Software Developer- PHP

Job Title: Software Developer

Location: Pune

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About the Role

Research Square is a multidisciplinary preprint platform. At Research Square, we aim to provide the best editorial support to preprint authors. An important function of the preprint platform is to ensure that manuscripts are processed smoothly from submission to acceptance. To achieve this, we are seeking a Software Developer to join our team and help us to create the best solutions for users.

We are looking for a Senior Software Developer who can work in PHP, Slim Framework or Symphony Framework, docker, MySQL, React JS, Next JS, Node JS, HTML5, CSS3, CICD and microservices, domain event architecture. We need a candidate who is proactive, self-driven, active listener, takes ownership and able to handle stakeholders in technical design, solutioning, implementation and release. Candidate should be able to build good rapport with stakeholders. Candidate should be proficient in English communication, both written and verbal.

Role Responsibilities:

Agile product team, day-to-day you will:

Take part in our daily stand-ups. Contribute to ceremonies like planning/ IPM, showcase, collaborative design and retrospectives. Develop new features and improve code quality by pair programming with other team members. Build more and more domain, product and business knowledge. Work with all stakeholders and manage the product delivery [Design to Release] Take part in support and monitoring of the platform.

What you will be doing

Within 3 Months you will:

• Get familiar with our technology stack. Our application is built in PHP, React JS, Node JS, Next JS, MySQL, Docker, HTML, CSS, and deployed on AWS.
• Get to know the various Stakeholders and their general requirements.
• Take part in reducing technical debt by working with team mates to add test coverage.
• Get to know all the members of the team.

By 3-6 months you will:

• Have a basic understanding of the teams context, products business model.
• Build more knowledge of the product, domain and mentor new teammates.
• On-board new team members and set up their machines and help them get up to speed fast.
• Be able to understand and discuss business requirements with stakeholders and Product Managers and help other disciplines with these conversations.
• Gain trust and confidence of project stakeholders.
• Hold technical discussions with the team in order to improve the product architecture and code quality and build more understanding of the overall product.

By 6-12 months you will:

• Build solid understanding of the products business, domain and have technical expertise to participate in discussion for Design and architectural changes.
• Onboard new members to the team or help other teams in the onboarding process.
• Transform high level requirements into actionable work.
• Work with global teams on plan, Design, implementation and release.
• Build product features and help stakeholders to solve customers problems innovatively.
• Proactively provide useful and actionable feedback to all team members and stakeholders.
• Triage support queries and diagnose issues in the live applications.

Experience , skills and qualification:

Experience: 3+ years of experience

Skills:

• Need to have a solid understanding of PHP, docker, MySQL, React JS, Next JS, Node JS HTML5, CSS3, CICD and microservices, domain event architecture.
• Good to have knowledge of Slim Framework or Symphony Framework or any other Framework etc.
• You have 3+ years of experience as a developer. You have a good understanding of design practices, lean mean design, clean code, technical debts, refactoring and XP practices (TDD, pair programming etc.).
• Write quality code that is reliable and maintainable using industry best practices (e.g., style, security, testability, and efficiency).
• Provide guidance to company stakeholders on upcoming challenges and participate in project planning.
• Diagnose, debug, and optimize performance of web applications.
• Having a good command of English is important; collaboration is important in our day-to-day work.

• Workday availability during the US East Coast morning hours for virtual meetings and pairing sessions, approximately 6 pm to 9 pm Indian Standard Time

• Educational Qualification: Educated to degree level