Software Development Engineer – Integrations & Partner Platform

About the company

SuperHuman Race is a technology start-up that offers measurement of 360 ̊ sustainability,

ESG and CSR automation, alignment with compliance requirements, and experiential

employee engagement. Our product is a category-creating technology implementation that

automates program management, compliance, and reporting including automated

reporting for international frameworks like GRI, GRESB, DJSI, CDP, etc.

We use data analytics, behavioral dynamics, good gaming, and impact blockchain to deliver

social purpose to companies while fulfilling their compliance requirements. This approach

has a demonstrated 4X return on profitability and generates tremendous Earned PR and

brand equity for corporates. Over 30% of our growing global clientele comprises Fortune

500 companies.

Our founding team brings 50+ years of leadership experience with Fortune 500 companies

in India & North America. Along with this, our high-performing diverse teams combine

experiences from more than 20 countries and a wide range of industries and disciplines

including aerospace, real estate, banking, social impact implementation, advanced

technology, manufacturing, sustainability, advertising, etc. Our work, as well as our

business practices, have been recognized as game-changing best practices by the United

Nations, the Commonwealth, NITI Aayog, Ministry of Earth Sciences (Government of India),

TERI, etc.!

We are an equal-opportunity employer - more than 50% of our business and technical

leadership roles are held by women.

We are looking for a PHP Developer responsible for managing back-end services and

the interchange of data between the server and the users. Your primary focus will be

the development of all server-side logic, definition, and maintenance of the central

database, and ensuring high performance and responsiveness to requests from the

front-end. You will also be responsible for integrating the front-end elements built by

your co-workers into the application. Therefore, a basic understanding of front-end

technologies is necessary as well.

Responsibilities

● 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

Skills And Qualifications

● Strong knowledge of Core PHP

● Understanding the fully synchronous behavior of PHP

● Understanding of MVC design patterns

● Intermediate to Advanced knowledge of MySQL, JavaScript, and AJAX

● Basic understanding of technologies such as HTML5, React.js, Node.js, and CSS3

● Knowledge of object-oriented PHP programming

● Evolved Understanding of accessibility and security compliance

● 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 the limitations of PHP as a platform and its workarounds

● Creating database schemas that represent and support business processes

● Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git

The Ideal Candidate will have:

● A graduate or postgraduate degree in Computer Science or IT Engineering

● 2+ years of work experience developing commercially successful web products

● Experience with analytics and process automation

● Attention to detail and a disciplined mind

● Extraordinary analytical and logical prowess

● Common Sense and Curiosity

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER :

The SuperHuman Race is an equal opportunity employer and we highly value transparency.

Everything that matters in our decision-making process regarding this position is clearly

outlined in this job description

Job Description:

• Knowledge on both back-end and front-end technology.
• An expertise in PHP, MySQL, HTML5 and CSS3 A portfolio with live links to sites that you have developed previously (preferred).
• Laravel experience (preferred).
• Education: BE, BTech, MCA, MSC, ME.
• Experience: 0 ~ 2-year Experience.

Essential duties and responsibilities include the following. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. 

• Lead a software development project and manage software development from inception to delivery. 
• Be both a highly technical hands-on coder and effective at mentorship. 
• Coach and mentor team members for skill development and experience.
• Establish goals and objectives for the team that aligns with the overall roadmap and delivery schedules. 
• Works to increase team efficiency and effectiveness in order to achieve long term goals. 
• Participates in hiring of new team members. 
• Performs any HR related tasks. 
• Analyze performance and develop improvements to performance of web application. 
• Perform upgrades to 3rd party libraries and tools used by the web application. 
• Implement new web application software features and products following best practices such as authoring of unit tests, writing maintainable code, applying established patterns and algorithms. 
• Specialize in client or server-side web application development as a member of a project team. Preference for familiarity with the full technical stack. 
• Develop software to support internal initiatives, tools, update framework and application functionality. 
• Work as part of an Agile SCRUM team in the planning, scoping, estimation and execution of technical solutions. 
• Work within a wide range of new and legacy code and technologies in a mature codebase • Other duties as assigned.  

To be considered for and to perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty and responsibility satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required.  

Qualifications include: 

• 7+ years for experience in developing highly scalable, reliable, secure web applications.
• Experience with Javascript (preferably TypeScript), Node.js and React.js.
• Experience or willingness with developing serverless architecture.
• Experience designing data persistence and caching concepts using both SQL and NoSQL DBMS (MySQL, DynamoDB, Redis, etc.)
• Experience testing software in alignment with the Test Pyramid.
• Strong CS fundamentals including familiarity with data structures and especially the asynchronous challenges that face JavaScript developers today.
• Experience owning the responsibility for delivering frontend and backend work as well as coordinating with QA, Design, and PM.
• Willingness to accept responsibility not only for your own work but the work of the team as a whole.
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.
• Enjoy being part of a highly collaborative, remote-friendly environment.
• One year of experience using AWS services, such as Lambda, SES, SQS, EC2, RDS, ELB’s and have knowledge of VPC’s (AWS and/or RightScale knowledge a plus.
• 1years of experience in product or SaaS development.
• Experience with modern front-end frameworks.

About the Role

The Engineering team in Bangalore, India is building products for the Martial Arts

fans across the world. As part of the engineering team, you would be expected to have

deep technology expertise with a passion for building highly scalable products.

This is a unique opportunity where you can impact the lives of people across 150+

countries!

Responsibilities

Own architecture, design, development, and implementation of different

modules/features of the services

Design, develop, deploy and support web applications.

Discover opportunities for performance improvements

Recommend ways to improve reliability, efficiency and code quality

Focus on continuous delivery and reducing complexity

Carry out code reviews and manage pull requests

Build applications based on micro-services architecture.

Requirements

Overall 1~3 years of experience in Backend development.

B. E/B. Tech in CS or equivalent streams from institute of repute (IITs, NITs, BITs,

IIITs or equivalent)

Strong object oriented design skills & knowledge of design patterns

Experience designing & developing distributed systems involving multiple web

services, databases (both SQL and NoSQL), caches, queues, etc. taking into

consideration scalability, availability, fault tolerance, consistency, etc. of the

overall system

Well-aware of and enforces development best practices: Unit Tests, Code Reviews,

Integration Tests, CI/CD, Monitoring, Alerting, etc.