PHP Developer

Profile: Senior PHP Developer

Experience- 10+Years

Mode: Remote

Required Skills:

• PHP (10+ years) & Symfony framework (5+ years)
• Team leadership experience (3+ years)
• OOP, design patterns, RESTful APIs
• Database optimization (MySQL/PostgreSQL)
• Git, CI/CD, testing frameworks
• Excellent communication skills

Responsibilities:

• Lead PHP/Symfony development
• Mentor team members
• Ensure code quality through reviews
• Collaborate with stakeholders
• Manage sprint cycles
• Optimize application performance

Responsibilities:

● Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend services and APIs using Java and Spring

Boot.

● Create and optimize SQL database schemas and queries in PostgreSQL to ensure efficient

data storage and retrieval.

● Implement RESTful APIs to facilitate seamless communication between frontend and backend

components.

● Configure and manage Nginx web servers to efficiently handle incoming requests and improve

application performance.

● Deploy and manage applications on AWS or GCP, ensuring scalability, reliability, and

security.

● Configure and optimize message broker systems using Kafka for real-time data processing

and communication.

● Containerize applications using Docker for easy deployment, scaling, and management.

● Create detailed Low-Level Designs (LLDs) and High-Level Designs (HLDs) to guide the

development and architecture of backend systems.

● Automating CI/CD pipelines and streamlining the software development lifecycle.

● Integrate AI/ML models into backend workflows using Python, PyTorch/TensorFlow, or

third-party AI APIs.

● Leverage AI tools (e.g., OpenAI APIs, Hugging Face, AWS AI services) to build intelligent

features.

● Collaborate closely with frontend developers, product managers, data scientists, and other

stakeholders to deliver high-quality AI-powered solutions.

● Monitor and troubleshoot production systems to ensure optimal performance, reliability, and

uptime.

What We’re Looking For:

● Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.

● 3-5 years of experience in backend development.

● Proficiency in Java, Spring Boot, PostgreSQL, SQL, and GitActions.

● Strong understanding of RESTful API design principles and best practices.

● Experience with configuring and optimizing Nginx web servers.

● Experience with configuring and optimizing Kafka service.

● Hands-on experience with AWS or GCP.

● Familiarity with Docker containers and container orchestration.

● Ability to create comprehensive Low-Level Designs (LLDs) and High-Level Designs (HLDs)

for backend systems.

● Experience with Python for AI/ML model integration in backend services.

● Familiarity with AI platforms and APIs such as OpenAI, Hugging Face, AWS AI/ML, or GCP

Vertex AI.

● Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail.

● Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in a team

environment.

Preferred Qualifications:

● Knowledge of microservices architecture and related technologies.

● Experience with cloud-native development and serverless computing.

● Understanding of software development best practices, including Agile methodologies

• 4+ Years of proven work experience as a WordPress developer.
• Good experience in building custom WordPress themes, custom  plugins  and configuring content using custom fields.
• Extensive experience in HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, and PHP.
• Experience using CSS Grid, CSS Flexbox 
• Good Communication skills

• Building the website front-end and back-end from scratch without using any page builders. 

• Creating easy to use, intuitive,  well-structured backend for content management.
• Writing SEO friendly, high performant code.
• Configuring  server environments such as LEMP.
• Helping formulate an effective, responsive design and turning it into a working

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 your 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

You should have:

• Tech or a higher degree in computer science or a related field.
• 1+ 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.
• Experience with Relational databases such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, or any NoSQL database.

It’s a plus if you have:

• Familiarity with cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud
• Worked on Micro-services architecture

Job Description For PHP/Laravel Developer

We are looking for a PHP Developer responsible for managing back-end services and the interchange of data between the server and the users. 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. You will also be responsible for integrating the front-end elements built by your co-workers into the application. Therefore, a basic understanding of front-end technologies is necessary as well.

Desired Technical Skills :

- Excellent skills in PHP, MySQL  and Javascript

- Knowledge of any MVC framework Laravel, Codeigniter etc.

- Strong object-oriented programming skills

- Good understanding of both front-end and back-end web development.

- Knowledge of eCommerce is a plus point.

Professional Skills:

- A team player with good communications

- Ability to solve problems quickly and efficiently

- Great aptitude and attitude towards learning

- Take full responsibility for task/project execution

- Ability to prioritize own work and respect deadlines

Benefits:

Work From Office Only

Flexible day shift

Alternate Saturday Working

Paid Leave

Salary-No Bar for deserving

Location-Mohali

Experience-3 years Minimum

Immediate joiner/15 days Preferred.

*No Work From Home

Required Candidate profile

Perks and Benefits 

• 5 to 8 years of hands-on experience in automating MS Office applications like Excel, Word, PPT and Outlook using VBA
• 5 plus years of experience in the design, development, and implementation of programming code
• Experience in database development
• VBA - Should have good experience in developing efficient logic/algorithms using VBA
• Solid understanding of SDLC concepts
• Solid experience in MS Excel (2003, 2007, 2010, 2013,2016)
• Must be good at all excel features and excel formulas
• Well versed with complete MS Office package (Excel, Word, Outlook, PPT)
• Work both independently and as part of a team
• Experience in requirements gathering, effort estimate, designing and implementation, and creating mock-up screens
• Experience in databases like MS SQL Server(2005 to 2012,2014), MySQL, and MS Access
• Must have strong database concepts and DB designing skills
• SQL - must be good at writing efficient, fine-tuned queries using joins and aggregates
• Experience in writing Stored procedures, Triggers and T-SQL
• Nice to have programming knowledge in C# coding should be MANDATORY
• working with C# DLL development and integration with Excel VBA

Interpersonal

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Should be able to take complete ownership of the project from requirements gathering to delivery and maintenance
• Should be able to work independently
• Must be Proactive and Self-motivated
• Must have the ability to prioritize the work, execute tasks and meet the deadline without fail
• Effective time management skills
• Customer Focus, Willing to learn and self-teach any new technology
• Strong business and collaboration skills, and responsive to service needs and operational demands