Senior Backend Developer

• Proven software development experience in PHP

• Understanding of open source projects like Laravel, Drupal, Mysqletc

• Demonstrable knowledge of web technologies including HTML, CSS, Javascript, AJAX etc

• Good knowledge of relational databases, version control tools and of developing web services

• Experience in common third-party APIs (Google, Facebook, Ebay etc)

JOB DETAILS:

* Job Title: Engineering Manager (Client facing)

* Industry: Technology

* Salary: Best in Industry

* Experience: 8-12 years

* Location: Bengaluru

Role & Responsibilities

We are seeking a visionary and decisive Engineering Manager to join our dynamic team. In this role, you will lead and inspire a talented team of software engineers, driving innovation and excellence in product development efforts. This is an exciting opportunity to influence and shape the future of our engineering organization.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to a high-performing team of software engineers.
• Develop and implement engineering strategies that align with organizational goals.
• Manage multiple concurrent projects, ensuring timely delivery and high-quality outcomes.
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to define and prioritize product features.
• Implement and uphold Agile methodologies to optimize team performance and efficiency.
• Conduct regular performance evaluations, fostering continuous professional growth within the team.
• Oversee the entire software development lifecycle, from initial conception through to deployment.
• Manage budgets, resources, and capacity planning for engineering projects.
• Stay up-to-date with emerging technologies, ensuring the team is equipped with the latest industry trends.
• Ensure adherence to best engineering practices, maintaining high coding standards.
• Hands-on coding experience required – actively contribute to coding and technical design decisions.
• Tech stack: Java, Spring, microservices, cloud technologies, and building large-scale systems.
• Experience in collaborating directly with clients – ensuring client requirements are met and managing relationships effectively.

Ideal Candidate

• Strong Client-Facing Engineering Manager Profile
• Must have 8+ years of engineering experience, with substantial exposure to back-end development, scalable distributed systems, and modern web services
• Must have 2+ years of experience in people and delivery leadership, owning engineering execution and leading teams to deliver complex products
• Must have proven experience working directly with external stakeholders / clients, translating client requirements into engineering plans and delivering solutions with high customer impact
• Strong technical foundation with experience in backend engineering, REST APIs, databases (SQL/NoSQL), and building reliable, high-performance systems
• Strong problem-solving and design capabilities; experience with system design, architecture reviews, and engineering best practices
• Must have expertise in agile methodologies and project management tools
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with a track record of presenting technical solutions to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• (Cross-Functional Collaboration): Must be skilled in working with product, design, sales, and client teams to drive requirements, delivery, and client success
• (Execution & Delivery): Demonstrated ability to manage end-to-end delivery, coordinate releases, prioritise effectively, and deliver results in time
• (Company): Product companies
• (Stability): Must have stayed for at least 2 years with each of the previous companies
• (Education): B.Tech in computer science, engineering or a related field from Tier 1, Tier 2 colleges (Master's preferred)

Our client DDB Mudra Group are one of India’s largest marketing communications networks. The Group’s promise ‘Unexpected Works’ comes alive in our partnerships with some of the world’s fastest-growing companies and most admired brands including Johnson & Johnson, Volkswagen, Pepsico, McDonald’s, TTK Prestige, Diageo, Unilever, Royal Enfield, Titan, Meesho, and Infosys. Our agencies include DDB Mudra, 22feet Tribal Worldwide, Mudramax, Interbrand, Track and TracyLocke.  

Our work has shone at many prestigious forums.  

• APAC Agency of the Year at Spikes Asia 2022 with consecutive Grand Prix wins in the last three years. 
• Asia's #1 creative agency by WARC Rankings 2021. 
• India’s Agency of the Year and #5 in Asia according to Campaign Brief’s ‘The Work 2021’. 
• 2 at Kyoorius 2021. 
• One of the only two Indian agencies to bring home a Cannes Gold in 2021. 

One of the Top 20 most effective and creative agencies in the world by Effie Index 2020Our unwavering commitment to diversity and inclusion as one of the company’s key pillars for growth is seen through marquee initiatives like ‘The Phyllis India Project’ which creates a community of women leaders, and ‘Open Pride’ that fosters an inclusive and engaging work environment for the LGBTQIA+ community & allies. The Group was awarded Silver at IWEI’s Top Employers 2020 for the LGBT+ community. We are also four-time Gold winners of the Talent Development Program of the Year at the Campaign South Asia Agency of the Year Awards. 
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Key responsibilities & Deliverables:

 
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• Deeper understanding and working experience in Drupal, WordPress, Laravel or CodeIgniter & NodeJS (Express JS).
• Analyze, design, code, debug, test, document & deploy applications
• Experienced in OOP and knowledge of design patterns
• Creating, using implementing and modifying Drupal/WordPress themes.
• Customize and tweak core, forms, modules and themes in Drupal/WordPress.
• Managing deployments of PHP and NodeJS projects with one or multiple developers across environments
• Hands-on experience in PHP, JavaScript, jQuery, SQL, Drupal, WordPress, Laravel or CodeIgniter, NodeJS (Express JS), MySQL, MongoDB.
• Exposure Experiences in application integration and web services technologies (REST, SOAP, XML, etc.) WebAPI
• Responsible and Reliable developer working against strict timelines and meeting on-time delivery goals.
• Deploying applications in AWS or GCP or Azure
• Must be a self-starter & be able to work with minimum supervision
• Should have capacity to solve complex business problems

Essential skills:

• Seeking 2+ years experienced PHP/NodeJS developer for long term employment.
• Must have, 2+ years’ experience working under Drupal, WordPress, Laravel or CodeIgniter, NodeJS (Express JS).
• Expertise in Drupal, WordPress, Laravel or CodeIgniter, NodeJS (Express JS), MySQL, Rest APIs and MongoDB.
• Good knowledge of Ajax, jQuery, HTML, Javascript, and CSS.
• Familiarity with source control systems such as Subversion, etc.
  Knowledge of Object-oriented concepts.
• Good to know about deploying applications in AWS or GCP or Azure
• Knowledge of REST/SOAP Web services.
• Knowledge of AngularJS or React JS is a big plus.
• Good to have certification under any CMS or Framework.
• Proficient in the maintenance and administration of applications.
• Experience integrating open source and third-party applications into existing applications.
• Results-oriented, reliable, and able to work under pressure.
• Ability to communicate technical ideas to business users and other teams.
• Ability to both collaborate with team members and work independently.
• Eager to embrace current and emerging web technologies

Regards,
Namrata Shukla.

• Back-end software development
• Software engineering and designing data models and write effective APIs
• Working together with engineers and product teams
• Understanding business use cases and requirements for different internal teams
• Maintenance of existing projects and New feature development
• Consume and integrate classifier/ ML snippets from Data science team

What we are looking for:

• 4+ years of industry experience with the Python and Django framework.
• Degree in Computer Science or related field
• Good analytical skills with strong fundamentals of data structures and algorithms
• Experience building backend services with hands-on experience through all stages of Agile software development life cycle.
• Ability to write optimized codes,debug programs, and integrate applications with third party tools by developing various APIs
• Experience with Databases (Relational and Non-Relational). Ex: Cassandra, MongoDB, Postgresql
• Experience with writing REST-APIs.
• Prototyping initial collection and leveraging existing tools and/or creating new tools
• Experience working different types of datasets (e.g. unstructured, semi-structured, with missing information)
• Ability to think critically and creatively in a dynamic environment, while picking up new tools and domain knowledge along the way
• A positive attitude, and a growth mindset

Bonus:

• Experience with relevant Python libraries such as Sklearn, NLTK, tensorflow, HuggingFace Transformers
• Hands on experience in Machine learning implementations
• Experience with Cloud infrastructure (e.g. AWS) and relevant microservices
• Good with Humor and Team player

What you need to have:

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Job Details

Job Description

• Design and build web applications
• Work with business stakeholders, managers & other developers to create solutions to business problems.
• Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency
• Work on bug fixing and improving application performance

Ideal candidate must have following skills/experience

• Expert level understanding of object-oriented web development in PHP
• Good understanding of Object-Oriented Architecture & Design
• Profound knowledge of any PHP framework like Yii
• Excellent JavaScript competence and command over JQuery
• Excellent understanding of any RDBMS like Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL
• Knowledge of Web Services and micro services
• Hands on experience with CSS & frameworks like Bootstrap/Material
• Experience with GIT & continuous integration
• Practical experience with well-implemented Scrum

Candidates with following skills/experience are preferred along with must have silks above

• Experience on Yii framework (PHP)
• Experience with AngularJs
• Experience with MongoDB
• Write elegant, well-documented code
• Experience in setting up, managing servers & continuous integration
• Should have good interpersonal skills, communication (verbal & written) skills and ability to work independently

Role and Responsibilities:

• As a backend developer, your primary focus will be the development of all server-side systems
• A basic understanding of front-end technologies is necessary as well. You will test, secure and deploy your code
• Work experience on Node.js is a must along with a server-side framework like Express.js
• Strong proficiency in JavaScript
• Writing reusable, testable, and efficient code
• Experience and proficiency integrating with REST APIs
• Understanding of scalable computing systems, software architecture, data structures, and algorithms
• Experience in working with databases such as MongoDB, Redis, Elasticsearch, etc.
• AgileScrum development cycle understanding.

Skills Required:

• At least 2 years of experience developing backends using NodeJS should be well versed with its asynchronous nature & event loop, and know its quirks and workarounds.
• Good knowledge of MongoDB(Must) & any other MySQL Database.
• Good knowledge of Redis, its data types, and their use cases.
• Experience developing and deploying REST APIs.
• Knowledge and working experience in Cloud environment - AWS or Azure
• Good knowledge of Unit Testing and available Test Frameworks.
• Should be a fast learner and a go-getter without any fear of trying out new things