Junior Software Engineer

Please note: Candidates who have applied in the last 6 months are requested not to reapply

Position Overview:

We are looking for an experienced Senior Laravel Developer who thrives in a fast-paced environment and has experience handling multiple projects and diverse interfaces. The ideal candidate will lead the development and maintenance of applications, ensuring security, scalability, and seamless third-party integrations while collaborating with front-end developers, UX/UI designers, and key stakeholders.

Requirements:

- Experience: Approx.1 year to 6 years in PHP development with a focus on Laravel & MySQL.

- Deep understanding of Laravel architecture (Service Container, Service Providers, Facades,

Eloquent ORM, Queues, Jobs, Events, Middleware, Broadcasting, and Caching).

- Front-End: Proficiency in HTML5, CSS3, Bootstrap 5, jQuery, AJAX

- Version Control & Tools: Experience with Git, JIRA, AWS SDK

- Payment Integrations: At least one payment gateway (e.g., Stripe, Braintree, Plaid, Razorpay)

- Third-Party API Integrations: Experience with Firebase, Google Maps, Email/SMS services

- Work Environment: Ability to work in a fast-paced, high-performance setting and efficiently manage multiple projects and interfaces

- Experience with Laravel Sanctum/Passport for authentication and API security.

- REST API development & documentation (Apiary)

Good to Have:

- Experience with multiple databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB)

- Basic knowledge of AWS services (S3, EC2, RDS, SES)

- Understanding of encryption, hashing, encoding (SES, SHA, RSA)

- Experience integrating Stripe Payment Gateway

-Experience working on AI/ML-based projects or research

-Exposure to AI models with applications (e.g., using APIs or SDKs)

Job Details:

Job Type: Full-time

Salary: 5,00,000 - 20,00,000 per year

Schedule: Monday - Friday

Location: Balewadi-Baner Road, Pune (In-Person Only)

Job Type: Full-time

Benefits:

• Flexible schedule
• Paid time off

Experience:

• Total work: 5 years (Required)
• Laravel: 5 years (Required)

Work Location: In person

Design and develop frontend applications using Angular (v10+).

Build and maintain RESTful APIs using Node.js and Express.js.

Develop and manage MySQL databases including schema design, query optimization, and stored procedures.

Integrate front-end UI with backend services.

Collaborate with product managers, designers, and other developers to deliver high-quality software.

Participate in code reviews, testing, and debugging.

Optimize application performance, scalability, and security.

Write clean, maintainable, and well-documented code.

Follow Agile/Scrum methodologies and contribute to sprint planning and daily stand-ups.

PHP Developer SKILLS & Responsibilities:

Extensive experience in PHP and Laravel.
Database Management tools such as MySQL.
The candidate has worked on the web application or REST API for apps, Laravel, Node Js.Has experience or can work in a team as well as a single person.
Experience building or maintaining a CMS.

We are looking for a qualified Laravel Developer to design and code functional programs and applications. You will work as part of a team and individually with little supervision.

The goal is to write “clean” and flawless code to produce fully functional software applications according to requirements.

Responsibilities

• Understand client requirements and how they translate in application features
• Design creative prototypes according to specifications
• Write high-quality source code to program complete applications within deadlines
• Perform unit and integration testing before launch
• Conduct functional and non-functional testing
• Troubleshoot and debug applications
• Evaluate existing applications to reprogram, update and add new features
• Develop technical documents and handbooks to accurately represent application design and code

Requirements

• Min 2 years of experience in Laravel
• Proven experience as an Application Developer
• Experience in designing and building applications
• In-depth knowledge of programming for diverse operating systems and platforms using development tools
• Excellent understanding of software design and programming principles.
• A team player with excellent communication skills
• Analytical thinking and problem-solving capability
• Great attention to detail and time-management skills
•  B tech/ M tech ; BSc/BA in computer science or relevant field; MSc/MA will be appreciated

Essential duties and responsibilities include the following. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Work on a remote cross-functional team where you’ll play a critical role in designing, planning, development, deployment and observing your code in production.   
• Develop high performance, highly scalable and accessible web applications. Our web app is used by over 20 million educators, students and parents worldwide.  
• Meet tight deadlines in a rapid application development environment.  
• Collaborate with Product Management, Design, and Operations teams to create and deliver tested features to production.  
• Collaborate with specialists across web, mobile, and operations to achieve a better user experience for our product.  
• Be able to assess and bring in industry information into your decisions and learn new technologies: AWS is releasing new tools every day, there are new open source libraries to vet and you will be a party to helping us vet and pick the best tool for the job.  
• Be willing to work in any area of the codebase if needed, this can include JavaScript/TypeScript/Node, PHP, Java or other technologies.  
• Help staff, build, and form the culture around a team of 5 engineers, a product manager, designer, QAs and associated supporting roles.

Qualifications include:

• Strong CS fundamentals including familiarity with data structures and especially the asynchronous challenges that face JavaScript developers today.   
• Experience developing in at least 2 server side languages (PHP, node.js, …)  
• Experience developing in at least 1 client side JS framework (ReactJS, Angular, …)  
• Experience testing software in alignment with the Test Pyramid.  
• Experience with datastores, either SQL (MySQL preferred) or NoSQL, and the ability to talk deeply about them.  
• Able to identify the source of complex problems occurring as a result of multiple systems interacting (experience with observability tools such as datadog/newrelic is a plus).   
• Experience working on a team of 5 engineers plus supporting roles (e.g. QA, design, etc), preferably as a Senior Software Engineer.  
• Experience with code review, being able to sign-off on another team member’s code ensuring high quality standards.  
• Be self-sustained even when tackling the highest profile, most difficult work across the organization.  
• Willingness to accept responsibility and be accountable not only for your own work but the work of the team as a whole.  
• Experience working with other people’s code, how to dig into it and make tactical changes with minimal side effects.  
• A solid understanding of how to break down user stories and give estimates that include accessibility and security requirements.  
• Be able to see roadblocks far ahead, across many vectors of risk  
• Be a true team player! Ensuring their knowledge and expertise is shared amongst other team members and even cross-team and be willing to seek out opportunities to mentor teammates.  
• A commitment to learning about anything you don’t know on your own and without much supervision.  
• Superior communications, organization and relationship building skills — you’re going to be working on cross-team efforts, so this is essential.  
• Self-motivation as well as ability and desire to learn new technologies, applications, processes, and environments.  
• A belief that delivering code to production is just one step in the process. Observing and owning the code you wrote goes hand in hand with construction.  
• A desire to take on whatever challenge is most important. This could be tackling something you are familiar with, or it could require a deep dive into a whole new world. The key is having the right attitude.   

• Should have expert level knowledge to Design, Develop and test Web Apps with Angular versions 6 and above.
• Primary Skills – Angular6+, HTML, CSS3, JavaScript.
• Node JS as backend will be advantage
• Knowledge of Mongo, MySql will be advantage
• Highly skilled at front-end engineering using Object-Oriented JavaScript, TypeScript, various JavaScript,TypeScript patterns and frameworks.
• Should have experience in publishing and consuming Services using REST API
• Excellent time-management, multi-tasking, and communication skills. Capable of handling multiple projects and related complexities at the same time.