Lead and Senior Software Engineer - Backend

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and customize WordPress themes and plugins
• Build and modify Shopify themes using Liquid
• Work with page builders (Elementor, Divi, WPBakery) for fast development
• Integrate third-party APIs (payment, CRM, marketing tools)
• Work on WooCommerce features (checkout, product logic)
• Implement basic AI integrations (chatbots, content tools, automation APIs)
• Optimize website performance using caching and CDN
• Troubleshoot bugs and maintain site stability

Core Skills

• Strong knowledge of PHP + WordPress (hooks, APIs, custom development)
• Hands-on experience with page builders like Elementor, Divi, WPBakery
• Experience with Shopify Liquid and Admin API
• Good understanding of JavaScript (ES6+) and API integration
• Familiar with MySQL, Git, and deployment workflows
• Exposure to AI tools/APIs like OpenAI

Good to Have

• WooCommerce customization experience
• Shopify app integrations
• Basic understanding of performance optimization (Core Web Vitals)

Requirements

• 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 a huge passion and ability to design intuitive modules and class-level interfaces.

• Excellent coding skills - should be able to convert design into code fluently.

• Knowledge of Test Driven Development.

• Good understanding of databases (e. g. MySQL) and NoSQL (e. g. HBase, Elasticsearch, Aerospike etc).

• 4+ years of experience in the art of writing code and solving problems on a large scale.

• Open communicator who shares thoughts and opinions frequently, listens intently, and takes constructive feedback.

At Upswing, we are a passionate and self-driven team of thinkers who aspire to build the rails to connect the legacy financial sector with financial innovators through a simple and powerful banking-as-a-service (BaaS) platform. We’re building our platform putting the focus on pragmatism, reliability, and maintainability. We believe that keeping the engineering complexity under control is key to preserving the development productivity and long-term evolution of a platform.

To bring this vision to life, we are building the infrastructure using Microservices architecture using the latest set of technologies that are also fun to work with such as Java, Scala, Postgres, Akka, Kafka with a completely automated DevOps pipeline from the get-go using tools like Chef, Jenkins, Grafana, Graylog.

We are looking for motivated engineers who will be working in a highly creative and cutting-edge technology environment to build a world-class financial services suite.

Why you should join us:

• You will redefine the financial services landscape for India in the coming years.
• Be part of a core Engineering team that will create innovative and scalable Fintech solutions.
• Work with passionate and experienced engineering, product & business workforce that believes in teamwork, and that helps fast-track learning on solving complex technical challenges.
• We are funded by the leading fintech VC `QED Investors` and other established Founders and Executives of awesome Indian companies.

What you will do if you join us:

• Propose solutions to solve complex system architecture challenges and actively lead the end-to-end development of the system.
• Create robust, flexible, consistent, and easy-to-use APIs
• Continuously strive for performance improvements, code reusability, and readability
• Understand the product in detail and predict potential issues in feature development.
• Mentor and lead junior members of the team

You should have:

• Ability to think of out of the box
• Tech or a higher degree in computer science or a related field.
• 3+ years of experience working on the back-end development for complex distributed systems who are willing to adopt any Programming language as per the requirement.
• Familiarity with any of the following – Java, C++, Scala, Kotlin, and frameworks like Spring, Play, Hibernate, Django, etc.
• Good understanding of Algorithms, Data Structure, OOP, Design patterns, Parallel programming, Multithreading concepts & Event-Driven Systems.
• Understanding of micro-services architecture and best practices.
• Experience with Relational databases such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, or any NoSQL database.

It is a plus if you have:

• Familiarity with cloud platforms like AWS (Amazon Web Services), Azure or Google Cloud

The ideal candidate for this position will be responsible for working on PHP plugins and the PHP developer role.

Job Location: Sultanpur, New Delhi (on-site) 

Job Role: PHP Developer

Design, build, test, integrate, implement and maintain complex or large-scale web pages and web applications. 

• In-Depth knowledge of PHP, HTML, CSS, SQL, XML/Json, AJAX, JQuery, LAMP/WAMP   environments. 
• Expertise in PHP-based e-commerce portals like Magento, Shopify, Woocommerce, etc. 

Duties & Responsibilities: 

• Understanding of business requirements and the process of translating them into well-engineered and integrated technical solutions and reusable components. 
• Development of custom modules of Magento, Shopify, and Woocommerce.
• Integrating Magento / Other Ecommerce applications with other external applications like ERP etc. 
• Write elegant and clean code as a PHP Developer. 
• Implement plugins for Magento, Shopify, Woocommerce, etc. 
• Create clean, well-documented products, software, and services. 
• Work closely with product management, UX designers & QA. 
• Always look for ways to make the UI behave and perform better. 
• Develop technical solutions to complex problems which use ingenuity and creativity.
• Design, code, test, debug and document software according to the functional requirements 

Learn about our Culture: 

Wigzo is a culture-driven company powered by its employees, their vision, and their inspiration. All the employees live by the culture and values that define us. We value people for their talent, personality, competency, and ability to learn and grow. 

We create a work environment that allows people to thrive and show their best performance. We believe in meritocracy. We take pride in our diversity and strive to embrace diverse voices and create an inclusive workplace. To know more please visit: https://www.wigzo.com/employee-spotlight/">https://www.wigzo.com/employee-spotlight/

About Wigzo Technologies by Shiprocket:

Wigzo is an e-commerce marketing automation platform in which Shiprocket has acquired a majority stake. Together, we help businesses of all sizes delve deeper into data to unleash possibilities to enhance sales and income. Wigzo enables e-commerce firms to personalize each customer interaction, resulting in increased engagement, retention, loyalty, and lifetime value. 

An Omnichannel marketing automation suite, Wigzo enables you to understand your customers/visitors more intelligently so you market to them what they want and not what you have. It works on real-time customer insights with real-time communication and a personalization engine that helps marketers manage basic communication and also provides dynamic email, personalized notifications, user retention, real-time engagement, real-time content, and much more. 

Wigzo is holding 1000+ customers globally, it’s been 6+ years in the industry, with 100+ e-commerce brands working with us which results in 15 times business growth. For more information please visit our website: https://www.wigzo.com/">https://www.wigzo.com/

Qualifications

• 4+ years of professional software development experience

• 4+ years of object-oriented Java / J2EE development

• Full SDLC experience (requirements gathering, architecture, development, QA, etc.…)

• Experience with Spring (MVC, IOP/DI, REST, Security) & Hibernate/Spring

• Experience with SOAP / REST web services

• Knowledge of SQL

• Knowledge of No SQL concepts, understanding of Solr, Redis and Mongo DB is desirable

• Understanding concepts of CDN & Content Management

• Must have worked on any one messaging solutions

• Bonus Points for micro service design and development experience

• Bonus points for any mobile development experience

• Used Agile methodology

• 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

POSITION

• 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 / Hibernate, SOAP / REST, and 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.

QUALIFICATION

• A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science (or equivalent experience)

• M-Tech or advanced degree a plus

• Hackathon participation and accolades are a plus
Job Role

                                       
Quinbay

Quinbay is an upstart digital platforms and products company with a core focus on disrupting traditional markets and business models with the strength of our innovation driven digital value. We harness the power of our open innovation culture, our unique talent selection approach, the skills and expertise of our people across various industries, domains and technologies and a unique blend of analytics driven strategies for creating future digital platforms.

OPPORTUNITIES: Pursue opportunities in and learning/growth interests in Mobile, product development, product management, Analytics, Machine learning, UI/UX design, DevOps, Automation, Drones, bots and Java / open-source development frameworks and methodologies – on a variety of domains like eCommerce, Logistics and fulfilment, Ecommerce and a whole lot other.
Opportunities to be part of fastest growing eCommerce platforms in exciting application areas like core commerce, supply chain, logistics and fulfilment, merchant, mobile commerce, analytics, automation and a lot more for the global markets positioned for Asia.

• Hands-on Java Engineers, with experience building consumer-facing or enterprise applications using Java stack – Spring, Hibernate, MySQL
• Strong problem solving and analytical skills
• Strong understanding of Object-Oriented Programming concepts and Design patterns.

Do You Know? (Skills good to have)

• Exposure to building service-oriented distributed systems
• In building systems that process big data in a distributed environment, either in real-time streaming or offline batching.
• In messaging systems like Kafka, RabbitMQ, kinesis, etc.
• In real-time computation tools like Storm / Spark or Hadoop-based tools.
• In Data warehousing technologies like Redshift, BigQuery, etc.