Backend Developer

Job Description

We are seeking a Moodle Developer with strong PHP expertise to develop, customize, and support our Learning Management System (LMS) for EdTech products. The role involves deep Moodle core development, plugin customization, and LMS integrations to deliver scalable and user-friendly online learning solutions.

Key Responsibilities

Develop and customize Moodle LMS using PHP

Create and enhance custom Moodle plugins, blocks, and reports

Customize Moodle themes, UI, and UX

Integrate Moodle with ERP, CRM, payment gateways, and third-party APIs

Manage Moodle upgrades, migrations, and security patches

Optimize LMS performance, database queries, and scalability

Implement user roles, permissions, assessments, and reports

Troubleshoot and resolve production issues

Collaborate with product, academic, and QA teams

Required Skills

Strong experience in PHP with Moodle LMS

Hands-on knowledge of MySQL / PostgreSQL

Proficiency in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery

Experience in Moodle plugin development & customization

Understanding of SCORM, quizzes, grading, and reporting

Experience with REST APIs, web services, and SSO

Familiarity with Linux server environments

Good to Have

Experience in EdTech platforms / online education

Knowledge of Moodle Mobile App customization

Exposure to AWS / Cloud infrastructure

Understanding of data security & privacy standards

Experience with Git / CI-CD pipelines

• 5+ years of experience working with MySQL Databases, including the community edition
• Advanced understanding of Linux OS
• Can use SSH to connect to remote systems with password & public/private keys
• Deep understanding of systems performance
• Understand automation concept to speed up the work: Ansible
• Advanced knowledge on InnoDB internals
• Expert knowledge of Performance Schema
• Knows how to optimize queries/schemas
• Deep understanding of replication and clustering
• Knows backup solutions and strategies
• Knows HA solutions and strategies
• Knows proxy usage as it relates to MySQL
• Designs and executes overall database architecture strategy, standards and practices.
• Works closely with project teams to develop data models that support business processes.
• Works with application development to ensure database changes adhere to best practices and are properly prioritized and scheduled.
• Supports all areas of the enterprise - ensures that all databases run at optimal performance
• Proactively identifies and troubleshoots databases performance issues
• Ensures that industry wide security standards are properly implemented

About Our Client

It is a last-mile tech-logistics solution provider for intra-state deliveries based in Bangalore. It offers reliable, affordable, and professional services, structured to serve enterprises.

Our Client aggregates light commercial vehicles for urban logistics and has onboarded 55,000+ truckers on its platform across 14 cities. Our Client works across industry sectors like organized retail, FMCG and e-commerce, distribution and 3PL companies. Some of its clients include Amazon, Flipkart, Bisleri, Vishal Mega Mart, Future Supply Chain, Coca-Cola, Delhivery, and Udaan.

The company offers customized logistics solutions for clients, along with other value-added services such as screened drivers, audited and GPS-enabled vehicles, point-to-point billing, status updates, 24x7 service, and greater efficiency, all at transparent and economical pricing.

Our Client, as a brand, is known as one of the market leaders in the enterprise segment, and first movers to identify and empathize with the underserved urban trucker community, playing a huge role in making them a part of the mainstream economy. This series-B funded tech-logistics company aims to disrupt the primitive $35bn+ urban-logistics industry by leveraging technology and help enterprises to reach consumers faster.

Our Client is India's largest enterprise urban-logistics provider in India, with 55,000+ Light Commercial Vehicles on its platform.

Why Our Client?

1) Young Startup growing and well funded.

What will I do?

- Designing user flows and converting them into logical entities in the code.

- Integration of user-facing elements developed by front-end developers with server-side logic.

- Designing Database schemas.

- Building reusable code and libraries for future use

- Optimization of the application for maximum speed and scalability

- Implementation of security and data protection

- Design and implementation of data storage solutions

What skills should I have?

- 3+ years of experience in Backend Development.
- Language: NodeJs
- Additional knowledge of Python will be a plus
- Understanding of microservices architecture.
- User authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments
- Integration of multiple data sources and databases into one system

- Management of hosting environment, including database administration and scaling an application to support load changes

- Data migration, transformation, and scripting

- Understanding differences between multiple delivery platforms such as mobile vs desktop, and optimizing output to match the specific platform
- Creating database schemas that represent and support business processes
- Implementing automated testing platforms and unit tests
- Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git

• Experience in designing & developing systems/software for large business environments (Java, J2EE).
• Strong design and coding skills in Enterprise Java, REST & SOAP web services, ORM (JPA/Hibernate), Spring, Maven, JMS (ActiveMQ), Caching, XML, JSON.
• Experience with multiple integration technologies / frameworks.
• Must have good experience in Unix/Oracle/SQL.
• Experience in Agile Development, Scrum, and Iterative approaches.
• Experience and exposure to AWS Cloud Services and DevOps mindset and expertise is a plus Experience with Mule or any ESB (Enterprise Service Bus) is a plus.

• Criteria : BCA / BSc/BE / BTech passouts
• Experience Required : 1 to 2 Years (Freshers Do Not Apply)
• Candidates should be ready to learn (Low-Code .NET based platform)
• Looking for immediate joiners only

• 2+ years of experience participating in the delivery of technology services.
• A proven ability to learn new applications & innovate in technology
• Strong Experience in technologies like PHP
• Demonstrable knowledge of web technologies including HTML, CSS, Javascript, AJAX etc
• Good knowledge of relational databases, version control tools and of developing web services
• Experience in common third-party APIs (Google, Facebook, Ebay etc)
• Passion for best design and coding practices and a desire to develop new bold ideas
• Experience in integrating, designing and developing solutions is desirable