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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 are seeking a Full Stack Engineer to join the Engineering team based out of Gurgaon. We provide users with the opportunity to invest in gold, government bonds, crypto currencies and other investment products to grow their savings.
We are constantly looking to improve the investment experience and educate users about
growth opportunities. In each release, we aim to make pluang more useful for our users and add features to ensure state of the art security & reliability. Our users trust us with their hard-earned money and we take it very seriously. We consistently strive to deliver top-quality.
You will be working with a team of highly-motivated, young & dynamic teams of engineers & reporting to the Engineering Lead.
Position Responsibilities
● Be honest, reliable & consistent
● Write efficient & clean code
● Have a strong sense of ownership
● Be a part of development & maintenance of Pluang web app, Operations dashboard and other 3rd party products we own
● Contribute to improving the quality of engineering process & engineering culture
Position Requirements
- Strong in data structure and algorithms
- Experience in Java, Express, API Design & DOM
- Understanding of component based design or other design patterns
- Experience with unit testing, integration testing & continuous integration
- RDBMS and NoSQL databases preferably PostgreSQL, MongoDB
- Good to have passion for investing
We Offer
- Attractive compensation package - competitive salary, flexible bonus scheme.
- We are always looking for ways to promote and inspire innovation.
- Individual career path - management and technical career growth, enhanced by learning and development program, regular performance assessment, teams of multi-national IT professionals.
- Healthy work environment - company-sponsored medical program, food, and beverage program, open communication.
- Friendly policies to support Work-life balance, team building, and celebrations.
Roles and Responsibilities
- Ability to work on diverse backend stack such as Node JS, Java, Express JS
- Ability to work on diverse frontend stack such as React JS, Angular 6/7/8/9, HTML5, CSS3
- Ability to deliver quick POC’s using cutting edge technologies.
- Preparing reports, manuals and other documentation on the status, operation and maintenance of software.
- Design, develop, and unit test applications in accordance with established standards
- Developing, refining, and tuning integrations between applications. Analysing and resolving technical and application problems.
- Ability to debug application.
- Should have complete knowledge on developing RESTful Services.
- Should be able to also work in agile development methodology.
Competency Requirements
- Experience in NodeJS, Java and development using AngularJS / ReactJS
- Experience in front end frameworks such as Angular.js, React.js, Bootstrap, Foundation etc
- Experience in client/server application development
- Knowledge of agile development methodologies
- Knowledge of unit testing theory
- Knowledge of AWS cloud
- Experience in Java, Python and Go will be added advantage
Providing technical expertise for every phase of the project lifecycle—from concept
development to solution design, implementation, optimization and support. Interacts
with a set of clients (client senior developers and architects) to create technology
specifications from business requirements for one of the modules within the project.
Prepares the technical design of the more complex technology components within the
module (one or more of client/web presentation tier, server tier, data access and data
model, integration component, package function customization).
Assists the architect in articulating the pros and cons of using a certain technology stack
or component or design pattern versus another to the clients and project team and
drives selection of technologies, designs to come up with the optimal architecture.
Drives the performance tuning, re-design and re-factoring for a module.
Contributes to designing and implementing the build, releases process as well as system
configuration and deployment characteristics of the application.
Required Tech Stack
2+ years of strong development skills in Java with JDK 1. 8 & above version &
Microservices with Spring boot/ Spring.
Should have strong acumen in Data Structures, Algorithms, problem-solving and Logical/
Analytical skills.
Thorough understanding of OOPS concepts, Design principles and implementation of
different type of Design patterns.
Sound understanding of concepts like Exceptional handling, Serialization/Deserialization
and Immutability concepts, etc.
Good fundamental knowledge in Enums, Collections, Annotations, Generics, Auto
boxing, etc. Experience with Multithreading, Concurrent Package and Concurrent APIs Basic
understanding of Java Memory Management (JMM) including garbage collections
concepts.
Experience in RDBMS or NO SQL databases and writing SQL queries (Joins, group by,
aggregate functions, etc.)
Experience with at-least one NoSQL (Any of Cassandra/Couch base/Hadoop), Hands-on
experience with JMS
Hands-on experience in creating RESTful webservices and consuming webservices
Hands-on experience with Spring.
Hands-on experience with any of the logging frameworks (SLF4J/LogBack/Log4j)
Experience of writing Junit test cases using Mockito / Powermock frameworks.
Should have practical experience with Maven/Gradle and knowledge of version control
systems like Git/SVN etc.
Good communication skills and ability to work with global teams to define and deliver
on projects.
Sound understanding/experience in software development process, test-driven
development
Qualification & Experience
- A Bachelor’s / Master’s degree in Computer Science (or equivalent experience)
- M-Tech or advanced degree a plus Hackathon participation and accolades are a plus.
- Total Exp- 6-8 years with minimum 6+ years of professional software development experience on Java / J2EE
- Full SDLC experience (Requirements Gathering, Architecture, System Design, Development, QA, etc…)
- Experience with Spring Boot/Spring Framework ( IOP/DI, REST, Security)
- Experience with SOAP / REST web services Knowledge of SQL
- Knowledge of No SQL concepts.
- Work experience on Apache SOLR , REDIS / Relevant Cache Manager , Lucene , Elastic Search .
- Mongo DB & Postgres DB / RDBMS is desirable
- Understanding concepts of CDN & Content Management
- Must have worked on any one messaging solutions like Kafka or RabbitMQ
- Bonus Points for Micro Service Design and Development experience
- Used Agile methodology / Scrum
- Experience leading or working with cross geography teams
- Bonus Points for experience working on Unix, Shell Scripting & Build Systems
- Experience in performance optimization is an added advantage
Responsibilities:
-You will be actively involved during the entire technology development lifecycle.-
Responsibilities will include all aspects from design, coding, testing, customer feedback cycle changes and support. Primary role in software development with object-oriented Java.
-The customized solutions that you will be architecting and developing will also require knowledge and experience with Spring / Spring Boot / Hibernate / ORM Concepts, SOAP / REST, and SQL / No SQL.
-Ability to learn new technologies quickly and willingness to read and digest large existing source code and take Ownership on complex component or subsystem to drive improvements and Re- Architecture. --Work with a team of amazing developers and designers involved in the -design and development of global platforms.
Invent and prototype new features, build, test and ship them to customers as SaaS, Cloud Based or hosted product platforms
Drive the implementation of new technologies which improve our ability to build great customers products. Participate in a fun, open learning environment with great benefits and smart talented folks that represent among the best globally.
PhonePe is India’s leading digital payments platform with over 280 million registered users. Using
PhonePe, users can send and receive money, recharge mobile, DTH, data cards, pay at stores,
make utility payments, buy gold, and make investments. PhonePe went live for customers in
August 2016 and was the first non-banking UPI app and offered money transfer to individuals
and merchants, recharges and bill payments to begin with. In 2017, PhonePe forayed into
financial services with the launch of digital gold, providing users with a safe and convenient
option to buy 24-karat gold securely on its platform. PhonePe has since launched Mutual Funds
and Insurance products like tax-saving funds, liquid funds, international travel insurance, Corona
Care, a dedicated insurance product for the COVID-19 pandemic among others.
PhonePe launched its Switch platform in 2018, and today its customers can place orders on over
300 apps including Ola, Myntra, IRCTC, Goibibo, RedBus, Oyo etc. directly from within the
PhonePe mobile app. PhonePe is accepted at over 18 million merchant outlets across 500 cities
nationally.
Culture
At PhonePe, we take extra care to make sure you give your best at work, Everyday! And creating
the right environment for you is just one of the things we do. We empower people and trust
them to do the right thing. Here, you own your work from start to finish, right from day one.
Being enthusiastic about tech is a big part of being at PhonePe. If you like building technology
that impacts millions, ideating with some of the best minds in the country and executing on your
dreams with purpose and speed, join us!
Challenges
Building for Scale, Rapid Iterative Development, and Customer-centric Product Thinking at each
step defines every day for a developer at PhonePe. Though we engineer for a 50million+ strong
user base, we code with every individual user in mind. While we are quick to adopt the latest in
Engineering, we care utmost for security, stability, and automation. Apply if you want to
experience the best combination of passionate application development and product-driven
thinking
As a Software Engineer:
3+ years of experience in the art of writing code and solving problems on a Large Scale.
You will build Robust and scalable web-based applications You will need to think of
platforms & reuse
Build abstractions and contracts with separation of concerns for a larger scope
Drive problem-solving skills for high-level business and technical problems.
Do high-level design with guidance; Functional modeling, break-down of a module
Do incremental changes to architecture: impact analysis of the same
Do performance tuning and improvements in large scale distributed systems
Mentor young minds and foster team spirit, break down execution into phases to bring
predictability to overall execution
Work closely with Product Manager to derive capability view from features/solutions, Lead
execution of medium-sized projects
Work with broader stakeholders to track the impact of projects/features and proactively
iterate to improve them As a senior software engineer you must have
Extensive and expert programming experience in at least one general programming
language (e.g. Java, C, C++) & tech stack to write maintainable, scalable, unit-tested code.
Experience with multi-threading and concurrency programming
Extensive experience in object-oriented design skills, knowledge of design patterns, and
huge passion and ability to design intuitive module and class-level interfaces
Excellent coding skills – should be able to convert the design into code fluently
Knowledge of Test Driven Development
Good understanding of databases (e.g. MySQL) and NoSQL (e.g. HBase, Elasticsearch,
Aerospike, etc)
Strong desire to solving complex and interesting real-world problems
Experience with full life cycle development in any programming language on a Linux
platform
Go-getter attitude that reflects in energy and intent behind assigned tasks
Worked in a startups environment with high levels of ownership and commitment
BTech, MTech, or Ph.D. in Computer Science or related technical discipline (or equivalent).
Experience in building highly scalable business applications, which involve implementing
large complex business flows and dealing with a huge amount of data.
An open communicator who shares thoughts and opinions frequently listens intently and
takes constructive feedback.
As a Software Engineer, good to have
The ability to drive the design and architecture of multiple subsystems
Ability to break-down larger/fuzzier problems into smaller ones in the scope of the product
Understanding of the industry’s coding standards and an ability to create appropriate
technical documentation.
PhonePe Full Time Employee Benefits
Insurance Benefits - Medical Insurance, Critical Illness Insurance, Accidental Insurance, Life
Insurance
Wellness Program - Employee Assistance Program, Onsite Medical Center, Emergency
Support System
Parental Support - Maternity Benefit, Paternity Benefit Program, Adoption Assistance
Program, Day-care Support Program
Mobility Benefits - Relocation benefits, Transfer Support Policy, Travel Policy
Retirement Benefits - Employee PF Contribution, Flexible PF Contribution, Gratuity, NPS,
Leave Encashment
Other Benefits - Higher Education Assistance, Car Lease, Mobile & Broadband
Reimbursements, Salary Advance Policy
Job Description
- Design & implement backend APIs
- Mentor junior developers technically.
- Actively work to reduce tech debt in the backend
- Work towards more stability & scalability of the backend
- Tech stack - Java, AWS etc.
Eligibility
- 2-8 years of product company experience
- Advanced understanding of AWS stack
- Prior knowledge of solving problems at scale.
Qualification & Experience:
- Bachelor of Engineering, preferably in Computer Science/or related fields or Masters, from a premier college
- 2 to 6 years overall software development experience
- Proven hands-on Software Development experience
- Ability to work with an agile mindset
- Having a polyglot mindset to think beyond one programming language/framework to choose the right tech stack for the right problem and exhibit learnability to pick up new technologies
- Proven working experience in Java development/Python development with reasonable exposure to Python/Java respectively or willingness to learn Python/Java
- Hands on experience in designing and developing applications using Java EE platforms/Python Frameworks
- Object Oriented analysis and design using common design patterns
- Good Understanding of Data Structures & Algorithms
- Hands on multi-threading
- Experience in the Relational Databases, SQL and ORM technologies (e.g. JDBC, JPA2, Hibernate, Django ORM)
- Experience with test-driven development










