Core PHP / WordPress (Backend) Developer

Junior PHP Developer (Full-Time)

Malad, Mumbai (Mindspace) | Work from Office

We’re hiring a Junior PHP Developer at Websites.co.in, a platform where small businesses create their website in 2 minutes.

Your role

• Develop and maintain backend logic using PHP (Laravel or Core PHP)
• Write clean, reusable, and efficient code
• Work with MySQL databases (queries, joins, optimization)
• Integrate REST APIs and troubleshoot backend issues
• Collaborate with frontend, QA, and product teams for feature implementation
• Participate in code reviews, testing, and deployment activities
• Debug production issues and provide quick fixes

What we expect

• Hands-on development experience with PHP (mandatory)
• Strong knowledge of MySQL, queries, and database structures
• Understanding of MVC architecture (Laravel preferred)
• Basic knowledge of HTML, CSS, JavaScript
• Familiarity with Git version control
• Problem-solving mindset and willingness to take ownership
• 0–3.5 years of experience (freshers with strong projects are welcome)

Good to have

• Experience working with APIs, JSON, cURL
• Understanding of server basics (Linux, Apache, hosting environments)

What you get

• Real product ownership, not agency project hopping
• Direct collaboration with CTO and senior devs
• Steep learning curve in a fast-moving SaaS environment

PHP Developer Responsibilities:

• Conducting analysis of website and application requirements.
• Writing back-end code and building efficient PHP modules.
• Developing back-end portals with an optimized database.
• Troubleshooting application and code issues.
• Integrating data storage solutions.
• Responding to integration requests from front-end developers.
• Finalizing back-end features and testing web applications.
• Updating and altering application features to enhance performance.

PHP Developer Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a similar field.
• Knowledge of PHP web frameworks including Laravel, MySQL, API Development, OAuth, JWT, Git.
• Understanding of object-oriented PHP programming.
• Previous experience creating scalable applications.
• Proficient with code versioning tools including Git.
• Familiarity with MySQL databases.
• Ability to project manage.
• Good problem-solving skills.

Job Description:

• Strong Experience of Node JS.

• Strong Experience of Reactjs development

• Experience in Server-side application architectures like Express.js, Meteor.Js, etc. is desirable.

• Experience in developing APIs is highly desirable.

• Experience in Mongo or MySQL database is a must.

• Understanding the nature of asynchronous programming and its quirks and workarounds.

• Understanding fundamental design principles behind a scalable application.

• Experience in delivering products using an Agile methodology is highly desirable.

• Experience with automated unit, integration and end-to-end testing is highly desirable.

• Experience in the area of network or systems management is a plus.

• Back-end software development
• Software engineering and designing data models and write effective APIs
• Working together with engineers and product teams
• Understanding business use cases and requirements for different internal teams
• Maintenance of existing projects and New feature development
• Consume and integrate classifier/ ML snippets from Data science team

What we are looking for:

• 4+ years of industry experience with the Python and Django framework.
• Degree in Computer Science or related field
• Good analytical skills with strong fundamentals of data structures and algorithms
• Experience building backend services with hands-on experience through all stages of Agile software development life cycle.
• Ability to write optimized codes,debug programs, and integrate applications with third party tools by developing various APIs
• Experience with Databases (Relational and Non-Relational). Ex: Cassandra, MongoDB, Postgresql
• Experience with writing REST-APIs.
• Prototyping initial collection and leveraging existing tools and/or creating new tools
• Experience working different types of datasets (e.g. unstructured, semi-structured, with missing information)
• Ability to think critically and creatively in a dynamic environment, while picking up new tools and domain knowledge along the way
• A positive attitude, and a growth mindset

Bonus:

• Experience with relevant Python libraries such as Sklearn, NLTK, tensorflow, HuggingFace Transformers
• Hands on experience in Machine learning implementations
• Experience with Cloud infrastructure (e.g. AWS) and relevant microservices
• Good with Humor and Team player

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.