Senior Backend Engineer (PHP/Laravel)

• Create, maintain, test, and fix back-end infrastructure, including databases, data integration, API, core application logic, and other processes that need to be done behind the curtain. Since the job responsibilities can be performed remotely, we simply want our back-end developer to analyze user needs and improve user experience according.
• proficient in server-side development and optimization of data, including database creation and management and debugging
• Integrate data from various back-end services and databases
• Create and maintain software documentation
• Create user-friendly and intuitive interfaces
• Create and analyze reliable and secure back-end functionality
• Maintain, expand, and scale designed database
• Collaborate with front-end developers and web designers to match visual design intent.
• Design RESTful APIs
• Experience working with relational database like mysql/oracle, Mangodb

Position Overview:

As a Shopify Developer, you will play a pivotal role in the development and customization of Shopify themes. Your expertise in HTML5, SASS/CSS3, and JavaScript, coupled with proficiency in VueJS or React, will drive the creation of dynamic and responsive web designs. Operating within EST and GMT work times, you will utilize CI/CD frameworks and pipelines to streamline development processes, emphasizing performance optimization techniques such as FCP, CLS, and LCP. Your familiarity with Shopify site architecture and integration with third-party apps like Algolia and Boost will enable you to implement custom solutions tailored to clients' needs.

Additionally, your strong grasp of Liquid code and Shopify JS APIs will facilitate troubleshooting and resolution of front-end technical challenges, ensuring cross-browser compatibility and adherence to performance budgets. Your ability to work both independently and collaboratively, coupled with a keen attention to detail and problem-solving skills, will be invaluable in driving the success of our projects. While certification and experience with Shopify Plus and API development are advantageous, your dedication to understanding technical architecture and delivering end-to-end project implementations will be key to your success in this role. 

Key Responsibilities:

• Expert in Shopify theme development and customization

• An expertise in HTML5, SASS/CSS3 and JavaScript and expertise with VueJS or React

• Willing to work on EST and GMT work time.

• Experience in CI/CD frameworks and using pipeline.

• Experience in Performance optimization, performance budget, FCP, CLS, LCP

• Experience of Shopify site Architecture and its custom integration with Third party apps like Algolia, Boost etc...

• Working knowledge in code optimization and improving site performance in shopify theme.

• Ability to understand anything that uses JSON REST/ GraphQL API.

• Proficiency in working with different Shopify JS APIs, Strong in Liquid code.

• Offering expertise in troubleshooting and resolution of front-end-related technical problems, guiding the team through complex technical challenges.

• A thorough understanding of Shopify admin/backend system and cross-browser compatibility issues

• A strong understanding of responsive web design techniques

• Should be able to do unit testing.

• Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail

• Ability to work independently and in a team environment

Required Qualifications:

• Shopify certification

• Experience with Shopify Plus store development.

• Strong in API development and customization, App Development using PHP/Laravel or any scripting language.

• Hands on experience in integrating API/web services.

• Shopify End to end project implementation.

• Ability to understand the technical architecture design of the solution

.Overall 5+ years of experience in application development using Java with creating and deploying microservices using the Spring Boot framework







• Strong experience in Maven.







• Good experience in unit(Junit) and integration testing.







• Experience in Microservices is a must.







Experience in designing and developing REST based services / Microservice development.







• Candidate should have good communication skills (written and verbal)







Excellent analytical and problem solving skills







Any one of these database Mongo, Maria, RMQ, Postgres, or other NoSQL servers







• Experience in AWS and CI/CD







5+ Years







Design, develop, and maintain robust, scalable, and secure backend services and APIs.







• Collaborate with frontend developers to integrate user-facing elements with server-side logic.







Write clean, efficient, and maintainable code following best practices and coding standards.







• Optimize performance and ensure high availability of backend services.







• Implement security measures to protect sensitive data and prevent vulnerabilities.







Design and manage databases, ensuring data integrity and efficient query performance.







Debug, troubleshoot, and resolve issues in production and development environments.







• Conduct code reviews and provide constructive feedback to team members.







Stay up-to-date with emerging backend technologies, frameworks, and best practices.







• Participate in Agile/Scrum ceremonies and contribute to sprint planning and estimations.

• Build innovative, state-of-the-art applications and collaborate with the User Experience (UX) team. 
• Prepare and maintain all applications utilizing standard development tools 
• Develop backend data services and contribute to increasing existing APIs 
• Ability to act individually in a complex and fast-paced environment
• Closely work with the Product and QA teams to ensure smooth delivery 
• Participate in solution designing with Tech leads and Systems Architects
• Document the development process, architecture, and standard components
• Coordinate with co-developers and keep project manager well informed of the status of development efforts 
• Keep abreast of new trends and best practices in web development 

• BE/BTech or some equivalent academic stance. 

• 2-5 years’ experience 
• A confident, self-starter, team player with drive, enthusiasm, and excellent interpersonal, communication, and negotiation skills 
• Ability to manage yourself and be a self-starter. 

• Great people skills to closely work with other teams. 
• Strong in establishing systems & processes 
• Expertise in Laravel, MySQL, and Git 
• Thorough in Object-oriented concepts 
• Knowledge of Restful Web services 
• Understanding of web applications
• Working knowledge of one or more caching, queuing systems in desirable
• Familiarity with AngularJs or React is a big plus 
• Excellent problem solving 
• Can-do attitude 

• In-depth knowledge of at least one programming language such as Clojure, Go, Python, Java, Javascript (Node), Ruby, Erlang/Elixir
• Thorough understanding of PostgreSQL. Experience working with views, common table expressions (CTE), window functions, joins, different kinds of indexes, etc.
• Practical knowledge of Linux server management
• Understanding of functional programming concepts
• Knowledge of Chef, Puppet, Salt, etc. is a plus
• Experience in distributed systems is a plus

• Plan future implementations by working closely with the product team
• Deliver an amazing user experience by working with the front-end developers
• Write test suites and deploy code into production
• Setup monitoring and alerts for in-production services
• Automate deployments

• You want to build a world-class Saas B2B communication product, using the latest tools, from scratch
• You love to code 8+ hours a day and solve hard problems by building software you are proud of
• You enjoy working with directly with amazing entrepreneurs
• You are driven by the desire to learn
• You like the pressure to perform because it makes you a better person
• You are passionate about getting stuff done
• You are passionate about making a tangible difference in the world
• Passionate about writing elegant, functional efficient code

1. Resume Screen
2. Phone screen
3. Technical interview and take-home assignment
4. Interview with founders
5. Offer

• The co-founders have been running companies in at least five countries over the past fifteen years, including deep experience in technology, operations and sales in engineering/manufacturing businesses.
• We are part of Techstars first India batch, and part of Target and Airbus Accelerators
• Attended universities that are consistently ranked in the Top 10 in the world.
• We have a track record of raising capital and strong existing relationships with the finance community in both India, the US and the UK. We have funding for at least the next 24 months.
• We have strong domain expertise in the industry they are trying to disrupt. However, we still followed the discipline of spending six months doing rigorous customer development spanning six countries before defining their product or writing a single line of code. We have already identified and are working with ten customers.
• We have very high expectations from the candidates that we do select, especially in terms of first-principles thinking, communication and accountability. We will not select average candidates, and we want to encourage our employees to see Unifize as a learning ground for possibly starting their own technology businesses in the future.
• We strongly believe in evidence-based decisions, transparency, corporate governance, meritocracy, and an open forum for discussion.
• We explicitly want to build a team from different backgrounds and with a wide range of interests and experiences. We are committed to building a gender-balanced organization.

• Unifize helps teams that manage repeatable processes reduce wasted time by up to 95% by organizing their emails and other conversations around objectives.
• We build a cloud-based chat application that helps these companies measure and reduce time and errors in their communication processes, so their teams can focus on selling better products to happier customers.

1. Develop and manage e-commerce websites, web applications & web sites.
2. Analyze, design, code, debug, test, document & deploy applications.
3. Participate in project & deployment planning.
4. Must be a self-starter & be able to work with minimum supervision
5. Exp. In modules/extensions development/customization.
6. Exp. In Theme integration/customization.
   
7. Exp. In API creation/integration.
   
8. Exp. In Migration from Magento1 to Magento2
9. Extensive experience of PHP and MySQL.
10. Exposure on Magento 2, CMS and JavaScript frameworks such as jQuery.
    
11. Demonstrable knowledge of XML, XHTML, CSS, Modules i.e. API integration,
12. Payment Gateways, XML with a focus on standards.
    
13. Demonstrable source control experience
    
14. Two or more published websites in E-Commerce