PHP Developer

                                  Job Description

Profile Title: Software Development Engineer

Location: Pune Remote

Company Profile:

Growloc Private Limited is a leading Agri-tech company in India specializing in IoT solutions for farm management. We empower farmers with innovative technology to optimize resource usage, improve yields, and ensure consistent quality produce. Backed by a team of passionate individuals, Growloc Private Limited is committed to creating a more sustainable and productive future for Indian agriculture.

Role Overview:

 We’re looking for a MERN Stack Engineer (SDE-2) who’s passionate about building impactful products and believes in working smarter—with AI copilots, automation, and lean dev cycles. You’ll be part of a high-ownership team responsible for delivering full-stack features, writing testable code, and deploying to production with CI/CD.

Key Responsibilities:

• Build and maintain robust full-stack applications using MongoDB, Nest.js, React.js, and Node.js.

• Actively leverage AI tools (Copilot, ChatGPT, etc.) for faster development, documentation, and writing test cases.

• Write and maintain unit, integration, and end-to-end tests to ensure code quality.

• Own features end-to-end—from design to deployment using modern CI/CD workflows (GitHub Actions, Vercel, AWS).

• Collaborate with product, data, and hardware teams in a lean setup to ship fast and iterate often.

• Ensure performance, responsiveness, and scalability of front-end and backend systems.

Required Skills:

• 2–5 years of professional experience building products using the MERN stack.

• Strong understanding of frontend architecture (React Hooks, Context API/Redux).

• Proficiency in Node.js, Express, and MongoDB schema design.

• Familiarity with CI/CD tools, Git workflows, and cloud deployments.

• Experience with automated testing frameworks (Jest, Mocha, Cypress, etc.).

• Demonstrated use of AI-based coding assistants in real-world development workflows.

Good to Have:

• Exposure to IoT systems or integration with hardware devices.

• Experience working with LoRaWAN protocols and sensor data ingestion.

• Familiarity with WebSockets, MQTT, or real-time data processing.

• Background in agriculture, climate-tech, or rural tech products.

• Knowledge of TypeScript or serverless architectures.

Compensation: Best as per the market standards

At Growloc, we believe in purpose-driven technology. You’ll be part of a collaborative team working at the intersection of agriculture and innovation. If you're excited about building products that matter—and making a real-world impact—this is the place for you.

Required Skill Set

Software Engineer/Senior Software Engineer/Lead Engineer-Java

· Experience in Core Java 5.0 and above, Angular, Data Structures, OOPS, Multithreading, Algorithms, Collections, Unix/Linux

· Possess good architectural knowledge and be aware of enterprise application design patterns.

· Should have the ability to analyze, design, develop and test complex, low-latency client-facing applications.

· Good development experience with RDBMS

· Good knowledge of multi-threading and high volume server side development

Basic working knowledge of Unix/Linux

· Excellent problem solving and coding skills in Java

· Strong interpersonal, communication and analytical skills.

· Should have the ability to express their design ideas and thoughts.

Job Brief-

·        Understand product requirements and come up with solution approaches

·        Build and enhance large scale domain centric applications

·        Deploy high quality deliverables into production adhering to the security, compliance and SDLC guidelines

We are looking for a PHP + Laravel Developer responsible for managing back-end services and the interchange of data between the different cloud applications across all verticals. Your primary focus will be the development of all server-side logic, definition, and maintenance of the central database, and ensuring high performance and responsiveness to requests from the front-end .

Why join Kesari Awayddings?

We are super aggressive and believe in a strong vision. We love building products that solve real problems and you get to write code across multiple technologies and do actual stuff. We are reimagining and reengineering the Destination wedding Industry & its ecosystem through intelligent and innovative technology.

Responsibilities: • Build efficient, testable, and reusable PHP and NodeJS modules • Solve complex performance problems and architectural challenges • Integration of data storage solutions (AWS S3, Redis, Memcache) • Architecting NodeJS-based scalable microservices. • AWS deployment, CI-CD pipelining. • Designing and developing APIs.

Skills & Knowledge:

Minimum 2 years of experience is mandatory - Strong knowledge of PHP web frameworks (Laravel) - Understanding of MVC design patterns - Basic understanding of HTML5, and CSS3 - Knowledge of object-oriented PHP programming - Knowledge of JS frameworks like ES6 Express and GraphQL - Understanding fundamental design principles behind a scalable application. - User authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments. - Familiarity with limitations of PHP as a platform and its workarounds - Creating database schemas that represent and support business processes - Knowledge of SQL, MySQL, MongoDB or similar database management systemExposure to or experience with AWS- ElasticBeanStalk, Load Balancer, S3, EC2, Git/ Bitbucket/Jira/Jenkins, etc - Optional - Familiarity with JavaScript frameworks such as Vue JS or React is a plus

What’s in it for you? • Opportunity to be a part of the core team, working closely with founding team members • The steep learning curve with great exposure to all the aspects of start-ups • A performance-based environment with no limits to career growth and personal development • An opportunity to collaborate with a team of like-minded, smart, creative people who execute and get things done. • Platform to fulfil your entrepreneurship dream and a chance to witness the exponential growth of a company • ESOPS discussion can happen depending on the performance

The Job location is Pune If you’re passionate about web platforms and translating code into user-friendly products, we would like to meet you.

Your LinkedIn Profile link Your GitHub link Any stackoverflow contribution is a plus Projects you have developed so far, along with links and reference

• Web application development experience in HTML5, CSS3, Javascript (including new ES features), Python
• Hands-on experience in any one of the python-based backend frameworks like Django or Flask or Pyramid along with end to end testing
• Hands-on experience in building high performant React applications
• Hands-on experience working with Object Oriented JavaScript (OOJS), JavaScript libraries and their practical uses in building complex interactive experiences
• Hands-on experience working with TDD in JS with the help of frameworks like Mocha, Chai, Jest, Enzyme, React Testing Library etc.
• In depth knowledge of SQL is a must. SQL Technologies that are desired are MySQL, PostGres, Oracle
• Experience in state management libraries like Redux and MobX
• Good understanding of asynchronous request handling, partial page updates, and AJAX
• Familiarity with various component libraries and design systems
• Proficient in using media queries and CSS frameworks like bootstrap or foundation for implementing responsive web design patterns in the applications
• Knowledge of common JavaScript design patterns
• Experience in owning Code Quality and Code Review processes
• Experience on Node.js is an advantage
• Work "in the trenches" with junior developers to implement large features that wow our clients
• Partner with Managers, Business Analysts, and test analysts to develop realistic implementation plans with a focus on quality, sustainability, and delivering value to our clients
• Stand up for coding best practices that ensure quality products: automated testing, unit testing, agile development, continuous integration, code reviews, and technical design
• Improve technical skills of self and the team
• Research industry trends and web technologies, and promote adoption of best-in-class web tools and technologies
• Understand client business issues and actively participate in designing solutions and features that meet client needs
• Take initiative to advance the quality, responsiveness, architecture, or design of our solution, if you want to make it happen you can.
• Excellent organizational and task management skills
• Strong oral and written communication skills
• Ability to work in global cross-office teams
• Fluency in English is required

What you need to have:

• Proficient in creating Web (Responsive) applications using Angular 8+, AngularJS, JavaScript, JQuery. 
• Experience developing/consuming RESTAPIs
• Knowledge of multiple back-end languages Like Java, Python and JavaScript frameworks(e.g. Node.js)
• Familiarity with databases (e.g.MSSQL, MySQL), and UI/UX design
• Hands-on experience with code versioning systems like Git, SVN.