Software Engineer II (PHP)

Software Engineer Il - (PHP)

Overview: 

Guidepoint’s Engineering team thrives on problem-solving and creating happier users. As Guidepoint works to achieve its mission of making individuals, businesses, and the world smarter through personalized knowledge-sharing solutions, the engineering team is taking on challenges to improve our internal CRM system and create new products to optimize the seamless delivery of our services. 

As a Software Engineer, you will work with a team of engineers through challenging development projects. Join a highly collaborative team of skilled engineers passionate about quality. 

 Team Function: 

Our Client & Advisors portals team is responsible for the modernization and revamps of existing products, requiring them to be rewritten from scratch and follow best software practices. From the product perspective, this is part of the big picture where we are making technical changes, product enhancements, and adding backlog features. 

 Reports To: Senior Engineering Manager 

 Job Location: Tower 1, Fountain Head, Viman Nagar, Pune, Maharashtra, India 

 Work Mode: Hybrid 

 Work Timings: 1 pm to 10 pm IST (Working closely with the US Eastern time zone Engineering team) 

 What You will Do: 

• Work in an agile environment completing User Stories authored by professional Product Managers 

• Architect highly scalable/transaction-heavy web/API applications 

• Collaborate with front-end team members (in addition to backend PHP) through projects in React Framework, Socket.io, and server-side NodeJS. 

• Work with QA and Application Support teams to triage bugs. 

• Work with DevOps to automate the deployment and monitoring of applications with Datadog. 

• Design and develop Restful APIs using Symfony/API framework and design patterns. 

• Design JSON payloads and various payload contexts. 

• Convert complex business rules and workflows from User Story requirements into bespoke Salesforce-type CRM applications. 

• Work with monolithic legacy codebases, along with design patterns in newer repositories. 

• Work with large database schemas of 500+ tables. 

• Write complex queries, efficiently joining upwards of 20 tables, some containing +10m rows, in T-SQL or Doctrine ORM. 

• Integrate 3rd party platforms via APIs and call-backs. 

• Write unit tests and documentation. 

 What You Have: 

• 5+ years of expert hands-on experience in PHP 8 and above with OOP concepts and design patterns like factory, observer, adapter, strategy & decorator. 

• APIs & web-based applications development experience in the Symfony framework along with the integration of unit test cases (via PHP Unit, etc.). 

• Strong working experience with RDBMS, preferably with MS SQL Server (but also MySQL, Postgres, etc.). 

• Experience with NoSQL (Cosmos DB/MongoDB). 

• Experience in solving scaling problems with caching (Redis), message brokers (RabbitMQ), and search (Elastic Search), etc. 

• Prefer experience designing fault-tolerant architecture on cloud deployments (load balancing, clustering, reducing/eliminating single points of failure, etc.). 

• Understanding of branching, merging, pull requests, and conflict resolution in Git (Bitbucket or GitHub). 

• Proficiency in working with CLI on Linux Servers with commands like awk, grep, and other important networking tools – netstat, iptables, nslookup, curl, wget, etc. 

• Experience working with cloud technologies (Azure, AWS, GCP) with services like IAM, S3, EC2, VMs, SQS, Elastic Beanstalk, etc. 

• Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes, and other important DevOps tools like Jenkins, Travis, or Circle CI, SonarQube, Snyk, Ansible, Maven, Gradle. 

 Preferred to Have: 

• Experience in Microsoft Azure Cloud Technologies. 

• Previous experience in tools like Microsoft Teams, Outlook, WSL2, VS Code, etc. 

• Experience crafting architecture diagrams in draw.io or Lucid Chart. 

• Experience in building CI/CD pipelines from scratch or improving them. 

• Problem-solving skills and a proactive work style. 

• Strong interpersonal and communication skills. 

• Self-motivated engineering professional with solution-oriented thinking. 

• Regularly updated with technological advancements and excited to explore them. 

 What We Offer: 

• Competitive compensation (with significant potential growth factor further) 

• Employee medical coverage (that also covers your parents or in-laws) 

• The best office location at the heart of Vimann Nagar (adjacent to Phoenix Market City Mall) 

• Entrepreneurial environment, autonomy, and fast decisions 

• Casual work environment (no dress code, play area inside, an office pantry full of coffee, snacks and fruits, quarterly office parties) 

 About Guidepoint: 

Guidepoint is a leading research enablement platform designed to advance understanding and empower our clients’ decision-making process. Powered by innovative technology, real-time data, and hard-to-source expertise, we help our clients turn answers into action. Backed by a network of 1.5 million experts and Guidepoint’s 1,300 employees worldwide, we inform leading organizations’ research by delivering on-demand intelligence and research on request. With Guidepoint, companies and investors can better navigate the abundance of information available today, making it both more useful and more powerful. At Guidepoint, our success relies on the diversity of our employees, advisors, and client base, which allows us to create connections that offer a wealth of perspectives. We are committed to upholding policies that contribute to an equitable and welcoming environment for our community, regardless of background or identity. 

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