PHP Developer

Position: Full Stack Developer (React.js + Node.js)

Experience: 2–5 Years

Location: Mumbai – Chembur West (Onsite)

Job Summary

We are looking for a Full Stack Developer with strong hands-on experience in React.js and Node.js to build scalable, secure, and high-performance web applications. The ideal candidate should be comfortable owning features end-to-end, developing responsive UI, building REST APIs, integrating databases, and supporting production systems.

Key Responsibilities

• Build responsive UI using React.js, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript (ES6+)
• Develop scalable backend services and RESTful APIs using Node.js (Express.js / NestJS)
• Work with MongoDB and MySQL (schema design, indexing, query optimization)
• Implement authentication & authorization using JWT , RBAC , Oauth
• Integrate third-party APIs, Webhooks
• Build real-time features using Socket.io / WebSockets
• Ensure performance, scalability, and security (validation, sanitization)
• Implement caching using Redis (if applicable) and optimize API response times
• Support API testing (Postman/Supertest)
• Maintain API documentation using Swagger / OpenAPI
• Debug and resolve defects, handle RCA, and support production troubleshooting with logs/monitoring
• Follow Git-based workflows, participate in code reviews, and collaborate with QA/product teams in Agile delivery

Mandatory Skills

• React.js, Node.js, JavaScript (ES6+)
• MongoDB (must), MySQL
• REST API development & integration
• Socket.io / WebSockets, Webhooks
• HTML5, CSS3
• Git
• Typescript, Express.js / NestJS
• jQuery / AJAX (basic / legacy support)

Good to Have

• Redis, Swagger/OpenAPI
• Docker, CI/CD (GitHub Actions/Jenkins)
• Cloud exposure (AWS/Azure/GCP)

Qualification

BE / BTech / MCA / MSc IT / BSc IT with 2–5 years relevant experience.

CTC: As per industry std.

Job Description:

•    Develop tools and applications by producing clean, efficient code.
•    Determine operational feasibility by evaluating analysis, problem definition, requirements, solution development and proposed solutions
•    Perform validation and verification testing and debug code.
•    Work collaboratively with others to achieve goals
•    Experience working in an agile environment
•    Experience in implementing Object-Oriented Python, Django.
•    Good understanding on Django ORM.
•    Experienced in interfacing with *third party API’s using REST
•    Worked with varieties of Relational Databases (RDBMS) like SQLite, MySQL, PostgreSQL.
•    Experience in Version Control with Git and Bit bucket.
•    Experience with JIRA the development progress and tracking deadlines of the project
•    Experience with web applications using technologies like HTML5,CSS, JavaScript, JQuery, AJAX, Angularjs, Reactjs and Bootstrap, XML.
•    Knowledge in Pandas, Numpy will be addons

 Responsibilities: 

• Participate in the entire application lifecycle, focusing on coding and debugging 
• Ability to design and document the product features, codes. 
• Self-driven and ability to take up ownership of things 
• Write clean code to develop functional applications, automation scripts, test cases 
• Troubleshoot and debug applications 
• Collaborate with developers, cross-functional teams to identify issue, new features and come up with solutions 
• Gather and address technical and design requirements 
• Provide training and support to internal teams 
• Build reusable code and libraries for future use 
• Ability to sync with other developers, designers to identify issues, new features and improvements 

We are building a core technology team at our new startup. If you are interested in working with a startup and growing along with a startup, this is the opportunity for you.

Backend: PHP Laravel (must), NodeJS (knowhow)

Frontend: Any Javascript, ReactJS (preferred)

Others: MySQL or any SQL database, Knowhow of Microservices architecture

• 7+ years of overall software development experience. 

• Hands-on experience with backend languages like Python, Java and Javascript. 

• 2+ years of distributed cloud systems architecture. 

• Good understanding of SQL and experience in designing database structures. 

• Understanding of frontend development and frameworks at a high level. 

• High availability and fault tolerance systems design experience. 

• Test Driven Design practitioner and good understanding of unit Testing and comprehensive test suite building. 

• Customer focused with good analytical thinking and problem solving. 

• Metrics based progress monitoring and reporting capabilities. 

• Flexibility to interface with cross timezone teams. 

• Should have led cross-functional teams like frontend, backend, UI/UX, devops, QA, etc. 

• Experience in security practices for web applications. 

Note: Hands on experience in Angular is also must.