Software Developer (LAMP Stack)

About the Organization: 

WeMakeScholars is an organization funded and supported by the Ministry of IT, Government of India under the 'Digital India Campaign'. We offer international education finance via scholarships and education loans, to study abroad aspirants. We are currently a 120 members team. Last financial year, we disbursed 2200 Cr in education loans to 8300 students across India.

We are looking for a PHP Developer who is keen to work in a startup environment esp. a product-based company. 

Job Overview

We are hiring developers (from 0 to 10 experience) with relevant knowledge and experience with the development and deployment of large-scale cloud-native enterprise systems on PHP, REST APIs, Node Js, Flutter, AWS & MySql. 

About Tech Department:

• Our internal tech team is responsible for end-to-end in-house tech support which includes and is not limited to design, development & deployment. 
• We are continuously developing and improvising our products to enhance customer and team experience.
• As we are in the Fintech space, our team has to ensure the database security of the application

Job Summary 

• Participate in the full development life cycle, working within broadly defined parameters including design, development, testing, and maintenance of the existing application with minimal supervision.
• Work on optimization and performance improvement activities. Instrument and test performance metrics.
• Participate in peer-to-peer code reviews to improve the quality and maintenance of the codebase.
• Collaboration with multiple internal/external stakeholders such as product, business, DBA, and Dev Ops.
• Design and implement APIs for web/mobile (both Android & iOS) applications.
• To be available on call for the projects or features developed by you. Things break, and you will be responsible to fix it when it does.

Experience & Skills Required

• 2+ years of experience (we are hiring freshers too for junior positions)
• Hands-on experience and knowledge of engineering end-to-end systems.
• Understanding of complete software development life cycle, including coding standards, and code reviews.
• Familiarity with multiple software development practices and tools
• Ability to write clean, modular, and loosely coupled code by the use of design patterns.
• Proficiency in the implementation of algorithms and the use of advanced data structures to solve problems in computing.
• A solid foundation and implementing principles of computer science is a must. Ex: object-oriented programming, concurrency, fundamentals of computer science, SQL databases. 

Value addition 

• Experience with AWS
• Working knowledge of payment gateways 
• Good knowledge of Mysql Query optimization and Database design.

Hiring:
PHP / Laravel Developer with 1 year experience in PHP / Laravel / Wordpress language

Perks:
No salary bar for the right candidate

Flexible and Friendly work environment.

Health / Medical Insurance

Enthusiastic team of developers

Supportive leadership

Opportunity to showcase your creativity

Employee overall development programs and Activities regularly

Technical:

 

• Expertise in WordPress customization, development and knowledge of plugins and API integration Should be well versed in WordPress.
• Must have knowledge to create their own theme and able to do customization in existing/premium theme.
• Must have experience of plugin customization and also aware about a new plugin development.
• Must have the Knowledge of existing WordPress’s functions, hooks, plugins.
• Experience in WordPress is mandatory, other Open Sources/frameworks experience would be considered as an added advantage.
• WordPress integration directly from PSD/AI/Sketch would be considered as an added advantage.
• Must have knowledge of basic php and MYSQL concepts.

 

Non-Technical:

 

• Interpersonal skills
• Good communication
• Decision making
• Good Team player
• Good Listener

 

Roles & Responsibilities:

 

• Designing and implementing new features and functionality
• Establishing and guiding the website’s architecture
• Ensuring high-performance and availability, and managing all technical aspects of the CMS
• Helping to formulate an effective, responsive design and turning it into a working theme and plugin.

As a Technical Lead you are responsible for the development and support of software applications. You will be expected to demonstrate best practice in refining requirements, design solutions, write code, tests and deploy applications. You will be a role model for developers in the team with a responsibility to set a high bar for quality. As part of this responsibility you will provide regular technical and non-technical coaching. As a technical expert, you will continuously evaluate areas of technology, process, standards and policy that can be improved. You are a knowledge champion and seek every opportunity to share your experience across the department. You will develop a good understanding of the needs of your customer and may be required to represent your team in meetings with stakeholders, contributing to their strategy and direction. As a technology enthusiast you keep up to date with the latest developments in the IT industry and apply industry best practice to drive continuous improvement and innovation within the organization. Your daily tasks could include Provide expert software architecture advise and coaching Lead detailed design sessions Ensure technical delivery risks are addressed as early as possible within delivery schedules, through technical spikes and proof of technologies Inspect and review the work of the team providing governance of software development principles Review and adapt processes and standards and provide recommendations for improvement. Continuously improve quality of products. Leads in the refinement of requirements and solution architecture to eliminate ambiguity, conflict & duplication. Leads the assigned domain at design governance meetings Identify opportunities to address waste including addressing technical debt, inefficient development processes and opportunities for automation. Contribute to planning, including sizing, prioritisation and capacity plans. Set the bar for quality within the Domain, never compromising software development discipline Share knowledge through documentation, presentations and pairing. Personal development and improvement of skill set. Keeping up to date with the latest developments in your field. Provide coaching and mentoring to the team. Provide technical training to the department in fields of expertise. Contribute to interviews as part of the recruitment process. Key contributor to technical estimation when requested by Domain Manager To be able to succeed in this role, you must have the following skills and experience… ESSENTIAL: Minimum of 2 years’ commercial experience working as a technical lead/development manager Have experience working with PHP 5.5+ and a strong understanding of OOP Ecommerce development skills/platforms (previous exposure to this is essential) Strong knowledge of working with MVC Frameworks (Zend in particular) MySQL knowledge Experience with version control systems (Git, Subversion) API / 3rd Party integration experience Proficient in front end UX technologies, such as HTML5, CSS3 & Javascript Can still remain hands on when needed!

• Collaborating with the front-end developers and other team members to establish objectives and design more functional, cohesive codes to enhance the user experience.
• Own code for the products with responsibilities including but not limited to designing, developing, testing, maintenance of products.
• Building RESTful services and do DevOps.
• Talking to customers and business teams to suggest improvement areas in product flows.
• Create peer learnings for team members and build context for new teammates
• Help with building the company's tech team and iterating on the hiring framework.
• Provide regular feedback to your team (peers and managers) to ensure continuous improvement.
• Keeping abreast with the latest technologies and working on your skills regularly.

Skills & Requirements

• Good knowledge and experience of working with backend systems; designing server-side architecture, including production maintenance experience are must-haves.
• At least 1-8 years of experience in any programming languages like Java, Ruby, PHP, Python, and Node.js(Node.js preferred).
• Understanding of micro-services-oriented architecture.
• Experience with Databases design (SQL, NoSQL) and analytics
• Experience in driving and delivering complex features/software modules from technical design to launch.
• Expertise with unit testing & Test Driven Development (TDD)
• Have empathy for the users you build for

Good to have

• Experience in the fintech industry
• Experience leading design and implementation of robust and secure web services

What will I be doing? 👩‍💻👨‍💻

Leading parts of the product from inception to launch, and own large parts of the product’s execution.
Working with our Sales and frontend team to build products with the goal of delighting and increasing the success of our users.
Architecting, building, testing, and releasing product-facing features.
Contributing to our side projects and free tools for the education industry.

What do I need? 🤓

1-2 years of industry experience in a software engineering role, preferably building a SaaS product. You can demonstrate significant impact that your work has had on the product and/or the team.
Deep knowledge of a high-level programming language (for example, PHP, Python, etc.) but it doesn’t need to be a language that we use here! Great people are effective and learn what we use quickly (or introduce us to better ways of working)
Deep knowledge of SQL Databases
Experience with scalable distributed systems, both built from scratch as well as on AWS primitives
Willingness to learn and use new technologies
Extremely data-driven
Ability to debug complex systems

Brownie points 🍰

Using a framework (for example, Laravel, Code Igniter, Django)
Understanding of containerisation (Docker/Kubernetes) along with ability to deploy to AWS ECS (or similar tools)

Feel free to apply even if you feel unsure about whether you meet every single requirement in this posting. As long as you're a quick learner, and are excited about changing the status quo for tech recruitment, we're happy to support you as you come up to speed with our tech stack.

Perks 😍

Flexible vacation
Take a tutorial, on us
Monthly remote meals

Tech stack 🔨

PHP
Laravel
NodeJS
VueJS
Ionic Angular
Digital Ocean
AWS
MySQL

Why Classcard? 🚀

We are still in the early stages of our journey. You will be working closely with our users, acting on both their feedback and what our data says. Things you build here will have tremendous impact on both our business and Classcard as a company.
What happens after I apply? 🤔

1. Quick phone call with a member of our engineering team to find out more about your experience and why you want to work at Classcard.

2. Video interview:

   Technical discussion with a senior engineer
   Pairing on an interesting problem
   Meet the founders

Job Description :

1. Coordinate with project managers and team to create detailed project plans for
achieving timeliness and 100% quality in each project and deliverables.
2. Address technical concerns, ideas, and suggestions and provide a technological
solution to them.
3. Creating API endpoints for web applications and internal scripts that will handle
the business logic of applications.
4. Troubleshoot, test, and maintain the core product and database to ensure strong
optimization and functionality.
5. Develop innovative, reusable web-based tools.

Skill Requirements :

1. Understanding the principles behind a scalable application.
2. Understanding of the software development life-cycle and best practices.
3. Must have experience with MySQL/Postgres SQL and should be capable of
writing queries, stored procedures, indexes, etc.
4. Working Experience in Laravel HMVC, Hooks & Plug-in Methodologies. Laravel
is Preferrable.
5. HTML5, CSS3, XML knowledge is mandatory. And experience with JavaScript
and jQuery for producing AJAX applications.
6. Ability to make modifications to the systems with little or no interruption of
service.
7. Exposure to REST API Development & API integrations.
8. Working Experience in Composer & PHP Libraries.

• Build robust & scalable web applications
• Participate in product design, development, verification, troubleshooting & delivery of web applications.
• Design and create relational database schema & application framework as needed
• Work with a worldwide team to integrate the product to meet the requirement

Required Qualifications:

• Degree in Computer Science from a top-tier institution
• Relevant full-time work experience of 4-8 years
• Strong foundation in computer science, with solid competencies in object-oriented software design patterns, software QA methodologies, processes, and test automation.
• Ability to self-teach.

Mandatory Technical Skills:

• PHP, Javascript/AJAX, SOAP/REST, GIT
• MySQL/NoSQL
• Linux
• Software development life cycle (SDLC)

Desirable Technical Skills:

• Linux scripting

 

 

MVC architecture

Ruby and Rails

Creating JSON based web services from Ruby on Rails (RoR) apps

HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery, CoffeeScript, Ajax, lodash/underscore.js

A firm grasp of object-oriented analysis and design

Good to have knowledge in any front end framework, Angular or above versions, Backbonejs, Ember.js

Should have extensive experience in Agile software development principles, practice, and process

Should have worked on enterprise-cl applications

RoR Performance tuning and scaling

Proficiency in English strongly preferred

A proactive and resourceful person who achieves with minimal oversight

Team player with the ability and desire to become an integral part of a fast-paced team

Good knowledge of relational databases MySQL, Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, DB2 or similar

Hands-on experience with at least one of the NoSQL environments like MongoDB, Couchbase, Cassandra

Experience with text search systems like elastic, solr or similar

Hands-on experience in integrating with third-party REST APIs

Managing code with Git and other version control tools

Good to have knowledge of Nginx  

If you are a PHP developer & have a good understanding of web technologies you may apply for this positoin. As a Developer, you will be a part of our web development team and will be working with some very experienced developers on challenging and interesting projects. You will be a part of an Agile delivery team and work closely with Requirement Analysts, Scrum Masters, Development & Design team and QA team.

Responsibilities

 

1. Write clean, maintainable and efficient code.
2. Design robust, scalable and secure features
3. Collaborate with team members to develop and ship web applications within tight timeframes.
4. Write unit and functional testcases.
5. Work on bug fixing, identifying performance issues and improving application performance
6. Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency.
7. Handling complex technical issues

 

Technical Skills

1. PHP - 4.5 Years Experience along with HTML5, CSS Bootstrap, JQuery, JS, MySQL/MongoDB, JSON Web Services and API Services
2. PHP Frameworks: Min. 2 Years with anyone (Laravel, Symfony, CakePHP, Yii etc.)
3. PHP Reporting Tools (Jasper etc.)
4. NET Exposure - Good to have
5. Understanding of responsive design frameworks such as bootstrap
6. MEAN Stack - Good to have
7. Angular / React - Good to have
   
   

Perks, Benefits & Culture: 

We are offering amazing career growth opportunities, great compensation, and benefits. This begins with -

 

- weekly lunches

- alternate weekends-off

- annual medical checkups

- Social engagement 

- financial assistance 

- and more...