
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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- Industry: Technology
- Domain - Information technology (IT)
- Experience Required: 9-12 years
- Employment Type: Full Time
- Job Location: Bengaluru
- CTC Range: Best in Industry
Role & Responsibilities
As a Staff Engineer at company, you will play a critical role in defining and driving our backend architecture as we scale globally. You’ll own key systems that handle high volumes of data and transactions, ensuring performance, reliability, and maintainability across distributed environments.
Key Responsibilities-
- Own one or more core applications end-to-end, ensuring reliability, performance, and scalability.
- Lead the design, architecture, and development of complex, distributed systems, frameworks, and libraries aligned with company’s technical strategy.
- Drive engineering operational excellence by defining robust roadmaps for system reliability, observability, and performance improvements.
- Analyze and optimize existing systems for latency, throughput, and efficiency, ensuring they perform at scale.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Data, and Infrastructure teams to translate business requirements into technical deliverables.
- Mentor and guide engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence, ownership, and continuous learning.
- Establish and uphold coding standards, conduct design and code reviews, and promote best practices across teams.
- Stay ahead of the curve on emerging technologies, frameworks, and patterns to strengthen company’s technology foundation.
- Contribute to hiring by identifying and attracting top-tier engineering talent.
Ideal Candidate
- Strong staff engineer profile
- Must have 9+ years in backend engineering with Java, Spring/Spring Boot, and microservices building large and schalable systems
- Must have been SDE-3 / Tech Lead / Lead SE for at least 2.5 years
- Strong in DSA, system design, design patterns, and problem-solving
- Proven experience building scalable, reliable, high-performance distributed systems
- Hands-on with SQL/NoSQL databases, REST/gRPC APIs, concurrency & async processing
- Experience in AWS/GCP, CI/CD pipelines, and observability/monitoring
- Excellent ability to explain complex technical concepts to varied stakeholders
- Product companies (B2B SAAS preferred)
- Must have stayed for at least 2 years with each of the previous companies
- (Education): B.Tech in computer science from Tier 1, Tier 2 colleges
Role and Responsibilities
● Work on improvements to be made to Tikitoro’s Shopify website
● Fix any bugs, detect and troubleshoot theme related issues
● Use Shopify liquid, JS, CSS and HTML to deliver interfaces as required
● Work with the website maintenance agency to ensure that all maintenance tasks are done correctly and on time
● Run periodic tests of the site to check that everything is in order
● Integrate 3rd party APIs as and when required
● Implement changes for SEO and also CRO best practices, as and when required
Requirements and skills
● Min 2 years of professional experience in working with Shopify
● Strong knowledge of Liquid
● Ability to create new Shopify themes and modify existing theme templates
● Experience with top Shopify apps and the ability to configure them
● Good working knowledge of HTML, CSS and JS
● Working knowledge of SEO and experience in making site improvements from an SEO perspective
● Strong debugging and troubleshooting skills
● Dynamic and self-driven
● Ability to adapt and grow in fast-paced start-up environment
Responsibilities
Revise, edit proofread and optimize web content
Perform code reviews
Unit testing and continuous integration
Work cross functionally to enhance overall user experience of our platforms
Own various design tasks involved in the web development life cycle from start to finish
Qualifications
Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in computer science
3+ years of experience using html, php and word press.
Proficience in at least one server side technology (Java, Php, Node js, Python, Ruby)
Ability to multitask, organize and prioritize work
- Building products that impact millions
- Working on really tough problems that challenge you
- Being part of a small team where you are impactful
- 50K+ API requests/min
- 25K+ concurrent users every second
- Code, code & code
- Independently implement small to medium features
- Pick up & master new technologies
- Be a kickass developer
- A team that loves coding & building exceptional quality products
- Challenges that will push you beyond your limits
- A democratic place where everyone is heard & aware
- No hierarchy, politics, bosses, managers or anything like that
- And most importantly, Happy Vibes!
- Preferably 5+ years of experience in LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, & PHP) development stack
- Proven software development experience in PHP and of developing REST (JSON) / SOAP (XML) based web services
- Experience in Cloud platform like AWS/Azure
- Experience with HTML5 / JavaScript (JQuery) / CSS / AJAX / Angular / Yii Framework is preferred
- Experience in caching solutions like Redis and Memcached
- Experience in tools like Ansible, Docker
- Knowledge of source control systems such as GIT is a plus
Good to have
- Be able to work in cross-function teams
- Write high-quality code per industry standards and best practices
- Test the code for quality assurance, debug identified bugs and resolve issues
- Support in deploying and maintenance of product and services
- Documenting product services progress, status, and manuals
- Participate in team meetings and planning & review sessions
The Database Developer will perform day-to-day database management, maintenance and troubleshooting by providing Tier 1 and Tier 2 support for diverse platforms including, but not limited to, MS SQL, Azure SQL, MySQL,
PostgreSQL and Amazon Redshift.
They are responsible for maintaining functional/technical support documentation
and operational documentation as well as reporting on performance metrics associated with job activity and platform
stability.
Must adhere to SLAs pertaining to data movement and provide evidence and supporting documentation for incidents that violate those SLAs.
Other responsibilities include API development and integrations via Azure
Functions, C# or Python.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
• Advanced problem-solving skills
• Excellent communication skills
• Advanced T-SQL scripting skills
• Query optimization and performance tuning familiarity with traces, execution plans and server
logs
• SSIS package development and support
• PowerShell scripting
• Report visualization via SSRS, Power BI and/or Jupityr Nootbook
• Maintain functional/technical support documentation
• Maintain operational documentation specific to automated jobs and job steps
• Develop, implement and support user defined stored procedures, functions and (indexed) views
• Monitor database activities and provide Tier 1 and Tier 2 production support
• Provide functional and technical support to ensure performance, operation and stability of
database systems
• Manage data ingress and egress
• Track issue and/or project deliverables in Jira
• Assist in RDBMS patching, upgrades and enhancements
• Prepare database reports for managers as needed
• API integrations and development
Background/Experience
• Bachelor or advanced degree in computer science
• Microsoft SQL Server 2016 or higher
• Working knowledge of MySQL, PostgreSQL and/or Amazon Redshift
• C# and/or Python
Supervisory/Budget Responsibility
• No Supervisory Responsibility/No Budget Responsibility
Level of Authority to Make Decisions
The Database Developers expedite issue resolution pursuant to the functional/technical documentation available.
Issue escalation is at their discretion and should result in additional functional/technical documentation for future
reference.
However, individual problem solving, decision making and performance tuning will constitute 75% of their time.








