


As a Senior Principal Engineer, you’ll lead a team of engineers through challenging development projects. Come join a highly collaborative team of skilled engineers with a passion for quality.
What You’ll do:
- Work in an agile environment, orchestrating a group mostly comprised of skilled PHP engineers of various levels to complete User Stories authored by professional Product Managers
- Architect highly scalable/transaction heavy web/API applications
- Work with 1-2 Frontend resources (in addition to backend PHP) through projects in React, Angular (maintenance), MooTools/Jquery (deprecation), Socket.io and serverside NodeJS
- Work with Product and QA Managers in multiple grooming sessions and sprint planning for your team
- Collaborate/coordinate with other Engineering Managers and Leads
- Work with QA and Application Support teams to triage bugs
- Work with DevOps to automate deployment and monitoring of applications
- Design and develop Restful APIs using frameworks with design patterns
- Design JSON payloads and various payload contexts
- Convert complex business rules and workflows from User Story requirements into SalesForce type CRM applications and client facing web portals
- Work with monolithic legacy codebases, along with design patterns in newer repositories
- Work with large database schemas of 500+ tables
- Write complex queries. Efficiently joining upwards of 20 tables, some containing +10m rows. In T-SQL or Doctrine ORM
- Integrate 3rd party platforms via APIs and callbacks
- Write Unit tests and documentation
What You Have:
- 10+ years professional experience developing APIs & web based applications in PHP as an individual contributor
- Prior experience working with organized development teams (5+ member pods)
- Prefer hands-on experience using MS SQL Server, CosmosDB, but other relational databases/NoSQL ok (MySQL, Postgres, MongoDB)
- Professional experience using open source PHP frameworks. Symfony3+ preferred (Laravel, CodeIgniter - ok)
- Experience scaling in LAMP, but also leveraging Redis, RabbitMQ, Elastic Search (ELK), SupervisorD, Socket.io, centralized Session stores
- Prefer experience designing fault tolerant architecture on cloud deployments (loadbalancing, clustering, reducing/eliminating single points of failure, etc)
- Understand branching, merging, pull requests and conflict resolution in Git (Bitbucket or Github)
- Experienced in leveraging issue tracking systems and wikis for documentation (Jira/Confluence)
- Comfortable on CentOS Linux, command line, SSH, SFTP, SCP…
- Full stack is a plus (JavaScript, CSS, HTML, React/Angular/Vue)
- Able to onboard self and others while working entirely remotely in EST
- Experience in Azure PaaS and IaaS
- Experience crafting architecture diagrams in Visio or LucidChart
- Problem solving skills and a proactive work style
- Strong interpersonal & communication skills

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Location: In-Office, Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Job Summary:
We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Backend Developer with a minimum of 1 year of experience in product building to join our dynamic and innovative team. In this role, you will be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining robust backend systems that drive our applications. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless integration between frontend and backend components, and your expertise will be critical in architecting scalable, secure, and high-performance backend solutions.
Annual Compensation: 6-10 LPA
Responsibilities:
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable and efficient backend systems and APIs using NodeJS.
- Architect and implement complex backend solutions, ensuring high availability and performance.
- Collaborate with product managers, frontend developers, and other stakeholders to deliver comprehensive end-to-end solutions.
- Design and optimize data storage solutions using relational databases (e.g., MySQL) and NoSQL databases (e.g., MongoDB, Redis).
- Promoting a culture of collaboration, knowledge sharing, and continuous improvement.
- Implement and enforce best practices for code quality, security, and performance optimization.
- Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines to automate build, test, and deployment processes.
- Ensure comprehensive test coverage, including unit testing, and implement various testing methodologies and tools to validate application functionality.
- Utilize cloud services (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) for infrastructure deployment, management, and optimization.
- Conduct system design reviews and contribute to architectural discussions.
- Stay updated with industry trends and emerging technologies to drive innovation within the team.
- Implement secure authentication and authorization mechanisms and ensure data encryption for sensitive information.
- Design and develop event-driven applications utilizing serverless computing principles to enhance scalability and efficiency.
Requirements:
- Minimum of 1 year of proven experience as a Backend Developer, with a strong portfolio of product-building projects.
- Extensive experience with JavaScript backend frameworks (e.g., Express, Socket) and a deep understanding of their ecosystems.
- Strong expertise in SQL and NoSQL databases (MySQL and MongoDB) with a focus on data modeling and scalability.
- Practical experience with Redis and caching mechanisms to enhance application performance.
- Proficient in RESTful API design and development, with a strong understanding of API security best practices.
- In-depth knowledge of asynchronous programming and event-driven architecture.
- Familiarity with the entire web stack, including protocols, web server optimization techniques, and performance tuning.
- Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes) is highly desirable.
- Proven experience working with cloud technologies (AWS/GCP/Azure) and understanding of cloud architecture principles.
- Strong understanding of fundamental design principles behind scalable applications and microservices architecture.
- Excellent problem-solving, analytical, and communication skills.
- Ability to work collaboratively in a fast-paced, agile environment and lead projects to successful completion.

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About the Role: Software Engineer (Python)
We are currently looking for people to join our Engineering team where internet scale, reliability, security, high performance and self-management drives almost every design decision that we take. This role will be based out of Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala.
We are looking for Software Engineers to help us build functional products and applications. Software Engineers responsibilities include participating in software design, writing clean and efficient code adhering to coding standards, guidelines & best practices for various applications, running tests to improve system functionality, performance & security and documenting design and code.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and develop robust and scalable server-side applications using Node.js.
- Utilize Python to write batch jobs and scripts for various automation tasks, ensuring efficiency and reliability.
- Write clean, efficient, and well-documented code to deliver high-quality software solutions.
- Troubleshoot and resolve bugs and other performance issues to maintain system stability.
- Participate in code reviews to ensure code quality and compliance with coding standards.
- Collaborate with front-end developers to integrate user-facing elements with server-side logic.
- Mentor junior developers and share knowledge to foster a collaborative learning environment.
Must Have requirements
- Strong understanding of Node.js and its core concepts, such as event-driven. architecture, asynchronous programming, and callbacks.
- Proficiency in Python, with a strong understanding of its ecosystem, libraries, and frameworks.
- Proven 1-5 years of experience working as a Node.js/Python Developer or in a similar role.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in a team-oriented environment.
- Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills, with the ability to troubleshoot complex technical issues.
- Strong working knowledge in any NoSQL (preferable)or relational databases
- Good exposure to working on Linux/Unix systems.
- Proficient understanding of code versioning tools (such as Git)
Nice to have requirements
- Proficiency in TypeScript to write scalable and maintainable code.
- Familiarity with cloud platforms like AWS.
- Basic understanding of GoLang/Java as a coding language
About Us:
Developed in formal collaboration with the University of Cambridge in May 2000, HeyMath! is an Ed-Tech company whose mission is to Raise the Game in Maths for school systems around the world. We do this using technology to deliver engaging teaching methodologies and personalised learning paths for students. HeyMath! has been successfully adopted by CBSE schools since 2004, with positive outcomes for the entire ecosystem.
Check us out at www.heymath.com
We plan to work mainly from home in 2022 and the virtual office atmosphere is collegiate, informal and friendly, with small high-impact teams making a difference to customers.
What we are looking for:
Experience in building and re-engineering cloud based solutions on AWS.
Strong knowledge of Object Oriented Programming(OOPS) and design patterns is a must. Hands-on development on Spring MVC framework.
Experience working on Java 8 or above.
Must have very good knowledge of RDBMS such as MySQL and performance tuning of the same.
Exposure to server-side and client-side caching mechanisms. Ability to debug the applications and provide instant workable solutions.
Experience working on Elastic Search / Kafka / Kubernetes or all is a nice to have.

• Should have 5+ years of work experience in design, develop, Code and Unit Test web and desktop-based applications written in .Net framework starting from 4.x and above.
• Strong analytical skills to understand a given requirement and provide work estimates.
• Strong Object-Oriented Programming knowledge.
• Strong experience with Static Code Analyzers like Fortify.
• Should have good understanding of web servers such as IIS and Front-end such as HTML’s and Razor based engines.
• Strong debugging skills using .net front end and backend.
• Strong coding experience and thorough understanding of programming languages such as C#, VB.NET, ASP.Net, ADO.Net, JQuery, JavaScript, Traditional Web Services, WCF, Web API and other Scripting languages such as pythons.
• Strong working knowledge on various design patterns such as MVC, MVVM, DDD, Repository Pattern and any custom/hybrid framework as designed by the Architects.
• Should have a strong working knowledge of Azure DevOps.
• Strong knowledge and understanding of data sharing medium using JSON, XML and other media types.
• Strong knowledge on Entity Framework (6 and above) and other ORM such as Dapper.
• Strong knowledge and programming skills in Database such SQL SERVER, Oracle, My SQL and SQL Express. Additionally, nice to know-how knowledge in MS ACCESS.
• Strong knowledge and coding experience in REST based web services and service-oriented design patterns using WCF and other API’s.
• Should have used IDE such as Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code for Front-end development.
• 1+ years of building SPA web solutions using Angular 6/7/8 , BackBone, Bootstrap
• 5+ years building HTML5 complaint pages
• 3+ years of experience using TypeScript
• 3+ years of writing automated testing using Jamine or others
Day to Day job Duties: (what this person will do on a daily/weekly basis)
• Co-ordinate/mentor other Junior developers on a day to day basis.
• Understand the use cases/User Story, code and develop on a designed platform/pattern.
• Strict adherence to coding standards.
• Participate self-code review/peer reviews and correct errors wherever applicable before checking in the final code into the Branch/code repo.
• Create code documentations wherever applicable and as set guidelines by the team.
• Create and perform Unit Tests wherever applicable as set guidelines by the team.
• Provide feedback and assist in estimation planning.
• Merge code branches as and when required.
• Create and publish release documentations and application deployments as and when requested.
• Report out statuses to the leads onshore daily during the Stand-up calls.
• Additionally, update efforts on a given work item on everyday basis.
• Provide true estimates on work assigned prior development. Also ask questions/provide comments on User Stories/work items assigned.
• Be a team player and flexible towards availability in case of any urgent issues that need immediate attention.
• Plan out vacations in advance (min. 2 weeks of adv. Notice).
Nice to have(not a must) experience, skills
• Good understanding of Service Workers.
• Prior coding experience using FORTRAN.
• Experience on 3rd party tools like Spire.Pdf, PDF.Js.
• Knowledge of Rapid application development framework like DevExpress, Code on Time, HighCharts.
• Knowledge of code clean up tools like CodeMaid.
• Knowledge of Power BI and O365 Suites of applications.
• knowledge of SQL Data tools like SSIS and SSRS.


Ideal candidate should be comfortable with Code Igniter, MySQL.
Additional Requirement - CI with installation process
Experience 3 to 5 yrs
Notice period- Immediate to 15 days



Company Introduction (apna)
We are building a novel platform to create better economic opportunities for the blue/grey
workforce around the world. We are a very product focused and customer obsessed company. Delivering high quality products at lightning speed is our USP. If you are looking for challenging work and rapid merit based growth in your career, look no further and welcome aboard.
Checkout our product on Google Play store apna - Job Search App | Job Groups
Job Description
We are looking for a Senior Back-End Engineer responsible looking for engineering ownership of one/many products at apna. Your primary focus will be development of all server-side logic, definition and maintenance of the central database, and ensuring high performance and responsiveness to requests from the front-end (Android + WebApp). A basic understanding of front-end technologies is therefore necessary as well.
Responsibilities
● Take ownership of end-to-end product development
● Be champion of Test Driven Development methodology
● Building reusable code and libraries for future use
● Optimization of the application for maximum speed and scalability
● Implementation of security and data protection
● Technical Documentation around the owned product
Skills And Qualifications
● Expert level in OOPS concepts and REST API development
● Proficiency in one or more of the following languages: Python, Java, Ruby, Go
● Knowledge around ElasticSearch, Celery, Redis is must
● Integration of multiple data sources and databases into one system
● Implementing automated testing platforms and unit tests
● Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git
● Knowledge of GCP would be a plus
Perks
● Have autonomy to work from home. Only one rule: Get things Done!
● We promote and celebrate team members contributing at a variety of professional
conferences and events. Be a speaker, contribute to open sourcepublish academic
work, publish an online blog showing your expertise. we are here to encourage you!
● You join us in your current area of expertise and let us know about your personal
professional goals. Looking to start your company? Further studies at the best institutes?
Want to change career track? We make sure you reach there!
● Generous pool of ESOPs






