Sr. Software Engineer- Magento

Position: Lead Backend Engineer

Location: Remote

Experience: 10+ Years

Budget: 1.7 LPM

Employment Type: [Contract]

Required Skills & Qualifications:

• 10+ years of proven backend engineering experience.
• Strong proficiency in Python.
• Expertise in SQL (Postgres) and database optimization.
• Hands-on experience with OpenAI APIs.
• Strong command of FastAPI and microservices architecture.
• Solid knowledge of debugging, troubleshooting, and performance tuning.

Nice to Have:

• Experience with Agentic Systems or ability to quickly adopt them.
• Exposure to modern CI/CD pipelines, containerization (Docker/Kubernetes), and cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP).

Key Responsibilities:

- Customize and develop Odoo modules as per business requirements.

- Integrate Odoo with third-party systems and APIs.

- Analyze, troubleshoot, and debug issues in existing modules.

- Create and maintain technical documentation.

- Migrate data and Odoo versions as needed.

- Collaborate with cross-functional teams (functional consultants, QA, UI/UX).

- Optimize performance and scalability of the Odoo platform.

Required Skills:

- Strong understanding of Python and Odoo framework.

- Proficiency in PostgreSQL, XML, JavaScript, QWeb and OWL.

- Experience with Odoo's core modules (Sales, Purchase, Inventory, Accounting, etc.).

- Familiarity with Odoo Studio and Odoo.sh is a plus.

About Company

Our client delivers personalized luxury interior design to India’s discerning homeowners and corporates. Led by highly admired luxury brand builders, internationally trained designers, world-class technology professionals, and curated teams of turnkey project execution specialists. We seek perfection in design and are committed to bringing back trust and excitement in the design process.We are a lean team of high-performing go-getters, we take ownership in our roles and lead with knowledge. Debates and discussions are an important part of our culture and we encourage people to bring unique perspectives to their conversations. Most importantly, we love solving problems. Each day is inspiring and we encourage you to apply for this role and experience it for yourself. 

Requirements

• Write code and tests, build prototypes, solve issues, profile, and analyze bottlenecks

• Design performance gauging, building robust APIs to support mobile and desktop clients

• Manage and optimize scalable distributed systems on the cloud

• Optimization of web applications for performance and scalability

• Develop automated tests to ensure business needs are met and allow for regression testing

• Participate in the entire application lifecycle, focusing on coding and debugging

• Write clean code to develop functional web applications

• Troubleshoot and debug applications

• Perform UI tests to optimize performance

• Manage cutting-edge technologies to improve legacy applications

• Collaborate with Front-end developers to integrate user-facing elements with server-side logic.

• Gather and address technical and design requirements

• Provide training and support to internal teams

• Build reusable code and libraries for future use

What skills we are looking for?

•Good communication skill to communicate with stakeholders, project managers, quality assurance teams, Regularly and other developers  regarding progress on the long-term technology roadmap

•Curious and progressive mind to Create and maintain workflows with teams to provide visibility and to ensure workload balance for consistent visual designs

•Good technical knowledge to Produce quality code, raising the bar for the whole team on quality and speed

•Through analytical skills to Recommend system solutions by comparing advantages and disadvantages of custom development and purchase alternatives.

Who qualifies? 

• PHP Laravel Framework, PHP Design Patterns.

• Proficient in MySQL. MongoDB knowledge is plus

• APIs, REST API, API Security.

• Laravel Events, Queue, Observers

• Excellent foundation in computer science, algorithms, and web design

• Experience writing highly secure web application

• Experience with core AWS web-enabling technologies

• Growth mindset, challenging status quo to find new solutions and out- of-the-box ideas

• Experience designing RESTful APIs, specifically for mobile apps

• Computer science degree or equivalent experience

• Experience leading a team is a bonus.

• 3+ Years of relevant experience.

Job description – Backend Developer

About Wekan Enterprise Solutions

Wekan Enterprise Solutions helps companies grow by modernizing their most critical legacy and on-premise applications, migrating them to the cloud and leveraging the most cutting-edge technologies. With a strong focus on Cloud, Mobile and IoT environments, our solutions help companies reduce TCO and improve their ROI on their technology investments. We are also the #1 MongoDB Global Strategic SI partner for mobile modernization.

Location - Chennai or Bangalore

Who are you ? An individual with...

• Good problem solving skills
• Good understanding of software design patterns.
• Believes in software as an enabler and is not constrained by one language or technology and is willing to scale with the product needs.
• Passion for Quality in the work being done.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Building and developing products and platforms for both client side as well as server-side scalable applications. These include designing Omni-channel (mobile, tablet & web) applications.
• Collaborate well with engineers, researchers, and data implementation specialists to design and create advanced, elegant, and efficient systems.
• Suggest & implement best practices for performance tuning while working on the larger datasets.
• Maintain quality and ensure responsiveness of applications.
• Perform design reviews and code Reviews with the Team
• Provide real time knowledge transfer to the team on the Requirements I UI Design & Development.
• Manage the infrastructure & deployment of the release artefacts by coordinating with respective peoples.
• Work in an agile environment with the defined sprints to deliver the assigned work in the stipulated timelines.
• Adhere to software development best practices and coding standards in all work products and participate in the refinement of those practices and standards to improve quality and productivity.

Skills

1. Must have strong 4 to 5 years of hands on experience Web Applications Development with good expertise in Node JS Stack using ORM like mongoose/Typeorm.
2. Proven experience building application using micro service environment using Docker/Kubernetes platform.
3. Experience in creating node modules and packaging through package manager’s.
4. Strong development and coding skills, good analytical and problem-solving skills.
5. Experience in writing JUnitest cases & performing code coverage using tools like mocha/sonarcube/hudson.
6. Rest API implementation using GraphQL.
7. Experience is building Dashboards with any chart library in Angular is a must 5. Experience in writing Restful API’s using Node/Python/Scala/Java, etc.
8. Knowledge of modern authorization mechanisms such as JSON Web Token, OAuth2.
9. Familiarity with code versioning tools such as Git, Bit bucket
10. Experience in working on Build Tools like NPM, Gulp, Bower, and Web pack.
11. Understanding of Agile & Scrum development methodology.
12. Knowledge of AWS, Azure will be an added advantage.

Tools & Technologies

Web Technologies: 1 NodeJS,  HTML5, CSS3, jQuery, Bootstrap, JavaScript, AJAX, Postman, REST API, Express 2. Testing:Jest, Karma 3. Databases: Mongodb, NoSQL, Redis 4. Code Management: Git, Bit bucket 5. Operating System: Mac, Linux, Windows 5. Cloud Technologies: AWS, Azure.

Integration of user-facing elements developed by front-end developers

Build efficient, testable, and reusable PHP modules

Solve complex performance problems and architectural challenges

work on multiple projects with Product Development team

Contribute in all phases of the development lifecycle

Follow industry best practices

Develop and deploy new features to facilitate related procedures and tools if necessary Skills And Qualifications

Strong knowledge of PHP web frameworks ( Magento 1/2, Wordpress, YII, Laravel, Prestashop)

Understanding of MVC design patterns

Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as JavaScript, jQuery, HTML5, and CSS3

Knowledge of object oriented PHP programming 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

Good knowledge of relational databases, version control tools (like GIT) and of developing web services

Experience in common third-party APIs (Google, Facebook, Ebay etc) (OPTIONAL)

Responsibilities:

• Setup and integrate various APIs
• Dealing with scripts written in different languages (PHP, Node.js, Python, PhantomJS, Ruby)
• Must be an R & D specialist
• Keep up-to-date with advanced concepts
• Adaptable to learn new technologies
• Knowledge on Linux and its commands
• Fast in debugging the code
• Should be a quick learner
• Good at communication

Requirements

• Minimum 3 Years of experience in PHP7
• 1 Year experience in Node.js/Python
• Good work experience in PHP7 
• Strong knowledge in OOPS.
• Proven knowledge on REST and SOAP API integrations 
• Experience in composer installations
• Strong in Javascript and Node.js concepts.
• Good knowledge of MongoDB and MySql
• Knowledge of versioning tools (SVN/GIT)
• Having knowledge on Amazon AWS and Google Cloud Platform is an added advantage
• Having knowledge of elastic search is an added advantage
• Good to have knowledge on p threads

• Play a complete Backend development role for Magento store development, maintenance, upgradation and customization projects. Also provide support to clients, via project management tool. Handle the complete project and achieve 100% client satisfaction.
• Must posses fair, clear understanding of fundamentals and concepts of Magento 1/2, PHP, Zend Framework
• Knowledge in Magento Extension development.
• Write well-engineered source code that complies with accepted web standards.
• Good experience in Magento 2 Store development - design implementation, creating themes, create custom modules;
• Strong Knowledge of Magento Best Practices, including experience developing custom extensions and extending third party extensions
• Ability to develop and manage e-commerce websites, web applications, and websites.
• Can understand the goals and create strategies for each project.

Technical Skills:

• Possess good exposure on Magento, CMS, CodeIgnitor, OpenCart, JavaScript/ jQuery.
• Extensive experience of PHP and MySQL.
• Focused on Object-Oriented Programming (OOP),
• Demonstrable knowledge of XML, XHTML, CSS, Modules i.e. API integration, Payment Gateways, XML with a focus on standards.