Senior PHP Laravel Developer

About Astra:

Astra is a cyber security SaaS company that makes otherwise chaotic pentests a breeze with its one of a kind Pentest Platform. Astra's continuous vulnerability scanner emulates hacker behavior to scan applications for 9300+ security tests. CTOs & CISOs love Astra because it helps them fix vulnerabilities in record time and move from DevOps to DevSecOps with Astra's CI/CD integrations.

Astra is loved by 650+ companies across the globe. In 2023 Astra uncovered 2 million+ vulnerabilities for its customers, saving customers $69M+ in potential losses due to security vulnerabilities. 

We've been awarded by the President of France Mr. François Hollande at the La French Tech program and Prime Minister of India Shri Narendra Modi at the Global Conference on Cyber Security. Loom, MamaEarth, Muthoot Finance, Canara Robeco, ScripBox etc. are a few of Astra’s customers.

Role Overview:

As a back-end engineer you will be responsible for developing and maintaining the platform/dashboard backend. This would involve developing & maintaining RESTful services for vulnerability management, scan orchestration, inventory management and platform features such as on-boarding, trust centers, certificates, payment integrations, vulnerability ingestion, authentication etc. 

You should have a strong background in backend programming (Symfony preferred, or Laravel) and have experience with an event driven, async & distributed architecture. 

During the first 6 months of your role, you will be involved in the 0->1 journey of two of our upcoming products in our platform along with the respective product owners.

Love solving hard problems? Want to build high impact products rooted in first principles? Is coding your poetry? Join us in shaping the future of cyber security.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain backend services and APIs using Symfony PHP framework. What you create is also what you own.
• Collaborate with front-end developers to integrate user-facing elements with server-side logic.
• Collaborate with scanner teams to orchestrate scans, ingest vulnerabilities, configure scanners etc.
• Write clean, well-documented, and efficient code.
• Optimize and refactor existing code to improve performance and reliability.
• Implement security and data protection measures.
• Triage, troubleshoot and upgrade existing systems.
• Ship code to production multiple times a day/week.
• Ensure timely delivery of the features.
• Test your own features, and write test cases for continuous automated testing.
• Participate in code reviews and contribute to best practices and standards.

What we are looking for:

• 3 years experience in a similar role or similar working experience.
• Strong background in PHP backend programming. Symfony preferred, or Laravel.
• Strong understanding of software architecture principles and design patterns.
• Experience with an event driven (subscribers/listeners), async (MessageHandlers & job queues) & distributed (load-balanced) architecture.
• Experience with PostgreSQL database and data modeling.
• Understanding of concepts such as Dependency Injection, ORM, data validation, error handling etc.
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions (good to have).
• Experience with Agile methodologies.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to think strategically about technical solutions.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional remote teams.
• Demonstrated track record of delivering high-quality software products on schedule.
• Knowledge of industry best practices in software development, security, and compliance.
• Knowledge of application & infrastructure security - helps you stand out. 

What We offer:

• Adrenalin rush of being a part of a fast-growing company, and working on hard problems that matter.
• Fully remote, agile working environment.
• Good engineering culture with full ownership in design, development, release lifecycle.
• A wholesome opportunity where you get to build things from scratch, improve and ship code to production in hours, not weeks.
• Holistic understanding of SaaS and enterprise security business.
• Experience with the security side of things.
• Annual trips to beaches or mountains (next one is to Wayanad).
• Open and supportive culture.
• Health insurance & other benefits for you and your spouse. Maternity benefits included.

About You

We are looking for passionate, enthusiastic, and proactive people that want to build their future with us, growing as we grow.

Dot Net candidate with a minimum of 4 years' experience, you are excited by the rare opportunity to work with the latest Microsoft technologies, rebuilding existing proprietary systems from the ground up.

You are a great communicator who makes a positive contribution working within a team to deliver excellent outcomes for Stake Holders.

If this, is you, come and join one of INDIAs fastest growing companies and enjoy both a flexible working environment and a great team culture.

Role/Core Competencies

• Familiarity with architecture styles And Expertise in Design Principles, Design Patterns, OOPS
• Solid knowledge of C#/.NET Framework knowledge,
• Hands on experience in .NET MVC, LINQ, AJAX, XML, Entity Framework Code First Approach
• Strong Experience in designing and developing the services using Web API.
• Experience in CSS, jQuery, Java Script, HTML5, Bootstrap
• Demonstrated ability to incorporate new technologies and techniques.
• Experience in working with Source Control System like TFS.
• Strong and effective inter-personal and communication skills (verbal and written).
• Knowledge of agile/scrum development processes.
• Working experience in Sql Server.

Responsibility includes:

• Participation in all stages of a project's SDLC including requirements gathering and documenting, high-level and low-level design, coding, testing, and deploying.
• Execute development tasks on projects and will test to guarantee the technical quality of the solution and handle security vulnerabilities.
• Transforms high-level statements of product feature into software design and implement it.
• Able to perform well in a team and as an individual and must have knowledge of SDLC process with documentation.
• Participation in all stages of a project's SDLC including requirements gathering and documenting, high-level and low-level design, coding, testing, and deploying.
• GUI and User Experience design and implementation in Web based applications with exposure to RESTful Service.
• On the need basis, estimates work efforts to support overall product planning & tracking activity.
• You will execute development tasks on projects and will test to guarantee the technical quality of the solution and handle security vulnerabilities.

Nice to have

• Understanding of Agile
• If you are good in preparing test cases & executing test plans

We are seeking for an accomplished professional with minimum 2 years of experience. The ideal candidate needs to be a self-motivator who is willing to work in a bright, busy, deadline-driven environment. The candidate will be a part of a technical team that is responsible for all aspects of the ongoing software development from the initial specification, through to developing, testing and launching.

Required skills: Excellent knowledge of working with Core PHP & MySql. Expertise in any of the PHP based framework like: CodeIgniter, Lumen, laravel, cakephp, Zend Framework. Good Knowledge and relevant work experience in CSS, HTML5, PHP, MySQL, HTML/XHTML, XML, JavaScript, JQuery and AJAX. Should have Knowledge in developing Rest APIs. Additional knowledge in web technologies like AngularJS, Node.JS and React.JS is a plus.

Required Candidate profile: Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Minimum of 2 years experience in PHP application development. Experience of hospitality/travel Domain would be an advantage.

• Designing and Developing web applications using Laravel 7 / 8
• Closely working front-end and back-end developers on projects.
• Hands on experience with handing MySQL queries
• Excellent logical and analytics skill
• Experience on handling and developing API end points
• Experience with Payment Gateway integrations and implementations
• Knowledge on any Frontend Framework - Bootstrap / Foundation / Backbone (Secondary skills, added advantage)

• Follow standard coding structure with Security first approach to avoid vulnerabilities such as SQL Injection and XSS
• Sound knowledge on integrating multiple payment gateway

• The developer should be well conversant with principles of clean codeand refactoring practices.
• The developer should have experience writing unit and integration tests.
• The developer should be conversant with agile development practices.
• Prior experience in Python is a good to have but the developer should be willing to do development in Python.
• The developer is expected to collaborate with developers from other teams as well as business stakeholders in India and in US to design and develop business requirements.

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.