Job Description: Backend Developer – Design Qandy
Who are we?
Design Qandy delivers personalised luxury interior design to India’s discerning homeowners and corporates. Led by highly admired luxury brand builders, internationally trained designers, world-class technology professionals and curated teams of turnkey project execution specailists. We seek perfection in design and are committed to bringing back trust and excitement in the design process.
Know more about us on designqandy.com and https://instagram.com/designqandy?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
Our work culture?
We are a lean team of high performing go-getters, we take ownership in our roles and lead with knowledge. Debates and discussions are an important part of our culture and we encourage people to bring unique perspectives to their conversations. Most importantly, we love solving problems.
Each day is inspiring and we encourage you to apply for this role and experience it for yourself.
What would you be required to do?
· Write code and tests, build prototypes, solve issues, profile, and analyze bottlenecks
· Design performance gauging, building robust APIs to support mobile and desktop clients
· Manage and optimize scalable distributed systems on the cloud
· Optimization of web applications for performance and scalability
· Develop automated tests to ensure business needs are met and allow for regression testing
· Participate in the entire application lifecycle, focusing on coding and debugging
· Write clean code to develop functional web applications
· Troubleshoot and debug applications
· Perform UI tests to optimize performance
· Manage cutting-edge technologies to improve legacy applications
· Collaborate with Front-end developers to integrate user-facing elements with server-side logic.
· Gather and address technical and design requirements
· Provide training and support to internal teams
· Build reusable code and libraries for future use
What skills we are looking for?
· Good communication skill to communicate with stakeholders, project managers, quality assurance teams, Regularly and other developers regarding progress on the long-term technology roadmap
· Curious and progressive mind to Create and maintain workflows with teams to provide visibility and to ensure workload balance for consistent visual designs
· Good technical knowledge to Produce quality code, raising the bar for the whole team on quality and speed
· Through analytical skills to Recommend system solutions by comparing advantages and disadvantages of custom development and purchase alternatives
Skills Needed:
· PHP Laravel Framework, PHP Design Patterns.
· Proficient in MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB
· APIs, REST API, SOAP API, API Security, Open APIs
· Push Notifications, Laravel Events, Queue, Observers
· Excellent foundation in computer science, algorithms, and web design
· Experience writing highly secure web applications
· Experience with core AWS web-enabling technologies
· Growth mindset, challenging status quo to find new solutions and out-of-the-box ideas
· Experience designing RESTful APIs, specifically for mobile apps
· Computer science degree or equivalent experience
· Experience leading a team
· 3-6 Years’ experience in back-end development.

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Key Responsibilities
- API & Service Development:
- Build RESTful and GraphQL APIs for e-commerce, order management, inventory, pricing, and promotions.
- Database Management:
- Design efficient schemas and optimize performance across SQL and NoSQL data stores.
- Integration Development:
- Implement and maintain integrations with ERP (SAP B1, ERPNext), CRM, logistics, and third-party systems.
- System Performance & Reliability:
- Write scalable, secure, and high-performance code to support real-time retail operations.
- Collaboration:
- Work closely with frontend, DevOps, and product teams to ship new features end-to-end.
- Testing & Deployment:
- Contribute to CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and observability improvements.
- Continuous Improvement:
- Participate in architecture discussions and propose improvements to scalability and code quality.
Requirements
Required Skills & Experience
- 3–5 years of hands-on backend development experience in Node.js, Python, or Java.
- Strong understanding of microservices, REST APIs, and event-driven architectures.
- Experience with databases such as MySQL/PostgreSQL (SQL) and MongoDB/Redis (NoSQL).
- Hands-on experience with AWS / GCP and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes).
- Familiarity with Git, CI/CD, and code review workflows.
- Good understanding of API security, data protection, and authentication frameworks.
- Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
Nice to Have
- Experience in e-commerce or omnichannel retail platforms.
- Exposure to ERP / OMS / WMS integrations.
- Familiarity with GraphQL, Serverless, or Kafka / RabbitMQ.
- Understanding of multi-brand or multi-country architecture challenges.
About Astra:
Astra is a cyber security SaaS company that makes otherwise chaotic pentests a breeze with its one of a kind Pentest Platform. Astra's continuous vulnerability scanner emulates hacker behavior to scan applications for 9300+ security tests. CTOs & CISOs love Astra because it helps them fix vulnerabilities in record time and move from DevOps to DevSecOps with Astra's CI/CD integrations.
Astra is loved by 650+ companies across the globe. In 2023 Astra uncovered 2 million+ vulnerabilities for its customers, saving customers $69M+ in potential losses due to security vulnerabilities.
We've been awarded by the President of France Mr. François Hollande at the La French Tech program and Prime Minister of India Shri Narendra Modi at the Global Conference on Cyber Security. Loom, MamaEarth, Muthoot Finance, Canara Robeco, ScripBox etc. are a few of Astra’s customers.
Role Overview:
As an SDE 2 back-end engineer you will be responsible for leading the development and maintenance of the platform/dashboard backend. This would involve architecting, developing & maintaining RESTful services for vulnerability management, scan orchestration, inventory management and platform features such as on-boarding, trust centers, certificates, payment integrations, vulnerability ingestion, authentication etc.
You should have a strong background in backend programming (Symfony preferred, or Laravel) and have experience with an event driven, async & distributed architecture.
During the first 6 months of your role, you will be involved in the 0->1 journey of two of our upcoming products in our platform along with the respective product owners.
Love solving hard problems? Want to build high impact products rooted in first principles? Is coding your poetry? Join us in shaping the future of cyber security.
Roles & Responsibilities:
- Lead the design, development, and maintenance of backend services and APIs using Symfony PHP framework. What you create is also what you own.
- Collaborate with front-end developers to integrate user-facing elements with server-side logic.
- Collaborate with scanner teams to orchestrate scans, ingest vulnerabilities, configure scanners etc.
- Write clean, well-documented, and efficient code.
- Optimize and refactor existing code to improve performance and reliability.
- Implement security and data protection measures.
- Triage, troubleshoot and upgrade existing systems.
- Ship code to production multiple times a day/week.
- Ensure timely delivery of the features.
- Test your own features, and write test cases for continuous automated testing.
- Troubleshoot complex issues, debug, and upgrade existing systems.
- Mentor junior engineers and lead code reviews, promoting best practices and high standards.
- Drive architectural decisions and technical strategy for backend systems.
What we are looking for:
- 4-6 years experience in a similar role or similar working experience.
- Advanced proficiency in PHP backend programming. Symfony preferred, or Laravel.
- Strong understanding of system design, software architecture principles and performance optimization.
- Experience with an event driven (subscribers/listeners), async (MessageHandlers & job queues) & distributed (load-balanced) architecture.
- Experience with PostgreSQL database and data modeling.
- Understanding of concepts such as Dependency Injection, ORM, data validation, error handling etc.
- Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions (good to have).
- Experience with Agile methodologies.
- Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to think strategically about technical solutions.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional remote teams.
- Demonstrated track record of delivering high-quality software products on schedule.
- Knowledge of industry best practices in software development, security, and compliance.
- Knowledge of application & infrastructure security - helps you stand out.
What We offer:
- Adrenalin rush of being a part of a fast-growing company, and working on hard problems that matter.
- Fully remote, agile working environment.
- Good engineering culture with full ownership in design, development, release lifecycle.
- A wholesome opportunity where you get to build things from scratch, improve and ship code to production in hours, not weeks.
- Holistic understanding of SaaS and enterprise security business.
- Experience with security side of things.
- Annual trips to beaches or mountains (next one is to Wayanad).
- Open and supportive culture.
- Health insurance & other benefits for you and your spouse. Maternity benefits included.
Candidate Profile:
- Strong understanding of PHP and Laravel Framework.
- Produce high quality code and experience with security implementations Identifying application security risks and Implementing security patches procedures.
- Strong hold on MySQL and experience on other SQL/No SQL databases.
- Hands on experience in Architecture and Design with experience in UML and Work-flow diagrams.
- Good knowledge on coding standards, unit testing.
- Strong hold on Data Structures and Algorithms.
- Expertise in building scalable & reliable systems.
- Good Experience in working with technologies like AWS.
- Strong problem solving and analytical skills.
- Able to architect large software from scratch.
- Team building and resource allocation.
- Should be able to work with the management to identify and address any issues that may impact the project.
Roles and Responsibilities
1. Hands on experience in PHP frameworks Laravel
2. Experience in development of PHP based web applications, in Laravel PHP, Web Services (Json), MySQL. - Thorough understanding of OOPs concepts (Data Abstraction, Encapsulation, Inheritance, Polymorphism)
3. In-depth understanding of front-end technologies, such as HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript.
4. Ability to understand project specification/requirements, coding, implementation and debugging.
5. Zeal to take up challenges provides innovative solutions, think out of the box and open to learning.
6. Able to handle multiple projects simultaneously.
7. Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git / SVN / BIT BUCKET .
Desired Candidate Profile
1. Minimum 2 years of experience in PHP Laravel Framework
2. Experience with MySQL and REST API.
3. Proficient knowledge in Javascript, JQuery, Angular 2.0
Role: Web Developer
Industry Type: IT-Software, Software Services
Functional Area: IT Software - Application Programming, Maintenance
Employment Type: Full Time, Permanent
Role Category: Programming & Design
Education:
UG :Any Graduate in Any Specialization
Hiring:
PHP / Laravel Developer with 1 year experience in PHP / Laravel / Wordpress language
Perks:
No salary bar for the right candidate
Flexible and Friendly work environment.
Health / Medical Insurance
Enthusiastic team of developers
Supportive leadership
Opportunity to showcase your creativity
Employee overall development programs and Activities regularly
● Design and build efficient, scalable systems that are used by millions of people,
● Own what you build as you create, test, and refine what’s under the hood of our pages and
services,
● Investigate production issues pertaining to customer features to determine root cause and
implement solutions,
● Investigate existing queries and write new queries with performance optimization in mind,
● Build well-designed software in a way that is generic, reusable, and easily extensible, as well
as solves the business needs and requirements,
● Collaborate with product managers, designers, and software engineers to ensure design
vision is maintained, the final markup is standards-compliant, and UI deliverables are
completed on time,
● Work with the real-time feedback from our users (external and internal) to make the
products better,
● Discover, design, develop, deploy, debug, Repeat.
Requirements:
● 3-8 years of experience,
● Proficiency in web scripting programming with PHP, JavaScript
● Experience with MySQL Databases,
● Top-notch programming skills and a strong understanding of web fundamentals,
● Design, build and maintain high performance, scalable and secure code,
● Experience with cloud services like AWS is a plus,
● Experience with MVC architecture is a plus,
● Knowledge/experience in building an API,
● Solid understanding of the foundations of security and best practices,
● Good grasp of data structures and algorithms,
● Excellent problem-solving skills,
● Take ownership of the backend services, ensure the best possible performance, quality and
responsiveness, as well as maintain code quality, organization and testing/deployment,
● Passionate about technology and willing to develop expertise in an emerging field,
● Strong organizational and communication skills, team player.
We’re Looking for Someone With:
Experience working with startups.
Experience working with ORMs like SQLAlchemy or Django
Experience with SQL and databases (Postgres preferred)
Experience in developing large server side applications and microservices
Ability to create high quality code
Experience with python testing tools (pytest) and test automation
Familiarity with code versioning tools like GIT
Strong sense of ownership and leadership quality
Experienced in the tools of our web stack
o Python
o Celery
o Postgres
o Redis
o RabbitMQ
Nice to Haves:
Prior experience at a growth stage Internet/Software company
Experience with ReactJS, Google Cloud, Heroku
Cloud deployment and scaling experience
• Very Strong knowledge in PHP, MySQL, Javascript etc.
• Solid understanding in PHP frameworks like: Symfony, Codeigniter, Laravel etc.
• Development experience with Wordpress and other E- Commerce CMS.
• Experience of creating highly scalable, robust web applications.
• A solid understanding of the full web technology stacks (i.e. Lamp, Rest, API integration, Version control- Git,
and authentication schemes.
• Good to have development experience in JS frameworks like: Node JS, Angular JS, React Js etc.
• Good to have development experience in HTML, CSS, LESS, SASS, Grunt etc.
• Rigor in A / B Testing, test coverage and other web best practices.
• Familiar with Jira and Scrum process.
• Good to have knowledge on Ruby on Rails.
• Fluent in English Communication.












