
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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Extensive experience in Appian BPM application development
· Knowledge of Appian architecture and its objects best practices
· Participate in analysis, design, and new development of Appian based applications
· Mandatory Team leadership and provide technical leadership to Scrum teams
Certification Mandatory- L1, L2 or L3
· Must be able to multi-task, work in a fast-paced environment and ability to resolve problems faced
by team
· Build applications: interfaces, process flows, expressions, data types, sites, integrations, etc.
· Proficient with SQL queries and with accessing data present in DB tables and views
· Experience in Analysis, Designing process models, Records, Reports, SAIL, forms, gateways, smart
services, integration services and web services
· Experience working with different Appian Object types, query rules, constant rules and expression
rules
Qualifications
· At least 6 years of experience in Implementing BPM solutions using Appian 19.x or higher
· Over 8 years in Implementing IT solutions using BPM or integration technologies
· Experience in Scrum/Agile methodologies with Enterprise level application development projects
· Good understanding of database concepts and strong working knowledge any one of the major
databases e g Oracle SQL Server MySQL
Additional information
Skills Required
· Appian BPM application development on version 19.x or higher
· Experience of integrations using web services e g XML REST WSDL SOAP API JDBC JMS
· Good leadership skills and the ability to lead a team of software engineers technically
· Experience working in Agile Scrum teams
· Good Communication skills.
Job Description
- Designing and implementing new features and functionality
- Establishing and guiding the website’s architecture
- Ensuring high-performance and availability, and managing all technical aspects of the CMS
- Helping formulate an effective, responsive design and turning it into a working website.
- Collaborate with the frontend team, and enable connectors with WordPress REST API and other tech platforms
Requirements
Relevant experience
- 2-4 years’ experience in authoring and developing for CMS’s including but not limited to WordPress
Required qualification
- University degree or equivalent diploma in technology and computer science.
Essential skills
- Good Overall knowledge of PHP
- Good understanding of front-end technologies, including HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery
- Knowing the nuances of WordPress Themes – Installation and Configuration
- Knowing the nuances of WordPress Plugins with good coverage of which plugin is best suited for a particular requirement, and confidence to research plugins as well
- Knowledge of WP Caching, WP Query Object and WP Database Structure
- Knowledge of Knowledge of WordPress Scalability
- Knowing the nuances of WordPress editor with good coverage of which editor is best suited for a particular requirement, and confidence to research plugins as well
- Hands On Experience with Gutenberg Editor and Blocks
- Awareness of the WP Library, and Architectural Concepts is a must
- Experience building user interfaces for websites and/or web applications
- Experience designing and developing responsive design websites
- Comfortable working with debugging tools like Firebug, Chrome inspector, etc.
- Ability to understand CSS changes and their ramifications to ensure consistent style across platforms and browsers
- Ability to convert comprehensive layout and wireframes into working Wordpress pages
- Willingness to quickly learn new frameworks, changing theme market with ready updates on not just WordPress, but also PHP.
Nice to Have
- It would be good to have exposure to multiple CMSs like Shopify, Magento
- It would be good to have the ability to develop WordPress Plugins and Themes From scratch
- Experience on at least one PHP Framework (CodeIgniter, Laravel, YII)
- Knowledge of how to interact with RESTful APIs and formats (JSON, XML)
- Proficient understanding of code versioning tools (such as Git, SVN, and Mercurial)
- Strong understanding of PHP back-end development
- Knowledge of WordPress REST API
- Knowledge of WooCommerce
Benefits
- Unlimited learning and growth opportunities
- A collaborative and cheerful work environment
- Exceptional reward and recognition policy
- Outstanding compensation
- Flexible work hours
- Opportunity to make an impact as your work will directly contribute to our business strategy
At Nickelfox, you have a chance to craft a career path as unique as you are and become the best version of YOU. You will be part of a team with a ‘no limits’ mindset in an inclusive, people-focused culture. And we’re counting on your unique perspective to help Nickelfox grow even faster.
Are you passionate about tech? Dedicated to learning? Come, join us to build an extraordinary experience for yourself and a dignified working world for all.
What makes Nickelfox a great place for you?
In Nickelfox, you’ll join a team whose passion for technology and understanding of business has driven the company to serve clients across 25+ countries in just five years. We partner with our customers to fuel their growth story and enable them to make the right decisions with our customized technology services and insights. All in all, we are passionate to see our customers win the day. This is the reason 80% of our business comes from repeat clients.
Our mission is to provide dignified employment and an environment that recognizes the uniqueness of every individual and values their expertise, and contribution. We have a culture that encourages everyone to bring their authentic selves to work. Our people enjoy a collaborative work environment with exceptional training and career development. If you like working with a curious, youthful, high-performing team, Nickelfox is the place for you.

- Provides free and subscription-based website and email services hosted and operated at data centres in Mumbai and Hyderabad.
- Serve global audience and customers through sophisticated content delivery networks.
- Operate a service infrastructure using the latest technologies for web services and a very large storage infrastructure.
- Provides virtualized infrastructure, allows seamless migration and the addition of services for scalability.
- Pioneers and earliest adopters of public cloud and NoSQL big data store - since more than a decade.
- Provide innovative internet services with work on multiple technologies like php, java, nodejs, python and c++ to scale our services as per need.
- Has Internet infrastructure peering arrangements with all the major and minor ISPs and telecom service providers.
- Have mail traffic exchange agreements with major Internet services.
Job Details:
This job position provides competitive professional opportunity both to experienced and aspiring engineers. The company's technology and operations groups are managed by senior professionals with deep subject matter expertise.
The company believes having an open work environment offering mentoring and learning opportunities with an informal and flexible work culture, which allows professionals to actively participate and contribute to the success of our services and business.
Job Role and Responsibilties:
1. Full lifecycle (SDLC) application development.
2. Designing, coding and debugging existing code.
3. Understanding of front end and user interface engineering design.
4. Software testing and quality assurance.
5. Integration of the modules in the existing systems.
6. Evaluation and identification of the new technology developments in the work domain.
7. Maintaining standard practices and compliances.
QUALIFICATION AND EXPERIENCE
A graduate degree or senior Diploma in engineering or technology with 4-8 years of experience in some or all of the following.
- PHP, Integration with MemCache, Membase, MySQL, Oracle, CDB/BDB, Error Handling and debuggers
- Data Structures,
- HTML / XHTML, CSS, java-script, Smarty
- Web Services, SOAP, XML, REST
- Code optimization, Scaling, Session management, Version control Systems
- MIME Parsing, Large data processing in PHP (encoding, parsing, escaping for special characters etc.)
● Should have 6+ years of experience as a software developer
● Good experience with Nodejs & Express js.
● Good with MySQL
● Experience with Linux Scripting
● Experience with elastic search and Logstash
● Experience with cyber security
● Great interpersonal and communication skills candidate can work independently
● Agile project methodology experience preferred.
● Excellent communication skills.
● Critical thinker and good problem-solver.
● Good time-management skills
● Great interpersonal skills
Working Timings: 3:00 pm to 12:00 am (midnight)IST
- Deliver features in an end-to-end manner: technical design, development, testing, deployment, and maintenance.
- Provide technical leadership and own specific areas of the platform.
- Work closely with Product Managers to translate product requirements to engineering specifications.
- Lead code review efforts and quality efforts in your area of ownership.
- Participate in product discussions, taking ownership and initiative.
- Work independently in a fast-paced environment.
- Mentored and guide junior engineers.
Must Haves:
- Minimum 2 years of working experience in Ruby on Rails/ Python/ Node.JS.
- Strong problem-solving skills, data structures, and algorithms.
- Excellent experience on databases like MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc.
- Familiarity with tools for code reviews, version control (GIT).
- A knack for writing clean, readable Ruby/ Python/Node.JS code.
- Experience in application server hosting and monitoring.
- Understanding of fundamental design principles behind a scalable application.
Nice to Have:
- Hands-on with search platforms (Solr, Elasticsearch, etc).
- Prior experience with microservices-based architecture/SOA/distributed systems.
- Able to implement automated testing platforms and unit tests.
- Experience with common AWS service EC2, RDS, S3, SES, etc.
Key Competencies:
- Building Effective Team
- Solving Problems Creatively
- Learning Agility
- Drive For Result
Location : Remote-Anywhere from India as permanent work from home option available
Required Skills:
• Strong coding experience in Python and Flask Web Framework.
• Information retrieval – Web Scraping.
• Experience with NoSQL data storage like MongoDB.
• Good knowledge of Asynchronous task schedulers like Celery
• Experience working with large scale databases and storage.
• Knowledge of Javascript with Node.js is a plus.
• Knowledge of working with various front end technologies and how various websites are built. Sound understanding of Asynchronous Programming in python like AsyncIO








