
PHP LAMP Developer [Min 4 Years, Location Chennai, Great Pay]
Are you excited about building products that will be used by millions of Indians? Do you love solving real technology problems of scalability, security, and world-class products?
Then being a PHP Developer is a perfect role.
We are looking for individuals who are really passionate about technology and have strong knowledge of PHP and MySql. We are using latest technology stack from CI / CD to React to microservices. With CashKaro's recent $10mm fundraise, we are looking to grow 10x. This can be a great career move to accelerate your own growth.
Location: Chennai
About CashKaro
We are India's No 1 Cashback platform and a leading marketing partner to most of India's biggest e-commerce companies, including Amazon, Flipkart, Myntra, etc. We have recently closed a $10mm series B round. Our fun culture, superb team spirit and work-hard play hard approach make us one of the best start-ups to work at.
We offer best in class salaries, ESOPs and a really great working environment.
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Ideal candidate
• Minimum 4+ years of web development experience using PHP and MySQL (LAMP stack). Should be currently working on PHP or PHP related frameworks
• The candidate should be a hands-on developer. So, the candidate’s current roles should involve coding and development.
• Should have worked on developing microservice architecture.
• Should be very strong technically and understand web development in theory and practice and full software life cycles
• Should be extremely passionate to work and implement new and different technologies and should come up with new initiatives to scale up the project.
• Should have the know-how of the key technologies that could also be implemented like, ReactJs, CDN, Redis
• Candidate should be able to show examples of their work and explain their role in the projects and understand how it was developed
• Strong SQL development skills writing fine-tuned queries, stored procedures, triggers etc. and design skills (data normalization, foreign key constraints, indexes, etc.)
• Experience using MVC frameworks.
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About CashKaro and What Makes Us a Great Place to Work:
We are India's No 1 Cashback platform and a leading marketing partner to most of India's biggest eCommerce companies, including Amazon, Flipkart, Myntra etc. We have recently closed a $10mm series B round and looking to make the 10x scale jump now. So joining us right now ensures a great experience and to really make an impact!
Energetic Start-up Environment - Work with a passionate and energetic team that is driven by hustle, comradeship, and togetherness.
Good Compensation & Benefits – Best-in-class salaries to highly competitive ESOPs along with great learning work environment, we offer you a place full of opportunities to customize your career trajectory.
An Environment for Innovation - We create a culture for innovation by giving an employee the prowess to create, make and innovate.
Great Culture & Lots of Benefits - From medical insurance, well-defined policies to Flexi WFH options, scrumptious lunch to some amazing learning and development sessions- we've got your back. Our culture allows you to thrive, express yourself and really find a home.

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