Lead / Principal Full Stack Engineer

Software Engineer – EdTech (PHP)

Experience: 3+ Years

Work Mode: Permanent Work From Home

Role Summary

We are seeking a highly skilled software developer with strong experience in EdTech platforms and education ERP systems. The ideal candidate will have expertise in core PHP/Laravel and database technologies, with hands-on experience in building and scaling education-focused modules such as LMS, online examination systems, admissions, and fee management.

This role focuses on developing scalable, secure, and high-performance solutions for schools, colleges, and online learning platforms.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain Education ERP and EdTech platform modules.
• Build and enhance systems for LMS (Learning Management System), online exams, admissions, fee management, HR, and finance.
• Develop and optimize REST APIs/GraphQL services for seamless integration with web and mobile platforms.
• Ensure high performance, scalability, and security for large-scale student and institutional data.
• Work closely with product, QA, and implementation teams to deliver EdTech features.
• Conduct code reviews, maintain coding standards, and mentor junior developers.
• Continuously improve platform capabilities based on EdTech trends and user needs.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• Strong expertise in Core PHP (Laravel Framework).
• Solid experience with MySQL, MongoDB, PostgreSQL (database design & optimization).
• Understanding of EdTech workflows like student lifecycle, course management, and assessments.
• Frontend basics: JavaScript, jQuery, HTML, CSS (React/Vue is a plus).
• Experience with REST APIs, GraphQL, and third-party integrations (payment gateways, SMS, and email services).
• Familiarity with Git/GitHub, Docker, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) is an advantage.
• Minimum 3+ years of development experience, with at least 2 years in education ERP/EdTech systems.

Preferred Experience

• Prior experience working in EdTech companies or education ERP platforms.
• Deep understanding of LMS, online examination systems, admissions, fees, HR, and finance modules.
• Experience handling high-traffic educational platforms (e.g., exam portals, live classes, student dashboards).
• Exposure to scalable architecture for large student/user bases.

Core Stack Required: MERN

Location: Remote

Minimum Experience: 3 years

• Knowledge of Node, MongoDB, Express, React.

• Proficient with code versioning tools including Git, Bitbucket.

• Good problem-solving skills.

• Good Knowledge with MySql databases.

• Knowledge and proficiency in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. (Reactjs is an advantage)

• Experience in payment gateways integration.

• Experience in image manipulation.

• Ability to write and consume SOAP & REST web services.

• Write clean, well-structured code with proper abstraction and reusability.

• Must have good analytical and problem-solving skills.

• Must be a good team player, good learner, and self-starter.

• Ability to work independently and perform under strict deadlines.

• Good to have Experience in creating multilingual websites.

• Experience in API integration i.e. Google, Facebook, Twitter, agora, twilio etc..

Primary Responsibilities

1. Design and implement front-end & back-end services with high reliability and scalability
2. Contribute to system architecture and database design
3. Do high-level design with guidance and break down a complex system into simpler modules that can be reused
4. Be involved and participate in the overall application lifecycle
5. Learn about new technologies and incorporate them

What Are We Looking For?

1. Hands-on experience with Javascript frameworks like ReactJS / ExpressJS / NodeJS. Databases like MySQL / MongoDB and REST API is a must-have skill.
2. Proficient in object-oriented design skills, knowledge of design patterns, and huge passion and ability to design intuitive modules.
3. Experience building at least one application from scratch
4. Interest in learning new languages/frameworks as needed.
5. Worked in a startup environment.
6. A growth mindset and passionate about building things from the ground up.

•  Experience as a Full Stack Developer or similar role 

  • Familiarity with common stacks
  • Knowledge of multiple front-end languages and libraries (e.g. HTML/ CSS, JavaScript, XML, JSON, jQuery)
  • Knowledge of multiple back-end languages (e.g., C#, Java, Python) and JavaScript frameworks (e.g., Angular, Node.js)
  • Excellent communication and teamwork skills.
  • Great attention to details, Organizational skills, An analytical mind
  • Degree in Computer Science, or relevant field.

  Responsibilities 

  • Work with development teams and product managers to ideate software solutions
  • Design client-side and server-side architecture
  • Build the front-end of applications through appealing visual design
  • Develop and manage well-functioning databases and applications
  • Write effective APIs
  • Test software to ensure responsiveness and efficiency
  • Troubleshoot, debug and upgrade software
  • Create security and data protection settings
  • Build features and applications with a mobile responsive design.

   

• The ideal candidate will have experience in development teams that work on business facing transactional systems.
• They will have demonstrated the ability to manage people, make architectural decisions, understand business
• processes to deliver the cleanest solutions.
• Share responsibility for implementing the firms accounting platforms. Partner with 3 rd parties (like Consulting Firms)
• and develop technical specifications.
• Share responsibility for availability, scalability, performance and capacity from development through production
• for a critical strategic build of the new accounting platform
• Reduce errors on deployments, improve reliability, and increase speed of implementation through automation
• Continuously refine and improve our toolset to improve our data and persistence layers

• 7+ years of experience in IT including some experience in architecture roles
• Experience building multi-tier, scalable, fault-tolerant web applications
• Experience with platform integrations and designing service APIs
• Extensive Service-Oriented Architecture patterns and design knowledge and familiarity with cloud based services
• Expertise with identity management, authentication and information security best practices
• Expertise in working with complex cross-domain applications in a global organization across multiple time zones
• Enjoys a fast paced, high-intensity and complex environment, troubleshooting time sensitive critical issues and working with people
• Extensive experience with multi-tier transactional architecture and design
• Extensive experience in enterprise software development in Java and web development stacks (Angular, NodeJS, HTML & CSS)
• Experience with Sybase, Cassandra
• Event / Stream processing technologies
• Experience using Agile methodologies – previous experience working from a backlog, sprints, retrospectives etc.
• Passionate about test driven, clean code, automatically tested and continuous deployment
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
• Strong interpersonal skills with ability to present and convey ideas
• Strong attention to detail; action-oriented attitude, and willingness to roll up sleeves
• Curious to explore emerging technologies and learn new things
• Use metrics to drive decision making
• Undergraduate degree in Computer Science or similar discipline, Masters degree preferred
• Experience in the financial services industry is preferred                                                                                                                         

Skills:

• .NET framework, VB, C#
• HTML 5, Bootstrap, CSS, Less .
• Communication Protocols like HTTP, TCP, WCF, Web API, Modbus.
• Databases- MS SQL Server 2008 R2, MySQL. Knowledge on Redis, MongoDB.
• Scripting language -Java-Script, jQuery, AngularJS, SignalR, Ajax.
• AWS SDK preferred, Cloud Migration., IIS, Self-hosting, window server,
• Other tools -Postman & Fiddler, Tortoise SVN, Mantis bug tracking, Redmine.

Key Strengths :

• Good debugging skills.
• A major responsibility includes planning development cycle, designing, module development, code merge, Unit / Integration testing etc.
• Highly motivated team player.
• Experience in working on multiple projects simultaneously.
• Quick learning of any new technologies.
• Capable to take independent responsibility as well as ability to contribute and be a productive team member.

Key responsibilities:

• Involved into discussion of design and development of new feature enhancement.
• Involved in integration with the IoT devices over the TCP binary protocol.
• Involved in design and development of Web API to expose the data uploaded by devices to third party applications.
• Coordinating with the testing team for fixing bugs.
• Coordinating with firmware (Embedded) team for device integration.
• End to end design and development of modules.