
PHP Developer
at Electric vehicle charging infrastructure solutions.( SC1)
- Preferably 5+ years of experience in LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, & PHP) development stack
- Proven software development experience in PHP and of developing REST (JSON) / SOAP (XML) based web services
- Experience in Cloud platform like AWS/Azure
- Experience with HTML5 / JavaScript (JQuery) / CSS / AJAX / Angular / Yii Framework is preferred
- Experience in caching solutions like Redis and Memcached
- Experience in tools like Ansible, Docker
- Knowledge of source control systems such as GIT is a plus
Good to have
- Be able to work in cross-function teams
- Write high-quality code per industry standards and best practices
- Test the code for quality assurance, debug identified bugs and resolve issues
- Support in deploying and maintenance of product and services
- Documenting product services progress, status, and manuals
- Participate in team meetings and planning & review sessions

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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 a back-end engineer you will be responsible for developing and maintaining the platform/dashboard backend. This would involve 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
- Design, develop, and maintain 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.
- Participate in code reviews and contribute to best practices and standards.
What we are looking for:
- 3 years experience in a similar role or similar working experience.
- Strong background in PHP backend programming. Symfony preferred, or Laravel.
- Strong understanding of software architecture principles and design patterns.
- 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 the 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.
Responsibilities
Develop and maintain web applications using Laravel and Vue.js (PHP) framework.
Write clean, efficient, and well-documented code.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify and solve complex problems.
Participate in code reviews and provide constructive feedback to team members.
Test and debug applications to ensure they meet functional and performance requirements.
Stay up-to-date with emerging trends and technologies in web development.
Optimize application performance and scalability.
Troubleshoot and resolve technical issues as they arise.
Create and maintain technical documentation for applications.
Communicate project status and progress to stakeholders.
Qualifications
Strong proficiency in PHP programming language
Experience with Laravel framework
Knowledge of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and jQuery
Understanding of MVC architecture
Experience with database management systems such as MySQL
Familiarity with version control systems such as Git
Ability to write clean, efficient, and well-documented code
Strong problem-solving and analytical skills
Excellent communication and teamwork skills
Bachelors degree in Computer Science or related field (preferred)
Relevant certifications such as CodeIgniter Certified Developer (optional)

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
Our client is a premier web design and software solutions company based out of Delhi, Florida and California. They are a creative, young and dynamic organisation that provides superior quality solutions like web design and development, mobile app development on various platforms, cloud apps and Ecommerce web solutions. They have clients across US, Canada, UK, and Australia, who receive market ready and saleable apps.
- Building Custom Shopify Themes and Modifying Existing Themes Depending On Requirements
- Migrating Websites from other Ecommerce Platforms to Shopify
- Extending Shopify's Functionalities Using Storefront Apis, Liquid Programming, Meta Fields, Etc
- Integrating Third-party and Platform Supported Apps in the Sites
- Working Closely with Clients to Gather Requirements, Develop and Deliver On the Same
What you need to have:
- Expert-level knowledge of Shopify Liquid templating language
- Proficiency in working with different Shopify JS APIs (storefront, AJAX Cart, Sections, etc)
- Exposure to a minimum of 3 e-commerce projects (starting with requirement gathering).
- Strong Experience in MySQL and Database Queries.
- Experience working on large projects involving 10,000+ products.
- Ability to lead the team and handle pressure and demands.
- Sound knowledge of IT concepts and the latest trends.
- Ability to work independently and multi-task in a fast-paced environment.
- Strong verbal and written communication and interpersonal skills.
- Highly organized and detail-oriented.
Key Skills Required :
- Proficiency in Python 3.x based web and backend development
- Solid understanding of Python concepts
- Strong experience in building web applications using Django
- Experience building REST APIs using DRF or Flask
- Experience with some form of Machine Learning (ML)
- Experience in using libraries such as Numpy and Pandas
- Hands on experience with RDBMS such as Postgres or MySQL including querying
- Comfort with Git repositories, branching and deployment using Git
- Working experience with Docker
- Basic working knowledge of ReactJs
- Experience in deploying Django applications to AWS,Digital Ocean or Heroku
Responsibilities :
- Understanding requirement and congributing to engineering solutions at a conceptual stage to provide the best possible solution to the task/challenge
- Building high quality code using coding standards based on the SRS/Documentation
- Building component based, maintainable, scalable and reusable backend libraries/modules.
- Building & documenting scalable APIs on the Open Spec standard
- Unit testing development modules and APIs
- Conducting code reviews to ensure that the highest quality standard are maintained
- Securing backend applications and APIs using industry best practices
- Troubleshooting issues and fixing bugs raised by the QA team efficiently.
- Optimizing code
- Building and deploying the applications
Strong understanding of software development cycle
-Hands on experience in Python and familiarity with at least one framework, preferably Django
-Experience in third party integrations.
-Strong understanding of relational databases (MySql, Postgresql etc.)
-Comfortable with search engines like ElasticSearch.
-Hands on experience of AWS services.
-Knowledge of version control tools like Git/SVN.
-Strong unit testing and debugging skills.
-Good understanding of data structures, algorithms and design patterns.
-Good analytical and problem-solving skills.
Fluency or understanding of specific languages such Java, PHP, HTML or Python .and Operating System.
Good to have:
-Hands on experience of AWS services.
-Good exposure in writing and optimising SQL(such as PostgreSQL) for high-performance systems with large databases.
-Exposure at handling server side issues and quick resolution.
-Experience working on scalable, high availability applications/services.









