PHP Developer - Chennai

We're seeking passionate, next-gen minded engineers who are excited about solving complex technical challenges and building innovative, first-of-its-kind products which make a tangible difference for our customers. As a Backend SDE-1, you will play a key role in driving strategic initiatives, collaborating with cross-functional teams across business, product, and operations to solve exciting problems. This role demands strong technical acumen, leadership capabilities, and a mindset focused on innovation and operational excellence.

We value individuals who think independently, challenge the status quo, and bring creativity and curiosity to the table—not those who simply follow instructions. If you're passionate about solving problems and making an impact, we'd love to hear from you.

Key Responsibilities

• Strategic Planning: Work closely with senior leadership to develop and implement engineering strategies that support business objectives. Understand broader organization goals and constantly prioritise your own work.
• Technical Excellence: Understand the onground problems, explore and design various possible solutions to conclude and implement scalable, extensible and secure software systems. Implement and learn best practices in technical architecture, coding standards, and software testing to ensure product delivery with highest speed AND quality.
• Project and Program Management: Setting up aggressive as well as realistic timelines with all the stakeholders, ensure the successful delivery of engineering projects as per the defined timelines with best quality standards ensuring budget constraints are met. Use agile methodologies to manage the development process and resolve bottlenecks.
• Cross-functional collaboration: Collaborate with Product Managers, Design, Business, and Operations teams to define project requirements and deliverables. Ensure the smooth integration of engineering efforts across the organization.
• Risk Management: Anticipate and mitigate technical risks and roadblocks. Proactively identify areas of technical debt and drive initiatives to reduce it.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• 1+ years of experience in software engineering
• Excellent problem-solving skills, with the ability to diagnose and resolve complex technical challenges.
• Strong understanding of software design principles and patterns.
• Hands on with multiple programming languages and modern development frameworks.
• Understanding of relational and non-relational databases.
• Experience with Redis, ElasticSearch.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence and inspire teams and stakeholders at all levels.

Skills:- MySQL, Python, Django, AWS, NoSQL, Kafka, Redis, ElasticSearch

Senior Developer should have exposure to building logistics products.

Skilled in RESTful & GraphQL APIs, microservices, and database optimization (MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB).

• Experienced in authentication (OAuth, JWT), caching (Redis, Memcached), and real-time applications (WebSockets).

• Strong knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud deployment (AWS, GCP, Azure).

• Passionate about scalability, performance tuning, security best practices, and clean code architecture.

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

Our client DDB Mudra Group are one of India’s largest marketing communications networks. The Group’s promise ‘Unexpected Works’ comes alive in our partnerships with some of the world’s fastest-growing companies and most admired brands including Johnson & Johnson, Volkswagen, Pepsico, McDonald’s, TTK Prestige, Diageo, Unilever, Royal Enfield, Titan, Meesho, and Infosys. Our agencies include DDB Mudra, 22feet Tribal Worldwide, Mudramax, Interbrand, Track and TracyLocke.  

Our work has shone at many prestigious forums.  

• APAC Agency of the Year at Spikes Asia 2022 with consecutive Grand Prix wins in the last three years. 
• Asia's #1 creative agency by WARC Rankings 2021. 
• India’s Agency of the Year and #5 in Asia according to Campaign Brief’s ‘The Work 2021’. 
• 2 at Kyoorius 2021. 
• One of the only two Indian agencies to bring home a Cannes Gold in 2021. 

One of the Top 20 most effective and creative agencies in the world by Effie Index 2020Our unwavering commitment to diversity and inclusion as one of the company’s key pillars for growth is seen through marquee initiatives like ‘The Phyllis India Project’ which creates a community of women leaders, and ‘Open Pride’ that fosters an inclusive and engaging work environment for the LGBTQIA+ community & allies. The Group was awarded Silver at IWEI’s Top Employers 2020 for the LGBT+ community. We are also four-time Gold winners of the Talent Development Program of the Year at the Campaign South Asia Agency of the Year Awards. 
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Key responsibilities & Deliverables:

 
Candidates with extensive Drupal experience please apply!

• Deeper understanding and working experience in Drupal, WordPress, Laravel or CodeIgniter & NodeJS (Express JS).
• Analyze, design, code, debug, test, document & deploy applications
• Experienced in OOP and knowledge of design patterns
• Creating, using implementing and modifying Drupal/WordPress themes.
• Customize and tweak core, forms, modules and themes in Drupal/WordPress.
• Managing deployments of PHP and NodeJS projects with one or multiple developers across environments
• Hands-on experience in PHP, JavaScript, jQuery, SQL, Drupal, WordPress, Laravel or CodeIgniter, NodeJS (Express JS), MySQL, MongoDB.
• Exposure Experiences in application integration and web services technologies (REST, SOAP, XML, etc.) WebAPI
• Responsible and Reliable developer working against strict timelines and meeting on-time delivery goals.
• Deploying applications in AWS or GCP or Azure
• Must be a self-starter & be able to work with minimum supervision
• Should have capacity to solve complex business problems

Essential skills:

• Seeking 2+ years experienced PHP/NodeJS developer for long term employment.
• Must have, 2+ years’ experience working under Drupal, WordPress, Laravel or CodeIgniter, NodeJS (Express JS).
• Expertise in Drupal, WordPress, Laravel or CodeIgniter, NodeJS (Express JS), MySQL, Rest APIs and MongoDB.
• Good knowledge of Ajax, jQuery, HTML, Javascript, and CSS.
• Familiarity with source control systems such as Subversion, etc.
  Knowledge of Object-oriented concepts.
• Good to know about deploying applications in AWS or GCP or Azure
• Knowledge of REST/SOAP Web services.
• Knowledge of AngularJS or React JS is a big plus.
• Good to have certification under any CMS or Framework.
• Proficient in the maintenance and administration of applications.
• Experience integrating open source and third-party applications into existing applications.
• Results-oriented, reliable, and able to work under pressure.
• Ability to communicate technical ideas to business users and other teams.
• Ability to both collaborate with team members and work independently.
• Eager to embrace current and emerging web technologies

Regards,
Namrata Shukla.

• Need to develop applications in PHP, HTML5, JQuery and Node.JS.
• Need to interact with Team Leads, QA team, Deployment team
• Need to interact with in-house and external customers
• Need to interact with internal team members for integrated development
• Need to have good communication skills
• Will Report to Lead Developer - PHP

Skills required:

• Need to have experience in developing projects using PHP, MySQL, HTML5, JavaScript, AJAX, JQuery , CSS3, Elastic Search and Node.JS
• Need to have experience in implementing web frameworks
• Need to have experience in database concepts
• Need experience in unit testing
• Need to have experience in trouble shooting and analyzing run time errors

Preference of Educational background:

• B.E
• B.Tech
• MCA

Preference of Professional background:

• Should have strong knowledge and understanding of Software Development Life Cycle.
• Solid Work experience of Object Oriented Development and MVC Design & Core PHP
• Sound knowledge of JavaScript / AJAX technologies and methods.
• Prior experience with XML, JSON and SOAP web services.
• Hands-on experience in writing complex SQL queries.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Node.js, Angular.js is a plus
• Version control systems like Sub version, GITLAB

• PHP Developer Exp 6 + Years Openings:
• Candidate should have excellent communication skill.
• Object-oriented programming in PHP.
• Front-end technologies such as JavaScript, HTML, and CSS.
• Complex SQL queries and database schema design.
• MVC frameworks (Laravel, Yii2, Any Framework).
• Working in a collaborative team environment using tools like JIRA and Git.
• Consuming and creating web services.
• Stable work history and an ability to collaborate effectively.
• Demonstrable knowledge of web technologies including HTML, CSS, Javascript, AJAX, MYSQL,JQuery,Bootstrap ,Web services etc..
• Consuming and creating web services.
• Stable work history and an ability to collaborate effectively. ,