Job description
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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- Develop, test, and maintain backend applications using Python and Flask.
- Design and build RESTful APIs for web and mobile applications.
- Collaborate with frontend developers, QA teams, and product stakeholders.
- Write reusable, scalable, and efficient code.
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Required Skills
- 3+ years of experience in Python development.
- Strong hands-on experience with Flask framework.
- Good understanding of REST API development.
- Experience with MySQL/PostgreSQL/MongoDB databases.
- Familiarity with ORM libraries such as SQLAlchemy.
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- Understanding of software development lifecycle and agile methodologies.
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- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field.
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Exp: 4 - 7 Years
CTC: up to 22 LPA
Key Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable applications using Java (Spring Boot) and Python (Flask).
- Build RESTful APIs and microservices following best practices.
- Implement event-driven architecture leveraging NATS messaging server.
- Deploy, manage, and optimize applications in Kubernetes and containerized environments.
- Develop and manage CI/CD pipelines, ensuring smooth deployment and delivery.
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We seek a talented and experienced professional to serve as the Head of Engineering and a Senior Backend Developer with expertise in Go (Golang). In this dual role, you will lead our engineering team and contribute hands-on to developing our B2B SaaS platform, which aims to revolutionize blue-collar worker training in India. You will work closely with cross-functional teams, set engineering standards, and ensure the successful execution of our technology initiatives.
As Head of Engineering:
- Oversee the recruitment, mentoring, and performance management of engineering team members.
- Define and maintain engineering best practices, coding standards, and development methodologies.
- Manage project timelines, resources, and budgets
- Foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement within the engineering team.
- Drive technical decisions and architecture discussions to ensure scalability, security, and maintainability.
As Senior Backend Developer (Go):
- Design the architecture and implement high-performance, scalable, and reliable backend services in Go.
- Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code while ensuring the security and integrity of the platform.
- Optimize and fine-tune the backend components for maximum speed and scalability.
- Develop and maintain RESTful APIs for seamless integration with frontend and external systems.
- Implement asynchronous programming and event-driven architecture for handling concurrent requests efficiently.
- Work on data modelling and integration with databases for data storage and retrieval.
- Write unit tests and perform code reviews to maintain code quality and ensure robustness.
- Creating technical specifications and test plans.
- Managing defect tracking system and resolving all issues and preparing the update for systems.
- Preparing and maintaining code for various .Net applications.
- Revising, updating, refactoring, and debuging the code.
- Enhancing existing systems by analyzing business objectives, preparing an action.
What you need to have:
- Have experience of working on ASP.NET, VB.NET, C# or MVC.
- Must be good with MS SQL DB queries and optimization techniques.
- Very good in programming logic. Should be well versed with OOPS.
- Knowledge of AngularJS or ReactJS is a plus.
- Familiar with architecture styles/APIs (REST, RPC).
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- Working in any programming language with exposure to Web services /REST API/Third-Party Integration.
- Working exposure to Test, Link, JIRA, GIT, Jenkins, Visual Studio 2015 or later, OOPs concepts, Cloud concepts.
- Good design skills using n-tier architectures (scalability, multithreading, caching, business & data layers) or SOA based application.
- Candidate must know how to work with HTML, XML, JavaScript/Jquery.
- Ability to lead the team and handle pressure and demands.
- Sound knowledge on IT concepts and latest trends.
- Excellent logical and analytical skills.
- Ability to work independently and multi-task in a fast paced environment.
- Strong verbal and written communication and interpersonal skills.
- Highly organized and detail-oriented.
Job Description :
A candidate who has a strong background in the design and implementation of scalable architecture and a good understanding of Algorithms, Data structures, and design patterns. Candidate must be ready to learn new tools, languages, and technologies
Skills :
Microservices, MySQL/Postgres, Kafka/Message Queues, Elasticsearch, Data pipelines, AWS Cloud, Clickhouse/Redshift
What you need to succeed in this role
- Minimum 6 years of experience
- Good understanding of various database types: RDBMS, NoSQL, GraphDB, etc
- Ability to build highly stable reliable APIs and backend services.
- Should be familiar with distributed, high availability database systems
- Experience with queuing systems like Kafka
- Hands-on in cloud infrastructure AWS/GCP/Azure
- Highly plus if know one or more of the following: Confluent ksql, Kafka connect, Kafka streams
- Hands-on experience with data warehouse/OLAP systems such as Redshift, click house and added plus.
- Good communication and interpersonal skills
Benefits of joining us
- Ability to join a small and growing team, and work with some of the coolest people you've ever met
- Opportunity to make an impact, and leave your mark on this organization.
- Competitive compensation, with the ability to shape your own career trajectory
- Go Extra Mile with Learning and Development
What can you look for?
A wholesome opportunity in a fast-paced environment that will enable you to juggle between concepts, yet maintain the quality on content, interact and share your ideas and have loads of learning while at work. Work with a team of highly talented young professionals and enjoy the benefits of being at Xoxoday.
We are
A fast-growing SaaS commerce company based in Bangalore with offices in Delhi, Mumbai, SF, Dubai, Singapore and Dublin. We have three products in our portfolio: Plum, Empuls and Compass. Works with over 1000 global clients. We help our clients in engaging and motivating their employees, sales teams, channel partners or consumers for better business results.
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- Work with other engineers to develop and test tools and applications used by team on daily basis
- Play a significant role in the ongoing evolution and refinement of current tools and applications
- Triage, troubleshoot, escalate and provide resolution to production issues.
- Reproduce, document and escalate product defects to the Engineering Team.
- Provide well-thought out and reliable direction, both in technical and non-technical terms, to help customers.
- Take ownership of customer issues, including initial troubleshooting, identification of root cause and issue resolution or escalation.
- Identify and escalate priority issues that need immediate attention.
- Collaborate with cross functional teams which requires strong presentation skills and attention to details
- BA/BS degree in Computer Science or related technical field or equivalent work experience. MS degree is preferred.
- 9+ years development experience in JAVA (using OO Design and Analysis, Design Patterns, etc.)
- High experience in Java 8 Required.
- 4+ years’ experience building highly scalable, distributed and reliable Restful Web Services using Spring, Jersey, etc.
- Should have knowledge on Cloud applications preferably on AWS.
- Knowledge on building Front end applications using JavaScript, AngularJS, HTML5, CSS3.
- Experience with relational DBs like MySQL and NoSQL Database like MongoDB, Solr/Lucene will be a plus.
- Experience with Tomcat, Jax-RS, REST, JPA, IntelliJ, Groovy, Hibernate is must.
- Experience with build technologies like Gradle, Jenkins will be a plus.
- Experience with Test Driven Development using TestNG/Junit testing frameworks.
- Experience working with version control like GIT.
- Salary commensurate with experience.
- Minimum 2 years of experience in Core PHP , and hands on experience in any MVC Framework.
- Should have hands on experience or knowledge in PHP Frameworks like Codeigniter/ Laravel/ CakePHP/ Yii .
- Should have knowledge about OOPS Concept.
- Good knowledge in HTML, AJAX, JQuery & MYSQL.
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- Should have hands on experience or knowledge in PHP Frameworks like Codeigniter/ Laravel/ CakePHP/ Yii .
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Responsibilities
- Experience executing projects on WordPress
- Experience customizing existing WordPress plug-ins for integration or other requirements
- Expertise in customizing, developing, and integrating WordPress themes
- Manage the project giving importance to cost and quality
- Work with the user group to improve the solution
- Document existing functions and processes
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- Minimum 4 year of hands on experience in WordPress development
- Good understanding of PHP, MYSQL, HTML5, CSS3 and jQuery
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- Integration of multiple data sources and databases into one system
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