Senior PHP Developer

🚨 We’re Hiring: Senior PHP Developer – Kolkata 🚨

Job Summary:

We are seeking an experienced Senior PHP Developer to lead and execute complex web development projects. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in PHP development, with a strong background in coding, architecture, and team collaboration. The role involves developing scalable PHP applications, mentoring junior developers, and contributing to knowledge sharing within the team.

Key Responsibilities:

- Develop, test, and deploy scalable PHP applications with clean, well-documented, and efficient code

- Design application architecture and database structures for new projects or large features

- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure alignment on project goals and timelines

- Mentor junior or mid-level PHP developers and provide guidance and troubleshooting support

- Design and optimize SQL queries, stored procedures, and database schemas to enhance performance

- Debug and resolve issues, bugs, and performance bottlenecks in live and development environments

- Stay updated with PHP versions, frameworks, and suggest new technologies or processes to enhance team productivity or project quality

Technical Skills:

- Expertise in PHP, with experience in frameworks like Laravel and CodeIgniter

- Strong understanding of MVC architecture and OOP principles

- Proficiency in front-end technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and frameworks like Vue.js or React)

- Experience with RESTful and SOAP APIs, as well as JSON and XML

- Knowledge of database systems, including MySQL, PostgreSQL, or MongoDB

- Familiarity with version control systems, particularly Git

Experience:

- 4+ years of experience in PHP development

- Experience with project management tools like JIRA or Trello

Education:

- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience)

- PHP certification or frameworks-specific training (e.g., Laravel certification) is a plus

• 4 to 7 years of experience (or equivalent understanding of software engineering)
• Strong in Javascript & Typescript + frameworks like React, Next.js, Angular, etc.
• Strong experience in architecting complex, distributed systems in public or private cloud
• Willingness and interest in learning new tech/processes (Python, Airflow, Postgres, etc.)
• Willingness to travel to offices in New York City, San Francisco, and Hyderabad

Responsibilities:

• Designing and developing mobile-first applications.
• Creating and maintaining clean and clear front-end code and backend APIs for our web and mobile applications.
• Automation and Deployments of builds - Frontend and Backend.
• Application Performance And Error Monitoring and Automation.
• Maintaining excellent test coverage for our code base.
• Working with our shared services and field teams to identify application bottlenecks and make relevant architectural decisions.
• Constantly optimizing our code bases with an eye for modularity and legibility.
• Writing documentation for our external and internal APIs.

Requirements:

• 4-7 years of professional web development experience.
• WordPress custom theme/plugin development from scratch.
• Mandatory experience in PHP and NodeJS packages (e. g. express, socket-io).
• Experience with AWS Lambda and EC2 is required.
• MySQL/PostgreSQL/Oracle.
• Javascript / jQuery / ES6
• CSS/SCSS
• Unix Server Administration.
• Gitlab and CI deployment experience.

Nice to have:

• Familiarity with at least one Javascript framework (React, Vue.js, etc.).
• Familiarity with CI/CD Pipeline.
• Excellent documentation skills.
• Ability to clearly articulate technical problems, design and implementation choices to a broad range of stakeholders (e. g. sales team, users, security experts).

Perks and Benefits

• Work from anywhere
• Competitive salary and bonus program
• Annual company retreats to fantastic places
• Unlimited Vacation Policy
• Great healthcare coverage
• Professional development allowance
• Internet Allowance
• Customised CMMversary rewards on your 1,3,5,7 and 10-year work anniversaries
• Career Enablement – We meld your upskilling initiatives with organization’s strategic planning
• Take your Birthday Off

Job Profile

A NodeJs developer will be required to deploy and maintain network applications. Manage the exchange of data between servers and users, develop back-end components, and connect applications with other web services. Will also act as a support front-end developer by integrating web-based applications in Angular. With good hand's on experience in Rational Database i.e. MySQL & PostgreSQL.

Desired Candidate Profile

• Minimum 3+ years experience on Node JS
• Mandatory experience of 2 years in Angular 2 & above
• Experience on Bootstrap or any other JS Framework
• Very good knowledge of rational databases MySQL & PostgreSQL
• Good Knowledge of MongoDB.
• Excellent on web technologies including HTML, CSS, JavaScript, AJAX jQuery
• Experience in common third-party APIs
• Strong debugging skills
• Strong analytical skills and problem-solving aptitude

Excellent English writing and speaking skills are a must

Annual CTC : INR. 5,00,000/- to INR. 10,00,000/-

What is the role?

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

Key Responsibilities

• Design and develop SaaS-based applications based on microservices architecture.
• Work on core backend and ensure it meets the performance benchmarks.
• Work on the front end with ReactJS.
• 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.

What are we looking for?

An enthusiastic individual with the following skills. Please do not hesitate to apply if you do not match all of it. We are open to promising candidates who are passionate about their work and are team players.

• Education - BE/MCA or equivalent.
• Overall 4+ years of experience.
• Agnostic/Polyglot with multiple tech stacks.
• Worked on open source technologies – NodeJS, ReactJS, MySQL, NoSQL, MongoDB, DynamoDB.
• Good experience with Front-end technologies like JavaScript frameworks, ReactJS, AngularJS.
• Backend exposure – good knowledge of building API.
• Worked on serverless technologies.
• Efficient in building microservices in combining server & front-end.
• Knowledge of cloud architecture.
• 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.

Whom will you work with?

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

We are

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. works with over 1000 global clients. We help our clients in engaging and motivating their employees, sales teams, channel partners or consumers for better business results.

Way forward

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. We however 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.

• 7+ years of overall software development experience. 

• Hands-on experience with backend languages like Python, Java and Javascript. 

• 2+ years of distributed cloud systems architecture. 

• Good understanding of SQL and experience in designing database structures. 

• Understanding of frontend development and frameworks at a high level. 

• High availability and fault tolerance systems design experience. 

• Test Driven Design practitioner and good understanding of unit Testing and comprehensive test suite building. 

• Customer focused with good analytical thinking and problem solving. 

• Metrics based progress monitoring and reporting capabilities. 

• Flexibility to interface with cross timezone teams. 

• Should have led cross-functional teams like frontend, backend, UI/UX, devops, QA, etc. 

• Experience in security practices for web applications. 

Note: Hands on experience in Angular is also must.

What is the role?

You will be responsible for developing and designing front-end web architecture, ensuring the responsiveness of applications, and working alongside graphic designers for web design features, among other duties. You will be responsible for the functional/technical track of the project

‍Key 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
• 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

What are we looking for?

An enthusiastic individual with the following skills. Please do not hesitate to apply if you do not match all of it. We are open to promising candidates who are passionate about their work and are team players.

• Education - BE/MCA or equivalent
• Overall 4+ years of experience
• Agnostic/Polyglot with multiple tech stacks
• Worked on open source technologies – NodeJs, ReactJs, python, Mysql, No SQL, MongoDB, DynamoDB
• Good experience with Front-end technologies like Javascript frameworks, Reactjs, Angularjs
• Backend exposure – good knowledge of building API
• Worked on serverless technologies
• Efficient in building microservices in combining server & fronted
• Knowledge of cloud architecture
• 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

Whom will you work with?

You will work with a top-notch tech team, working closely with the architect and engineering head. 

What can you look for? 

A wholesome opportunity in a fast-paced environment that will enable you to juggle between concepts, yet maintain the quality of content, interact and 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 Compass.

We are

We at Compass strive to make selling fun with our SaaS incentive gamification product.  Compass is the #1 gamification software that automates and digitizes Sales Contests and Commission Programs. With game-like elements, rewards, recognitions, and complete access to relevant information, Compass turbocharges an entire salesforce. Compass also empowers Sales Managers with easy-to-publish game templates, leaderboards, and analytics to help accelerate performances and sustain growth.

We are a fun and high-energy team, with people from diverse backgrounds - united under the passion of getting things done. Rest assured that you shall get complete autonomy in your tasks and ample opportunities to develop your strengths.

Way forward

If you find this role exciting and want to join us in Bangalore, India, then apply by clicking below. Provide your details and upload your resume. All received resumes will be screened, shortlisted candidates will be requested to join for a discussion and on mutual alignment and agreement, we will proceed with hiring.