PHP Developer

We are seeking a Senior Laravel Developer with a minimum of 8+ years of experience and a proven track record in developing and maintaining PHP/Laravel-based websites and applications. The ideal candidate should excel in creating high-performance web applications using PHP and MySQL, with expertise in debugging, performance optimisation, and scalability.

Responsibilities:

• Write clean, maintainable code adhering to company coding standards.
• Develop and enhance existing PHP/Laravel/Code-igniter projects.
• Troubleshoot, test, and maintain core product software and databases for optimisation and functionality.
• Contribute to all phases of the development lifecycle.
• Follow industry best practices for secure and scalable development.

Key Skills

Technical Proficiency

• Expertise in PHP, MySQL, and related web technologies.
• Strong experience in debugging, performance optimisation, and scalability.
• Familiarity with resource-intensive application architectures.
• Hands-on experience with AWS services (e.g., EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda) for scalable application deployment.
• Proficiency in setting up and managing CI/CD pipelines using tools like Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, or AWS CodePipeline.
• Strong knowledge of Git version control and collaborative workflows.
• Experience with microservices architecture and containerization (Docker/Kubernetes) is a plus.
• Familiarity with front-end frameworks (Vue.js, React, or Angular) and modern JavaScript practices is a bonus.

Frameworks

• Hands-on experience with Laravel and CodeIgniter frameworks.

Proactive Problem-Solving

• Ability to identify potential bottlenecks and provide innovative solutions.

Soft Skills

• Adaptability to balance support and development tasks effectively.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively in teams.
• Exceptional problem-solving skills and attention to detail.

Leadership and Mentorship

• Mentor junior and mid-level developers, providing guidance on coding standards, best practices, and technical challenges.
• Conduct code reviews to ensure high-quality, maintainable codebases.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to define technical requirements and project roadmaps.

Documentation and Best Practices

• Maintain comprehensive technical documentation for projects, processes, and workflows.
• Establish and enforce coding standards, security protocols, and development guidelines across the team.

Preferred Background

• Proven experience managing performance-critical applications.
• Exposure to legacy systems alongside modern development practices.
• Prior experience balancing support and development roles.
• Demonstrated expertise in resource-intensive application development and optimisation.
• Evidence of significant past performance improvements in web applications.
• Proficiency in frameworks such as Laravel and CodeIgniter, and relevant tech stacks.

Qualifications

• Minimum 8+ years of experience managing performance-critical applications.
• BE/B.Tech in Computer Science or equivalent degree required.
• Sound knowledge of OOP principles and best practices.
• Familiarity with Git version control and Agile/Scrum methodologies.

This role offers the opportunity to work on innovative projects while making meaningful contributions to high-scale applications. If you are passionate about creating exceptional web applications and thrive in a fast-paced environment, we encourage you to apply!

Work With Us

Get To Know Us First!

Freecharge a subsidiary of Axis Bank Limited founded in 2010, is a Fin-Tech organisation revolutionizing Financial Products through technology.

At our core, we’re a creative company. Ideas and pixels is where we live and we love building magical products that make our users feel ‘wow’. At Freecharge, you'll have the chance to do the best work of your life. We’re on a journey to build something new, something different and something innovative & that requires passion to build such incredible products.

Come join us and shape the future of Fin-Tech.

Do You Make The Cut?

We are looking for a motivated developer to join our agile team of developers as a Lead to mentor and as an individual contributor to drive best practices in the product.

You will be responsible for the design, architecture, and delivery of a feature/product with the highest quality. Providing the product with visible benefit to end-users in an iterative fast-paced environment by creating solutions suitable for the job in real-time.

Title: Lead SDE (Backend)

Location: Gurugram

Experience: 3-7 Yrs.

Education: Bachelor’s / Master’s in Software Engineering

Responsibilities

• In this lead role, you will be designing and developing complex software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers.
• Ensure the quality of design of systems by serving as a technical lead on our most demanding, cross-functional teams
• Build reusable code and libraries for future use.
• Build highly available, high performance, scalable software and you will work on distributed systems for massive-scale systems
• Responsible for code quality of the product being developed along with unit and integration testing.
• Mentor junior developers to improve their skills, and make them more effective, product software engineers.
• Communicate with technical teams, and senior management to collect requirements, describe software product features, technical designs, and product strategy.

Sounds Like You?

• 4+ years of software development experience with Enterprise Java (JDK 8 and above), Spring (Boot, MVC, AOP, DI), ORM Frameworks.
• 1+ years of experience contributing to the architecture and design (LLD, HLD, Solid principles and design patterns and scaling) of new and current systems.
• Strong experience in technically leading junior developers with a focus on the goal.
• Strong experience in data structures & algorithms and their space & time complexities.
• Solid understanding of multithreading, microservices, MVC and strong OO skills with demonstrated experience in developing complex and reusable APIs.
• Strong experience working with Databases like SQL & NoSQL.
• Experience working with microservices-based architecture.
• Experience in high traffic, highly scalable distributed system designs, complex web applications, and code reviews.
• Experience working in an Agile environment.
• Solid understanding of the full software development life cycle and the domain.
• Good to have knowledge of messaging systems like SNS/ SQS /Kafka etc.

Life at Freecharge!

Our Playground!

• 450+ FCian’s, at Gurugram & Bengaluru locations
• Collaboration spaces & A flat and transparent culture
• Wow Corners, fun & reading Zone
• Best learning and development opportunities

Benefits

• Day-care facility
• Comprehensive Insurance Policy
• Wellness Benefits like Health check-ins
• 26 Weeks Maternity & 2 Weeks Paternity Leaves
• Adoption Assistance Program
• On-Site Parking at all locations
• A chance to have a big impact early in your career

ARE YOU READY?

TO

#ChargeYourFuture

1. PHP Developer/Sr. PHP Developer:

• Reviewing (if already developed) current system workflow and database design.
• Analyzing the needs of system and producing detailed specification document
• Create a step by step flow chart or psudocode for computing systems that shows how program code must be written in order to work properly.
• Develop a functional modules according as required under deadline.
• Integrating 3rd party tools wherever required.
• Perform and document unit testing for developed functions.
• System maintenance by monitoring and correcting software defects.
• Continuously updating technical knowledge and skills as per industry standards.
• Contribute to technical writers to create users documents.
• All tasks must be carried out at the highest standards.

• Strong experience on any of the modern PHP based frameworks like Laravel, Cake PHP, Symphony, etc.
• Ability to create Data Structures and Algorithms.

Experience of developing highly scalable web services and APIs using PHP.

• Development skills of Database design and information schema using NoSQL/SQL.
• Source control management (e.g. Git, SVN, Mercurial) to enable teams to work together to manage source code.
• Working over cloud computing platform like Amazon Web Service (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Microsoft Azure
• Strong designing / problem solving skills.

• Education: BCA, MCA, Msc IT, Bsc IT or any equivalent qualification
• Work Experience: 2-6 year of experience in same field
• Good Communication skill (Preferred)
• Can work under pressure
• Meet deadlines

PHP Developer Requirements:

1. Candidate should have experience on Core PHP, Web services,Yii Framework, Web servers, Linux working environment & MVC.

2. Excellent skills in MySQL, Optimization techniques, schema design, Stored procedures, Triggers

3. Good command over design patterns.

4. Good command over OOPS

5. Strong debugging & troubleshooting skills

6. Writing algorithms on application security.

7. Writing shell scripts & integration of third party web services

8. Knowledge on any one of server monitoring tools much appreciated.

9. Should have any one version control (git is more advantage)

10. Should be proactive.

Responsibilities:

1. Writing PHP & shell script code.

2. Analyzing requirements, maintain design patterns & making deployments on time. 3. Understanding the client requirements and implement the tasks in time.

4. Writing Stored procedures, functions and Views in Sqlserver.

Must Have:

1. Solid programming & logical skills.

2. Candidate must have experience on MySQL, Yii framework, MySQL database.

3. Hard working, positive attitude and ability to deliver under time and resource constraints.

WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING: 

• Compile and analyze data, processes, and codes to troubleshoot problems and identify areas for improvement. 
• Collaborate with the front-end developers and other team members to establish objectives and design more functional, cohesive codes to enhance the user experience. 

• Develop ideas for new programs, products, or features by monitoring industry developments and trends. 
• Record data and report it to proper parties, such as clients or leadership. 
• Participate in continuing education and training to remain current on best practices, learn new programming languages, and better assist other team members. 
• Take the lead on projects, as needed. 
• Be involved and participate in the overall application lifecycle. 

• Build high-quality reusable code that can be used in the future. 
• Develop functional and sustainable web applications with clean codes. 
• Conduct UI tests and optimize performance. 
• Manage cutting-edge technologies to improve applications. 

QUALIFICATIONS: 

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Programming or relevant field. Master’s Degree in a related field is preferred. 
• 5-7 years of relevant experience 
• Must be an expert programmer, skilled at computer languages such as HTML, C+++, C#, PHP, Python and Java. 
• Must understand Spring Core, Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Spring Data, JMS, Mysql, Redis, CouchDb, Micro Services, Docker, Kubernetes 
• Must be able to interpret and follow instructions related to the ultimate functionality of our IT-based product 

• Familiarity with front-end languages such as HTML, JavaScript and CSS 
• Must be comfortable with technology architecture and how a computer and its software functions. 
• Deadline driven, organized and understand how people view and understand content on the front-end 
• Proven experience in highly complex environments 
• Strong technical documentation skills 

• An ability to solve multifaceted technical issues in a fast-paced environment 
• Self-motivated and accountable for your work 
• Passionate about learning and continuous improvement 
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills 
• Ability to work overtime 

Job Summary :

We are looking to hire a talented PHP Developer to manage our back-end services and ensure a seamless interchange of data between the server and our users. As a PHP Developer, you will be responsible for developing and coding all server-side logic.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or similar field.
• Knowledge of PHP web frameworks like Yii2, Laravel, and CodeIgniter.
• Knowledge of front-end technologies including CSS3, JavaScript, and HTML5.
• Understanding of object-oriented PHP programming.
• Familiarity with SQL/NoSQL databases.
• Good problem-solving skills.

• Conducting analysis of website and application requirements.
• Writing back-end code and building efficient PHP modules.
• Developing back-end portals with an optimized database.
• Integrating data storage solutions.
• Updating and altering application features to enhance performance.