PHP Developer - Lead

Duties and Responsibilities

• Dev will be focused on Shopping Cart plugin Dev. Currently in scope - (WooCommere, Shopify,Shoper, Magento,Big Commerce,OpenCart, Prestashop)

Essential Responsibilities:

• Responsible for designing, developing, testing, operating and maintaining products

• Takes full stack ownership by consistently writing production-ready and testable code

• Consistently creates optimal design adhering to architectural best practices; considers scalability, reliability and performance of systems/contexts affected when defining technical designs

• Performs analysis on failures, propose design changes, and encourage operational improvements

• Makes sound design/coding decisions keeping customer experience in the forefront

• Takes feedback from code review and apply changes to meet standards

• Conducts code reviews to provide guidance on engineering best practices and compliance with development procedures

• Accountable for ensuring all aspects of product development follow compliance and security best practices

• Exhibits relentless focus in software reliability engineering standards embedded into development standards

• Embraces emerging technology opportunities and contributes to the best practices in support of the bank's technology transformation

• Contributes to a culture of innovation, collaboration and continuous improvement

• Reviews tasks critically and ensures they are appropriately prioritized and sized for incremental delivery; anticipates and communicates blockers and delays before they require escalation

KEY SKILLS

Basic Qualifications - Bachelor's degree, or equivalent work experience - Five to six years of relevant experience N

Non-negotiable/Required

• Expert level experience in PHP (7.x/8.x+) and WordPress, including custom theme and plugin development, performance optimization, and troubleshooting.

• Expert level hands-on experience in JavaScript / TypeScript / React.

• Hands-on experience in Node.js for backend development.

• Experience with REST/GraphQL APIs. React and Shopify Polaris for UI development. React.js and its core principles

• Hands-on experience building shopping cart payment plugins or integrations is a plus

• Experience in Cloud native development in Azure, AWS or GCP is preferred.

• Experience in streaming technologies like Apache Kafka, Spark is preferred.

• Experience with RDBMS like PostgreSQL, and/or MS SQL

• Experience in NoSQL databases like Cassandra, MongoDB.

• Prior experience with data structure libraries (e.g., Immutable.js)

• Experience in Jenkins/Cloud bees, Apigee, Kubernetes, Rancher.

• Thorough understanding of a feature, the users impacted, the flows impacted and feature's purpose

• Adept with agile software development lifecycle and DevOps principles

• Able to communicate processes and results with all parties involved in the product team, including engineers, product owner, scrum master, third party vendors and customers

• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills