technical Team leader

• PHP / Laravel developer duties and responsibilities

• Develop, record and maintain cutting edge web-based PHP applications on portal plus premium service platforms

• Build innovative, state-of-the-art applications and collaborate with the User Experience (UX) team

• Ensure HTML, CSS, and shared JavaScript is valid and consistent across applications

• Prepare and maintain all applications utilizing standard development tools

• Utilize backend data services and contribute to increase existing data services API

• In depth knowledge of object-oriented PHP and Laravel 5 PHP Framework

• Hands on experience with SQL schema design, SOLID principles, REST API design

• MySQL profiling and query optimization

• Strong knowledge of PHP web frameworks such as Laravel, CI,
• Understanding the fully synchronous behaviour of PHP
• Understanding of MVC design patterns
• Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as JavaScript,
• Knowledge of object oriented PHP programming
• Strong knowledge of the common PHP or web server exploits and their solutions
• Understanding fundamental design principles behind a scalable application
• User authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments
• Integration of multiple data sources and databases into one system
• Familiarity with limitations of PHP as a platform and its workarounds
• Creating database schemas that represent and support business processes

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Senior Backend Engineer (Platform) Full Time Bangalore (Potentially Remote)

What you’ll be doing:

• Design and develop core systems that will be power teams to build services and apps
• Ensure and constantly improve reliability, scalability, security and performance of core apis and infrastructure
• Be proactive in technical decision making and a sound influence in technical discussions
• Work with the product teams to help shape product direction by communicating limitations and possibilities
• Adopt and advocate best practices and guidelines in architecture, code conventions, development practice

Who we are looking for:

• 5+ years of experience building web services in Python/Go/Java, preferably in Python with excellent debugging and analytical skills
• Strong understanding of software engineering principles, computer science fundamentals - data structures, algorithms and operating systems
• Proven experience in building, deploying and maintaining highly scalable RESTful web services
• Excellent written and oral communication ability in both technical and non tech. aspects
• Good understanding of benchmarking and performance monitoring - concurrency, multi-threading, logging, database optimisations
• Decent knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and familiarity with shipping code quickly and reliably.

What we offer:

• Ownership of the platform core with a clear roadmap.
• A small cool meritocratic team that's driven by passion.
• An inspiring culture that balances creative exploration & heads down execution.
• Cash compensation upto 20L and negotiable stock in a gold mine.

Affinsys is a Cognitive CX platform that combines Human & AI realms to help businesses with  customer experience management, hyper-personalization & operations automation. With laser sharp focus on Customer Experience automation for financial services, we use Deep learning, NLP, computer vision, big data, recommendation system & speech analytics fused with our domain knowledge of working with 100's of banks across 50 countries to help financial institutions shift : from legacy to latest channels (Embedded Financial services), from transactions to goal based journeys (Personalized customer experience), from reactive service provider to proactive advisor (Robo/AI based advisory), from silos to ecosystem (Open banking).

• As a Senior Software Engineer you will work closely with the Tech Lead, and the rest of the engineering team to build and scale a data-driven platform. This role will act as a great springboard to accelerate career growth & transition into a Tech Lead level role.
• Your primary focus will be the development of server-side logic, building new services and APIs, developing core business logic, supporting the maintenance of current APIs, reviewing work, and improving the performance and reliability of our systems as we rapidly scale our product and organization.
• An effective Senior Software Engineer will be a self-motivated learner; a highly creative engineer having obsessive attention towards detail and thoroughness.

Must Haves

• You’ve been building web applications professionally for 5+ years
• You’re proficient in PHP 7, Laravel, and PostgreSQL
• You possess strong OOP and design pattern knowledge
• Familiar with modern engineering practices: Code Reviews, Continuous Deployment, Automated Testing, etc
• You write understandable, testable code with an eye towards maintainability and experienced with TDD (Test Driven Development)
• You’ve the ability to build RESTful APIs
• Explaining complex technical concepts to designers, support team, and fellow engineers is not a problem for you
• Well versed with the fundamentals of computer science and distributed systems

Nice-to-haves

• FrontEnd experience; have built applications in either: React, Vue, Angular, or Svelte
• Startup experience, preferably a tech startup
• Open Source contributor
• You have experience with other programming languages -- e.g. NodeJS, Python, Ruby, Go, C, etc.
• Passionate about/experienced with open source and developer tools
• You have a bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field, or equivalent training, fellowship, or work experience

Bonus

• Experience deploying applications; AWS, DigitalOcean, etc.
• Experience with leading a team of 3+ developers

Apply if

• You want to be a team member rather than an employee - cultural fit is the most important thing. Start-up life is a roller coaster and we want to make sure no matter how the day has gone we can still go out (virtually) for a pint at the end of it
• You take ownership
• You’ve an eye for detail
• You’re a problem solver, and a perpetual learner
• You possess a positive and solution-oriented mindset