PHP Developer (Laravel)

Job Title: PHP – Laravel Developer (2+ Years Experience)

Location: Ghatkopar (On-Site)

Experience: 3+ Years

Salary: ₹4,50,000.00 - ₹6,00,000.00 Per Annum (depending on experience & skill set)

Employment Type: Full-time

Job Description:

We are looking for a motivated PHP – Laravel Developer to join our onsite team in Mumbai. The ideal candidate should have hands-on experience in Laravel development along with frontend knowledge and should be comfortable using modern AI development tools to improve productivity and build efficient solutions. The candidate should be tech-savvy, adaptable, and quick to learn new technologies, especially AI-assisted development tools.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop, maintain, and enhance web applications using PHP and Laravel
• Build and integrate RESTful APIs
• Work with Laravel (10+ preferred) for backend development
• Implement frontend components using JavaScript and modern UI frameworks
• Utilize AI-assisted development tools to improve development efficiency
• Collaborate with clients and internal teams to understand requirements
• Write clean, optimized, and reusable code
• Debug, test, and troubleshoot application issues
• Work with cross-functional teams including frontend, QA, and project managers
• Track and manage tasks using project management tools
• Stay updated with new technologies, frameworks, and AI tools

Required Skills & Qualifications:

• 2+ years of hands-on experience in PHP development
• Good experience with Laravel framework
• Understanding of MVC architecture
• Strong knowledge of JavaScript
• Basic exposure to React.js
• Good understanding of HTML, CSS, and frontend development
• Experience using Tailwind CSS
• Experience working with MySQL
• Hands-on experience with REST APIs
• Familiarity with Git / version control
• Experience working in Linux environments

AI & Technology Adaptability (Important):

• Comfortable using AI development tools such as Windsurf, Google AntiGravity, Gemini, GitHub Co-pilot, OpenAI tools, or AI IDE
• Ability to integrate AI tools into development workflows
• Quick learner who can adapt to new technologies and frameworks
• Interest in using AI for coding assistance, debugging, and productivity improvement

Additional Requirements

• Good communication and collaboration skills
• Ability to understand requirements and translate them into technical tasks
• Experience using project management tools (Jira, Trello, ClickUp, etc.)
• Ability to work independently and take ownership of assigned modules

Good to Have (Preferred Skills)

• Basic understanding of TypeScript
• Exposure to CI/CD pipelines
• Basic knowledge of application security practices
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments



What We Offer

• Competitive salary based on skills and experience
• Onsite role with a collaborative team environment
• Opportunity to work with modern development tools and AI-assisted workflows
• Growth opportunities and exposure to evolving technologies

At Upswing, we are a passionate and self-driven team of thinkers who aspire to build the rails to connect the legacy financial sector with financial innovators through a simple and powerful banking-as-a-service (BaaS) platform. We’re building our platform putting the focus on pragmatism, reliability, and maintainability. We believe that keeping the engineering complexity under control is key to preserving the development productivity and long-term evolution of a platform.

To bring this vision to life, we are building the infrastructure using Microservices architecture using the latest set of technologies that are also fun to work with such as Java, Scala, Postgres, Akka, Kafka with a completely automated DevOps pipeline from the get-go using tools like Chef, Jenkins, Grafana, Graylog.

We are looking for motivated engineers who will be working in a highly creative and cutting-edge technology environment to build a world-class financial services suite.

Why you should join us:

• You will redefine the financial services landscape for India in the coming years.
• Be part of a core Engineering team that will create innovative and scalable Fintech solutions.
• Work with passionate and experienced engineering, product & business workforce that believes in teamwork, and that helps fast-track learning on solving complex technical challenges.
• We are funded by the leading fintech VC `QED Investors` and other established Founders and Executives of awesome Indian companies.

What you will do if you join us:

• Propose solutions to solve complex system architecture challenges and actively lead the end-to-end development of the system.
• Create robust, flexible, consistent, and easy-to-use APIs
• Continuously strive for performance improvements, code reusability, and readability
• Understand the product in detail and predict potential issues in feature development.
• Mentor and lead junior members of the team

You should have:

• Ability to think of out of the box
• Tech or a higher degree in computer science or a related field.
• 3+ years of experience working on the back-end development for complex distributed systems who are willing to adopt any Programming language as per the requirement.
• Familiarity with any of the following – Java, C++, Scala, Kotlin, and frameworks like Spring, Play, Hibernate, Django, etc.
• Good understanding of Algorithms, Data Structure, OOP, Design patterns, Parallel programming, Multithreading concepts & Event-Driven Systems.
• Understanding of micro-services architecture and best practices.
• Experience with Relational databases such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, or any NoSQL database.

It is a plus if you have:

• Familiarity with cloud platforms like AWS (Amazon Web Services), Azure or Google Cloud

Greetings from Ellixtra Technologies Private Limited!

Ellixtra technologies is a bunch of young, self- motivated individuals that came together to create something significant for our society. A start up where we develop new business models for the pharmacy industry to keep our customers engaged on the right track. Our key components are authenticity and affordability, and we continue to look forward to a society in which access to affordable healthcare is no longer an issue.

We are looking to hire a Backend Engineer with outstanding organizational and research skills with 2 years experience,

About The Role

• Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and improve software and new user-facing features across Ellixtras products and services.
• Optimize applications for maximum speed and scalability and analyze feedback from customers and internal teams to identify issues and improvement opportunities.
• Champion a passion for engineering best practices such as code quality, linting, and testing.
• Ensure our software is reliable, extensible, maintainable, debuggable, secure, well-tested and performs well under load.
• Stay engaged with the latest technologies and evaluate strategies to keep the Novo technology stack up to date.
  
  

Requirements for the Role

• 2+ years experience in a highly technical role at a hyper-growth startup or fast-paced company.
• Extensive background in designing, developing, testing, deploying, maintaining, and improving the software.
• Good understanding of Node.js & Javascript ecosystem.
• Demonstrated ability to translate business goals and initiatives into technical requirements.
• Strong understanding of SQL database.
• Demonstrable experience architecting scalable and cost-effective solutions to ensure and support customer growth.
• Understanding of system design and architecture.
• Interest in engaging with the latest technologies and evaluating strategies to keep the Novo technology stack up to date.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to collaborate with both technical and non-technical teams effectively.

• Knowledge of PHP CMS/Frameworks including, Laravel, Yii, CakePHP, and Codeigniter.
• Familiarity with SQL/NoSQL databases, Version Control Tools, and developing Web Services.
• Understanding of object-oriented programming (OOPS)
• Ability to manage projects.
• Good problem-solving skills.

Work as a member of a team responsible for developing a large-scale, highly available and fault-tolerant SaaS based Leasing & Asset management solution in the commercial real estate space in accordance with established processes. You will apply your knowledge of building scalable, distributed applications and have the opportunity to work with technologies & frameworks such as Ruby on Rails, NodeJS, ReactJS, Heroku, AWS, Postgres DB​

Essential Functions include but are not limited to the following. 

You will be expected to:​

• Contribute to all phases in the software lifecycle – requirements analysis, solution design, development, and deployment
• Maintain high quality standards for the work undertaken and be responsible for the quality of deliverables.
• Ensure assigned projects are developed in accordance with established engineering processes, adhering to scope, schedule constraints and agile project plans
• Guide/mentor the less experienced team members
• Participate in code reviews
• Work effectively as part of a distributed team
• Document the features worked by him/her

Key technical expertise areas expected for this role:

• Strong programming skills in Ruby with clear understanding of Object-Oriented and Functional programming. 
• Experience working with Ruby on Rails framework
• Experience on REST API Programming preferably based on a Microservices Architecture
• Good Understanding of Databases (Postgres) and proficiency in database schema designing & writing efficient SQL Queries. 
• Strong troubleshooting skills
• Demonstrable ability to learn new programming languages and frameworks quickly
• Experience with distributed systems with specific focus on security and scalability
• Experience with modern cloud technologies such as AWS

 Additional areas that would add value:

• Experience working with Cloud Service providers & platforms like AWS, Heroku 
• Strong understanding of Design Patterns & their application in system design
• Test Driven & Behavior Driven Development
• Automated Unit/Integration testing
• Using DevOps & Infrastructure tooling such as GoCD/Jenkins, Git
• Frontend web development with JavaScript frameworks like React
• Experience working on  projects, preferably in the real estate domain
• Experience working with Virtualization and Containerization technologies including Docker, Kubernetes.
• Experience working in Agile Scrum/Kanban methodologies
• Experience working with Linux and Shell scripting

Education: 

• Bachelors or Master’s in Computer Science or related fields