
Software Development Engineer
at India’s largest vernacular test prep App. (P1)


- 1+ year of experience
- Full responsibility for designing and building core back-end modules and system architectures.
- Good understanding of database concepts.
- Experience with at least two programming languages (PHP & GoLang).
- Experience in creating at least one web application.
- Knowledge of MySQL in-depth and basic understanding of MongoDB along with basic understanding about different paradigms of programming.
- Ability to interact and coordinate with a team.
- Should have a basic understanding of APIs.
- Modify code in time to keep code dry and reusable.
- Should have worked in at least one framework in the backend.
- A background in Software Architecture would be preferred.
Requirements
- Develop data-driven web solutions on PHP frameworks (ideally CakePHP), but be undeterred when the need arises to create an application from the ground up as required, maintain, contribute and adhere to our programming best practices and guidelines.
- Work with a team of UI designers, programmers, and server admins, to bring brand new concepts to the market.
- Help improve our code quality through writing unit tests, automation and performing code reviews.
- Immediate Joiner

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KEY SKILLS
· Strong computer system analysis and design skills in current methodologies and patterns Experience with professional production cloud (AWS preferred).
· Experience with RESTful Services and APIs.


PHP / Laravel / CI developer duties and responsibilities
- Develop, record and maintain cutting edge web-based PHP applications on portal plus premium service platforms.
- Build innovative, state-of-the-art applications and collaborate with the frontend development team.
- 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 increase 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.
- Coordinate with co-developers and keeps project manager 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.
PHP / Laravel / CI developer requirements and qualifications
- Previous working experience as a PHP(Laravel/CI) developer for minimum 3 years.
- Proficient with JavaScript, JQuery and AJAX.
- In depth knowledge of object-oriented PHP (>=Laravel 7 or >=CI 4.0) framework.
- Should know about source version control like GIT or SVN
- Familiar with AWS & Linux command line will be added advantage.
- Understanding and implementing security and data protection
- Must be a team player with good communications.
- Ability to solve problems quickly and efficiently.
- Great aptitude and attitude towards learning.
- Take full responsibility for task/project execution.
- Ability to prioritize own work and respect deadlines.

Your Responsibilities would be to:
- Architect new and optimize existing software codebases and systems used to crawl, launch, run, and monitor the Anakin family of app crawlers
- Deeply own the lifecycle of software, including rolling out to operations, managing configurations, maintaining and upgrading, and supporting end-users
- Configure and optimize the automated testing and deployment systems used to maintain over 1000+ crawlers across the company
- Analyze data and bugs that require in-depth investigations
- Interface directly with external customers including managing relationships and steering requirements
Basic Qualifications:
- Extremely effective, self-driven builder
- 2+ years of experience as a backend software engineer
- 2+ years of experience with Python
- 2+ years of experience with AWS services such as EC2, S3, Lambda, etc.
- Should have managed a team of software engineers
- Deep experience with network debugging across all OSI layers (Wireshark)
- Knowledge of networks or/and cybersecurity
Preferred Skills and Experience
- Broad understanding of the landscape of software engineering design patterns and principles
- Ability to work quickly and accurately in a highly stressful environment during removing bugs in run-time within minutes
- Excellent communicator, both written and verbal
Additional Requirements
- Must be available to work extended hours and weekends when needed to meet critical deadlines
- Must have an aversion to politics and BS. Should let his/her work speak for him/her.
- Must be comfortable with uncertainty. In almost all the cases, your job will be to figure it out.
- Must not be bounded to comfort zone. Often, you will need to challenge yourself to go above and beyond.

- Writing efficient, reusable, testable, and scalable code
- Understanding, analyzing, and implementing – Business needs, feature modification requests, conversion into software components
- Integration of user-oriented elements into different applications, data storage solutions
- Developing – Backend components to enhance performance and receptiveness, server-side logic, and platform, statistical learning models, highly responsive web applications
- Designing and implementing – High availability and low latency applications, data protection and security features
- Performance tuning and automation of application
- Working with Python libraries like Pandas, NumPy, etc.
- Creating predictive models for AI and ML-based features
- Keeping abreast with the latest technology and trends
- Fine-tune and develop AI/ML-based algorithms based on results
Technical Skills-
Good proficiency in,
- Python frameworks like Django, etc.
- Web frameworks and RESTful APIs
- Core Python fundamentals and programming
- Code packaging, release, and deployment
- Database knowledge
- Circles, conditional and control statements
- Object-relational mapping
- Code versioning tools like Git, Bitbucket
Fundamental understanding of,
- Front-end technologies like JS, CSS3 and HTML5
- AI, ML, Deep Learning, Version Control, Neural networking
- Data visualization, statistics, data analytics
- Design principles that are executable for a scalable app
- Creating predictive models
- Libraries like Tensorflow, Scikit-learn, etc
- Multi-process architecture
- Basic knowledge about Object Relational Mapper libraries
- Ability to integrate databases and various data sources into a unified system
- Basic knowledge about Object Relational Mapper libraries
- Ability to integrate databases and various data sources into a unified system

Job Description
- Architect highly scalable, highly available systems with minimal guidance.
- Developing p2p infrastructure systems to support blockchain interoperability
- Establishing policies and procedures that produce secure, high-quality software
- Write and review technical proposals
- Improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes
- Coding with concurrency, efficiency and scalability as primary motive
- Document systems, build runbooks, and automate those processes
- Being hands on by writing, testing, and deploying high-performance networking code
- Rigor on clean code, unit testing, code coverage and best practices
- Supporting and Leading the team of junior developers
Required qualifications
3+ years of experience in Golang, Strong knowledge of Go programming language, paradigms, constructs, and idioms, willingness to learn on the go, ability to write clean code, a strong sense of responsibility.
Tech Stack
Go, git, linux, bash, ability to work with Docker.
Nice to have
Experience developing in c++, cryptography and system software development experience, understanding of design patterns, understanding of operating systems and networks.

Requirements:
- Solid experience in Java or Golang
- Good to have exposure to ML
- Should have experience in cloud computing
- Has an ability to quickly learn and contribute in multiple codebase
- Overcomes roadblocks and requires minimal oversight
- Takes initiatives to fix issues/tech debts before assigned to him/her
- Able to deep dive into codebase and advise QA of possible regression impact
- Communicates tech decisions through design docs and tech talks
- Has delivered projects with end-to-end accountability
- Keeps track of industry trends and introduces right tech/tools for a given job
- Excellent understanding of software engineering practices, Design Patterns, Data Structures, Algorithms
- 4+ years of experience in product driven organisation
- A Bachelors or Masters degree in engineering from a reputed institute (preferably IITs, NITs, or other top engineering institutes)


