


Senior PHP Laravel Developer
Position: Senior PHP Laravel Developer
Experience Required: up to 3 years
Positions: 03
About us:
Saakh is building a social networking platform for businesses who sell on credit in order to solve for their payment collection challenges faced by every seller on a day to day basis. Our vision is to make payments collections timely and automatic for these businesses. Saakh is building a community of trustable businesses. We are building an eco-system where a business who has cheated once can never cheat again.
Job description
You will be responsible for handling entire back-end infrastructure of Saakh. You will work closely with founder and CTO to discuss the strategy and to implement the said aforesaid within the deadlines. Saakh is a fast-moving start-up who is at the early stages, timely execution is of paramount importance.
Job responsibilities
- Build innovative, state-of-the-art applications.
- Ensure HTML, CSS, and shared JavaScript is valid and consistent across applications.
- Prepare and maintain all applications utilizing standard development tools.
- Utilize backend data services and contribute to increasing existing data services API.
- Lead the entire web application development life cycle right from concept stage to delivery and
post launch support.
- Convey effectively with all task progress, evaluations, suggestions, schedules along with
technical and process issues.
- Document the development process, architecture, and standard components.
- Coordinates with co-developers and keeps project managers well informed of the status of
development effort and serves as liaison between development staff and project manager.
- Keep abreast of new trends and best practices in web development.
Desired profile
- Previous working experience as a Laravel developer for 4+ years.
- BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering, IT or similar relevant field.
- In depth knowledge of object-Oriented PHP and Laravel PHP Framework.
- MySQL profiling and query optimization.
- Creative and efficient problem solver.
- Excellent command on Core PHP and MySQL using MVC Architecture.
- Excellent skills in PHP/Javascript.
- Knowledge of At least one CMS (WordPress, Magento or Drupal)
- Excellent of Laravel framework.
- Strong object-oriented programming skills.
- General knowledge of both front-end and back-end web development from a consumer.
- Perspective Knowledge of eCommerce integration.
- Should know about child theme and its structure.
- Should know about creating plugins for theme customization
- It is must to have a high sense of integrity.
Are you one of us?
We welcome you to Saakh’s family.

About Saakh
About
We are building Linkedin for MSMEs.
We are making payments collection easy for businesses by building credit scores of their customers.
Saakh is an invoice sharing app which lets seller share the invoice to its customer. Seller can track invoices, app lets seller send manual or automated payment reminders to its customers. Saakh has developed first of its kind payment reminders which take payment commitment from the customers. Customers can pay / send payment confirmations to the sellers via the app. App analyses the payment habits of the customers and after considering several other factors, it creates a Saakh score (Saakh is an Hindi word which means Reputation, Saakh score essentially measures reputation of each business)
Join us if:
1) You can work aggressively and execute rapidly (An early stage startup is all about speed and execution)
2) You love what you do. You genuinely like to be a problem solver.
3) You want to build products which brings meaningful impacts in lives of business owners.
Values we abide by:
Honesty, Openness, Transparency and Speed.
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AJAX and JS and their frameworks to create and integrate
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from front end developers and executing the project based on the
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Solid knowledge of PHP, MySQL, JSON, and XML
● Proven experience building data-driven web
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● Experience working with API development
● Familiarity with design patterns such as MVC
● Experience with Open Source PHP CMS such as
WordPress or Drupal or Magento
● Comfortable with data modeling, stored
procedures, and views
● Ability to work closely with front end developers
● Knowledge of JavaScript / jQuery skills / HTML / CSS
● Experience building large, scalable applications
● Experience building custom
content management
systems
● Awareness of current development trends in the
coding and development like Docker, Micro
services and an understanding of how these
technologies can improve and impact projects
● Knowledge of GIT or any other version control
software.
Experience: 1 to 3 years


Something we will like in you -
You enjoy the excitement of developing new software, mobile apps, and you have a vision for building stable, reliable, and performant systems.
You must have solid foundational knowledge in software development and debugging.
You might have a Computer Science or Engineering degree, or you might not. Your university is not what we're looking for. We care about what you can do at work and how you do it.
This is a remote job. You're free to work where you work best, anywhere in the world: home, co-working space, coffee shops.
Do you recognize yourself in these statements:
- You are comfortable under pressure, and you enjoy working on a broad array of projects with different technical requirements.
- You love unwinding tricky problems, finding the causes, and fixing them for good.
- You take pride in your work with or without accolades from others.
- You care about your coworkers and want to make their lives better.
- You enjoy working across teams to help ship new features and fix bugs.
- You approach your work with curiosity, enthusiasm, and tenacity.
Pay and benefits
- The salary for this position is INR 20000 - INR 30,000
We assess your seniority relative to the team at Shimbi Labs during the interviewing process. It doesn't matter how many years you worked before. - Work from anywhere.
- Allowance for the Internet connection.
- Laptop and power backup (After a year).
- 21 days paid leaves.
- Health insurance after a year with us (After a year).


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distributed software applications, tools, systems or services using Object Oriented Design,
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● Good knowledge of one or more relational and NoSQL databases
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● Kindness, warmth and a positive, optimistic attitude
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● Opportunity to be part of one of the most exciting consumer growth stories in the world
● One of the best funded and most far advanced companies in the space (investors are leading
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● Ability to work with some of the best, nicest and most passionate people in the digital lending
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2. Quality focused developer, uses best practices of design, coding and
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3. A good problem solver, able to analyse technical issues in a production
environment.
4. Take initiatives and provide innovative ideas/suggestions to Senior
Developers, Technical Leaders, Product Manager to improve overall
product/solution.
5. Maintain a highly positive attitude and conducive working environment
at all times for the team members and peers.
6. Always keep himself/herself updated about technology advancements,
new trends. Share the knowledge with team members regularly.
Candidate Attributes
1. Expertise in Node.js, Javascript, Express.js, Mysql, MongoDB, GraphQL
2. Should be able to understand the requirements and implement them
independently. Knowledge of the Agile methodology for Software
Development Good understanding of the software development life
cycle.
3. Strong analytical skills, excellent problem solver and self-starter
4. Working experience in Linux development environment
5. Analyze the current implementations and enhance them with Strong
Debugging and Analytical skills
6. Willingness to innovate, explore new ideas and acquire new skills and
knowledge
7. Attention to detail and a commitment to excellence.


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- 3+ to 6 years of hands-on coding experience in Java preferably Version 8
- Building RESTFUL services using Spring boot, Spring WS, etc
- Hands on experience in Microservices
- Data-Layer Development: MySQL, NoSQL, ORM


