Senior PHP developer

Founding Engineer:

As a Founding Engineer, you'll be responsible for designing, building, and launching our product to customers. Specifically,

• Since our team is lean and we plan to keep it that way - you’ll be one of the first five engineers in leading the zero-to-one journey of a product our customers are hungry for
• Lead technical design and implementation of the frontend and backend of the product with coaching and mentorship from world-class technical architects
• Have knowledge of (or learn) how to work with Shopify’s CLI
• Iterate quickly to create delightful user experiences, working closely with customers/ design partners
• Help us hire a world-class engineering team in the months ahead
• Our team is currently fully remote (with offices to be opened in Bangalore and Mumbai over next few months) and cross-border across San Francisco, Boston, and India - help us cultivate a remote-first, inclusive, diverse, and friendly culture
• Work directly with the founders with an ownership mindset

Skills and Experience:

• Prior experience working with backend tech stacks (e.g. Spring Boot, Ruby on Rails, Django, Laravel)
• Experience with service service-oriented architecture, writing REST APIs, unit testing, and architectural design
• Understanding of modern web stacks and architecture (HTTP, REST, GraphQL, WebSockets)
• Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases and other technologies (e.g. Mysql, Redis, Kafka)
• Prior experience working with frontend tech stacks (e.g. React, Angular, Vue.js)
• Prior experience working with frontend UI frameworks (e.g. Bootstrap, Tailwind CSS)

Mandatory Skills

• C/C++ Programming
• Linux System concepts
• Good Written and verbal communication skills
• Good problem-solving skills
• Python scripting experience
• Prior experience in Continuous Integration and Build System is a plus
• SCM tools like git, perforce etc is a plus
• Repo, Git and Gerrit tools
• Android Build system expertise
• Automation development experience with like Electric Commander, Jenkins, Hudson

Decoding Youth Talent (DYT) Private Limited is a sports technology start-up which aims to enable coaches, clubs and academies scout, hire and develop youth talent through technology

Decoding Youth Talent is incubated and backed by one of the most prestigious MBA institutes in Asia, the Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow (IIM-L).

Are you a person who is extremely passionate about sports and looking to make a difference in the industry? If yes, there was not a better time than now! We are looking for a Full Mean Stack Developer with experience in building highly technical products that will help us bring change the way how sports stakeholders interact and communicate in India and across the globe. If you are passionate about the challenges of big scale, this is your chance to make history!

Responsibilities:

• As a full-stack MEAN developer (Angular), you will code back-end services in Java/Node JS and front-end in HTML, CSS3 and JavaScript.
• Strong system design skills backed with analytical and problem-solving ability with deep understanding of distributed systems and microservice architecture.
• Implementing algorithms and use of advanced data structures.
• Exposure to working in an agile development environment.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills - Knowledge of SVN/Git repository.
• Provide technical direction to the development teams including hands-on development of POCs where appropriate.
• Deploy realized solutions to appropriate environments using CI/CD process. Supports clients through testing Consumer Web Development Experience for High-Traffic, Public Facing web applications.
• Participate in agile software prototyping, development, maintenance, support, and code reviews of IoT Products.
• Implement modern and responsive UI for the web and a variety of devices.
• Unit, End-to-End, and performance testing software under load to ensure reliability and scalability.
• Ownership of Bug Fixes across environments for the assigned module/application.
• Collaborate on the design with internal & external project team members.
• Use JIRA effectively with daily updates to the work log and status of the issues.

Requirements:

• 5+ years or hands-on experience as a Full-stack Developer in web and Mobile application Product Engineering.
• Hands-on experience in creating Rest APIs using NodeJS. Perform 3rd party API integration with NodeJS.
• Hands on experience in HTML5 CSS3 JS libraries like Bootstrap, JQuery, and Angular Material.
• Experience in MongoDB and MySQL design, development, deployment, scaling and optimization.
• Experience working with the AWS stack (Lambda, S3 EC2 setup).
• Hands-on experience in writing queries and optimizing them for large data sets in MongoDB and MySQL.
• Good Communication and client-facing experience. Practice and enforce Agile and Scrum development methodologies.
• Hands-on experience working with Web frameworks, RESTful APIs and relational and/or NoSQL databases.
• Experience in implementing logging to identify performance issues and building monitoring and alerting on the API using Splunk/Grafana/Prometheus/New Relic.

Good to have

• Worked from scratch in the Tech Architect, frontend, coding, and tech product development with at least 6 -50 Mobile apps (multifunction app).
• Experienced in server-side languages such as Java and PHP.

• Develop, record and maintain cutting edge web-based Laravel E-commerce and Marketplace websites and maintaining the back-end of mobile applications
• Familiarity using Bagisto, Open Cart or any other PHP e-commerce packages.
• Build innovative, state-of-the-art applications and collaborate with the App Development team
• Ensure HTML, CSS, and shared JavaScript is valid and consistent across applications
• Prepare and maintain all applications utilizing standard development tools
• Utilize back-end data services and contribute to increase existing data services API
• Lead the entire web application development life cycle right from concept stage to delivery and post launch support
• Convey effectively with all task progress, evaluations, suggestions, schedules along with technical and process issues
• Document the development process, architecture, and standard components
• Coordinate with co-developers and keeps project manager well informed of the status of development effort and serves as liaison between development staff and project manager
• Keep abreast of new trends and best practices in web development Laravel developer requirements and qualifications
• Previous working experience as a Laravel developer for minimum 2 years
• BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering, MIS or similar relevant field
• In depth knowledge of object-oriented PHP and latest version Laravel PHP Framework
• Hands on experience with SQL schema design, SOLID principles, REST API design
• Software testing (PHPUnit, PHPSpec, Behat)
• MySQL profiling and query optimization
• Creative and efficient problem solver
• Check for all web related security including XSS, DDos attacks, cookie hijacking, SQL injection