Staff Engineer, PHP (Gutenberg) at Nagarro

REQUIREMENTS:

• Total experience 5+ years.
• Expertise in designing, developing, and maintaining multi-tenant web applications using PHP with Gutenberg, React, and SQL Server.
• Should be able to design and deliver custom themes and plugins, develop React-based Gutenberg blocks, integrate REST APIs, and collaborate in an Agile team to ship customer-facing features with strong engineering and coding standards.
• Hands on experience in working with MS SQL Server 2019 to design, optimize, and manage complex databases.
• Should be able to build and maintain high-performance, secure WordPress websites on AWS.
• Solid experience with HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript (ES6+), and modern front-end development tools.
• Write clean, maintainable, and efficient PHP and React code following best practices.
• Conduct code reviews and mentor junior developers.
• Troubleshoot and resolve application issues, ensuring high performance and security.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including UI/UX designers and DevOps engineers.
• Strong understanding of RESTful APIs and integration of front-end with back-end services.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills to ensure that your ideas, strategies, and successes resonate within the team and with clients.

RESPONSIBILITY:

• Writing and reviewing great quality code.
• Understanding functional requirements thoroughly and analysing the client’s needs in the context of the project.
• Envisioning the overall solution for defined functional and non-functional requirements, and being able to define technologies, patterns and frameworks to realize it.
• Determining and implementing design methodologies and tool sets.
• Enabling application development by coordinating requirements, schedules, and activities.
• Being able to lead/support UAT and production roll outs.
• Creating, understanding and validating WBS and estimated effort for given module/task, and being able to justify it.
• Addressing issues promptly, responding positively to setbacks and challenges with a mindset of continuous improvement.
• Giving constructive feedback to the team members and setting clear expectations.
• Helping the team in troubleshooting and resolving of complex bugs.
• Coming up with solutions to any issue that is raised during code/design review and being able to justify the decision taken.
• Carrying out POCs to make sure that suggested design/technologies meet the requirements.

Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or a related field.