable, effective, and scalable PHP code
• Implement security and data protection measures
• Integration of payment gateway, third-party services via API
• Source code management using bit bucket/git
• Using/creating packages for reusability across the products
• Integration of multiple data sources and databases into one system

• 5 to 8 years of hands-on experience in automating MS Office applications like Excel, Word, PPT and Outlook using VBA
• 5 plus years of experience in the design, development, and implementation of programming code
• Experience in database development
• VBA - Should have good experience in developing efficient logic/algorithms using VBA
• Solid understanding of SDLC concepts
• Solid experience in MS Excel (2003, 2007, 2010, 2013,2016)
• Must be good at all excel features and excel formulas
• Well versed with complete MS Office package (Excel, Word, Outlook, PPT)
• Work both independently and as part of a team
• Experience in requirements gathering, effort estimate, designing and implementation, and creating mock-up screens
• Experience in databases like MS SQL Server(2005 to 2012,2014), MySQL, and MS Access
• Must have strong database concepts and DB designing skills
• SQL - must be good at writing efficient, fine-tuned queries using joins and aggregates
• Experience in writing Stored procedures, Triggers and T-SQL
• Nice to have programming knowledge in C# coding should be MANDATORY
• working with C# DLL development and integration with Excel VBA

Interpersonal

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Should be able to take complete ownership of the project from requirements gathering to delivery and maintenance
• Should be able to work independently
• Must be Proactive and Self-motivated
• Must have the ability to prioritize the work, execute tasks and meet the deadline without fail
• Effective time management skills
• Customer Focus, Willing to learn and self-teach any new technology
• Strong business and collaboration skills, and responsive to service needs and operational demands