Sr. Laravel Developer

Job Title: Backend Developer

Location: Baner, Pune

About Us:

Truein is a fast growing B2B SaaS product company, offering Attendance & Timesheet solutions to the companies with Contractual and Distributed workforce. 500+ customers across the globe now believe in what we do and have embarked on this journey with us.

At Truein, we are on a mission to bring transparency and controls in the time & attendance process. We leverage Face recognition and AI technologies. We are backed by Investors and a high potential team of 30 people and growing.

Our Culture:

At Truein, we genuinely care about every member we hire. You’ll learn new things regardless of your experience level. We strongly believe in creating value for all stakeholders - our employees, customers, and investors. We foster ownership, and have a dynamic, fun and vibrant startup culture.

Role Overview:

We are looking for an experienced backend developer, who is proactive, a quick learner, and has a go-getter attitude to join our team. As a Backend Developer, you will be responsible for developing high-quality server-side web applications as well as for the integration of the front-end part. It is an individual contributor role wherein you would work with a small but highly competitive and effective team.

Responsibilities:

• Experience in the development of high-performance APIs.
• Collaborate with front-end developers to integrate user-facing elements with server-side logic.
• Advanced debugging/testing/optimization skills.
• Analyze and maintain existing software applications.
• Design highly scalable, testable code.
• Discover and fix programming bugs.

Requirements:

• Prior work experience as a backend developer
• Hands-on experience in PHP, Node js, MySQL, REST APIs, MicroServices, Apache.
• Good understanding of technology-related products and services.
• Exposure to Azure/Google cloud, any PHP Framework and Angular is a plus
• BE/BTech Computers, MSc/MCA or similar
• Experience: 2 to 6 years

You Will Get:

• Competitive compensation package and benefits
• Work closely with and be part of a truly amazing team.
• Join a fast-growing startup early, make a difference and enjoy the ride.
• Challenge yourself and take your career to the next level.

Truein is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

Backend 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.

We are looking to recruit a candidate for a role that will require:

• Create and consume restful APIs
• Design, develop, and maintain internal and external applications
• Build efficient, testable, and reusable modules
• Write high quality, structured application/interface code and documentation
• Identify solutions through research and collaboration that resolves the root of problems as they arise
• Define functional and technical requirements for application software to develop skills and knowledge
• Troubleshoot, test and maintain the core product software and databases to ensure strong optimization and functionality
• Contribute in all phases of the development lifecycle

Requirement

∙ Proficient in Node.JS

∙ 2+ years’ experience designing, querying, and updating databases in MySQL/nosql 

∙ Passion for best design and coding practices and a desire to develop new bold ideas

∙ Good to have knowledge of AWS, Redis, ElasticSearch

Education: Min. Graduate in related discipline

Work experience: 2 years relevant experience

Job Description:

We are seeking an experienced senior web developer to join our friendly team to participate in the

development of the next-generation app and who has the technical ability to implement server side

code written in the Laravel framework. Your main responsibility will be designing and implementing

applications that are written in PHP. This means you will work closely with front end developers to

integrate back-end components with the components they're creating for users to interact with.

Therefore, it is important that youre able to effectively communicate and collaborate with your

colleagues. You will take a lead role in the technical side of our company with room to grow as we

continue to grow.

Technologies/ Frameworsk:

PHP, Laravel, Lumen, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MS SQL, RESTful API, Microservice, API Gateway,

JavaScript, jQuery, Docker, Load Balancer, LMAP, Nginx

Skills Required:

• Extensive experience in PHP Laravel, API Gateway

• Hands-on experience in web services-RESTful

• Knowledge of RESTful API design patterns and Integrations technologies. JSON

Language and scripting as well as Rest Oriented Architecture (ROA)

• Knowledge of HTTP and SOAP Protocols

• Hands-on experience with MySQL / PostgreSQL / MS SQL development including data

modelling, concurrency, query optimization, stored procedure development, and tuning

• Familiarity & Expertise with Bitbucket / GitHub,

• Comfortable working with JavaScript and jQuery

• Understanding and Practising of coding best practices

• Creative and efficient problem solver

• Knowledge of AWS API Gateway, Apigee API Gateway, Azure API Gateway or any other

API Gateways.

• Hands-on experience in working with API gateways added advantage

• Understanding and experience on Data Patterns

Responsibilities:

• Ability to work closely with technical architects and architecture governance technical

team for solution development and design reviews

• Analyse, design, develop, as well as implement RESTful services and APIs

• Be involved in the development life cycle and perform definition and feasibility analysis as

well as in the API lifecycle release management

• Implement, integrate, and document a variety of software platforms through the RESTful

API framework

• API development with OpenAPI Specifications and other standards

• Apply the latest software design techniques and contribute to the technical design of new

solutions

• Modify existing programs, prepare test data and functional specifications.

• Troubleshoot issues and solve problems, identify potential process improvement areas

• Implement common APIs based on architecture guidelines and frameworks

• Responsible for mapping, designing specs for transformation between API Gateway and

backend service

• Write object-oriented, clean, and maintainable code

• Deliver quality results on time with minimal supervision

• Ensuring that integrations run smoothly.

• Scaling projects based on client feedback.

• Mentoring/training in API architecture & code quality

• Work closely with API Solutions Architect and Platform Administrators

• Work closely with the Business Product Owners, and must understand the short and

medium term strategy for the business

Requirements:

• Experience working with PHP, performing unit testing, and managing APIs such as

RESTful.

• A solid understanding of application design using Laravel.

• Knowledge of database design and querying using SQL.

• Proficiency in HTML and JavaScript.

• Practical experience using the MVC architecture.

• A portfolio of applications and programs to your name.

• Problem-solving skills and critical mindset. - Great communication skills.

• Desire and ability to learn

• Knowledge of CORE PHP & web framework including Laravel.
• Knowledge of front-end technologies including CSS3, JavaScript, and HTML5.
• Understanding of object-oriented PHP programming.
• Experience with API integration.
• Previous experience creating scalable applications.
• Proficient with code versioning tools including Git, Mercurial, CVS, and SVN.
• Familiarity with SQL/NoSQL databases.
• Building the infrastructure for serving the front-end app and assets.
• Working on full projects of App or website development, from scratch to finish.

Personality fit 

Looking to hire a Backend developer, who wakes up every day with the zeal of learning something new - a mind that is always curious. Not only this, he should be proud to have a good experience on algorithms and understand his technology at the atomic level.

Preliminary requirements for the role

1. Should understand the architecture of Node Js language, and must have had at least 1 year of solid experience in writing robust code in this language.
2. Should be well versed with basic algorithms on ( array, Linked list, stack, queue)- Yes, we do ask questions associated with time and space complexity for the above-mentioned algorithms
3. Thorough understanding of MySQL, in that, creating all types of joins ( inner, outer, left, and right) on multiple tables, views, and triggers are a piece of cake for you.
4. Further, you should have a decent understanding of database designs so that you can make quick decisions about normalization, inclusion/exclusion of foreign keys, etc
5. Should have a decent understanding of code repository tool such as GitHub
6. Should be well versed with the basics of AWS ( understanding of cloud architecture would be a plus)
7. Should be aware of the commonly used encryption techniques such as JWT, API encryption, Token management, etc
8. Exposure to working in E-commerce related applications as well as in a startup environment would be an add on. 

Perks

• Best hardware and software to help you get the job done in the best way possible
• Remote office allowance to support you regardless of where you work
• Learning and development allowance to help you grow your career
• Flexible leave policy to give you more control over your time.
• Health insurance for your family and you to keep you well.

Required experience and skills

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science and Engineering. Bonus: Masters degree.9+ years of total full-time work experience, preferably shipping SaaS applications.
• Startup experience strongly desired.
• Played a pivotal role in scaling a company and led teams in an agile environment where iteration has led to perfection.
• Proven track record of on time project deliveries with balanced calls on technical designs and tech debt.
• Expert proficiency in:
• 1. Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Mysql, Linux, Git, AWS, CI/CD, NewRelic.
• 2. broad range of internet technologies and applications.
• 3. interacting, building, and improving the performance of systems end-to-end.
• 4. architecting/designing complex systems
• Strong collaborator and thought partner to Product team.Driven by outcomes more than output.
• Have led projects with small, dynamic, and fast-paced teams (3-5 engineers), with great flexility and adaptability on large projects, delegating working effectively.
• Viewed by the team as their evangelist, role model and bar raiser.
• Past teams and co-workers attest to your prowess & agility in building great products, and driving sound technical decision making.Mentored engineers within and outside own team.
• High on EQ, humility, curiosity and self drive.

Responsibilities

We use a rubric / career ladder as a framework to help our engineers grow in their careers. Please refer to the SDE IV section in the rubric (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1z_51E1mZ3qf0MBuAyfHjKE1HN6h_yghAx2WMaB1z-Ms/edit?usp=sharing">click to view) to understand our expectations on your role and responsibilities.

Your responsibilities include:

• Leading completion and delivery of multiple concurrent projects with clear deliverable timelines and milestones
• Providing key input and guidance in helping to solve our most difficult and challenging issues, and providing recommendations for preventing or mitigating the effects of the issues in the future
• Identifying inconsistencies caused by lack of best practices and patterns, and proactively collaborate with the team to gather input to define and rollout new best practices
• Mentoring other engineers on increasing their impact both within and outside of their team, including identifying opportunities for them to do so
• Participate in shaping longer term technical and architectural goals in consideration of product/company strategy, organizational growth, scalability, security, and other factors