Backend engineer

🚀 We’re Hiring- PHP Developer Deqode

📍 Location: Pune (Hybrid)

🕒Experience: 4–6 Years

⏱️ Notice Period: Immediate Joiner

We're looking for a skilled PHP Developer to join our team. If you have a strong grasp of secure coding practices, are experienced in PHP upgrades, and thrive in a fast-paced deployment environment, we’d love to connect with you!

🔧 Key Skills:

- PHP | MySQL | JavaScript | Jenkins | Nginx | AWS

🔐 Security-Focused Responsibilities Include:

- Remediation of PenTest findings

- XSS mitigation (input/output sanitization)

- API rate limiting

- 2FA integration

- PHP version upgrade

- Use of AWS Secrets Manager

- Secure session and password policies

Job Summary

We are looking for an experienced Backend Developer proficient in .NET, Node.js, and MS SQL Server to join our technical team. The candidate will be responsible for building, maintaining, and optimizing scalable backend services and APIs, ensuring system reliability, performance, and security.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain backend applications and APIs using .NET (Core/ASP.NET) and Node.js.
• Develop and manage MS SQL Server databases, including schema design, stored procedures, indexing, and performance optimization.
• Integrate backend logic with various third-party systems and APIs.
• Ensure scalability, high performance, and security across backend systems.
• Write clean, maintainable, and well-documented code following best practices.
• Debug and resolve production issues, ensuring system stability and reliability.
• Collaborate with QA engineers, DevOps, and other backend developers to deliver end-to-end solutions.
• Participate in Agile development processes including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, and retrospectives.
• Stay updated with emerging backend technologies and contribute to continuous improvement.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• 3–4 years of professional experience in backend development.
• Strong hands-on experience with .NET Core / ASP.NET / C#.
• Strong hands-on experience with Node.js (Express.js or NestJS preferred).
• Proficiency in MS SQL Server (T-SQL, stored procedures, performance tuning, query optimization).
• Experience developing and consuming RESTful APIs.
• Knowledge of API security standards (JWT, OAuth2, etc.).
• Familiarity with Git or other version control systems.
• Experience in Agile/Scrum development environments.

Nice to Have

• Experience with cloud platforms like Azure or AWS.
• Familiarity with ORM frameworks (Entity Framework, Sequelize).
• Exposure to CI/CD pipelines and containerization (Docker).
• Understanding of Redis or message queue systems (RabbitMQ, Kafka).

Soft Skills

• Strong analytical and problem-solving mindset.
• Excellent communication and teamwork skills.
• High sense of responsibility and ownership of assigned projects.
• Ability to work independently under minimal supervision.

Compensation

• Competitive salary based on experience and technical expertise.
• Performance-based bonuses and career growth opportunities.

Job Type: Full-time

About the company

SuperHuman Race is a technology start-up that offers measurement of 360 ̊ sustainability,

ESG and CSR automation, alignment with compliance requirements, and experiential

employee engagement. Our product is a category-creating technology implementation that

automates program management, compliance, and reporting including automated

reporting for international frameworks like GRI, GRESB, DJSI, CDP, etc.

We use data analytics, behavioral dynamics, good gaming, and impact blockchain to deliver

social purpose to companies while fulfilling their compliance requirements. This approach

has a demonstrated 4X return on profitability and generates tremendous Earned PR and

brand equity for corporates. Over 30% of our growing global clientele comprises Fortune

500 companies.

Our founding team brings 50+ years of leadership experience with Fortune 500 companies

in India & North America. Along with this, our high-performing diverse teams combine

experiences from more than 20 countries and a wide range of industries and disciplines

including aerospace, real estate, banking, social impact implementation, advanced

technology, manufacturing, sustainability, advertising, etc. Our work, as well as our

business practices, have been recognized as game-changing best practices by the United

Nations, the Commonwealth, NITI Aayog, Ministry of Earth Sciences (Government of India),

TERI, etc.!

We are an equal-opportunity employer - more than 50% of our business and technical

leadership roles are held by women.

We are looking for a PHP Developer responsible for managing back-end services and

the interchange of data between the server and the users. Your primary focus will be

the development of all server-side logic, definition, and maintenance of the central

database, and ensuring high performance and responsiveness to requests from the

front-end. You will also be responsible for integrating the front-end elements built by

your co-workers into the application. Therefore, a basic understanding of front-end

technologies is necessary as well.

Responsibilities

● Integration of user-facing elements developed by front-end developers

● Build efficient, testable, and reusable PHP modules

● Solve complex performance problems and architectural challenges

● Integration of data storage solutions

Skills And Qualifications

● Strong knowledge of Core PHP

● Understanding the fully synchronous behavior of PHP

● Understanding of MVC design patterns

● Intermediate to Advanced knowledge of MySQL, JavaScript, and AJAX

● Basic understanding of technologies such as HTML5, React.js, Node.js, and CSS3

● Knowledge of object-oriented PHP programming

● Evolved Understanding of accessibility and security compliance

● Strong knowledge of the common PHP or web server exploits and their

solutions

● Understanding fundamental design principles behind a scalable application

● User authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and

environments

● Integration of multiple data sources and databases into one system

● Familiarity with the limitations of PHP as a platform and its workarounds

● Creating database schemas that represent and support business processes

● Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git

The Ideal Candidate will have:

● A graduate or postgraduate degree in Computer Science or IT Engineering

● 2+ years of work experience developing commercially successful web products

● Experience with analytics and process automation

● Attention to detail and a disciplined mind

● Extraordinary analytical and logical prowess

● Common Sense and Curiosity

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER :

The SuperHuman Race is an equal opportunity employer and we highly value transparency.

Everything that matters in our decision-making process regarding this position is clearly

outlined in this job description

• 2+ year of experience in Development in JAVA technology.
• Strong Java Basics
• SpringBoot or Spring MVC
• Hands on experience on Relationl Databases (SQL query or Hibernate) + Mongo (JSON parsing)
• Proficient in REST API development
• Messaging Queue (RabitMQ or Kafka)
• Microservices
• Any Caching Mechanism
• Good at problem solving

Good to Have Skills:

• 4+ years of experience in using Java/J2EE tech stacks
• Good understanding of data structures and algorithms.
• Excellent analytical and problem solving skills.
• Ability to work in a fast paced internet start-up environment.
• Experience in technical mentorship/coaching is highly desirable.
• Understanding of AI/ML algorithms is a plus.

DeepSource is working on building tools that help developers ship good code. There are over 40 million developers in the world, and all of them write and review code in some form. There’s a massive opportunity to impact how software is built right from where the code is written using automation and intelligence, that not only improves developer productivity but also increases software’s robustness.

The Language Engineering team works on the source code analyzers, including both programming languages and configuration-as-code systems. As a member of the Language Engineering team, you will work on building the best, most comprehensive, PHP analyzer in the world. You will add new rules and Autofixes for finding more issues with code and automatically fixing them. You will be involved with the community to understand the problems with static analysis tools in the PHP ecosystem.

• Identify bad code practices in PHP and write new rules to detect them.

• Improve the coverage of automatically fixable issues.

• Ensure fewer false positives are reported by the analyzer.

• Work on the internal tools that support analysis runtimes.

• Contribute to open-source static analysis tools.

• Strong foundational knowledge in Computer Science.

• At least 3 years of professional software development experience in PHP.

• Understanding of the nuances of execution of the source code (AST, data flow graphs, etc).

• Familiarity with PHP best practices followed in the industry.

• Native experience with Linux/Unix environment.

• A focus on delivering high-quality code through strong testing practices.

We offer competitive compensation with meaningful stock options, a generous vacation policy, and a workstation of your choice, to name a few of the perks.