Technical Lead

Job Description:

We are seeking a talented WordPress Developer to join our team. The ideal candidate will have a passion for coding and be proficient in WordPress development. As a WordPress Developer, you will be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining WordPress sites for our clients. You will work closely with our design and marketing teams to ensure that our websites are visually appealing, user-friendly, and optimized for performance.

Responsibilities:

1. Develop custom WordPress themes and plugins based on client requirements.

2. Customize existing WordPress themes and plugins to enhance functionality and meet client needs.

3. Collaborate with the design team to create visually appealing website layouts and user interfaces.

4. Optimize websites for speed, performance, and search engine optimization (SEO).

5. Troubleshoot and debug issues with WordPress sites, themes, and plugins.

6. Perform website updates, backups, and maintenance tasks as needed.

7. Stay up-to-date with the latest trends and best practices in WordPress development.

Requirements:

1. Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Web Development, or a related field (or equivalent work experience).

2. Proven experience as a WordPress Developer with a strong portfolio of WordPress sites you have developed.

3. Proficiency in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and PHP.

4. Experience with responsive design principles and techniques.

5. Familiarity with popular WordPress plugins and frameworks.

6. Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.

7. Excellent communication and teamwork skills.

8. Ability to work independently and manage multiple projects simultaneously.

9. Experience with other content management systems (CMS) is a plus.

Develop, record and maintain cutting edge web-based J2EE, JAVA applications.

Experience on Java Spring Framework is required.

Experience on Hibernate is required.

Experience on REST Services is required.

Object-oriented programming, design, and patterns.

Strong proficiency with:Relational database concepts and data modeling.

Good communication skills to interact with customer, understand their requirement, effectively record the requirement and implement the same. 

Clearly understand the requirement, handle a team of developers.

Design and enhance application architecture.

• In depth knowledge of NodeJS.
• Experience implementing applications using AngularJS , Angular or React
• Hands on experience with on both client and server-side
• Strong analytical skills and problem solving aptitude
• Attention to detail
• Writing reusable, testable, and efficient code
• Design and implementation of low-latency, high-availability, and performant applications

About Company

• Vision : Bikayi helps small to medium sized businesses go online and scale their businesses. Bikayi merchants are selling various things from groceries to apparels and electronic items.
• Scale : We are very close to grossing a GMV of 1B dollars on an annual basis. Probably one of your neighbourhood shops is using Bikayi to sell online.
• Fuel : Monetizing the product from early days we have a solid business model and our revenue numbers are growing at a healthy pace. Apart from this we are funded by top investors in the world like Sequoia capital and Ycombinator.
• People : We have a culture which gives you a lot of challenges to solve and at the same time get high rewards.

Fun facts

• 42,59,407 Indians started their online selling journey with Bikayi this year, That is greater than the combined population of Maldives and Monaco
• We witnessed a GMV growth of 5400% and revenue growth of 1100% last year.
• Band Chainsmokers have also invested in Bikayi 🎵

Responsibilities

• Guide the team : Help the junior engineers to unblock them and guide them on best design practices. Help in code reviewing on a regular basis.
• Responsible for code delivery : Pushing deploys on a constant basis. When working in a growth stage company, this part can be challenging as the speed of requirements is high. You will need to make sure you are able to push code on a regular basis.
• Design & Architecture : You need to have technical expertise in the company's tech stack and in general the frontend or backend infrastructures.
• Prepare thorough technical documentation which can be used as a reference by other engineers.
• Own your product : You will be responsible for the success / failure of your team and the product. You will need to work with cross functional teams, understand their requirements and make sure that everybody is on the same page.

Requirements

• Past experience of working for tier 1 / vc funded companies.
• 3+ years of commercial work experience in the relevant domains.
• Continuous past experience of delivering products at a steady pace.
• Experience in the following would be preferred.
• Node Js for Backend Engineers
• React Js for Frontend Engineers

Company Perks

• Macbook
• Flexible hours
• Book reading / personal development stipend
• ESOP pool also available
• Health insurance benefits
• Fully stacked snack kitchen and gaming room
• Free front row tickets to The Chainsmokers concerts in India \m/

NOTE - SALARY IS NEGOTIABLE 

• Company Profile - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FYi4TuTx2_Kx-mWrOCNiaLK5JtWlJI-5/view?usp=sharing

•  4-8 years of relevant experience in designing & developing and architecting systems/software
• for large business environments (Java, J2EE).
• • Strong design and coding skills in Enterprise Java, Hibernate, Spring, Spring Boot, REST web
• services, JMS (ActiveMQ), XML, JSON.
• • Must have good experience in Unix/Oracle/SQL.
• • Experience in any communication framework (MQ) is an added advantage.
• • Experience in Agile Development, Scrum, and Iterative approaches
• • Participate in requirement gathering JAD sessions and support documentation