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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Astra is a cyber security SaaS company that makes otherwise chaotic pentests a breeze with its one of a kind Pentest Platform. Astra's continuous vulnerability scanner emulates hacker behavior to scan applications for 9300+ security tests. CTOs & CISOs love Astra because it helps them fix vulnerabilities in record time and move from DevOps to DevSecOps with Astra's CI/CD integrations.
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We've been awarded by the President of France Mr. François Hollande at the La French Tech program and Prime Minister of India Shri Narendra Modi at the Global Conference on Cyber Security. Loom, MamaEarth, Muthoot Finance, Canara Robeco, ScripBox etc. are a few of Astra’s customers.
Role Overview:
As a back-end engineer you will be responsible for developing and maintaining the platform/dashboard backend. This would involve developing & maintaining RESTful services for vulnerability management, scan orchestration, inventory management and platform features such as on-boarding, trust centers, certificates, payment integrations, vulnerability ingestion, authentication etc.
You should have a strong background in backend programming (Symfony preferred, or Laravel) and have experience with an event driven, async & distributed architecture.
During the first 6 months of your role, you will be involved in the 0->1 journey of two of our upcoming products in our platform along with the respective product owners.
Love solving hard problems? Want to build high impact products rooted in first principles? Is coding your poetry? Join us in shaping the future of cyber security.
Roles & Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain backend services and APIs using Symfony PHP framework. What you create is also what you own.
- Collaborate with front-end developers to integrate user-facing elements with server-side logic.
- Collaborate with scanner teams to orchestrate scans, ingest vulnerabilities, configure scanners etc.
- Write clean, well-documented, and efficient code.
- Optimize and refactor existing code to improve performance and reliability.
- Implement security and data protection measures.
- Triage, troubleshoot and upgrade existing systems.
- Ship code to production multiple times a day/week.
- Ensure timely delivery of the features.
- Test your own features, and write test cases for continuous automated testing.
- Participate in code reviews and contribute to best practices and standards.
What we are looking for:
- 3 years experience in a similar role or similar working experience.
- Strong background in PHP backend programming. Symfony preferred, or Laravel.
- Strong understanding of software architecture principles and design patterns.
- Experience with an event driven (subscribers/listeners), async (MessageHandlers & job queues) & distributed (load-balanced) architecture.
- Experience with PostgreSQL database and data modeling.
- Understanding of concepts such as Dependency Injection, ORM, data validation, error handling etc.
- Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions (good to have).
- Experience with Agile methodologies.
- Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to think strategically about technical solutions.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional remote teams.
- Demonstrated track record of delivering high-quality software products on schedule.
- Knowledge of industry best practices in software development, security, and compliance.
- Knowledge of application & infrastructure security - helps you stand out.
What We offer:
- Adrenalin rush of being a part of a fast-growing company, and working on hard problems that matter.
- Fully remote, agile working environment.
- Good engineering culture with full ownership in design, development, release lifecycle.
- A wholesome opportunity where you get to build things from scratch, improve and ship code to production in hours, not weeks.
- Holistic understanding of SaaS and enterprise security business.
- Experience with the security side of things.
- Annual trips to beaches or mountains (next one is to Wayanad).
- Open and supportive culture.
- Health insurance & other benefits for you and your spouse. Maternity benefits included.
Responsibilities
- Clarify feature requirements with product team
- Design end to end feature flow
- Write scalable and bug free code
- Take care of test and deployment pipeline
- Maintaining the existing products
Skills And Qualification
- Must have experience with any scripting language (Javascript/NodeJS preferred)
- Experience with API-driven and highly scalable application is a plus
- Good knowledge of non relational DB (MongoDB preferred)
- Good with data structure and algorithms
- Good to have an experience with testing framework and CI/CD pipeline
At least 3 years' experience as a Node.js developer.
Extensive knowledge of JavaScript, web stacks, libraries, and frameworks.
Mandatory experience in MongoDB and MySql.
Knowledge of front-end technologies such as HTML5 and CSS3.
Superb interpersonal, communication, and collaboration skills.
Exceptional analytical and problem-solving aptitude.
Responsibilities for Jr. Node JS Developer: 3+yrs
· Should have relevant object-oriented application-building experience in a professional environment.
· Design and implementation of low-latency, high-availability, and performant applications.
· Implementation of security and data protection.
· Thorough understanding of relational databases such as MySQL or similar technologies.
· Excellent coding skills in Node.js, and JavaScript.
· Knowledge of working closely with code versioning tools like git.
· Excellent communication skills and being able to work independently or in a full team.
Required Skills:
· Strong proficiency with JavaScript.
· strong hold on Node.js and frameworks.
· Understanding the nature of asynchronous programming and its quirks and workarounds.
· Good understanding of server-side templating languages.
· Good understanding of server-side CSS preprocessors.
· Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as HTML5, and CSS3.
· Understanding accessibility and security compliance.
· User authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments.
· Integration of multiple data sources and databases into one system.
· Understanding fundamental design principles behind a scalable application.
· Understanding differences between multiple delivery platforms, such as mobile vs. desktop, and optimizing output to match the specific platform.
· Creating database schemas that represent and support business processes.
The Role:
You are a Backend Engineer passionate about building world-class mobile and web applications with performant backend and glitch-free experience. You will be part of a team which will be delivering technology that enhances the in-app experience for our users and enables our development teams to build mobile apps easier, faster and more efficient. You will build compelling and engaging applications for Web and Mobile platforms. Employing your experience in latest Nodejs frameworks like Express.js,Hapi.js, Yarn, PM2 and proficiency in Elasticsearch, in building RESTful APIs, in integrating with databases like MongoDB and MySQL/Postgres with discipline in collaboration and pair programming. Our clientele majorly comprises of BFSI companies, so experience in Financial Applications and enterprise data security will be a big-plus.
Responsibilities:
• Contribute to an Agile team to build web and mobile applications, APIs, SDKs and other tools as required
• Collaborate with various teams within IORTA to realize the requirements for the project and Rapidly deliver iterative solutions
• Provide task plans and follow trends in technology and suggest new approaches to application design and development
• Review and evaluate designs for compliance with development guidelines
•. Implement best practices and methods to improve the development process within the
team and organization
Period: 6 months+
JD:
● 4-7 years of experience building and scaling APIs and web applications.
● Experience building and managing large scale data/analytics systems.
● Have a strong grasp of CS fundamentals and excellent problem solving abilities. Have a good
understanding of software design principles and architectural best practices.
● Be passionate about writing code and have experience coding in multiple languages, including at least
one scripting language, preferably Python.
● Be able to argue convincingly why feature X of language Y rocks/sucks, or why a certain design decision
is right/wrong, and so on.
● Be a self-starter—someone who thrives in fast paced environments with minimal ‘management’.
● Have experience working with multiple storage and indexing technologies such as MySQL, Redis,
MongoDB, Cassandra, Elastic.
● Good knowledge (including internals) of messaging systems such as Kafka and RabbitMQ.
● Use the command line like a pro. Be proficient in Git and other essential software development tools.
● Working knowledge of large-scale computational models such as MapReduce and Spark is a bonus.
● Exposure to one or more centralized logging, monitoring, and instrumentation tools, such as Kibana,
Graylog, StatsD, Datadog etc.
● Working knowledge of building websites and apps. Good understanding of integration complexities and
dependencies.
● Working knowledge linux server administration as well as the AWS ecosystem is desirable.
● It's a huge bonus if you have some personal projects (including open source contributions) that you work
on during your spare time. Show off some of your projects you have hosted on GitHub.
Job Description:
- Integration of user-facing elements developed by front-end developers.
- Build efficient, testable, and reusable PHP modules.
- Solve complex performance problems and architectural challenges.
- Integration of data storage solutions (may include databases, key-value stores, blob stores, etc.)
- Strong knowledge of PHP web frameworks (such as Laravel, Codeignitor, Yii, etc depending on your technology stack)
- Understanding the fully synchronous behavior of PHP.
- Understanding of MVC design patterns.
- Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as JavaScript, JQuery, HTML5 and CSS3
- Knowledge of object oriented PHP programming
- Understanding accessibility and security compliance (Depending on the specific project)
- Strong knowledge of the common PHP or web server exploits and their solutions.
- Understanding fundamental design principles behind a scalable application
- User authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments
- Integration of multiple data sources and databases into one system
- Familiarity with limitations of PHP as a platform and its workarounds
- Creating database schemas that represent and support business processes
- Familiarity with SQL/NoSQL databases and their declarative query languages
- Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Gif.
- Build efficient, testable, and reusable PHP modules.
- Solve complex performance problems and architectural challenges
- Integration of data storage solutions (may include databases, key-value stores, blob stores, etc}
- Hands on Experience with AWS and NoSQL Database, Integration of AWS Services. (Mandatory)
Development: HTML5, CSS3, JS, JQuery, PHP(Must), Python, Java, Git, Dev Tools, C//.
Development Framework: Laravel, Codeigniter, React JS, Vue JS, Bootstrap.
Tools: Trello, Slack, ASANA, Visual Studio Code, PHPStorm, Github, Selenium
Technologies Frameworks: Bootstrap, Laravel, WordPress.
About the Company
Based in California’s Silicon Valley, WebShar is focused on enabling innovative teams to bring their ideas to life. WebShar provides software development consulting services to innovative companies around the world. Through years of cutting edge technical expertise, the WebShar team utilizes their extensive knowledge of modern software development methodologies to help companies create innovative software solutions.
About the Job Role
Skills
Primary
- Java, J2EE, Spring MVC
- Hibernate or other ORM
- Web technology and security, REST framework
- Any one UI technology and ready to learn a new one.
- Database knowledge (MySQL, Oracle, Postgres)
- Unit testing frameworks
- Version Control (Eg., Git)
Good To Have
- Microservices architecture implementation using docker and kubernetes
- Web technologies like HTML, CSS and Javascript
- Python, Shell Scripting
Key Responsibilities
- Identify and analyze user requirements
- Prioritize, assign and execute tasks throughout the software development life cycle
- Document development phases
- Design database architecture
- Develop Java EE applications
- Write well-designed, efficient code
- Review, test and debug team members’ code
- Schedule product releases with internal teams
- Ensure our applications are secure and up-to-date
- Stay up-to-date on emerging technologies
Requirements
- 6 to 8 years of work experience as a Senior Java Developer or similar role
- Experience designing, building and testing Java EE applications
- In-depth knowledge of popular Java frameworks like Spring MVC
- Experience with Object-Oriented Design (OOD)
- Good delegation and time management skills
- Problem-solving abilities
- BSc in Computer Science, Engineering or relevant field
Node.js and frameworks available for it - Express, StrongLoop, etc
Understanding the nature of asynchronous programming and its quirks and workarounds
Integration of user-facing elements developed by front-end developers
front-end technologies - HTML5, and CSS3
Writing scalable, reusable, testable, and efficient code









