PHP (CodeIgniter) Developer

Criteria:

2–8+ years software development with 3+ years building systems with Laravel, PHP & MySql. Worked On Micro Service Architecture.

Technical Skills:

● Strong Laravel expertise (v9–12.x): service container, Eloquent ORM, middleware, events, queues, caching.

● Proficiency in PHP 8+, OOP, design patterns, and unit testing (PHPUnit).

● Expertise in MySQL: schema design, indexing, and query optimisation.

● Experience with caching/in-memory stores: Redis, Memcached.

● Hands-on with message queues (Redis queues, RabbitMQ, SQS, or equivalent).

● Familiar with Docker / containerised environments.

● Experience with AWS services: ECS, S3, RDS, API Gateway, Lambda, Cloudwatch, SES, etc.

● Ability to effectively use AI-powered tools (e.g., for code generation, refactoring, documentation, testing, and productivity improvements).

Soft Skills

● Clear and effective communication.

● Strong ownership and accountability.

● Ability to break down complex problems and provide accurate estimates.

● Openness to adopt new tools/technologies to improve team efficiency.

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.

About SafeGold

Gold is the most trusted asset across the entire world and one of the largest asset classes in India. The total traded value of gold in India exceeds $300 billion annually – nearly all of it in an unorganised, offline manner. We, at SafeGold, are building the digital infrastructure to organise the gold market using technology. SafeGold is India’s largest digital gold platform with 35 million customers and 100+ distribution partners across India, Thailand and UAE. The focus has always been on revenues and profitability growth which has been widely recognised.

#9 in 2023 ET Growth Champions (India)

#21 in 2023 FT High Growth Companies (Asia)

With revenues of more than Rs. 4,500 crs in the year ending March-23, we have been part of the Financial Times rankings of the fastest growing startups in the Asia-Pacific region since 2021 till date. 

SafeGold is backed by the World Gold Council and leading venture capital funds, Beenext and Pravega.

Job Description

We’re a small team with insanely large ambitions. We are looking for a Software Engineer who will help shape Safe Gold’s product and marketing strategies by processing, analyzing and interpreting data sets. You will work closely with the tech, product and business teams for designing and developing a scalable application architecture, based on business requirements. The ideal candidate will have proficiency in

PHP and Relational as well as NoSql Databases (MySQL,MongoDB). You will have strong problem-solving skills and independent self-direction to thrive in our work environment.

What will your job entail:

● Implement a robust set of services and APIs to power the web application.

● Build reusable code and libraries for future use.

● Optimize the application for maximum speed and scalability.

● Implement security and data protection as per industry standards.

● Monitor the front-end and back-end aspects of the web application

● Coordinate with the product team to understand the requirements and formulate a detailed technical documentation.

● Assist junior developers if required.

Key Requirements:

● 4-7 years of experience in software development, at least 1 year of experience in a product based startup is preferable

● Strong understanding of MVC Architecture

● Atleast 2-3 years of working experience in PHP is a must have and proficiency in Laravel Framework will be a plus

● Proficient knowledge of both Relational as well as NoSql Databases (MySQL,MongoDB) is a must have

● Working knowledge of Python and Django/Flask Framework is good to have

● Familiarity with advanced JavaScript libraries and frameworks such as AngularJS, ReactJS

● Strong understanding of fundamental design principles to build a scalable application.

● Experience with implementing automated testing platforms and unit tests.

● Proficient understanding of code versioning tools (Git).

● At least 2 years of experience working on AWS cloud platform, using tools like EC2,RDS,Lambda, SQS, Elasticache

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.

• Support existing code of PHP webserver
• Proficient in PHP, JavaScript, jQuery, HTML, and MySQL
• Hands-on any PHP-based framework/CMS like Laravel, CakePHP, Zend, CodeIgnitor, Yii.
• Must write efficient code with documentation.
• Any Database: MySQL, MongoDB, NoSQL DBs, postgresql.
• Has experience debugging code.
• Analysis of current DB structure and change table structures as and when required
• Implementation of visual representation of DB data in the form of charts and graphs
• The eventual implementation of a new UI theme with customizations such as drop-down menu data, as well as linking the UI theme front-end with the back-end MySQL
• Implementation of new PHP web services for functions such as analytics, and new modules to existing services
• Ensure cross-platform compatibility of information retrieved from web services on
• Android and iOS platforms, in terms of Push Notifications, platform-specific issues, etc.
• Implementation of SSL security to all web services, logins, and API calls
• Familiar with XMPP would be a plus point.