Sr. Php Developer

Position: Lead Python Developer

Location: Ahmedabad

The Client company includes a team of experienced information services professionals who are

passionate about growing and enhancing the value of information services businesses. They provide

support with talent, technology, tools, infrastructure and expertise required to deliver across the Data ecosystem.

Position Summary

We are seeking a skilled and experienced Backend Developer with strong expertise in TypeScript, Python,

and web scraping. You will be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining scalable backend services and APIs that power our data-driven products. Your role will involve collaborating with cross-

functional teams, optimizing system performance, ensuring data integrity, and contributing to the design of efficient and secure architectures.

Job Responsibility

● Design, develop, and maintain backend systems and services using Python and TypeScript.

● Develop and maintain web scraping solutions to extract, process, and manage large-scale data from multiple sources.

● Work with relational and non-relational databases, ensuring high availability, scalability, and performance.

● Implement authentication, authorization, and security best practices across services.

● Write clean, maintainable, and testable code following best practices and coding standards.

● Collaborate with frontend engineers, data engineers, and DevOps teams to deliver robust solutions and troubleshoot, debug, and upgrade existing applications.

● Stay updated with backend development trends, tools, and frameworks to continuously improve processes.

● Utilize core crawling experience to design efficient strategies for scraping the data from different websites and applications.

● Collaborate with technology teams, data collection teams to build end to end technology-enabled ecosystems and partner in research projects to analyze the massive data inputs.

● Responsible for the design and development of web crawlers, able to independently solve various problems encountered in the actual development process.

● Stay updated with the latest web scraping techniques, tools, and industry trends to continuously improve the scraping processes.

Job Requirements

● 4+ years of professional experience in backend development with TypeScript and Python.

● Strong understanding of TypeScript-based server-side frameworks (e.g., Node.js, NestJS, Express) and Python frameworks (e.g., FastAPI, Django, Flask).

● Experience with tools and libraries for web scraping (e.g., Scrapy, BeautifulSoup, Selenium, Puppeteer)

● Hands-on experience with Temporal for creating and orchestrating workflows.

● Proven hands-on experience in web scraping, including crawling, data extraction, deduplication, and handling dynamic websites.

● Proficient in implementing proxy solutions and handling bot-detection challenges (e.g., Cloudflare).

● Experience working with Docker, containerized deployments, and cloud environments (GCP or Azure).

● Proficiency with database systems such as MongoDB and ElasticSearch.

● Hands-on experience with designing and maintaining scalable APIs.

● Knowledge of software testing practices (unit, integration, end-to-end).

● Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and version control systems (Git).

● Strong problem-solving skills, attention to detail, and ability to work in agile environments.

● Great communication skills and ability to navigate in undirected situations.

Job Exposure:

● Opportunity to apply creative methods in acquiring and filtering the North American government, agencies data from various websites, sources

● In depth industry exposure on data harvesting techniques to build, scale the robust and sustainable model, using open-source applications

● Effectively collaboration with IT team to design the tailor-made solutions basis upon clients’ requirement

● Unique opportunity to research on various agencies, vendors, products as well as technology tools to compose a solution

About Company

Our client is in the business of delivering cutting-edge software solutions, hardware systems, and IT services. It lends the right technological edge to governments and businesses. This enables them to achieve their organizational objectives efficiently and effectively to scale their businesses to newer heights.

Minimum Requirements/Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in computer science, Computer Engineering or a related field is preferred.

• Must have at least 5 to 7 years of experience in application development (Java,Spring Framework), Deployment(Apache Tomcat & Nginx)

• Sound knowledge of Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) Patterns and Concepts.

• Knowledge & hands-on experience of Java, Spring Framework, Spring Security, JSP, Apache Tomcat, Nginx is a must.

• Must have experience with Bootstrap CSS, jQuery etc.

• Basic Understanding of PostgreSQL, MVC (Model-View-Controller) Pattern, JDBC (Java Database Connectivity), and RESTful web services.

• Relevant Knowledge of Java GUI frameworks according to project requirements.

• Experience in handling external and embedded databases.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Develop new modules, patches & Updates/upgrades for an existing application (developed in-house by the client)

• Bug fixing, and updating of software.

• Analyze user requirements to define business objectives.

• Maintain Java-based applications that can be high-volume and low-latency.

• Identify and resolve any technical issues arising.

• Write well-designed, testable code.

• Conducting software analysis, programming, testing, and debugging.

• Support continuous improvement, investigating alternatives and technologies, and presenting for architectural review.

Basic experience developing web applications using Cake PHP or other MVC framework

Strong PHP skills with any MVC Framework -Cake PHP / Laravel / Yii / Code ignitor, etc.

Strong MySQL, AJAX, jQuery, HTML & JavaScript skills

Experience integrating Payment Gateway and third-party PHP libraries is preferable

Work alongside a broader team with a focus on Design, UX, Optimization, Back End processes, DevOps Efficiency with the goal of delivering high-quality projects using the latest tech stack. A keen eye for detail, along with a passion to deliver quality, customer-focused solutions is absolutely essential.

Championing Web Development: You will be responsible for handling web development from ideation to production.

Collaboration with product manager and other developers, owning a large part of the process from problem understanding to shipping the solution.

Contribute best-in-class programming skills to develop highly innovative, consumer-facing web products.

Desired Profile

Great skills in PHP MVC frameworks like Laravel, CodeIgniter, etc.

Extensive Experience in API integration and development is required.

Experience in jQuery and AJAX.

Working knowledge of web technologies including HTML, and CSS is required.

Basic understanding of version control systems like Git and SVN.

Experience working with AWS or any other Linux Cloud Servers is a huge plus.

Passionate about writing clean, efficient, and maintainable code.

Strong analytical and debugging skills and experience building consumer systems at scale.

• Fully capable of understanding current structures, identifying the issues and rebuilding for the future.
• Technical Bug Solving Ability.
• Extensive knowledge of Mysql database/architecture design & implementation skills.
• A strong handle on JS, Jquery, JSON, Ajax and PHP frameworks.
• Strong knowledge of REST & SOAP API Integration
• Good levels of communication. Both written and verbal.
• The ability to work under pressure and to tight deadlines.