PHP Developer

Wama Technology

Location: Mumbai (Onsite - Vidyavihar)

Experience: 8 – 14 years

Salary: ₹10L – ₹16.5L/yr (Monthly: ₹85,000 – ₹1,40,000 depending on skill set)

Employment Type: Full-time

Job Description

We are looking for a high-caliber Lead PHP – Laravel Developer with a strong background in technical leadership to join our team. This role requires a blend of deep hands-on coding and strategic team management. You will oversee a team of developers while acting as the primary technical liaison for our client, ensuring that the architecture is scalable and that the team follows rigorous development standards.

Key Responsibilities

• Team Leadership: Manage and mentor a team of developers, conduct code reviews, and drive technical excellence across the sprint.
• Architecture & Design: Design complex database schemas and system architectures using Laravel 10+ and PHP 8.x best practices.
• Client Management: Lead technical discussions with client stakeholders to gather requirements and provide progress updates.
• Code Quality: Implement standardized linting, unit testing, and documentation protocols to maintain a high-quality codebase.
• Performance Optimization: Identify and fix bottlenecks in high-traffic applications, focusing on Eloquent query optimization and caching strategies.

Technical Skills & Qualifications

• Total Experience: 8–14 years in PHP Development.
• Leadership Experience: Strictly 4+ years of experience in leading technical teams, managing sprints, and mentoring junior/mid-level developers.
• Laravel Expertise: Advanced proficiency in Laravel (Service Containers, Service Providers, Middlewares, and Custom Packages).
• Full-Stack Capability: * Strong frontend skills: Tailwind CSS, JavaScript (ES6+), and HTML5/CSS3.
• Working knowledge of React.js and TypeScript for modern interface development.
• Database & API: * Expertise in MySQL (Complex joins, indexing, and optimization).
• Deep experience in developing and securing RESTful APIs with OAuth/Sanctum.
• Environment: Proficiency in Docker, Linux/Ubuntu server management, and Git (Gitflow workflow).

Additional Requirements

• Agile Mastery: Deep understanding of Scrum/Agile ceremonies and the ability to manage workloads via Jira or ClickUp.
• AI-Driven Development: Experience integrating or using AI-assisted tools (Cursor, Windsurf, or GitHub Copilot) to increase team velocity is a significant plus.
• Communication: Fluent professional English is mandatory for client-side coordination.

What We Offer

• Leadership Role: High-level autonomy to make architectural decisions and lead a dedicated team.
• Competitive Pay: A performance-driven salary package with growth opportunities.

Experience:

• Total PHP Development: 8+ years (Required)
• Team Leading: 4+ years (Required)
• Laravel: 6+ years (Required)

Work Location: In person

The Company:

We are a growing EV infrastructure startup with offices in IIT-Madras Research Park and Noida.

Sonik Mobility is a brand of our company Azhar Engineering incubated at IIT-Madras Research Park, which is primarily focused on developing and deploying smartest, lOT enabled and the most user-friendly EV charging stations and semi-autonomous battery swap stations in India ranging from 3.3 kW to 22 kw.

We are a company founded by two graduates and friends namely Mohammad Safa Azhar and Preak Gupta from The Pennsylvania State University, USA and are the only company providing the dual solution of charging and semi-autonomous battery swapping stations under one roof.

Our ideal candidate for this position must have a penchant to learn new things and above all must have a passion to change the status quo of EV charging infrastructure in India.

We believe that charging your EV should be as easy as refueling your ice vehicle if not easier.

The Position: We're looking for a Software Engineer/ Full Stack Developer to work on our application and integration with third party APIs.

Objectives:

We are looking for a Software Engineer/Back-end Developer to work on our cloud-hosted application & integrate with 3rd party APIs. This will include the following:

• Maintain and keep up-to-date our cloud-hosted application
• Collaborate with the rest of the team to ensure applications align with organizational goals.
• Oversee the performance of the application to ensure they're always running properly.

• Improve our overall application process and continuously find ways to advance our company vision.

Responsibilities: As a software engineer/ Back-end developer, these will be some of your responsibilities

• Work closely with our hardware integration team to integrate the application with our hardware.
• Ensure the application is hosted and fully functional on cloud (AWS).
• Work closely with NPCI for integration into our system via APIs.
• Carry out regular security and performance checks
• Assesses feasibility of design and project parameters within time and cost constraints.

Requirements:

• B-Tech/M-Tech in Computer Science/Electronics/Engineering
• Proven experience of 2-3 vears (professional or otherwise)
• Strong knowledge of programming languages such PHP, Python, C, or C++.
• Knowledge of API integrations with 3rd party applications/hardware
• Knowledge of software and hardware integration
• Experience with hosting applications on cloud (AWS or Azure)
• Working knowledge of software development tools and technologies
• Desired skills:
• Experience with Battery Management systems
• Experience with CAN
• Knowledge of OCPP protocol
• AWS experience preferred
• Strong communication and teamwork skills
• Contribute individually to product solution development.

• Discussing project aims with the client and development team.
• Designing and building web applications using Laravel.
• Troubleshooting issues in the implementation and debug builds.
• Working with front-end and back-end developers on projects.
• Testing functionality for users and the backend.
• Ensuring that integrations run smoothly.
• Scaling projects based on client feedback.
• Recording and reporting on work done in Laravel.
• Maintaining web-based applications.
• Presenting work in meetings with clients and management.

• A degree in programming, computer science, or a related field.
• Experience working with PHP, performing unit testing, and managing APIs such as REST.
• A solid understanding of application design using Laravel.
• Knowledge of database design and querying using SQL.
• Proficiency in HTML and JavaScript.
• Practical experience using the MVC architecture.
• A portfolio of applications and programs to your name.
• Problem-solving skills and critical mindset.
• Great communication skills.
• The desire and ability to learn.

• 3+ years of experience with Ruby On Rails.
• Strong Project & Time Management Skills, along with the ability to apply these skills while working independently, or as part of a team.
• Knowledge of blockchain technology, smart contracts and cryptocurrency will be an added advantage
• Experience in fintech domain will be another added advantage
• Bachelor’s degree in computer programming, computer science, or a related field.
• Fluency or understanding of specific languages, such as Java, PHP, or Python, and operating systems may be required.

• Support existing code of PHP webserver
• Proficient in PHP, JavaScript, jQuery, HTML, and MySQL
• Hands-on any PHP-based framework/CMS like Laravel, CakePHP, Zend, CodeIgnitor, Yii.
• Must write efficient code with documentation.
• Any Database: MySQL, MongoDB, NoSQL DBs, postgresql.
• Has experience debugging code.
• Analysis of current DB structure and change table structures as and when required
• Implementation of visual representation of DB data in the form of charts and graphs
• The eventual implementation of a new UI theme with customizations such as drop-down menu data, as well as linking the UI theme front-end with the back-end MySQL
• Implementation of new PHP web services for functions such as analytics, and new modules to existing services
• Ensure cross-platform compatibility of information retrieved from web services on
• Android and iOS platforms, in terms of Push Notifications, platform-specific issues, etc.
• Implementation of SSL security to all web services, logins, and API calls
• Familiar with XMPP would be a plus point.