Senior Software Engineer

Company Description

Anglerfox is a Software Development and Consulting Company with a focus on websites, e-commerce, and web-based Information Systems. We provide services in the implementation and distribution of business applications.

Role Description

This is a full-time remote role for a Senior PHP Developer. The Senior PHP Developer will be responsible for designing, coding and modifying websites, from layout to function, according to the company's specifications. Job duties will include, but not be limited to, writing well-designed, testable, efficient code and troubleshooting and debugging advanced software solutions.

Qualifications

• Back-End Web Development and Software Development skills
• Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) skills
• Advanced Front-End Development skills
• Advanced Programming skills
• Knowledge of the following languages: PHP, MySQL, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, AJAX, jQuery
• Experience with MVC frameworks (Laravel, CodeIgniter, etc.)
• Experience working with Core PHP
• Experience working with RESTful APIs
• Excellent debugging and troubleshooting skills
• Ability to work independently and remotely
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field

Candidates with less than 6 years of experience in Development are kindly requested not to apply.

Role Overview

We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Staff Engineer to lead our small but talented dev team and take ownership of our architecture and infrastructure. This role is a blend of hands-on technical leadership and strategic planning, critical to our product’s growth and scalability.

Key Responsibilities

• Team Leadership: Lead and manage the technology  along with a small and driven development team, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and excellence.
• Architecture Ownership: Design, review, and evolve the architecture for scalable and robust microservices and micro-products.
• Infrastructure Management: Oversee AWS and GCP environments, ensuring secure, cost-effective, and efficient operations.
• AI Integration: Collaborate with AI specialists to integrate fine-tuned models into our ecosystem seamlessly.
• DevOps Excellence: Establish CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, and alerting systems to support rapid development and reliable deployments.
• Code Quality: Set and enforce high standards for code quality, testing, and documentation.
• Strategic Planning: Collaborate with product and business teams to align technical decisions with company goals.
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Requirements

• Experience: 6+ years in software development with strong backend and frontend expertise (Python, React preferred).
• Architecture Skills: Proven experience designing and implementing scalable, distributed systems.
• Cloud Expertise: Hands-on experience with AWS and GCP services, cost optimization, and infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform or CloudFormation.
• DevOps Knowledge: Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines, Docker, Kubernetes, and related tools.
• Leadership: Experience leading and mentoring small teams, driving projects to completion.
• AI Familiarity: Understanding of AI/ML model integration in production systems is a plus.
• Soft Skills: Excellent communication, problem-solving, and organizational skills.
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What We Offer

• Opportunity to shape the future of accessibility technology.
• Collaborative and innovative work environment.
• Competitive compensation and equity options.
• Remote work flexibility.
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Join us in making the web more inclusive and accessible!

Candidates MUST HAVE :

● Deep expertise with JavaScript. Extensive hands-on experience building microservices using NodeJs.

● Substantial experience in building complex and scalable solutions.

● Strong computer science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, design patterns

● Strong experience and understanding of various APIS / Web Services and SQL/NoSQL databases

● Architected non-trivial solutions for a company at a scale

● Proficient in unit testing, writing mocks, automated functional tests, and end-end tests

● Experience with a variety of languages, stacks, and programming paradigms

● Capability to contribute across the web and mobile stacks

● Strong desire to drive change, and ability to adapt to change quickly

● The ability to independently lead problem-solving and build elegant, maintainable solutions to complex problems.

Good to Have

● Experience in building projects with TypeScript, ExpressJs, NextJS, ReactJs, Flutte,r etc.

● Experience with gRPC or GraphQL API implementations.

● Experience in any other programming languages such as Python/Go/Scala

● Experience with Kubernetes, Docker and

● Understanding the nature of asynchronous programming and its quirks and workarounds

● Good hand-on with data streaming technologies like Kafka

● Experience with cloud APIs (e.g., GCP, AWS, Azure)

● Understanding on information security and data privacy

● Experience in open-source development and contribution to open-source technology

Roles and Responsibilities :

● Write clean, reliable, reusable, scalable, testable and maintainable code.

● Produce best in class documentation, testing and monitoring

● Estimate effort, identify risks

● Mentor/coach other engineers in the team to facilitate their development and to provide technical leadership to them.

● Rise above details as and when needed to spot broader issues/trends and implications for the product/team as a whole

● Practice and promote craftsmanship in software engineering (coding, testing, code reviews, documentation, scalability, performance, etc.)

● Break down requirements, estimate tasks, and assist in planning roadmap accurately

● Develop iterative solutions to address expansive product goals

● Platformism components as libraries, utilities and promote reuse

● Be able to conceptualize and develop prototypes quickly

● Own large technical deliverables and execute in a structured manner.

● Take accountability for the overall health of the products you build and ensure predictability of the deliverables of your team 1

● Drive technical roadmap of the team in collaboration with Product and Business Teams.

Who are we?  

Whatfix is the #1 Digital Adoption Platform (DAP) for Enterprises. We are disrupting the way Learning, Training and Application Support content is consumed. We provide large enterprises with a SaaS platform that helps accelerate product adoption and reduce support & training efforts by providing contextual and step by step guidance inside any web application at the exact time a task is being performed. The product has redefined the way companies onboard, train, and provide support to users. 

What sets us apart from the rest?

With over 100 of the Fortune 500 companies already onboard as customers, Whatfix has been named among the top 20 B2B tech companies alongside the likes of Adobe, PayPal, and Cisco.

With a YoY growth of 300%, we have also been recognized among the top 50 fastest growing SaaS companies worldwide in the SaaS 1000 list and as a Market Leader by Gartner in the Digital Adoption space. 

We are pleased to have an Employee rating of 4.6 on Glassdoor and our Customer obsession can be seen in our reviews on platforms like G2 Crowd & Gartner Peer Insights.

The employees are happy, the customers are happy, but what about the investors? Take a look for yourself - Sequoia Capital || Stellaris || Cisco || Eight Roads || Helion Ventures

“Hustle Mode ON” is something we live by.

We are looking for a skilled Web Developer to join our growing team. As a Web Developer, you will be responsible for designing and developing responsive and dynamic web applications using PHP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and various front-end technologies.

Responsibilities:

• Design and develop dynamic and responsive web applications using PHP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and various front-end technologies.
• Work closely with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features.
• Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code.
• Ensure the performance, quality, and responsiveness of web applications.
• Debug and troubleshoot issues, and fix bugs in a timely manner.
• Write unit tests to ensure code quality and stability.
• Use strong problem-solving skills to tackle complex technical challenges.
• Stay up-to-date with the latest industry trends and technologies.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• 2 to 4 years of experience in full-stack web development.
• Strong knowledge of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, wordpress add PHP.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced and dynamic environment.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Good to have AWS knowledge

We are an equal-opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

As a Software Engineer, you will build and scale Clockwork, creating an engaging experience for our users. As one of the first few engineers, you will work on 0 to 1 type projects, partnering closely with our product, design and business teams to build the future of Clockwork.

• Write, test and deploy code to enhance our product
• Design software systems for new features
• Diagnose bugs and system bottlenecks as our product scales
• Work closely with product and design to define our roadmap

• 3+ years of professional experience as a software engineer
• Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree, preferably in CS, or equivalent experience
• Solid engineering, coding and problem solving skills
• Strong product/business sense
• Excited about working in a fast-paced, dynamic startup environment

Clockwork encourages applications from people of all races, religions, national origins, genders, sexual orientations, gender identities, gender expressions and ages, as well as veterans and individuals with disabilities.

• Be involved in full-fledged product development.
• Build New Features, Push them to production fast.
• Debug production issues across services and levels of the stack
• Build services or APIs which will for easy application integrations at Sokrati to develop applications faster.
• Build scalable/fault-tolerant backend systems that process and analyze billions of data points every day.
• You will use every aspect of computer science you have learned or heard of. We believe in experimenting to facilitate more efficient systems.
• You will become an owner in no time. The company aspires in creating effective owners.
• You will participate in every aspect of Software Life Cycle. From inception, to design, to coding, to testing, to deployment and maintenance.

Our ideal candidate is someone who is an exceptional JS developer with significant experience on React and Node. You should be able to build and support complex applications single-handedly with a keen eye towards UX, design, security and performance. Additionally you will need to have a basic understanding of microservices, API integrations to aid in achieving our vision of building the most robust and scalable integration platform in the B2B Retail + Food verticals. You will be responsible for architecture, design and implementation of the entire system to support thousands of customers globally. Our stack is primarily built around Node, PHP, React, Angular, Mongo, PHP and advanced Infra and DevOps tools such as Kubernetes, Grafana, Prometheus, ELK and more.

Mentoring should come naturally to you, as well as finding the right balance towards process and documentation.

Highlights:
1) You will be working on interesting technical challenges in a product centric and open-source driven environment.
2) You will help set a very high bar on code quality with a focus on test driven development and writing highly performant, fault tolerant and secure code.
3) You will take ownership of product features from conception to implementation, testing deployment and support.
4) A lot of freedom on when and where you work from - just get stuff done.
5) You will open source as much as possible, and blog about cool things that you learnt and built.
6) You will help define who we become as a company.
7) You will get stock options in line with silicon valley standards.


Caveats:
1) We have a strict no-divas rule. There are a lot of smart engineers on the team but no one with an attitude / superiority complex.
2) If you think writing tests for your code, writing docs, doing customer support etc are not your cup of tea, this isn't the right role for you.
3) Similarly, if you're viewing this just as a 20-40% increment opportunity over your current compensation, this isn't the right role or company for you.


This role can be the growth opportunity of a lifetime for anyone who has been operating as a backend lead and wants to grow into a fullstack CTO. Check out the links below if you'd like to learn more about us. We encourage people from underrepresented groups to apply.

1) Why ShoppinPal? - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cE7DgtwA0ws" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cE7DgtwA0ws
2) Our hiring philosophy and process http://techstory.in/building-startup-team/" target="_blank">http://techstory.in/building-startup-team/
3) Our culture- https://www.shoppinpal.com/culture">https://www.shoppinpal.com/culture