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Senior Software Engineer - Backend
About this job
We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer (Backend) with 5+ years of experience in backend technologies and at least 2+ years in GoLang. You will be working with a team of problem solvers working collaboratively to build custom solutions for Appointy’s enterprise clients. If you are excited to learn new things and thrive in a team-based culture, and if you are looking for hyper-growth in your career then Appointy could be a place for you!
Why Appointy?
Appointy is a platform software company with offices in India, Singapore and US. Our low code platform, SaaStack, is being used globally by multiple fortune 500 companies. In the last 4 years, the company has shown 300% growth in terms of employee’s growth. Our dynamic and diversified engineering team, work on a remote-first hybrid work model. With quarterly meetups, annual international offsites, state-of-the-art offices and facilities we ensure you have the best experience of working at a hyper-growth startup.
What will you do
- Write code that meets standard and delivery guidelines.
- Mentor other engineers on the team to develop high-quality software and perform code reviews.
- Work with the team to break user stories into tasks and delegate them to the team members.
- Playing a key role in architectural and design decisions, building toward an efficient microservices distributed architecture.
- Analyze solutions and help implement engineering best practices.
- Work with Project Managers for timely delivery and forecast.
- Lead and mentor junior engineers on technical issues. Perform blameless RCAs when issues occur and take ownership to resolve issues.
Additionally, you’ll get opportunities to:
- Work with the Product owner to write and brainstorm user stories.
- Interact directly with the clients and understand their requirements by working closely with the sales and customer support team.
- Consistently align teams with organization goals and product roadmap.
What you bring in:
- Strong experience with backend programming languages and technologies like
- Golang (minimum 1-year experience)
- Protobuf and gRPC
- RESTful APIs
- Docker and Kubernetes
- Medium level experience with PostgreSQL and MySQL database concepts.
- Ability to write efficient, secure, well-documented, and clean code.
- Proven ability to work with multiple teams, multitasking and prioritizing.
- Experience with Git, JIRA and Agile working methodology.
- Experience with design patterns, Event-Driven architecture and Domain Driven Designs.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation
- A chance to work and contribute to SaaStack, Appointy’s low code platform.
- Merit-Based career opportunities and to grow your career with an organization that’s scaling rapidly.
- Paid paternity and maternity leave
- Hospitalization, health life insurance, and accident coverage
- Flexible hours and remote working flexibility
- Transparency and visibility throughout a fast-paced, successful growth organization
- Access to Appointy’s state of the art 4-acre office campus with facilities like go-Karting swimming pool, unlimited food and snacks gym and much more!
Interested? … Apply now! Our recruitment team will screen your application and contact you.
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Job description
We are Virtual Internships, an EdTech startup on a mission to bridge the gap between education and the workplace by making internships accessible to all.
Over the last four years, we’ve established partnerships with 12,000+ companies, 100+ universities, and supported thousands of students and graduates in becoming more employable via our online work experience product.
We are a team of 130+ across 25+ countries, and recently https://techcrunch.com/2022/09/14/virtual-internships-matches-students-with-top-companies-around-the-world/">secured our Series A funding from investors such as Hambro Perks, Sequoia Capital, Kaplan, Arsenal Growth, and Ascend Vietnam Ventures - who have collectively guided the likes of Google, Linkedin, WhatsApp, Canva, Udemy, and Applyboard.
Our 2022 awards include:
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Ranked 23rd out of 13,000 organizations in https://www.escapethecity.org/escape100/2022?utm_source=media_kit&utm_medium=blogpr&utm_campaign=esc100_2022&utm_id=launch">The Escape 100: the top purposeful organisations to ‘escape’ to in 2022
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https://www.techinasia.com/50-rising-startups-southeast-asia">Tech in Asia’s “Top 50 Rising Startups” (No.6 in Vietnam)
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Top100 EdTechStartup Selected by https://www.holoniq.com/notes/holoniq-europe-edtech-100/">HolonIQ
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Finalist for https://www.businessleader.co.uk/gotech-awards-22-finalists/">Go:Tech Awards
Your Role
Become one of our new Senior Software Engineers, where you will play a role in building an enterprise-level WordPress platform. If you want to work in a flexible environment where you can own technology, strategies, design, and build new systems from scratch using the tools YOU choose, read on!
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Work with the Marketing team to conduct a plan for building the website and scale-up plan yearly.
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Development/Deployment of enterprise-level WordPress plugins and themes in a WordPress VIP multi-site environment.
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Building and collaborating with developers from other teams to create modular, extensible PHP and JS solutions (plugins, packages, blocks, and components).
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To create own themes based on requirements from HTML scratch.
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Local Development Environment Setup/Configuration.
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Theme and Plugin Security.
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Understanding of best standards and guidelines about WordPress.org.
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Ability to handle complex problems from design to execution and deliver in time bound manner under constraints.
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Autonomously architect, prototype, and maintain solutions to different problems.
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Comfortable wearing many hats and willing to work on all parts of the stack.
Your Impact
In your first month, you will:
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Meet with colleagues across the company and start building relationships that will help you better understand the company
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Coordinate with analysis to set up Google Analytics and other tools.
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Work with the Marketing team to maintain, and improvement by the analyst result of the new website.
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Be a strong technical advisor for the marketing team about SEO/other Google and WordPress technologies.
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Familiarity with WordPress development (multisite, configuration, parent/child themes, plugins, Gutenberg) and understanding of security concerns and site optimization for performance.
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Possesses an understanding of and commitment to web standards, including web accessibility standards (WCAG)
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Familiarity with PSR specifications
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Previous working experience with Code versioning and code review
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Previous working experience with Docker, Git, and dependency management via Composer
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What do we offer?
One of our core values at Virtual Internships is transparency. That’s why, we’re allowing you to ‘try before you apply’ in our “https://www.notion.so/virtualinternship/Virtual-Internships-VI-P-GUIDE-0aaa39e9a3304d4cbc19fad96bd0c72d">VI-P Guide” which includes our values, how we operate, how we build our packages, and how we interview.
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Learn from the world’s best - access to exclusive content including how-to guides and playbooks from Sequoia/500Global-backed organizations
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Professional Development Budget - dedicated budget towards content/platforms/courses that can contribute to your professional growth
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Ability to prioritize and multi-task in order to meet deadlines
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• Work as part of a team developing web API and database.
• Help maintain code quality, organization, and automatization
• Effectively use tools and ingenuity to identify and fix defects before they become a problem
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- Strong hands-on experience with Java; full-stack development
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- Deploy and maintain Applications/Systems
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- Estimate engineering work effort for the engineering team and effectively identify and prioritize the high impact tasks
- Conduct design and code reviews to ensure code developed meets coding best practices guidelines, unit testing, security, and scalability and maintainability guidelines
- Drive a quality mindset within the team
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- 2+ years of full Software Development Life Cycle experience
- 2+ years of experience working as a full-stack java developer
- 1+ years of web development with AngularJS
- Experience or familiarity with technologies such as WSDL, REST and/or SOAP web services, XML, JBoss, Adobe CQ5 DAM, HTML5, CSS3, Bootstrap, Hibernate, Spring.
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- Investigate new technologies and continue to update your technical skills
- Write well-structured and testable code following the set guidelines
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Degree in IT or equivalent
More than 3 years of web-based application development experience in PHP.
Strong knowledge of PHP web frameworks: CodeIgniter, Laravel, Bootstrap, AngularJs, Angular Material, Symphony, Zend, Cake and Flask.
Languages
PHP, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Python.
Databases: MySql
Operating Systems: Ubuntu, Windows and Macintosh.
Others: jQuery, AJAX, JSON, Celery, Git, API, AWS, Facebook API, Twitter API, Google API,PayPal Integration, nginx, Apache,AmCharts, Mpdf and PhantomJs.
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Strong knowledge in Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery tools, e.g. Jenkins
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Preferred
Strong in SQL & PL/SQL and have good working knowledge on the relational database(s) (MySQL)
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Advantage
Experience with other server-side stacks (Node.js, Python, Java etc.) a plus
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