PHP Developer

Location: Mumbai (Onsite)

Experience: 6–8 Years

Salary: ₹75,000 – ₹1,20,000 per month (depending on experience & skill set)

Employment Type: Full-time

Job Description

We are looking for an experienced PHP – Laravel Developer to join our onsite team in Mumbai. The ideal candidate should have strong backend expertise in Laravel along with advanced frontend knowledge, the ability to work closely with clients, and experience managing tasks using project management tools.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain, and enhance web applications using PHP and Laravel
• Build and consume RESTful APIs

Required Skills & Qualifications

• 4–6 years of hands-on experience in PHP development
• Strong expertise in Laravel framework (Laravel 10+)
• Solid understanding of MVC architecture
• Strong knowledge of JavaScript
• React.js experience (good to have working knowledge)
• TypeScript – good to know
• Advanced frontend knowledge using HTML, CSS, JavaScript
• Experience with Tailwind CSS
• Strong experience with MySQL
• Hands-on experience with REST APIs
• Proficiency in Eloquent ORM
• Familiarity with Git / version control
• Experience working in Linux environments

Additional Requirements

• Excellent client communication skills
• Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical solutions
• Experience using project management tools (Jira, Trello, ClickUp, etc.)
• Ability to work independently and take ownership of modules

Good to Have (Preferred Skills)

• Exposure to CI/CD pipelines
• Basic understanding of application security best practices
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments

What We Offer

• Competitive salary based on skills and experience
• Onsite role with a collaborative work environment
• Opportunity to work directly with clients
• Growth opportunities and exposure to modern tech stack

Job Type: Full-time

Application Question(s):

• If selected, how soon can you join?

Experience:

• Total: 5 years (Required)
• Laravel: 5 years (Required)

Location:

• Mumbai, Maharashtra (Required)

Work Location: In person

Job Type: Full-time

Application Question(s):

• Are you located in Mumbai ? Commuting to Borivali(West) would be feasible for you ?
• What is your notice period ?
• Are you okay with the salary slab between (70,000-1,20,000),

depending upon your experience ?

• Do you have 6–8 years of hands-on experience working onsite on production applications using Laravel 10+, JavaScript, React.js, Tailwind CSS, REST APIs, direct client communication, and project management tools?”

Work Location: In person

We are India’s fastest-growing digital trust platform offering services such as background verifications, reference checks, employee/staff onboarding, etc. We have completed more than 500+ million checks across 3000+ happy clients and since its inception, the company has shown continuous uptrend growth in an ever-changing business environment. As an organization, we are self-sustainable with positive cash flows.

At OnGrid, we are focused on redefining and reimagining Trust. We are leveraging APIs to build a digital trust platform all while being accountable that provides verified credentials instantly coming from the source directly. Having built the basic pillars of trust, we now want our imaginations to be let loose and think of avenues not explored and ways never implemented before. In this pursuit, we are looking for a motivated Staff Engineer (Backend) with experience in building high-performing, scalable, enterprise-grade applications, joining us, driving this vision, and taking it to a larger scale. If you are a visionary, always on the lookout for finding the right solutions, and a technology geek, constantly seeking to learn and improve your skillset, then you are the type of person we are looking for.

Roles & Responsibilities -

● Develop new user-facing features.

● Work alongside product to understand our requirements, and design, develop and iterate, think through the complex architecture.

● Writing clean, reusable, high-quality, high-performance, maintainable code.

● Encourage innovation and efficiency improvements to ensure processes are productive

● Ensure the training and mentoring of the team members

● Ensure the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs and optimize applications for maximum speed.

● Research and apply new technologies, techniques, and best practices.

Requirements -

• Bachelors/Masters in Computer Science or a related field

• 5 - 10 years of prior relevant experience

• Experience with web technologies and microservices architecture

• Java, Spring framework

• MySQL, Mongo, Solr, Redis,

• Kubernetes, Docker

• Excellent teamwork skills, flexibility, and ability to handle multiple tasks.

• Experience with API Design, ability to architect and implement an intuitive customer and third-party integration story • Ability to think and analyze both breadth-wise (client, server, DB, control flow) and depth-wise (threads, sessions, space-time complexity) while designing and implementing services

• Exceptional design and architectural skills

• Experience of cloud providers/platforms like GCP and AWS

Job Summary:

We are looking for a skilled and motivated Backend Engineer with 2 to 4 years of professional experience to join our dynamic engineering team. You will play a key role in designing, building, and maintaining the backend systems that power our products. You’ll work closely with cross-functional teams to deliver scalable, secure, and high-performance solutions that align with business and user needs.

This role is ideal for engineers ready to take ownership of systems, contribute to architectural decisions, and solve complex backend challenges.

Website: https://www.thealteroffice.com/about

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and maintain robust backend systems and APIs that are scalable and maintainable.
• Collaborate with product, frontend, and DevOps teams to deliver seamless, end-to-end solutions.
• Model and manage data using SQL (e.g., MySQL, PostgreSQL) and NoSQL databases (e.g., MongoDB, Redis), incorporating caching where needed.
• Implement and manage authentication, authorization, and data security practices.
• Write clean, well-documented, and well-tested code following best practices.
• Work with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) to deploy, monitor, and scale services effectively.
• Use tools like Docker (and optionally Kubernetes) for containerization and orchestration of backend services.
• Maintain and improve CI/CD pipelines for faster and safer deployments.
• Monitor and debug production issues, using observability tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK) for root cause analysis.
• Participate in code reviews, contribute to improving development standards, and provide support to less experienced engineers.
• Work with event-driven or microservices-based architecture, and optionally use technologies like GraphQL, WebSockets, or message brokers such as Kafka or RabbitMQ when suitable for the solution.

Requirements:

• 2 to 4 years of professional experience as a Backend Engineer or similar role.
• Proficiency in at least one backend programming language (e.g., Python, Java, Go, Ruby, etc.).
• Strong understanding of RESTful API design, asynchronous programming, and scalable architecture patterns.
• Solid experience with both relational and NoSQL databases, including designing and optimizing data models.
• Familiarity with Docker, Git, and modern CI/CD workflows.
• Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure and deployment processes (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
• Exposure to monitoring, logging, and performance profiling practices in production environments.
• A good understanding of security best practices in backend systems.
• Strong problem-solving, debugging, and communication skills.
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, agile environment with evolving priorities.

Responsibilities:

• Ability to work in an existing codebase and collaborate with a diverse team
• Experience in building enterprise-scale backend REST APIs with frameworks such as Nest.js & Express.js using an API-first paradigm
• Intimate knowledge of crafting highly performing database queries
• Hands-on experience implementing relational database structures, including tables, indexes, views, etc.
• A mindset towards building systems for the cloud and DevOps fundamentals
• Working knowledge of cloud infrastructure services is good to have. If not then willingness to learn should be there.
• Focus towards building security, performance, and scalability into services from the beginning
• Experience with debugging code and troubleshooting technical issues in order to craft appropriate solutions

Responsibilities

• Writing clean and secure modular codes that have undergone strict testing and evaluation.
• Maintaining and designing databases effectively.
• Build efficient, testable, and reusable PHP modules
• Solve complex performance problems and architectural challenges
• Write quality code with robustness and re-usability for secured web applications and web services (REST and SOAP) for mobile apps.
• Ability to work in a team environment as well should be able to manage a team.
• Must meet the deadline.

Requirements

• Strong hands on experience with PHP Laravel framework
• Knowledge of object oriented PHP programming
• Must have strong experience with API (Web Services) development using JSON, RESTFUL.
• Understanding of MVC design patterns
• Should be best at writing and understanding complex queries using any of two from - MySQL, NoSQL, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, T-SQL.

• Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3

• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git, SVN.

• Excellent communication and problem-solving skills.

What you will be doing

You will join our team as our Senior PHP Developer (Laravel) and your main responsibilities will be to:

• Write clean and maintainable code with good test coverage.
• Implement new features in collaboration with our design team.
• Optimize existing code to perfection with special attention to performance and maintainability.
• Do a code review of your colleagues work.

You and our future-proof stack

• We seek a balance between sticking with what works and fearlessly exploring the new.
• We use the latest stable version of PHP 7|8 because it allows us to write better code using features like strict type declarations, typed class properties and arrow functions.
• We leverage the elegance, simplicity and readability of the latest Laravel version.
• We want to spend our precious time on things that matter the most; that's why we perfect our easy to run the development environment with Homestead and custom scripts.
• We write and run tests with PHPUnit and http://cypress.io/">JavaScript End to End Testing Framework.
• We have a great set of tools to maintain the code quality and run on CI/CD (psalm (error level 4), rector, phpcs, php-cs-fixer, phpcpd etc.)
• We use Rector to maintain our code quality.
• We’re constantly refactoring our front-end code intending to reach front-end heaven:
• Laravel Blade template engine.
• PostCSS to maximize the power of modern CSS.
• Webpack for perfect control over front-end assets.
• Latest JS with support for ES2020 features. To accomplish this we use the latest Babel releases.

We ❤ CI (Continuous Integration) and CD (Continuous Delivery) so we usually deploy a few releases per day: Zero downtime. Just a few buttons to push. No sweaty palms.

We care deeply about the Developer Experience (DX) of our codebase and tools. DX and DevOps is our middle name: Git, GitHub, HTTP/2, Assets CDN, AWS, Enterprise SSDs on our high-spec servers, and much more.

About you

• You have expert knowledge of PHP.
• You have expert knowledge of Laravel.
• You have experience with test-driven development (TDD).
• You have 6+ years of experience working professionally with OOP.
• Your work is based on a solid foundation in computer science fundamentals from data structures and algorithms to design patterns.
• You are an engineer by mindset and always try to understand how things work under the hood.
• You have substantial experience working with RESTful web services and ORM concepts.
• You love to learn through doing. You’re ready to put in some hard work to expand your skills.
• You speak and write acceptable English – not perfect English, just acceptable
• You are a team player and you don't bring your ego to work. 
• You are self-motivated and self-disciplined and thus work well in a flat hierarchy with lots of freedom.
• You love to have creative freedom, make independent judgments and live up to the responsibility that comes with that freedom.
• You love to create tangible results—every hour and every day.
• You love to make a positive impact on the world and the lives of others.

• Strong proficiency in MySQL database administration, migrations /up-gradation, patching, cloning, capacity planning, designing, and automation of database tasks.
• Good experience with the latest versions of the database
• In-depth experience configuring database replication on multiple versions
• Strong experience in Monitoring, DB Performance Tuning, DB Availability, DR, Security, Storage
• Analyzes and provides recommendations to optimize the database for improved performance, manageability, and scalability
• Expertise in enterprise backups, recovery, and performing point-in-time recovery Experience in deploying and integrating PM tools
• Experience in data partitioning and encryption
• Knowledge of de-facto standards and best practices in MySQL and MongoDB
• Proficient in writing and optimizing SQL statements and Knowledge of MySQL features, such as its event scheduler
• Familiarity with other SQL/NoSQL databases such as PostgreSQL, MongoDB, etc.
• Knowledge of limitations in MySQL and their workarounds in contrast to other popular relational databases
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools such as Git / Mercurial / SVN