Backend Developer

Wama Technology

Location: Mumbai (Onsite - Vidyavihar)

Experience: 8 – 14 years

Salary: ₹10L – ₹16.5L/yr (Monthly: ₹85,000 – ₹1,40,000 depending on skill set)

Employment Type: Full-time

Job Description

We are looking for a high-caliber Lead PHP – Laravel Developer with a strong background in technical leadership to join our team. This role requires a blend of deep hands-on coding and strategic team management. You will oversee a team of developers while acting as the primary technical liaison for our client, ensuring that the architecture is scalable and that the team follows rigorous development standards.

Key Responsibilities

• Team Leadership: Manage and mentor a team of developers, conduct code reviews, and drive technical excellence across the sprint.
• Architecture & Design: Design complex database schemas and system architectures using Laravel 10+ and PHP 8.x best practices.
• Client Management: Lead technical discussions with client stakeholders to gather requirements and provide progress updates.
• Code Quality: Implement standardized linting, unit testing, and documentation protocols to maintain a high-quality codebase.
• Performance Optimization: Identify and fix bottlenecks in high-traffic applications, focusing on Eloquent query optimization and caching strategies.

Technical Skills & Qualifications

• Total Experience: 8–14 years in PHP Development.
• Leadership Experience: Strictly 4+ years of experience in leading technical teams, managing sprints, and mentoring junior/mid-level developers.
• Laravel Expertise: Advanced proficiency in Laravel (Service Containers, Service Providers, Middlewares, and Custom Packages).
• Full-Stack Capability: * Strong frontend skills: Tailwind CSS, JavaScript (ES6+), and HTML5/CSS3.
• Working knowledge of React.js and TypeScript for modern interface development.
• Database & API: * Expertise in MySQL (Complex joins, indexing, and optimization).
• Deep experience in developing and securing RESTful APIs with OAuth/Sanctum.
• Environment: Proficiency in Docker, Linux/Ubuntu server management, and Git (Gitflow workflow).

Additional Requirements

• Agile Mastery: Deep understanding of Scrum/Agile ceremonies and the ability to manage workloads via Jira or ClickUp.
• AI-Driven Development: Experience integrating or using AI-assisted tools (Cursor, Windsurf, or GitHub Copilot) to increase team velocity is a significant plus.
• Communication: Fluent professional English is mandatory for client-side coordination.

What We Offer

• Leadership Role: High-level autonomy to make architectural decisions and lead a dedicated team.
• Competitive Pay: A performance-driven salary package with growth opportunities.

Experience:

• Total PHP Development: 8+ years (Required)
• Team Leading: 4+ years (Required)
• Laravel: 6+ years (Required)

Work Location: In person

About Synorus

Synorus is building a next-generation ecosystem of AI-first products. Our flagship legal-AI platform LexVault is redefining legal research, drafting, knowledge retrieval, and case intelligence using domain-tuned LLMs, private RAG pipelines, and secure reasoning systems.

If you are passionate about AI, legaltech, and training high-performance models — this internship will put you on the front line of innovation.

Role Overview

We are seeking passionate AI/LLM Engineering Interns who can:

• Fine-tune LLMs for legal domain use-cases
• Train and experiment with open-source foundation models
• Work with large datasets efficiently
• Build RAG pipelines and text-processing frameworks
• Run model training workflows on Google Colab / Kaggle / Cloud GPUs

This is a hands-on engineering and research internship — you will work directly with senior founders & technical leadership.

Key Responsibilities

• Fine-tune transformer-based models (Llama, Mistral, Gemma, etc.)
• Build and preprocess legal datasets at scale
• Develop efficient inference & training pipelines
• Evaluate models for accuracy, hallucinations, and trustworthiness
• Implement RAG architectures (vector DBs + embeddings)
• Work with GPU environments (Colab/Kaggle/Cloud)
• Contribute to model improvements, prompt engineering & safety tuning

Must-Have Skills

• Strong knowledge of Python & PyTorch
• Understanding of LLMs, Transformers, Tokenization
• Hands-on experience with HuggingFace Transformers
• Familiarity with LoRA/QLoRA, PEFT training
• Data wrangling: Pandas, NumPy, tokenizers
• Ability to handle multi-GB datasets efficiently

Bonus Skills

(Not mandatory — but a strong plus)

• Experience with RAG / vector DBs (Chroma, Qdrant, LanceDB)
• Familiarity with vLLM, llama.cpp, GGUF
• Worked on summarization, Q&A or document-AI projects
• Knowledge of legal texts (Indian laws/case-law/statutes)
• Open-source contributions or research work
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What You Will Gain

• Real-world training on LLM fine-tuning & legal AI
• Exposure to production-grade AI pipelines
• Direct mentorship from engineering leadership
• Research + industry project portfolio
• Letter of experience + potential full-time offer
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Ideal Candidate

• You experiment with models on weekends
• You love pushing GPUs to their limits
• You prefer research + implementation over theory alone
• You want to build AI that matters — not just demos

Location - Remote

Stipend - 5K - 10K

Responsibilities

• Designing and implementing new features and functionality
• Establishing and guiding the website’s architecture
• Ensuring high-performance and availability, and managing all technical aspects of the CMS
• Helping formulate an effective, responsive design and turning it into a working theme and plugin.

Skills and Qualifications

• Good understanding of front-end technologies, including HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery
• Experience building user interfaces for websites and/or web applications
• Experience designing and developing responsive design websites
• Comfortable working with debugging tools like Firebug, Chrome inspector, etc.
• Ability to understand CSS changes and their ramifications to ensure consistent style across platforms and browsers
• Ability to convert comprehensive layout and wireframes into working HTML pages
• Knowledge of how to interact with RESTful APIs and formats (JSON, XML)
• Strong understanding of PHP back-end development