Sr. Backend Developer at AI-Based Ed-Tech Brand · Chandigarh · 2 - 5 years · ₹14L - ₹25L / yr · Posted 26 Aug 2020

Our client is a revolutionary Educational services platform, that brings in innovation and expertise in their ways of learning. Awarded as one of the best Google apps of 2017, the app provides students with a variety of online courses that cover K12 subjects, Entrance exams, Engineering and FInance stream topics, as well as Self-help notes.
Their unique and simple AI based site and app feature 500+ courses, nearly a lakh videos and tests, and also imparts strength and weakness analysis for the students to improve their knowledge base. The 5yr old organisation is one of the most loved ed-tech platforms that reaches more than 4.5Mn registered users.
- Planning and implementing company's application and data model structures for scalability.
- Maintaining central databases, ensuring high performance, and responding to requests from the front-end.
- Developing reusable code and libraries for future use. Building for new features and maintaining the present ones.
- Implementing comprehensive security and data protection.
- Has 2-5 years of experience working on a growth stage product, where they first scaled from 0 to 1 and then 1 to n.
- You have studied Computer science (or a similar degree) from a Tier 1 college OR have a great set of experiences working at products that scaled massively.
- You understand product and database architecture like you understand basic Maths and have worked on it for 3 to 7 years. Further, you know how to optimise AWS/ GCP for both efficiency and cost.
- You have experience in managing a team and setting up the best processes / practices (1yr+ Engineering Manager experience)
- You are deeply driven for creating an impact. You obsess over doing things the right way, and you enjoy writing beautiful code.
- Though technology stack is not the primary concern, we would value some experience in C#/ Visual Studio, RDS/ MySQL, ElasticSearch, System Architecture and general AWS solutions.
- Ownership: Absolute ownership of the product and your code, with relentlessness to deliver with speed and precision.
- Dynamic & Resourceful: Should be comfortable in dealing with lots of changes in a fast paced environment. Super willing to learn new technologies and systems. And resourceful and inventive in the face of every problem.
- Deep Love for coding: You write code because you love doing it and not just because it's a job for you.
- Perfection/ Obsession/ Hygiene: You deeply understand & achieve perfection in even the 'small' features. And you deeply care about the quality of your code.
- Good eye for usability & design and willing to put-in extra effort for delivering the best user experience.
- Creating Algorithms that can change the game: Should understand requirements and design algorithms accordingly.
- Driven by Data: Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills leveraging/finding all data available.
- Team player: Keeps the team over themselves. Has a knack for influencing without being authoritative. Goes out of the way to help wherever the team needs them.

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Candidates must be available for a Face-to-Face Interview in Bangalore or Mumbai.
Only Immediate Joiners or candidates serving up to 10 days' notice period will be considered.
Position: Backend Developer
Organization: A Funded global healthcare platform connecting doctors, thereby enabling exchange of information on a quick and real time basis, founded in the year 2013.Currently there are 3 lakh doctors using this platform and everyday there are 400 new doctors joining it.
The platform promotes exchange of viewpoints, ideas, and information on various medical practices amongst healthcare professionals. This saves both time and money as solutions to several health issues can be accessed on a real time basis. There are 1.3 million registered doctors and 400+ daily publications on its platform and they operate across 16+countries.
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You’re Awesome At -
- Have strong experience in Python (FLASK framework).
- Have a Deep understanding of how RESTful APIs work.
- Familiar with various design and architectural patterns that can work at scale.
- Sound knowledge of NoSQL/SQL Databases (Mongo DB preferred).
- Strong experience with at-Cloud technology, preferably AWS or GCP, or Azure.
- Core experience in developing complex backend systems.
- Ability to communicate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Passionate about application scalability, availability, reliability, and security.
Your Academic Qualifications -
BE/BTech in Computer Science preferred.
You’ll Be Improving & Responsible For –
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Your Experience Across the Years in the Roles You’ve Played -
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We are searching for a Laravel developer to build web applications for our clients. In this role, you will design and create projects using Laravel framework and PHP, and assist the team in delivering high-quality web applications, services, and tools for our business.
Responsibilities-
- Discussing project aims with the client and development team.
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- Working with front-end and back-end developers on projects.
- Testing functionality for users and the backend.
Requirements-
- Experience working with PHP, performing unit testing, and managing APIs such as REST.
- A solid understanding of application design using Laravel.
- Knowledge of database design and querying using SQL.
- Proficiency in HTML and JavaScript.
Additional information-
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Minimum experience- 1 year
Minimum 2+ years of PHP & Codeigniter development experience.
Experience in Front end / Full Stack, must have knowledge in all stages of software development.
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Evaluate code to ensure that it is valid, is properly structured, meets industry standards, and is compatible with browsers, devices, or operating systems.
Advanced/Expert proficiency level in WordPress, PHP, JavaScript, JQuery, MySQL, HTML5, CSS3, XML Capable of developing and customization of WordPress Plugins.
Experience in PHP & MySQL, MVC Based coding, JavaScript, XHTML, CSS3, JQuery.
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Ability to communicate and present solutions to clients and colleagues.
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Examples of your past work!
Sub Roles : PHP,Python,Wordpress,Laravel,Web-Development Max
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Skills
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Intro
We are looking for an Software Engineer (SDE1) to join our team and drive the technology growth of our pay later platform. At Rely, we want passionate and talented individuals that want a challenge building the next generation payment products for Millennials across Asia. Together we will build the best products using amazing technology.
What will you do
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- Proactively manage stakeholder communication related to deliverables, risks, changes and dependencies.
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- Work with team members on functional and nonfunctional requirements and spread goals across the team.
What will you need
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What would be a bonus
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