LARAVEL DEVELOPER

We are seeking an experienced, hands-on Backend Team Lead to architect and deliver robust, scalable systems while mentoring a team of developers. The ideal candidate will bridge strategic technical vision with practical execution, ensuring high-quality solutions aligned closely with business objectives and technology best practices.

Responsibilities:

●      Architect, design and deliver mission-critical modules end-to-end

●      Write production-grade code daily; lead reviews, debugging, refactoring

●      Embed TDD, CI/CD, design principles, and engineering best practices

●      Develop high-performance, scalable backend systems that power global products

●      Partner with Team Lead, PMs, QA, and product designers to define and execute features

Criteria:

●      6+ years of backend development experience; 2+ years in technical leadership

●      Experience in leading a team of atleast 3-4 engineers

Preferred Skills:

●      Extensive experience with Laravel, Node.js, Python, MySQL, MongoDB

●      Passionate about writing clean, testable, modular code using design patterns

●      Solid understanding and experience with cloud infrastructure, preferably AWS (ECS, Aurora, Lambda, S3, CloudFront etc), including scaling, and security best practices.

●      Demonstrated expertise in building and maintaining systems using a microservices architecture, with an emphasis on scalability, reliability, and maintainability.

●      Familiarity and practical experience with asynchronous communication between microservices using tools like Kafka etc, event-driven architectures, and messaging patterns at scale.

●      Proven capability in designing inter-service communication protocols to optimize system performance, resilience, and latency under heavy loads.

●      Startup exposure—comfortable with ambiguity, learning quickly, pivoting often

●      Excellent communicator, collaborator, and mentor

What we offer:

●      An exceptional team: Our hiring bar is high and your colleagues are talented, motivated self-starters.

●      A learning environment: We are a learning organization and as a team we will help you grow and encourage you to learn and upgrade your skills.

●      Outstanding compensation: top talent deserves top pay and our salary, equity and benefits reflect this.

●      Opportunities to grow: Encourages you to attend technical conferences and take company funded educational courses to advance your skills.

●      An opportunity to be a key member of a well-capitalized leading brand in online real estate investing platform.

Role & Responsibilities

Design, develop, and implement high-quality software solutions for payment processing.

Maintain a regular release cadence and manage the product backlog.

Ensure timely and lossless communication across teams.

Uphold engineering values and best practices.

Collaborate with international teams to ensure successful product development and delivery.

Ideal Candidate

A strong technical background in software engineering and architecture, with experience in modern programming language

Ability to work independently with very little direction, taking full ownership of projects.

Identifying blind spots, anticipate challenges, and prioritize work effectively

Exceptional communication and organizational skills.

A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.

8+ years of relevant experience preferred

Proficiency using Python, Kafka, Kubernetes, and AWS

Experience with Distributed Task Queues such as Celery and RabbitMQ is preferred.

Experience with RDBMS/SQL is also preferred.

• 3 - 6 Years of Experience in Golang Development
• Understands requirements well and comes up with an efficient design
• Develops complex, well-backed and bug-free products.
• Estimates accurately.
• Takes well-reasoned tech decisions keeping in mind goals and trade-offs
• Become a go-to person in more than one area. Provide technical mentoring to team
• Communicates clearly, gets clarifications, and establishes expectations for all parties
• Helps establish SDLC best practices and high standards of code quality
• Demonstrates excellent problem solving & debugging skills
• Proactively identifies and resolves issues in requirements, design, and code

Ideal Candidate Profile:

• Solid experience in Golang is a must.
• Solid understanding of Apache Products.
• Should have experience in cloud computing (AWS is desired).
• Has an ability to quickly learn and contribute in multiple codebases
• Overcomes roadblocks and requires minimal oversight
• Takes initiatives to fix issues/tech debts before assigned to him/her
• Able to deep dive into the codebase and advise QA of possible regression impact
• Communicates tech decisions through design docs and tech talks
• Has delivered projects with end-to-end accountability
• Keeps track of industry trends and introduces the right tech/ tools for a given job
• Excellent understanding of software engineering practices,
• Design Patterns, Data Structures, Algorithms
• Experience in product-driven organization