PHP Developer

Job Title: Principal Backend Engineer

Experience: 7+ Years

Location: Panchkula (Onsite)

📍 Office will move to IT Park, Chandigarh from February

Work Mode: Onsite | 5 Days a Week

About the Role

We are looking for a Principal Backend Engineer to architect, scale, and lead the development of robust backend systems. This is a hands-on leadership role where you’ll drive technical decisions, mentor engineers, collaborate closely with clients and product teams, and help modernize platforms using scalable architectures and emerging technologies, including AI/ML where relevant.

Tech Stack

• Backend: PHP (Laravel / CodeIgniter), Node.js
• Databases: MySQL, MongoDB
• Architecture: Microservices / Modular Monolith
• Cloud (Good to Have): AWS / GCP

Key Responsibilities

Backend Architecture & Development

• Own and evolve backend architecture across PHP and Node.js services
• Design and review scalable, maintainable systems (microservices or modular monoliths)
• Manage and optimize integrations across MySQL and MongoDB (data modeling, indexing, performance tuning)

Technical Leadership

• Lead system design discussions, architecture reviews, and code quality initiatives
• Establish backend development standards, best practices, and documentation
• Mentor mid and senior engineers on design patterns, testing strategies, and CI/CD pipelines
• Drive decisions around refactoring legacy systems and platform modernization

Client & Stakeholder Communication

• Act as the technical SPOC for backend architecture and integrations
• Translate business and product requirements into technical solutions
• Explain trade-offs, constraints, and backend workflows to non-technical stakeholders
• Present PoCs and technical approaches confidently to clients

AI & ML Integration (Strategic / Optional)

• Identify backend use cases for AI such as personalization, recommendations, fraud detection, or data enrichment
• Design backend APIs, services, or cron jobs that interact with AI/ML models
• Collaborate with data teams and stay updated on AI tools/APIs (e.g., OpenAI, LangChain)

Scalability, Security & Performance

• Ensure API security, role-based access control, and rate limiting
• Optimize system performance using caching, queues, and query optimization
• Plan and support horizontal/vertical scaling on cloud infrastructure

What We’re Looking For

• 8+ years of backend development experience in PHP and/or Node.js
• Strong expertise in database design (MySQL & MongoDB)
• Proven experience leading architecture decisions and mentoring engineers
• Ability to clearly communicate technical concepts to clients and stakeholders
• Proactive mindset toward scalability, performance, and system resilience
• Bonus: Experience or curiosity around AI APIs and real-world AI integration

Why Join uEngage?

• Work on high-impact systems used by thousands of users
• Collaborate with product, design, data, and client teams
• High ownership and freedom to architect and innovate
• Competitive compensation and a collaborative work culture

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Responsibilities:

• Develop, record and maintain cutting edge web-based PHP applications on portal plus premium service platforms
• Build innovative, state-of-the-art applications and collaborate with the User Experience (UX) team
• Ensure HTML, CSS, and shared JavaScript is valid and consistent across applications
• Prepare and maintain all applications utilizing standard development tools
• Utilize backend data services and contribute to increase existing data services API
• Lead the entire web application development life cycle right from concept stage to delivery and post launch support
• Convey effectively with all task progress, evaluations, suggestions, schedules along with technical and process issues
• Document the development process, architecture, and standard components
• Coordinate with co-developers and keeps project manager well informed of the status of development effort and serves as liaison between development staff and project manager
• Keep abreast of new trends and best practices in web development

Qualification:

• BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering, MIS or similar relevant field
• In depth knowledge of object-oriented PHP and Laravel 5 PHP Framework
• Hands on experience with SQL schema design, SOLID principles, REST API design
• Software testing (PHPUnit, PHPSpec, Behat)
• MySQL profiling and query optimization
• Creative and efficient problem solver

Key skills expected:

• WordPress Plugin Development
• WordPress Custom Theme Development
• HTML + CSS
• Core PHP
• MySQL

Job description:

• Extensive knowledge and experience of custom WordPress development using JavaScript and PHP frameworks.
• Experience and ability to build WordPress plugins from detailed briefs and mock ups using best practices, clean reusable and expandable code.
• Experience in using cPanel and deployment
• Development and Maintenance of high-traffic WordPress and WooCommerce based websites
• Developing front-end websites and applications using HTML, CSS, Javascript, jQuery, PHP
• Basic knowledge of JavaScript, JQuery, theme and color combination for websites.
• Good communication and interaction skills.

We are looking for a PHP Developer who thinks of himself as a problem solver. He/ she can efficiently and quickly write code in a timely and scalable way. This candidate will be able to test the code and adjust it where necessary. They should also be experienced in contributing to the whole software design lifecycle.

Qualifications and Skills :

- Proper understanding of MVC design patterns, OOPS concepts, and Frontend technologies, such as JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3.

- Hands-on experience with frameworks - Code ignitor / Laravel.

- Familiarity with MySQL databases and their declarative query languages.

- Understanding fundamental design principles behind a scalable application.

- Strong knowledge of the common PHP or web server exploits and their solutions.

- JavaScript Frameworks - jQuery/Angular

- Knowledge of version control systems like GIT (mandatory).

- Must be self-driven and highly organized.

- Design, code, test, debug, and document software according to the functional requirements.

- Develop, maintain, and support programs/tools for internal and external clients.

- Analyze, diagnose, and resolve errors related to their applications.

- Define project planning and execution and on-time delivery.

- Familiarity with Agile project Methodologies.

Responsibilities :

- Understand requirements and develop solutions.

- Write clean, well-designed code.

- Produce detailed specifications.

- Troubleshoot, test, and maintain the core product software and databases to ensure strong optimization and functionality.

- Contribute to all phases of the development lifecycle.

- Follow industry best practices and work with teams to develop solutions.

- Work with business analysts to produce reliable estimates and ensure the client's requirements and understood and documented.

- Deliver multiple projects using a team of developers.

- Develop and deploy new features to facilitate related procedures and tools if necessary.

Benefits :

- Get a chance to contribute and get recognition from Day 1.

- Exposure to innovative Technologies.

- An opportunity to learn new things every day.

- Onsite opportunities.

- Competitive Salary and Benefits.

- Health Insurance.

- Friendly, Supportive, Professional, and achievement-oriented management team.

Job Description:

• Strong Experience of Node JS.

• Strong Experience of Reactjs development

• Experience in Server-side application architectures like Express.js, Meteor.Js, etc. is desirable.

• Experience in developing APIs is highly desirable.

• Experience in Mongo or MySQL database is a must.

• Understanding the nature of asynchronous programming and its quirks and workarounds.

• Understanding fundamental design principles behind a scalable application.

• Experience in delivering products using an Agile methodology is highly desirable.

• Experience with automated unit, integration and end-to-end testing is highly desirable.

• Experience in the area of network or systems management is a plus.

• Required Skills, Qualifications, and Benefits:

  • Core Knowledge of PHP, HTML, CSS3, MySQL & JavaScript.

  • Basic understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git.

  • Ability to communicate effectively with the team and clients.

  • Proficient logical ability and flexibility to learn new technology.

  • Good in designing and problem-solving abilities

  • Overall Strong coding skills, good analytical and problem-solving skills.

  Good to have:

  • Familiar with React, Redux

  • Knowledge of backend for any CMSs like WordPress, Joomla, Magento etc

  Qualifications:

  • B.Tech, MCA

  Experience:

  • 0 - 2 years.

  Job Type:

  Full-Time (Immediate Joiner)

  Interview Type:

  Walk-in, Google Meet (for remote location)

  Work Salary:

  Decent hike on current salary.

• Integration of user-facing elements developed by front-end developers
• Build efficient, testable, and reusable PHP modules
• Solve complex performance problems and architectural challenges
• Integration of data storage solutions

• Strong knowledge of PHP web frameworks
• Understanding the fully synchronous behavior of PHP
• Understanding of MVC design patterns
• Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3
• Knowledge of object-oriented PHP programming
• Evolved Understanding of accessibility and security compliance
• Strong knowledge of the common PHP or web server exploits and their solutions
• Understanding fundamental design principles behind a scalable application
• User authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments
• Integration of multiple data sources and databases into one system
• Familiarity with limitations of PHP as a platform and its workarounds
• Creating database schemas that represent and support business processes
• Familiarity with SQL/NoSQL databases and their declarative query languages
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git

• A graduate or postgraduate degree in Computer Science or IT Engineering
• 3+ years of work experience developing commercially successful web products
• Experience with analytics and process automation
• Attention to detail and a disciplined mind
• Extraordinary analytical and logical prowess
• Common Sense and Curiosity