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We are Virtual Internships, an EdTech startup on a mission to bridge the gap between education and the workplace by making internships accessible to all.
Over the last four years, we’ve established partnerships with 12,000+ companies, 100+ universities, and supported thousands of students and graduates in becoming more employable via our online work experience product.
We are a team of 130+ across 25+ countries, and recently https://techcrunch.com/2022/09/14/virtual-internships-matches-students-with-top-companies-around-the-world/">secured our Series A funding from investors such as Hambro Perks, Sequoia Capital, Kaplan, Arsenal Growth, and Ascend Vietnam Ventures - who have collectively guided the likes of Google, Linkedin, WhatsApp, Canva, Udemy, and Applyboard.
Our 2022 awards include:
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Ranked 23rd out of 13,000 organizations in https://www.escapethecity.org/escape100/2022?utm_source=media_kit&utm_medium=blogpr&utm_campaign=esc100_2022&utm_id=launch">The Escape 100: the top purposeful organisations to ‘escape’ to in 2022
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https://www.techinasia.com/50-rising-startups-southeast-asia">Tech in Asia’s “Top 50 Rising Startups” (No.6 in Vietnam)
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Top100 EdTechStartup Selected by https://www.holoniq.com/notes/holoniq-europe-edtech-100/">HolonIQ
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Finalist for https://www.businessleader.co.uk/gotech-awards-22-finalists/">Go:Tech Awards
Your Role
Become one of our new Senior Software Engineers, where you will play a role in building an enterprise-level WordPress platform. If you want to work in a flexible environment where you can own technology, strategies, design, and build new systems from scratch using the tools YOU choose, read on!
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Work with the Marketing team to conduct a plan for building the website and scale-up plan yearly.
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Development/Deployment of enterprise-level WordPress plugins and themes in a WordPress VIP multi-site environment.
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Building and collaborating with developers from other teams to create modular, extensible PHP and JS solutions (plugins, packages, blocks, and components).
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To create own themes based on requirements from HTML scratch.
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Local Development Environment Setup/Configuration.
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Theme and Plugin Security.
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Understanding of best standards and guidelines about WordPress.org.
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Ability to handle complex problems from design to execution and deliver in time bound manner under constraints.
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Autonomously architect, prototype, and maintain solutions to different problems.
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Comfortable wearing many hats and willing to work on all parts of the stack.
Your Impact
In your first month, you will:
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Get onboarded and brought up to speed with all things VI - our company structure, product, mission, and values
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Meet with colleagues across the company and start building relationships that will help you better understand the company
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Review our current programs, systems, and data so you can gain insight into where we currently are
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Take over our new WordPress website which is in setting phase
Within 3 months, you will:
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Take ownership of your role and started working directly with stakeholders.
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Have strong relationships with our external vendors and be the front line of people support for the company
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Deliver 1st version of the new website.
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Coordinate with analysis to set up Google Analytics and other tools.
Within 6 months, you will:
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Work with the Marketing team to maintain, and improvement by the analyst result of the new website.
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Be a strong technical advisor for the marketing team about SEO/other Google and WordPress technologies.
Job Requirements
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A Bachelor’s degree is preferred.
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Extensive experience in writing and building PHP applications at scale using object-oriented coding, namespace, autoloading, dependency injection, PHPCS, Psalm, PHPUnits etc., as well as interacting with REST API/ GraphQL
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Familiarity with WordPress development (multisite, configuration, parent/child themes, plugins, Gutenberg) and understanding of security concerns and site optimization for performance.
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Possesses an understanding of and commitment to web standards, including web accessibility standards (WCAG)
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Familiarity with package managers for PHP (Composer) and JS (NPM/Yarn)
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Familiarity with PSR specifications
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Previous working experience with Code versioning and code review
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Previous working experience with Docker, Git, and dependency management via Composer
Consider this our wish list. We know there will be great candidates that don't meet every one of these criteria—if you're passionate about the role and have early-stage startup experience, we'd still love to hear from you.
What do we offer?
One of our core values at Virtual Internships is transparency. That’s why, we’re allowing you to ‘try before you apply’ in our “https://www.notion.so/virtualinternship/Virtual-Internships-VI-P-GUIDE-0aaa39e9a3304d4cbc19fad96bd0c72d">VI-P Guide” which includes our values, how we operate, how we build our packages, and how we interview.
To give you an example of some of our perks and benefits:
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Flexible Working Hours - start earlier, leave earlier, take a shorter lunch or leave a bit later, it's totally up to you.
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Remote First - work from anywhere, with a budget to support your remote setup
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Learn from the world’s best - access to exclusive content including how-to guides and playbooks from Sequoia/500Global-backed organizations
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Professional Development Budget - dedicated budget towards content/platforms/courses that can contribute to your professional growth
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Impact - we’re still at an early stage, so your impact is magnified. You will likely be solving something that hasn’t already been solved or you will be taking something to an entirely new level!
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Birthday Leave - go enjoy yourself on your birthday without needing to use your annual leave
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Meritocracy - a culture that prides itself on internal promotions and meritocracy. The majority of our managerial team has risen up (quickly), including our COO, CAO, CFO, Head of Host Companies, and Head of Intern Experience.

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- Work closely with front-end developers and customers to ensure an effective, appealing, functional and intuitive implementation.
- Write the codes using development best practices.
- Effectively contribute to all phases of the development lifecycle.
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- 2+ solid years of Laravel MVC framework
- Thorough knowledge of OOP/MVC with PHP and MySQL on Linux platforms.
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Roles & Responsibilities
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Good Communication & Presentation skills
Healthy Interpersonal Skillset & should carry of Problem-Solving & Creative Thinking attitude
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Understanding of SDLC
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The B2B manufacturing industry has a lack of digitisation globally. NowPurchase is building layers of technology to help improve the productivity and profits of the manufacturer. For this we are building the OS (Operating System) that will seamlessly connect factory equipment such as furnaces and spectrometers to our software systems that provide real time optimisations.
The end-game is to use this interconnected system to do great production planning and autonomous procurement of their raw materials. The Heart of NowPurchase will be a marketplace consisting of these smart factories and raw material suppliers.
Here a video that explains our product journey:
[https://www.loom.com/share/ccd0ed9e7bc349d7bba851d762253c21](https://www.loom.com/share/ccd0ed9e7bc349d7bba851d762253c21)
**Role Description**
NowPurchase is looking to add an immensely talented Backend Developer that will help us invent, design, refine and deliver products that will meet the above vision.
- Expect to build a lot of services and APIs in the cloud and stand-alone IoT devices to serve both the browser as well as native IoT enabled terminals that will be placed at the manufacturers' premises.
- Expect designing algorithms that model the metallurgy of the manufacturing processes as well as using tools such as linear programming, machine learning etc.
**What are the expectations from this role?**
- Deliver high quality modular code deployed to serve web, mobile and native IoT enabled terminals that leverage REST-based services and real time sockets. This would include algorithms for real time optimizations that are critical for the manufacturing process.
- You are empowered to work directly with leadership and the product team to make decisions about your code and future of the product.
- Have a strong emphasis on shipping features quickly without sacrificing code quality. Be ready to build a lot of MVPs that will go through iteration or be completely scrapped depending on the outcome at the customer end.
- Own your Agile projects and responsible for software design to implementation and deployment. Maintain sprints, delivery timelines and contribute to better managing the engineering team.
- Collaborate on the end to end design and implementation of the platform, including data modeling, systems architecture, data security, access controls, architecture, user experience, deployment, automation, and monitoring.
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**Qualifications and Experience**
- 1+ years of demonstrated software engineering experience in an agile environment designing, architecting and implementing robust scalable systems preferably for modern SaaS application
- Experience with modern server-side programming languages such as Python, Scala, Go. Experience with web frameworks such as Django Rest Framework, Flask.
- Experience with architecting asynchronous services with design patters leveraging PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, Celery for storage and multi-tenant servers over AWS Elastic BeanStalk.
**Compensation & Benefits**
- **Cash Compensation:** As per industry standards & pedigree of candidate
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- **Medical Insurance:** Benefits of group insurance of 3 lakhs for family including parents, spouse, children
- **Generous leave structure and WFHs** including Marriage, Maternity & Paternity leaves
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**Possible Growth path**
Backend Developer > Senior Backend End Engineer > Engineering Manager > VP of Engineering
## **Tech Stack**
- React/Redux
- Python/Django/Celery
- Git, AWS, ELB (Elastic Beanstalk), Netlify
- PostgreSQL/Redis/S3
**Hiring Process**
1. Screening of applicants & initial telephonic call with Manager -HR
2. F2F/Video Interview with Engineering Manager and Cofounder CTO
3. Take home written assessment
4. F2F/Video Interview with Cofounder CEO
5. Email communication on final feedback
The end to end process shall take less than 10 days. We pride ourselves on being transparent & moving fast.
*Candidates who accept an offer may join within 1 hour, 1 week or up to 45days of signing - though, we have a preference for as short a gap period between signing and joining since we're at the most exciting part of our journey - laying the foundation for the NowPurchase platform!*



Description:
1. Hands-on backend web and API development experience.
2. Has strong MySQL and Database knowledge.
3. Working experience in building and deploying applications on servers like AWS, etc.
4. Good understanding of architectural patterns (e.g., MVC) is required.
5. Good communication and analytical skills.
6. Experience in building REST APIs in NodeJS and/or TypeScript.
7. Code repositories management in GIT.
8. Provide leadership to the team around new approaches, workflows, and technologies.
9. Experience in client requirement analysis and estimating projects timeline and efforts.

We're looking for Senior Node js backend developers with over 2+ years of experience and strong expertise in Javascript based development using Node js and Express. We are looking for cadidates who are go-getters and are leaning towards leadership positions. Candidates must have a proven history of building, scaling, optimising and securing Node js based backends and APIs using a microservice architecture.
Bonus Skill : Experience with ReactJs, Postgres
We would prefer candidates who can join immediately or are currently serving their notice period.
Key Skills Required
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A passion for Javascript based solutions and an extremely strong understanding of JavaScript
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Proficiency in Node js and Express based development
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Stong experience in building scalable REST APIs
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Experience in implenting API security using tokens, encryptions keys and other methods
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A proved history of building scalable and secure web applications and APIs with Node js using a microservice architecture
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Working experience with API Gateways
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Experience with Docker
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Experience in maintaining code via Git workflows
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Ability to work independantly or as a part of a team
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Ability to work in an Agile environment
Responsibilities
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Understanding requirement and congributing to engineering solutions at a conceptual stage to provide the best possible solution to the task/challenge
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Building high quality code using coding standards based on the SRS/Documentation
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Building component based, maintainable, scalable and reusable backend libraries/modules.
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Building & documenting scalable APIs on the Open Spec standard
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Unit testing development modules and APIs
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Conducting code reviews to ensure that the highest quality standard are maintained
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Securing backend applications and APIs using industry best practices
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Troubleshooting issues and fixing bugs raised by the QA team efficiently.
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Optimizing code
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Building and deploying the applications


- Experience in PHP & MySQLi, various open source frameworks,
- Strong knowledge in JavaScript, XHTML, CSS, AJAX, SQL,
- Strong Knowledge in Frameworks like Laravel
- Strong skills of APIs Creation & integration
- Knowledge of Cloud Servers like AWS, Digital ocean
- Know how to Secure the PHP Scripts from attacks or injections,



