Senior Software Engineer - Backend

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Job role:

• Conducting analysis of website and application requirements.
• Writing back-end code and building efficient PHP modules.
• Developing back-end portals with an optimized database.
• Troubleshooting application and code issues.
• Integrating data storage solutions.
• Responding to integration requests from front-end developers.
• Finalizing back-end features and testing web applications.
• Updating and altering application features to enhance performance.

Required Skills

• 4+ years of relevant experience is required
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a similar field.
• Knowledge of PHP web frameworks including CodeIgniter, UI, Yii2, Laravel.
• Knowledge of front-end technologies including CSS3, JavaScript, and HTML5.
• Understanding of object-oriented PHP programming.
• Previous experience creating scalable applications.
• Proficient with code versioning tools including Git, Mercurial, CVS, and SVN.
• Familiarity with SQL databases.
• Ability to project manage.
• Good problem-solving skills.
• Job Type: Full-time (Remote)

Role: PHP Developer

Experience: 8-10 yrs

Location: Bangalore

Notice Period: 15 days or less

Job description:

The ideal candidate is a highly resourceful and innovative developer with extensive experience in the layout, design and coding of websites specifically in PHP format. You must also possess a strong knowledge of web application development using PHP programming language and MySQL Server databases. 

Responsibilities

• Perform a mix of maintenance, enhancements, and new development as required
• Work in a data analyst role and with business intelligence applications
• Document features, technical specifications & infrastructure Responsibilities
• Work cross-functionally to convert business needs into technical specifications

Qualifications

• 8-10 years of experience in web development and software design
• Expertise in front-end technologies (HTML, JavaScript, CSS), PHP frameworks, and MySQL databases
• Good experience in Laravel

Employment Type

• Full-time

As a Software Development Engineer at Amazon, you have industry-leading technical abilities and demonstrate breadth and depth of knowledge. You build software to deliver business impact, making smart technology choices. You work in a team and drive things forward. 

Top Skills

•    You write high quality, maintainable, and robust code, often in Java or C++.

•    You recognize and adopt best practices in software engineering: design, testing, version control, documentation, build, deployment, and operations.

•    You have experience building scalable software systems that are high-performance, highly-available, highly transactional, low latency and massively distributed.

Roles & Responsibilities

•    You solve problems at their root, stepping back to understand the broader context.

•    You develop pragmatic solutions and build flexible systems that balance engineering complexity and timely delivery, creating business impact.

•    You understand a broad range of data structures and algorithms and apply them to deliver high-performing applications.

•    You recognize and use design patterns to solve business problems.

•    You understand how operating systems work, perform and scale.

•    You continually align your work with Amazon’s business objectives and seek to deliver business value.

•    You collaborate to ensure that decisions are based on the merit of the proposal, not the proposer.

•    You proactively support knowledge-sharing and build good working relationships within the team and with others in Amazon.

•    You communicate clearly with your team and with other groups and listen effectively. 

Skills & Experience

•    Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science or relevant technical field.

•    Experience in software development and full product life-cycle.

•    Excellent programming skills in any object oriented programming languages - preferably Java, C/C++/C#, Perl, Python, or Ruby.

•    Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and designing for performance, scalability, and availability.

•    Proficiency in SQL and data modeling.

We are looking for a Node.js Developer who has experience building back-end services and managing data exchange between the server and user-facing applications. Responsibilities will include the development of back-end micro-services, maintaining the best possible performance for micro-service, quality and responsiveness of the application. You will work closely with the front-end developers in order to implement their components into the application.

• Writing reusable, testable, and efficient code
• Responsible for entire product lifecycle from concept to deployment
• Design and implementation of low-latency, high-availability, and performant applications
• Integration of user-facing elements developed by front-end developers with server-side logic
• Implementation of security and data protection
• Integration of data storage solutions

• 3+ years experience in building micro-services using Node.js
• Expert in SQL querying with Mysql/PostgreSQL and ORM (Object Relational Mapper) libraries like TypeORM.
• Able to integrate multiple data sources and databases into one system
• Good understanding of server-side templating languages
• Understanding of accessibility and security compliance
• Knowledge of user authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments
• Understanding of fundamental design principles behind a scalable application
• Understanding of the differences between multiple delivery platforms, such as mobile vs desktop, and optimizing output to match the specific platform
• Able to create database schemas that represent and support business processes
• Strong unit test and debugging skills
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools such as Git