Backend Engineer

Job Title: PHP/Laravel Developer (3–10 Years Experience)

Industry: Insurance / Fintech

Employment Type: Full-Time, Permanent

Job Summary

We are looking for an experienced PHP/Laravel Developer with strong JavaScript skills to work across the full stack. You will build scalable backend systems, interactive frontends, robust APIs, and use modern AI tools to speed up development. This role involves backend coding, frontend development, database design, and full-stack integration.

What You’ll Be Doing

1. Backend Development

• Build reliable PHP applications and REST APIs
• Write clean, maintainable Laravel code
• Create REST APIs and work with GraphQL when required
• Work with microservices and Docker-based environments
• Perform code reviews and maintain coding best practices

2. Frontend Development

• Develop responsive and modular web UIs using JavaScript frameworks
• Build interactive components using React, Vue, or Angular
• Work with modern CSS frameworks and preprocessors
• Implement SPA features like routing & state management
• Ensure browser compatibility and mobile responsiveness

3. Database Work

• Design database schemas for MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis
• Write optimized SQL queries via Eloquent ORM or Query Builder
• Implement indexing and performance optimization
• Work with SQL & NoSQL databases
• Manage migrations and ensure database stability

4. AI Tools & Productivity

• Use AI coding assistants (GitHub Copilot, Cursor AI, Tabnine)
• Integrate AI APIs (OpenAI, Claude) into applications
• Build AI-powered features and automations
• Use AI tools for debugging, refactoring, and code optimization

5. Full-Stack Integration

• Connect frontend and backend layers smoothly
• Implement authentication and authorization flows
• Manage client-server data flow and API integrations
• Work with state management across the stack
• Ensure consistent and seamless user experiences

Job Requirements

Must-Have (3–10 Years Experience)

Backend Skills

• Strong experience with PHP 8+ & Laravel
• Eloquent ORM, Query Builder, Blade, Middleware, Events
• API development & authentication
• Redis/Memcached caching
• Queue management (Laravel Queues, Horizon)
• Working knowledge of Node.js

Frontend Skills

• Strong JavaScript (ES6+, async/await, modules)
• React / Vue / Angular
• State management (Redux, Vuex, NgRx)
• Build tools: Webpack, Vite, Laravel Mix
• CSS3, HTML5, Sass/Less or CSS-in-JS
• Responsive, mobile-first development

Database Skills

• MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis; MongoDB is a plus
• Schema design, optimization, indexing
• Migrations, normalization, performance tuning

We're Hiring: Senior Developer (AI & Machine Learning)** 🚀

🔧 **Tech Stack**: Python, Neo4j, FAISS, LangChain, React.js, AWS/GCP/Azure

🧠 **Role**: AI/ML development, backend architecture, cloud deployment

🌍 **Location**: Remote (India)

💼 **Experience**: 5-10 years

If you're passionate about making an impact in EdTech and want to help shape the future of learning with AI, we want to hear from you!

The tech stack looks like the below (expect this to change as we scale):

1. Typescript for APIs (REST and GraphQL)
2. Kafka, Spark, and data warehouses for ML pipelines (spark on python/scala)
3. Solidity + hardhat for smart contracts (in the future, rust, go and move)
4. AWS & Terraform
5. Full nodes

You can expect to do some or all of the following:

1. Read through protocols’ whitepapers and smart contracts to derive metrics and analyze risks
2. Architect the backend for APIs, async jobs, and blockchain integration
3. Build clean, concise APIs for customer integration, along with the documentation
4. Setup, run and maintain full and archive nodes across different chains
5. Integrate with multiple partners like exchanges and custody providers
6. Fool-proof security across the stack - encryption, hashing, privacy, VPC, etc.
7. Infrastructure as code - build terraform scripts and ensure easy replication of the infra across different regions
8. Research the top DeFi protocols to uncover better insights for our customers and evaluate their risk profiles, security, and historical returns
9. Manage production deployments, logging, and monitoring

We expect you to be fairly comfortable with working with both web3 and web2 stacks. We do not expect that you have web3 experience on day 1, but you should be willing to wear multiple hats, learn things quickly and move fast.

1. Generalist, a solid engineer who can learn things on your own and have an eye for clean, tested, and well-documented code
2. We don’t look at the number of years of work experience as a criterion, but rather see what you have done in your life so far (side projects, open-source contributions, blogs, etc.). We don’t care about degrees, the institutions you went to, or the companies you worked for before. We are open to talking as long as you have good judgment, great clarity, align with our values and have a strong track record of thoughtful work
3. Understand the fundamentals of building and integrating APIs and secure systems. Bonus if you know a bit about blockchains and protocols
4. You can be strong on the backend, front-end, or can dabble everywhere. We want you to play to your strengths and will provide enough opportunities to learn and do things outside of your comfort zone

Pay and benefits We offer a solid, competitive package (including early-stage equity) that is location agnostic. We give you the flexibility to choose the split between cash and equity.

At Upswing, we are a passionate and self-driven team of thinkers who aspire to build the rails to connect the legacy financial sector with financial innovators through a simple and powerful banking-as-a-service (BaaS) platform. We’re building our platform putting the focus on pragmatism, reliability, and maintainability. We believe that keeping the engineering complexity under control is key to preserving the development productivity and long-term evolution of a platform.

To bring this vision to life, we are building the infrastructure using Microservices architecture using the latest set of technologies that are also fun to work with such as Java, Scala, Postgres, Akka, Kafka with a completely automated DevOps pipeline from the get-go using tools like Chef, Jenkins, Grafana, Graylog.

We are looking for motivated engineers who will be working in a highly creative and cutting-edge technology environment to build a world-class financial services suite.

Why you should join us:

• You will redefine the financial services landscape for India in the coming years.
• Be part of a core Engineering team that will create innovative and scalable Fintech solutions.
• Work with passionate and experienced engineering, product & business workforce that believes in teamwork, and that helps fast-track learning on solving complex technical challenges.
• We are funded by the leading fintech VC `QED Investors` and other established Founders and Executives of awesome Indian companies.

What you will do if you join us:

• Propose solutions to solve complex system architecture challenges and actively lead the end-to-end development of the system.
• Create robust, flexible, consistent, and easy-to-use APIs
• Continuously strive for performance improvements, code reusability, and readability
• Understand the product in detail and predict potential issues in feature development.
• Mentor and lead junior members of the team

You should have:

• Ability to think of out of the box
• Tech or a higher degree in computer science or a related field.
• 3+ years of experience working on the back-end development for complex distributed systems who are willing to adopt any Programming language as per the requirement.
• Familiarity with any of the following – Java, C++, Scala, Kotlin, and frameworks like Spring, Play, Hibernate, Django, etc.
• Good understanding of Algorithms, Data Structure, OOP, Design patterns, Parallel programming, Multithreading concepts & Event-Driven Systems.
• Understanding of micro-services architecture and best practices.
• Experience with Relational databases such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, or any NoSQL database.

It is a plus if you have:

• Familiarity with cloud platforms like AWS (Amazon Web Services), Azure or Google Cloud

InnovationM is looking for a Java Developer with experience in Spring Boot, Microservices, and MongoDB to join our team. The ideal candidate should have hands-on experience in designing and developing REST APIs using Spring Boot, building microservices-based applications, working with MongoDB and have experience in deploying applications in AWS.

What you must be good at:

● Develop and maintain REST APIs using Spring Boot framework

● Build microservices-based applications using Spring Boot and related frameworks

● Design and develop data models and queries for MongoDB database

● Deploy applications in AWS using EC2, ECR, and other relevant AWS services

● Work in an Agile development environment

● Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality software

What you must be good at:

● 4+ years of experience in Java development

● Strong experience in Spring Boot and related frameworks

● Hands-on experience in building microservices-based applications

● Proficient in designing and developing REST APIs

● Strong experience in MongoDB, including data modeling and query optimization

● Good understanding of AWS services and deployment methodologies

● Experience working in an Agile development environment

● Proficient in Git and version control systems

About the Role

The Dremio India team owns the DataLake Engine along with Cloud Infrastructure and services that power it. With focus on next generation data analytics supporting modern table formats like Iceberg, Deltalake, and open source initiatives such as Apache Arrow, Project Nessie and hybrid-cloud infrastructure, this team provides various opportunities to learn, deliver, and grow in career. We are looking for technical leaders with passion and experience in architecting and delivering high-quality distributed systems at massive scale.

Responsibilities & ownership

• Lead end-to-end delivery and customer success of next-generation features related to scalability, reliability, robustness, usability, security, and performance of the product
• Lead and mentor others about concurrency, parallelization to deliver scalability, performance and resource optimization in a multithreaded and distributed environment
• Propose and promote strategic company-wide tech investments taking care of business goals, customer requirements, and industry standards
• Lead the team to solve complex, unknown and ambiguous problems, and customer issues cutting across team and module boundaries with technical expertise, and influence others
• Review and influence designs of other team members 
• Design and deliver architectures that run optimally on public clouds like GCP, AWS, and Azure
• Partner with other leaders to nurture innovation and engineering excellence in the team
• Drive priorities with others to facilitate timely accomplishments of business objectives
• Perform RCA of customer issues and drive investments to avoid similar issues in future
• Collaborate with Product Management, Support, and field teams to ensure that customers are successful with Dremio
• Proactively suggest learning opportunities about new technology and skills, and be a role model for constant learning and growth

Requirements

• B.S./M.S/Equivalent in Computer Science or a related technical field or equivalent experience
• Fluency in Java/C++ with 15+ years of experience developing production-level software
• Strong foundation in data structures, algorithms, multi-threaded and asynchronous programming models and their use in developing distributed and scalable systems
• 8+ years experience in developing complex and scalable distributed systems and delivering, deploying, and managing microservices successfully
• Subject Matter Expert in one or more of query processing or optimization, distributed systems, concurrency, micro service based architectures, data replication, networking, storage systems
• Experience in taking company-wide initiatives, convincing stakeholders, and delivering them
• Expert in solving complex, unknown and ambiguous problems spanning across teams and taking initiative in planning and delivering them with high quality
• Ability to anticipate and propose plan/design changes based on changing requirements 
• Passion for quality, zero downtime upgrades, availability, resiliency, and uptime of the platform
• Passion for learning and delivering using latest technologies
• Hands-on experience of working projects on AWS, Azure, and GCP 
• Experience with containers and Kubernetes for orchestration and container management in private and public clouds (AWS, Azure,  and GCP) 
• Understanding of distributed file systems such as  S3, ADLS or HDFS
• Excellent communication skills and affinity for collaboration and teamwork

1. Interfacing with the customer, tech team members, project managers and other relevant product people for a thorough understanding of the product, use case and business objective, detailed specification and data flow for the requirement, demonstration of the solution and clarification of queries at appropriate times during the life-cycle of the product
2. Preparing test cases, setting up CI/CD and integration with logging and monitoring systems for the products or platforms by the end of 6 months
3. Seeking customer feedback to continuously optimize the product for great customer experience and high technical performance in areas such as hardware efficiency, latency and throughput
4. Delivering a robust backend platform for the products and platforms by incorporating important considerations regarding minimal downtime, high availability, data redundancy, tight security, etc. into the design

Analytical and Problem Solving Skills

• Has high grasping power. Able to quickly and proficiently understand and absorb qualitative or quantitative data and draw insightful conclusions from it. Exhibits a probing mind and achieves penetrating insights. Attention to detail. Does not let important details slip through the cracks and derail a project. Generates new and innovative approaches to problems.

Efficiency and Execution

• Able to produce significant output with minimal wasted effort in a timely manner. Focuses on key priorities.

Hard Work and Persistence

• Possesses a strong willingness to work hard and sometimes long hours to get the job done.
• Demonstrates determination and willingness to go the distance to get something done.

Flexibility and Adaptability

• Adjusts quickly to changing priorities and conditions. Copes effectively with complexity and change. Demonstrates ability to learn new things.

Calm under Pressure

• Maintains stable performance when under heavy pressure or stress.

Team Player

• Reaches out to peers and cooperates with supervisors to establish an overall collaborative working relationship. Works proactively without always being told what to do.