Senior Software Engineer
at A Technology solution for an Investment platform.
- As a Senior Software Engineer you will work closely with the Tech Lead, and the rest of the engineering team to build and scale a data-driven platform. This role will act as a great springboard to accelerate career growth & transition into a Tech Lead level role.
- Your primary focus will be the development of server-side logic, building new services and APIs, developing core business logic, supporting the maintenance of current APIs, reviewing work, and improving the performance and reliability of our systems as we rapidly scale our product and organization.
- An effective Senior Software Engineer will be a self-motivated learner; a highly creative engineer having obsessive attention towards detail and thoroughness.
Must Haves
- You’ve been building web applications professionally for 5+ years
- You’re proficient in PHP 7, Laravel, and PostgreSQL
- You possess strong OOP and design pattern knowledge
- Familiar with modern engineering practices: Code Reviews, Continuous Deployment, Automated Testing, etc
- You write understandable, testable code with an eye towards maintainability and experienced with TDD (Test Driven Development)
- You’ve the ability to build RESTful APIs
- Explaining complex technical concepts to designers, support team, and fellow engineers is not a problem for you
- Well versed with the fundamentals of computer science and distributed systems
Nice-to-haves
- FrontEnd experience; have built applications in either: React, Vue, Angular, or Svelte
- Startup experience, preferably a tech startup
- Open Source contributor
- You have experience with other programming languages -- e.g. NodeJS, Python, Ruby, Go, C, etc.
- Passionate about/experienced with open source and developer tools
- You have a bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field, or equivalent training, fellowship, or work experience
Bonus
- Experience deploying applications; AWS, DigitalOcean, etc.
- Experience with leading a team of 3+ developers
Apply if
- You want to be a team member rather than an employee - cultural fit is the most important thing. Start-up life is a roller coaster and we want to make sure no matter how the day has gone we can still go out (virtually) for a pint at the end of it
- You take ownership
- You’ve an eye for detail
- You’re a problem solver, and a perpetual learner
- You possess a positive and solution-oriented mindset
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We are looking for a highly experienced Senior PHP Developer with over 10 years of expertise in building robust and scalable web applications. The ideal candidate must be proficient in Laravel, have hands-on experience with AWS, and possess a strong understanding of code architecture and design patterns. You will play a key role in designing, developing, and maintaining high-quality software solutions while making critical design and technical decisions.
Responsibilities
- Architect and implement complex, scalable, and high-performing PHP-based web applications using Laravel.
- Write clean, efficient, and maintainable code adhering to best practices and coding standards.
- Make informed design decisions and define the architecture for new and existing projects.
- Guide and mentor junior developers, conducting code reviews to ensure quality and adherence to standards.
- Deploy, configure, and manage applications on AWS infrastructure.
- Leverage AWS services such as S3, EC2, RDS, Lambda, and CloudFormation for optimized solutions.
- Ensure high standards of code quality, security, and performance through testing and continuous integration.
- Debug and resolve application issues and implement enhancements in existing systems.
- Work closely with cross-functional teams including product managers, designers, and other developers to align technical solutions with business needs.
- Document design decisions, processes, and system architecture for team collaboration.
- Identify areas of improvement in the development process and introduce industry-standard tools and techniques.
- Stay updated with the latest trends, technologies, and frameworks in PHP, Laravel, and AWS.
Qualifications
- 10+ years of experience in PHP development with a strong focus on Laravel.
- Proven experience designing and implementing scalable software architectures.
- Proficient in AWS services.
- Expertise in MySQL/PostgreSQL and database optimization.
- Strong knowledge of RESTful APIs and microservices architecture.
- Familiarity with frontend technologies (e.g., JavaScript, Vue.js, React) is a plus.
- Solid understanding of CI/CD pipelines and version control systems like Git.
- Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to make sound technical decisions.
- Strong communication and leadership abilities, with a track record of mentoring developers.
Why Join Us?
- Opportunity to work on challenging projects in a collaborative and innovative environment.
- Access to cutting-edge tools, technologies, and cloud solutions.
- Competitive compensation and benefits package.
A SaaS startup founded in April 2020.
What’s the opportunity?
Are you a backend developer looking to fast-track your learning and growth? Have you looked at world-class products like Asana, Notion, or Airtable, and felt “I wish I were part of the early team that built these products”?
We’re a team that has previously built and rolled out globally successful SaaS products used by tens of thousands of customers.
We’re laser-focused on delivering a world-class product again, and looking for an ambitious backend engineer to join our existing team of 9 engineers.
If it excites you to think of a fast-paced start-up environment, building something big from scratch, breaking down new problems, creating new APIs, working on performance issues, getting hands-on with DevOps initiatives, and showcasing demos of your work every Friday with a happy and passionate team, then this is the right opportunity for you.
Some of the tech problems you get to work on as a backend engineer would be to build the backend for a modern spreadsheet experience from scratch, work on infra as code, write robust code that is fault-tolerant, work on performant code that adheres to SLOs set by the organization.
About you:
● 3- 5 years of experience
● Expertise in the following areas ○ Java ○ HTTP Protocol
● You’ve heard of or worked with some of the following tech stacks/products
○ Spring
○ PostgreSQL
○ Redis ○ Docker
○ Message brokers
○ GitHub
● These non-functional areas are familiar to you
○ Performance
○ Debugging
○ Log management
Nice to have:
● Familiarity with AWS
What’s in it for you?
● Great opportunity: We genuinely care about everyone we hire. You’ll learn new things and grow no matter how experienced you are; you will be working with founders who have more than three decades of collective experience in building significant B2B SaaS startups.
● Great team: Work with a world-class, high-velocity team that truly embodies the values of empathy, curiosity, and customer-centricity. Check out the MTT(Meet The Team) videos on our LinkedIn.
● Great culture: An open, fun, and exciting startup culture that empowers its people to champion big problems with the freedom to think and innovate.
● Growth: You could easily and quickly transition into other roles you might like.
● Impact: You get to be part of a global, passionate team in a fast-paced and growth-oriented environment. The team has a work philosophy of being high on ambition, ownership, and a bias for action.
● Monetary rewards and benefits: Competitive stipend, flexible leave policy, and more
Job Title: Senior Ruby on Rails Developer
Location: Remote (Mumbai Preferred)
Company: OpiGo
About Us:
OpiGo is an early-stage wealth tech start-up that’s changing the way people invest in the stock market. Our platform empowers users to make informed investment decisions through a cutting-edge gamified community.
Job Description:
As the Senior Ruby on Rails Developer at OpiGo, you will play a crucial role in architecting, developing, and maintaining our robust and scalable investing platform. You will work closely with the product team and other stakeholders to drive innovation and deliver exceptional user experiences.
Requirements:
- 5+ years of Ruby on Rails development experience.
- Strong understanding of Ruby programming language and its scope.
- Experience in building complex and scalable web applications.
- Familiarity with front-end technologies: React Native, JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3.
- Proficient in version control systems (e.g., Git, SVN).
- Expertise in relational databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc.).
- Hands-on experience with Sidekiq, Redis, and background job processing systems.
- Ability to implement real-time features using WebSockets and Action Cable.
- Experience in monitoring and performance tuning with tools like New Relic.
- Knowledge of payment gateway integration and secure transaction processing.
- Experience deploying applications on cloud platforms like AWS or Google Cloud.
- Excellent interpersonal, communication, and teamwork skills.
- Understanding of Agile development methodologies and software development practices.
Preferred Qualifications:
1. Experience in the fintech industry or working on financial applications.
2. Knowledge of frontend technologies such as React Native, JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3.
3. Experience with DevOps practices and CI/CD pipelines.
4. Familiarity with Docker and container orchestration platforms like Kubernetes.
5. Contributions to open-source projects or active participation in the developer community.
Join us in our mission to revolutionize the investing landscape and empower individuals to achieve financial success. If you are passionate about technology, innovation, and making a positive impact, we want to hear from you!
How to Apply:
If you're excited to take on this pivotal role and shape the future of OpiGo, please fill up the form: https://forms.gle/5euWxq1hBfQTDadD6
About Us
At Toddle, we are on a mission to help schools around the world deliver better learning. We are a team of 2x founders – before founding Toddle, we set up a network of preschools and schools in India. We continue to operate these preschools and schools as it gives us a unique vantage
point into the challenges faced by schools.
Our belief is that real impact in education can only be achieved by improving schools. That’s because children spend more than 80% of their learning time in school and schools are here to stay as schools are not just about teaching & learning, they also play a pivotal social role in our lives. So while most Edtech companies are trying to solve for education by working outside the school system, we think that the focus needs to be on taking our schools to the next level.
Our first product is a collaboration platform for teaching teams – we say that Toddle is to teaching, what Figma is to design. In its current version, Toddle empowers teachers to work together and better across all stages of the teaching-learning process – right from curriculum
planning and assessments to progress-tracking and family communication.
Here are some key facts about us:
1. Currently used by 1,000+ schools and 30,000+ teachers from 107 countries
2. Global revenue – 40% from Americas, 30% from EMEA, 30% from APAC
3. NRR > 115%
4. NPS > 70
5. Annual churn < 5%
6. Inbound led GTM motion fuelled by positive word of mouth
We love solving for
1. Creating delightful experiences that help teaching teams collaborate better & be more effective
2. Building tools that help teachers personalise learning for their students
3. Helping teachers around the world connect with each other meaningfully
We are at a series A stage right now, growing fast in the SAAS Ed-tech space, and have been funded by Sequoia, Matrix, Beenext, and Better Capital among others.
Here’s what you’ll be doing
We are looking for a passionate and skilled Backend engineer, one who partners with us in creating beautiful products for teachers, students and parents alike. As a Backend engineer, you will play a major role in designing, developing and deploying high-quality web platforms. In
this multifaceted role, you will get the opportunity to work along curriculum experts, teachers, and students, and user-test the product in real school settings.
Required Skills:
Frameworks & Technologies: Node.js, Express, GraphQL, JWT
Database: SQL query writing and optimisation.
Tools: Git basics, Scripting basics
Good to have:
DevOps experience with AWS, CI/CD
Working experience in PostgreSQL
Is this someone that looks like you?
• Education: B.E/B.Tech degree
• Experience: 1 to 3 years of relevant working experience (SaaS preferred)
• Soft Skills: Having a bias towards action, a good sense of design, empathy, and good communication skills
• We deeply value building the right culture at Toddle, and these are a few things that we look for in each hire - Coach-ability, Curiosity, Ownership, Hustle and Humility
Excited about the role?
Here are a few more benefits:
1. Work from anywhere - Work from where you like - home, co-working space, cafe or the hills
2. Exposure to diverse learning opportunities
Work across different projects & teams to develop skills outside of your core expertise
Access to a small budget towards learning (e.g. books, online courses, substacks)
3. Uncapped leave policy
We trust you fully on your commitment to our mission and your judgement on planning your time and taking leaves:
No cap on the number of sick or casual leaves
Special paid leaves for childbirth, wedding etc.
And if in any circumstance you feel burnt out - there is a little something for this too!
No questions asked menstrual leave
4. Flexible working hours - Block “no-meeting hours” to enable uninterrupted focused work
5. No bell curve performance evaluations
6. And yes, a super fun and smart group of folks to collaborate and grow with.
Still with us? Here’s the process:
1. Shortlisting:
• Apply for the role.
• We’ll check out your application and assess it for a fit
• You will hear back from us within 2-3 days of the submission if shortlisted
2. Once shortlisted, we usually do about 2-3 rounds of interviews, a written assignment, and deep reference checks.
3. We value everyone’s time hence we make it a point to communicate proactively at all stages of your application. You can always reach out to us for any questions.
- Expert in Python, with knowledge of Python web framework Django
- Familiarity with some ORM (Object Relational Mapper) libraries
- Able to integrate multiple data sources and databases into one system
- Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as JavaScript, HTML5 and CSS3
- Familiarity with event-driven programming in Python
- Strong experience on Linux
- Solid database skills in a relational database (i. e. PostgresSQL)
- Able to create database schemas that represent and support business processes
- Strong unit test and debugging skills
- Proficient understanding of code versioning tools (git)
- Experience on RESTful APIs
- Experience deploying on AWS is desirable
- Experience on Automation Builds using Jenkins and other popular frameworks
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills paired with the ability to develop creative and efficient solutions
- Excellent interpersonal, leadership, influence and communication skills
- Experience in designing scalable micro-services is desirable
Java Backend Engineer - Fintech Rocketship Pilot
Distributed systems, scalability, reliability, robustness, security, quality, building responsive real time systems - do these terms get your adrenaline high? Come be a part of a high growth, fast paced engineering team building for India’s new generation.
We have an open culture, you take responsibility and ownership of what you do. No bureaucracy. No bullsh*t.
If you are up for big engineering challenges, personal and professional growth, then let’s join forces!
You’ll fit right in if you have - 2-3 years of experience building, running and maintaining production services Strong with Java and JVM based services along with PostgreSQL Comfortable working with multiple cloud providers: mainly GCP and AWS Comfortable with CI and CD tools and best practices Done TDD and values TDD
Good to have –
Engineering aptitude - Owns small features, starting from technical design through completion. Appreciates and participates in technical discussions, and values guidance and feedback. Does not need mentoring on a daily basis; makes steady progress by themselves, and knows when to ask for help to get unblocked. Comfortable with referencing technical specifications, API references, source code, and man pages to understand concepts or solve issues.
Design process - Understands the role and importance of design, can write good backend specifications Can communicate API specifications and design goals to the end consumers API
Code reviews - Understands the value of peer-reviewed code; learns how to be unbiased and provide effective feedback. Asks senior engineers for help when needed (e.g.: architecture decisions, refactoring)
- Experience working with Lamp Stack/PHP code
- Proficiency in Magento and/or WordPress is strongly preferred
- Involved in requirement analysis, design and development
- Involved in sending form data to restful API using Ajax calls
- Have experience in CSS, JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3, Jquery Mobile, Bootstrap
- Design, population, updating & editing of relational databases and RDBMS like SQL, MySql.
- Experience with using server like XAMPP is a Plus
- Known with usage of web technology like Ajax with PHP
- Having an experience with building Responsive UI Design with industry standard frameworks
- Work in a team environment creating and supporting enterprise grade applications
- Help architect, design new applications and support existing applications
Responsibilities
- Server Side Programming Languages: PHP & Laravel (MUST)
- Framework: Express, Sails.js, Laravel, Node.js .
- Web Server technologies: Apache, Nginx.
- Database creation and integration: MySQL (MUST), PostgreSQL, MongoDb.
- Cloud computing integration e. g., public cloud providers like Amazon Web Services, or private cloud environments.
- Integration of user-facing elements developed by front-end developers with server side logic.
- Optimisation of the application for maximum speed and scalability.
- Implementation of security and data protection.
- Design and implementation of data storage solutions.
- Creating database schemas that represent and support business processes.
- Setup and administration of backups.
- Management of hosting environment, including database administration and scaling an application to support load changes
Requirements
- Knowledge of presenting data in different formats
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science with minimum 5+ years of industry experience.
- Technical depth across multiple languages.
- Able to meet deadlines.
- Leadership experience.
- Strong communications skills.
- Proficient in writing REST APIs.
Managing & mentoring a team of 5+ people
Ability to deliver projects/sprints on time
Obsessed with quality: Design reviews, code reviews, testing (system/performance)
Spending at least 50% time with hands-on coding while doing the above
Programming
Hands on experience with design and implementation of of WebApps and APIs using a PHP based framework (such as Laravel, Code Igniter, Cake or similar)
In addition to PHP, hands-on with a Python or node.js based framework
Good understanding of SQL (mySQL, postgres or similar. including clustering)
Good understanding of one no-SQL
Comfortable producing and refactoring code without assistance
Understands different major language paradigms (object oriented / functional /reactive)
Can reason about complexity of algorithms (time and space)
Basic CI/CD and DevOps