Tech Lead

Job Description:

We are looking for a PHP Laravel Developer to join our agile team of professionals.

Apply now for the role of a Laravel Developer at CodeBuddy that is opening doors for skilled, energetic developers looking for challenging roles.

If you are passionate about technology, constantly seeking to learn and improve your skill set,create multiple layers of applications while working cross-functionally across different infrastructures.

You would fit perfectly if you love problem-solving, design, and creating

quality offerings.

Technical Competency:

● Proven Experience using PHP framework Laravel

● Experience in Web Application Development using PHP/MySQL

● Good knowledge of HTML5, CSS3, jQuery,JSON, JavaScript and Bootstrap framework.

● Must have strong object-oriented PHP programming skills

● Writing server-side web application logic, back-end components, connect the application with other web services & support the front-end developers.

● Understanding accessibility and security compliance.

● Experience in developing high-end web applications in Javascript Frameworks (AngularJS/ReactJS/VueJS) along with API building will be considered as an advantage but not necessary.

● Ability to perform UI/backend tests to optimize performance

● Must be proficient in the use of GIT

● A talent for effective problem solving and troubleshooting

Interpersonal skills:

● Must be comfortable working in a team and independently as and when required.

● Must be disciplined, proactive, and self-motivated.

● Needs to have problem-solving and analytical skills.

● Good to have previous experience of direct client interaction for project briefs and updates.

What You Need To Apply:

● Previous work experience as a Laravel developer for 1 year at least.

● Good experience with Javascript

● Self-motivated with the ability to work independently or jointly in a self-directed way.

● Demonstrated successful development of web or mobile-based applications

● Proven analytical and problem-solving capabilities

● Keen attention to detail

● Strong work ethic and desire to build industry-leading products

● Proactive instead of reactive

● Looking for ways to improve self and projects

Candidates with less than 6 years of experience in Development are kindly requested not to apply.

Role Overview

We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Staff Engineer to lead our small but talented dev team and take ownership of our architecture and infrastructure. This role is a blend of hands-on technical leadership and strategic planning, critical to our product’s growth and scalability.

Key Responsibilities

• Team Leadership: Lead and manage the technology  along with a small and driven development team, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and excellence.
• Architecture Ownership: Design, review, and evolve the architecture for scalable and robust microservices and micro-products.
• Infrastructure Management: Oversee AWS and GCP environments, ensuring secure, cost-effective, and efficient operations.
• AI Integration: Collaborate with AI specialists to integrate fine-tuned models into our ecosystem seamlessly.
• DevOps Excellence: Establish CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, and alerting systems to support rapid development and reliable deployments.
• Code Quality: Set and enforce high standards for code quality, testing, and documentation.
• Strategic Planning: Collaborate with product and business teams to align technical decisions with company goals.
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Requirements

• Experience: 6+ years in software development with strong backend and frontend expertise (Python, React preferred).
• Architecture Skills: Proven experience designing and implementing scalable, distributed systems.
• Cloud Expertise: Hands-on experience with AWS and GCP services, cost optimization, and infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform or CloudFormation.
• DevOps Knowledge: Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines, Docker, Kubernetes, and related tools.
• Leadership: Experience leading and mentoring small teams, driving projects to completion.
• AI Familiarity: Understanding of AI/ML model integration in production systems is a plus.
• Soft Skills: Excellent communication, problem-solving, and organizational skills.
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What We Offer

• Opportunity to shape the future of accessibility technology.
• Collaborative and innovative work environment.
• Competitive compensation and equity options.
• Remote work flexibility.
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Join us in making the web more inclusive and accessible!

Software Architect

Symbl is hiring a Software Architect who is passionate about leading cross-functional R&D teams. This role will serve as the Architect across the global organization driving product architecture, reducing information silos across the org to improve decision making, and coordinating with other engineering teams to ensure seamless integration with other Symbl services.

*Symbl is seeking for a leader with a demonstrated track record of leading cross-functional dev team, you are fit for the role if *

• You have a track record of designing and building large-scale, cloud-based, highly available software platforms.
• You have 8+ years of experience in software development with 2+ years in an architect role.
• You have experience working on customer-facing machine learning implementations (predictions, recommendations, anomaly detection)
• You are an API first developer who understands the power of platforms.
• You are passionate about enabling other developers through your leadership and driving teams to efficient decisions.
• You have the ability to balance long-term objectives with urgent short-term needs
• You can successfully lead teams through very challenging engineering problems.
• You are domain Expertise in one or more of: Data pipelines and workflow, telephony systems, real time audio and video streaming machine learning.
• You have bachelor's degree in a computer science-related field is a minimum requirement
• You’ll bring your deep experience with distributed systems and platform engineering principles to the table.
• You are passionate about operational excellence and know-how to build software that delivers it.
• You are able to think at scale, define, and meet stringent availability and performance SLAs while ensuring quality and resiliency challenges across our diverse product and tech stacks are addressed with NodeJs as mandatory, Java, Python, Javascript, ReactJS with intersection with ML platform + open source DBs.
• You understand end-user use cases and are driven to design optimal software that meets business needs.

Your day would look like:

• Work with your team providing engineering leadership and ensuring your resources are solving the most critical engineering problems while ensuring your products are scalable, performant, and highly available.
• Focused on delivering the highest quality of services, and you support your team as they push production code that impacts hundreds of Symbl customers.
• Spent time with engineering managers and developers to create and deliver critical new products and/or features that empower them to introduce change with quality and speed.
• Made sure to connect with your team, both local and remote, to ensure they are delivering on engineering and operational excellence.
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*Job Location : Anywhere  –  Currently WFH due to COVID

Compensation, Perks, and Differentiators:

• Healthcare
• Unlimited PTO
• Paid sick days
• Paid holidays
• Flexi working
• Continuing education
• Equity and performance-based pay options
• Rewards & Recognition
• As our company evolves, so do our benefits. We’re actively innovating how we support our employees.

Bluecore is a marketing technology company that’s reimagining how the world’s fastest-growing retail brands transform casual shoppers into lifetime customers. Through our patented retail data model and the recent release of Bluecore Communicate™ and Bluecore Site™, we replace manual processes with an intelligent, AI-driven workflow. We are credited with doubling email revenue and increasing customer retention for more than 400 brands, including Express, Tommy Hilfiger, The North Face, Teleflora, and Bass Pro Shops. We have been recognized as one of the Best Places to Work by Glassdoor and ranked No. 241 on the Inc. 500 List, the most prestigious ranking of the nation’s fastest-growing private companies.

Bluecore’s Integrations Engineering (IE) unit is a software engineering team dedicated to helping Bluecore customers extract maximum value from the Bluecore Retail Data Platform.  As an IE, you will bring your technical know-how to the main connections of the Bluecore engine to our clients - drawing meaningful intelligence from their websites and implementing marketing solutions that map to the customer’s vertical, audience behavior, and product mix.

As an Integrations Engineer, your principal responsibilities will lie in (1) maintaining and writing JavaScript-based integrations that live on client websites, (2) configuring, monitoring, and maintaining the intake and manipulation of client data, and (3) utilizing internal infrastructure, tooling and documentation to solve complex, often-unique, client-specific problems. It is important to be detail-oriented in your work, as we work closely with a multitude of the industry’s top online retailers, all of which have very stringent requirements around the look and feel of their strategic communications.

You Are A Perfect Fit If You Love:

-Solving unique, complex problems: You are someone who can think critically, often on the fly, about nuanced technical problems to devise a scalable, maintainable solution. You enjoy the puzzle and the process of iterating and ideating before implementing a solution, and you are able to break complex problems into simple components for better analysis and digestion.

-Metrics and Data: You are someone who finds yourself consumed by daily, weekly and monthly metrics and loves turning those into best practices. Seriously, your work will be driving executive-level decision-makers at industry-leading brands on best business practices.

-Curiosity and Growth: You are someone who actually believes that diversity in thought and skills makes for a better workplace and a better you.

Responsibilities

Write client-side JavaScript to be run on clients' websites and configure custom recommendation logic using domain-specific tooling.

Develop the best technical solution possible for the toughest challenges that our customers will throw at you.

Ideate, develop, and improve upon internal tooling, procedures, and processes that facilitate the work of the Technical Services team.

Monitor the overall health and uptime of our most critical connections to clients

Requirements

Successful completion of reputable schooling in Computer Science or Coding Bootcamp.

Fluent in JavaScript and familiar with various other web development technologies. 

Ability to take ambiguous workflows and turn them into structured processes.

Nice to have

Exposure to (or interest in learning!) SQL, Python, or Google Cloud Functions.

Familiarity with Marketing, Advertising, eCommerce, or other Emerging Technology (Artificial Intelligence, etc.) platforms.

Ability to grow into a client-facing technical resource as a career progresses in Bluecore

Technical Manager: We are looking for someone who can report to the firm’s chief technology officer, the technical lead is a full-time position that participates in all phases of the project lifecycle and consistently delivers business value to our clients. The technical lead is a leader within our client-facing project delivery team structure and sets best practices, approach and direction for the technical aspects of our practice. The ideal candidate has a passion for the web and higher education and is a champion for Laravel or similar frameworks.  And guide our passionate Software Developers to design, develop robust products. Candidates should be open minded to new solutions, forward thinking and strong ability to adapt. As a Lead, you’ll work closely with our engineers to ensure system consistency and improve user experience. Ultimately, you should be able to lead, develop and maintain functional and stable web applications to meet our company’s needs along with managing the team.

Primary Responsibilities

• Participates in pre-project business development activities including writing proposals, developing price estimates, and delivering pitches for new work. 

• Participates in pre-project business development activities including writing proposals, developing price estimates, and delivering pitches for new work. 

• In partnership with the other technical lead, sets direction for all aspects of our technology practice. 

• Leads and advances our growing Laravel practice. 

• Responsible for various aspects of ongoing support and maintenance engagements. Partners with project managers and web developers to successfully manage these client relationships
  
  

•  Understand requirements & plan the architecture for frontend/backend of the application
• Plan out the contracts & APIs for communication of various components.
• Work on integration of any external libraries and tools as per required by the application needs
• Working with modern tools to make the application more robust, efficient and scalable

• Understands each client’s organizational goals and objectives. 

• Develops lasting relationships with client personnel that foster client ties. 

• Seeks opportunities to increase customer satisfaction and deepen client relationships. 

• Delivers training to client personnel of various skill levels and technical capabilities.

Communication Responsibilities:

•    Delivers engaging, informative and well-organized presentations.
•    Resolves and/or escalates issues in a timely fashion. 
•    Understands how to tactfully communicate difficult/sensitive information.
•    Demonstrates strong interpersonal skills. 
•    Elicits cooperation from a variety of sources including Froogal management and client  

   team  members.

•    Comfortable using teleconferencing and web-based technology to communicate with our 

   Clients.

Other Responsibilities: 

•   Helps team members progress toward their professional development goals.
•   Defines and disseminates technology best practices.
•   Ensures we are proactive in our pursuit of new solutions and innovation within our   

   technology practice. 

•   Advances the firm’s thought leadership, specifically around web technologies, via the    

              mStoner blog, social media outlets and industry events and conferences. 

• Strong understanding of Object-Oriented Programming & its implementation in any programming language. Knowledge of PHP and/or JS is a plus
• Proven industry experience as a Tech Lead
• Experience/Knowledge of microservice architecture
• Fluency and Hands-on Experience on Laravel 5+ PHP Framework (specially working with Eloquent Models/Collections) and/or React/Redux is a plus.
• Excellent knowledge of relational databases such as MySQL and/or NoSql based DB such as MongoDB.
• Experience in JavaScript. Vue JS/React JS is a plus