Software Engineer III - (PHP)

Overview:

Guidepoints 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. 

What You will Do:

• Refactor and modernize large, monolithic legacy codebases, introducing clean architecture and design patterns in newer repositories.
• Architect

  highly scalable and transaction-heavy web/API applications

  , focusing on building

  new backend services in PHP or Python

  leveraging modern frameworks.
• Work with

  large, complex database schemas

  of 500+ tables, writing/refactoring optimized T-SQL or Doctrine ORM queries.
• Design and implement

  data access layers

  , caching strategies (Redis), and indexing solutions to improve performance and scalability.
• Collaborate with Product Managers to translate complex business rules and workflows from User Stories into bespoke CRM-style applications.
• Design and develop

  RESTful APIs

  using Symfony, API frameworks, and best-practice design patterns; define JSON payloads and various payload contexts.
• Integrate 3rd party platforms via APIs and call-backs, ensuring robust error handling and resiliency.
• Collaborate closely with front-end teams (React, Socket.io, NodeJS) on full-stack solutions.
• Partner with QA and Application Support to triage and resolve bugs efficiently.
• Work with DevOps to automate deployments, monitoring, and scaling solutions with Datadog and container-based environments.

What You Have:

• 7-12  years of expert hands-on experience in PHP 8+ with OOP concepts, advanced design patterns and a strong focus on refactoring complex, legacy systems into maintainable, scalable services.
• Proven experience in building new services and APIs in PHP or Python, following best practices for clean architecture and modular design.
• Deep expertise in RDBMS (MS SQL Server preferred, MySQL, Postgres also relevant), with a track record of optimizing queries, handling large schemas, and designing efficient data models.
• 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.
• Experience crafting architecture diagrams in draw.io or Lucid Chart.
• Experience in building CI/CD pipelines from scratch or improving them.
• 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)