Backend Developer

YoRipe

Singapore, Singapore (Remote possible)

Software Engineering

Full-Time

3 - 5 years of experience

Posted 22 days agoUpdated 20 days ago

Job description

YoRipe is SEA’s first community based cooking & grocery mobile application platform that (1) helps busy households to lead a healthy and sustainable lifestyle through personalized and easy cooking. (2) helps supermarkets and FMCG brands better engage and understand the consumers in order to design, manufacture and sell better, improving profitability and reducing waste. We are an early stage food tech startup backed by Antler - a highly selective start-up accelerator as well as NUS Enterprise.
Opportunity:
A unique and rich experience developing a product that will reach millions! You will guide & execute the backend technology development needs of YoRipe, make impact on the company’s growth strategy and build your tech team. You will work alongside highly talented and passionate people who are relentless, hardworking and enjoy learning. It’s time to use your tech skills in a meaningful way and embark on a new personally and professionally escalating journey.
Mission:
The mission of the backend developer is to ensure that YoRipe app has the best backend technical ability to offer the most personalized user experience and meet business objectives of the company. The role uses innovative technologies to build the future of cooking and solve business issues for retailers and FMCGs, and oversees the end-to-end backend technical development of the mobile app.
Outcomes:
Be a senior developer to execute the back-end development need of the mobile app.
Identify technologies to solve problems and meet business objectives.
Assist in planning the product roadmap with UX/UI Design, Data Science and Business function. Offer advice on technical feasibility and resources required.
Research and learn new technologies to ensure the best technical ability.
Develop and deploy new features independently. For implementation that requires multiple effort, manages resources required to meet the deliverables.
Maintain back-end and dev-ops systems.
Critical Competencies:
Enjoy learning new skills, ability to learn quickly, openness to criticism and ideas.
Ownership – strong sense of ownership in every application they build.
Follows-through on commitments and able to meet deadlines.
Problem solving – able to analyze problem logically and think of out-of-box solution
Persistence – demonstrates tenacity and willingness to go to the distance to get something done.
Proactivity – act without being told what to do, excited to take ownership and work in a fast-paced startup environment.
Communication – able to explain rationale behind an idea and the process clearly.
Efficiency – able to produce significant output with minimal wasted effort.
Risk-taking – comfortable with taking risks when experimenting with new ideas, not conform to status quo
Technical Skill Requirements:
Minimum 5 years of hands-on experience in PHP, MySQL, Laravel, JavaScript for back-end development.
Prior experience with community & ecommerce platforms would be preferred
Able to deal with complex MySQL database relationships, to support effective & scalable query handling.
Previous experience of handling complex relationships with Laravel Eloquent is a must, as well as dealing with JSON, CSV data formats.
Good to have knowledge on Python.
Expertise in the applicable software languages to confidently write clean, organised code
Excellent knowledge on Git & code management.
Built APIs for mobile app, experience in integrating APIs.
Good understanding of AWS and Jenkins, and server hosting in general.

Must have skills

JavaScript

MySQL

Jenkins

System Deployment

Laravel

PHP

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Sql Server Management

Nice to have skills

Github Version Control

Python

Job benefits

Flexible work hours
Remote work options

YoRipe

Mission:
Enable Southeast Asia to live better
Transform a daily mundane activity - cooking and grocery shopping to a fun, easy and rewarding experience so we can live better and take better care of our loved ones.
We believe people eat out often for convenience yet they crave for wholesome home-cooked food. YoRipe transforms the stressful experience of deciding what to cook and acquiring ingredients into a fun exploration, sets each meal up for success through the best curated community consisting of cooking & baking enthusiasts, retailers and brands.
Product Goal
#1 social commerce platform for groceries and home goods platform in Southeast Asia.
Core Values:
We Inspire through carefully curated content 
We Connect consumers, content creators, brands and retailers
We Care for our users wellbeing through food and we help then show care to their loved ones
Team Values:
Growth: to realize our highest potential in both professional and personal level
Hard work: willing to invest seemingly unreasonable time and effort to achieve goals, understand that hard work and persistence are the the only constant factors for success 
Challenge assumptions: we make decisions based on context, objective and data points. Be open to challenge assumptions and fast to validate assumptions. 
Empathy for each other: we’re all not perfect and that’s not the goal. Be kind to each other, practise our virtues

If you identify yourself with our mission and core values, we'd love to hear from you! Email: xinyan@yoripe.com 