Team Lead

About Astra:

Astra is a cyber security SaaS company that makes otherwise chaotic pentests a breeze with its one of a kind Pentest Platform. Astra's continuous vulnerability scanner emulates hacker behavior to scan applications for 9300+ security tests. CTOs & CISOs love Astra because it helps them fix vulnerabilities in record time and move from DevOps to DevSecOps with Astra's CI/CD integrations.

Astra is loved by 650+ companies across the globe. In 2023 Astra uncovered 2 million+ vulnerabilities for its customers, saving customers $69M+ in potential losses due to security vulnerabilities. 

We've been awarded by the President of France Mr. François Hollande at the La French Tech program and Prime Minister of India Shri Narendra Modi at the Global Conference on Cyber Security. Loom, MamaEarth, Muthoot Finance, Canara Robeco, ScripBox etc. are a few of Astra’s customers.

Role Overview:

As a back-end engineer you will be responsible for developing and maintaining the platform/dashboard backend. This would involve developing & maintaining RESTful services for vulnerability management, scan orchestration, inventory management and platform features such as on-boarding, trust centers, certificates, payment integrations, vulnerability ingestion, authentication etc. 

You should have a strong background in backend programming (Symfony preferred, or Laravel) and have experience with an event driven, async & distributed architecture. 

During the first 6 months of your role, you will be involved in the 0->1 journey of two of our upcoming products in our platform along with the respective product owners.

Love solving hard problems? Want to build high impact products rooted in first principles? Is coding your poetry? Join us in shaping the future of cyber security.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain backend services and APIs using Symfony PHP framework. What you create is also what you own.
• Collaborate with front-end developers to integrate user-facing elements with server-side logic.
• Collaborate with scanner teams to orchestrate scans, ingest vulnerabilities, configure scanners etc.
• Write clean, well-documented, and efficient code.
• Optimize and refactor existing code to improve performance and reliability.
• Implement security and data protection measures.
• Triage, troubleshoot and upgrade existing systems.
• Ship code to production multiple times a day/week.
• Ensure timely delivery of the features.
• Test your own features, and write test cases for continuous automated testing.
• Participate in code reviews and contribute to best practices and standards.

What we are looking for:

• 3 years experience in a similar role or similar working experience.
• Strong background in PHP backend programming. Symfony preferred, or Laravel.
• Strong understanding of software architecture principles and design patterns.
• Experience with an event driven (subscribers/listeners), async (MessageHandlers & job queues) & distributed (load-balanced) architecture.
• Experience with PostgreSQL database and data modeling.
• Understanding of concepts such as Dependency Injection, ORM, data validation, error handling etc.
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions (good to have).
• Experience with Agile methodologies.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to think strategically about technical solutions.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional remote teams.
• Demonstrated track record of delivering high-quality software products on schedule.
• Knowledge of industry best practices in software development, security, and compliance.
• Knowledge of application & infrastructure security - helps you stand out. 

What We offer:

• Adrenalin rush of being a part of a fast-growing company, and working on hard problems that matter.
• Fully remote, agile working environment.
• Good engineering culture with full ownership in design, development, release lifecycle.
• A wholesome opportunity where you get to build things from scratch, improve and ship code to production in hours, not weeks.
• Holistic understanding of SaaS and enterprise security business.
• Experience with the security side of things.
• Annual trips to beaches or mountains (next one is to Wayanad).
• Open and supportive culture.
• Health insurance & other benefits for you and your spouse. Maternity benefits included.

Experience – 1-2 yrs

Qualification- MCA /B. Tech.

Job Nature - Permanent

Skills - PHP,Laravel, Codeigniter, MySQL, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript with ES6, Ajax,Theme development & Plugin 

Working days - 5

Job location- Lucknow

 Responsibilities:

•        Developing and maintaining high-performing, scalable, and robust themes and plugins.
•        Implementing different aspects of coding standards for JavaScript, PHP, and WordPress.
•        Understanding the project requirements, preparing the flow, and planning the solution to accomplish the job optimally.
•        Designing and implementing new features and functionality.
•        Establishing and guiding the website’s architecture and custom requirements.
•        Ensure high performance and availability, and manage all technical aspects of the CMS.
•        Must be able to create themes and plugins from scratch by following WordPress theme and plugin development standards.
•        Strong understanding of Backend technologies, including PHP, OOP concepts, Ajax, and API integrations.
•        Strong understanding of front-end technologies, including HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, and jQuery.
•        In-depth experience with WordPress terminologies like Post, Page, Category, Tags, Template hierarchy, etc.
•        Excellent problem-solving and learning skills.
•        Experience in working with WooCommerce and its add-ons, developing payment gateways, shipping, tax solutions, and REST API integrations.
•        Have a deep understanding of WordPress database structure, built-in queries, and security practices.
•        Comfortable working with debugging tools like Firebug, Chrome Inspector, etc.

Good to Have :

•        Experience working with WordPress Multisite development
•        Proficient understanding of code versioning tools such as Git, BitBucket, SVN, and Mercurial.
•        Have worked with 3rd party API integrations with WordPress via plugins and themes.
•        Knowledge of how to interact with RESTful APIs and formats (JSON, XML)
•        Knowledge of WPRest API and WP-CLI
•        Package management tools like NPM and Composer

Primary Skills: Database Systems (SQL), Python Flask/Fast API/Django frameworks specifically
Requirements:

• Highly proficient in fundamentals of Python web development frameworks like Flask, Django and Fast API
• Demonstrated experience in developing APIs using Python frameworks
• Should have deep knowledge in PostgreSQL, MS SQL Server and other SQL based Databases

• Strong knowledge of JavaScript.
• Knowledge of and its frameworks.
• Knowledge of NodeJS deployment over servers like AWS, the digital ocean.
• Good understanding of relational databases. Having experience with MongoDB will be an advantage.
• Proficiency in handling server-side development, deployment, and debugging.
• Having worked in socket programming is an added advantage.
• Good understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git.

• Have thorough knowledge of PHP, JavaScript, AJAX, jQuery, HTML5, CSS3, Bootstrap
• Possess the ability in Angular js, React js
• Top-notch programming skills, ability to produce quality code that is maintainable, efficient, reliable and secure.
• Development of APIs as required. Rest or Soap API integration.
• Strong knowledge of MVC is required
• Must Know Framework like Laravel, CodeIgniter, Cake Php, Yii
• Have experience in MySQL, MariaDB databases.
• Distributed version control and regular deployments.
• Have Good Communication skills.