
Junior PHP Developer (Full-Time)
Malad, Mumbai (Mindspace) | Work from Office
We’re hiring a Junior PHP Developer at Websites.co.in, a platform where small businesses create their website in 2 minutes.
Your role
- Develop and maintain backend logic using PHP (Laravel or Core PHP)
- Write clean, reusable, and efficient code
- Work with MySQL databases (queries, joins, optimization)
- Integrate REST APIs and troubleshoot backend issues
- Collaborate with frontend, QA, and product teams for feature implementation
- Participate in code reviews, testing, and deployment activities
- Debug production issues and provide quick fixes
What we expect
- Hands-on development experience with PHP (mandatory)
- Strong knowledge of MySQL, queries, and database structures
- Understanding of MVC architecture (Laravel preferred)
- Basic knowledge of HTML, CSS, JavaScript
- Familiarity with Git version control
- Problem-solving mindset and willingness to take ownership
- 0–3.5 years of experience (freshers with strong projects are welcome)
Good to have
- Experience working with APIs, JSON, cURL
- Understanding of server basics (Linux, Apache, hosting environments)
What you get
- Real product ownership, not agency project hopping
- Direct collaboration with CTO and senior devs
- Steep learning curve in a fast-moving SaaS environment

About InstaWeb Labs Pvt Ltd
About
Websites.co.in is one of the world’s easiest, mobile-first website builder platforms, no coding, no hassle. Over 5 million users across 190 countries trust us to bring their businesses, blogs, and online stores to life. We’ve been featured over 2,000 times by Google Play in 100+ countries and recognized as India’s most innovative startup app
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Required Skills: TypeScript, MVC, Cloud experience (Azure, AWS, etc.), mongodb, Express.js, Nest.js
Criteria:
Need candidates from Growing startups or Product based companies only
1. 4–8 years’ experience in backend engineering
2. Minimum 2+ years hands-on experience with:
- TypeScript
- Express.js / Nest.js
3. Strong experience with MongoDB (or MySQL / PostgreSQL / DynamoDB)
4. Strong understanding of system design & scalable architecture
5. Hands-on experience in:
- Event-driven architecture / Domain-driven design
- MVC / Microservices
6. Strong in automated testing (especially integration tests)
7. Experience with CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions or similar)
8. Experience managing production systems
9. Solid understanding of performance, reliability, observability
10. Cloud experience (AWS preferred; GCP/Azure acceptable)
11. Strong coding standards — Clean Code, code reviews, refactoring
Description
About the opportunity
We are looking for an exceptional Senior Software Engineer to join our Backend team. This is a unique opportunity to join a fast-growing company where you will get to solve real customer and business problems, shape the future of a product built for Bharat and build the engineering culture of the team. You will have immense responsibility and autonomy to push the boundaries of engineering to deliver scalable and resilient systems.
As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be responsible for shipping innovative features at breakneck speed, designing the architecture, mentoring other engineers on the team and pushing for a high bar of engineering standards like code quality, automated testing, performance, CI/CD, etc. If you are someone who loves solving problems for customers, technology, the craft of software engineering, and the thrill of building startups, we would like to talk to you.
What you will be doing
- Build and ship features in our Node.js (and now migrating to TypeScript) codebase that directly impact user experience and help move the top and bottom line of the business.
- Collaborate closely with our product, design and data team to build innovative features to deliver a world class product to our customers. At company, product managers don’t “tell” what to build. In fact, we all collaborate on how to solve a problem for our customers and the business. Engineering plays a big part in it.
- Design scalable platforms that empower our product and marketing teams to rapidly experiment.
- Own the quality of our products by writing automated tests, reviewing code, making systems observable and resilient to failures.
- Drive code quality and pay down architectural debt by continuous analysis of our codebases and systems, and continuous refactoring.
- Architect our systems for faster iterations, releasability, scalability and high availability using practices like Domain Driven Design, Event Driven Architecture, Cloud Native Architecture and Observability.
- Set the engineering culture with the rest of the team by defining how we should work as a team, set standards for quality, and improve the speed of engineering execution.
The role could be ideal for you if you
- Experience of 4-8 years of working in backend engineering with at least 2 years of production experience in TypeScript, Express.js (or another popular framework like Nest.js) and MongoDB (or any popular database like MySQL, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, etc.).
- Well versed with one or more architectures and design patterns such as MVC, Domain Driven Design, CQRS, Event Driven Architecture, Cloud Native Architecture, etc.
- Experienced in writing automated tests (especially integration tests) and Continuous Integration. At company, engineers own quality and hence, writing automated tests is crucial to the role.
- Experience with managing production infrastructure using technologies like public cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure, etc.). Bonus: if you have experience in using Kubernetes.
- Experience in observability techniques like code instrumentation for metrics, tracing and logging.
- Care deeply about code quality, code reviews, software architecture (think about Object Oriented Programming, Clean Code, etc.), scalability and reliability. Bonus: if you have experience in this from your past roles.
- Understand the importance of shipping fast in a startup environment and constantly try to find ingenious ways to achieve the same.
- Collaborate well with everyone on the team. We communicate a lot and don’t hesitate to get quick feedback from other members on the team sooner than later.
- Can take ownership of goals and deliver them with high accountability.
Don’t hesitate to try out new technologies. At company, nobody is limited to a role. Every engineer in our team is an expert of at least one technology but often ventures out in adjacent technologies like React.js, Flutter, Data Platforms, AWS and Kubernetes. If you are not excited by this, you will not like working at company. Bonus: if you have experience in adjacent technologies like AWS (or any public cloud provider, Github Actions (or CircleCI), Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Pulumi, etc.), etc.
What You’ll Do
• Build and scale backend services using Java & Spring Boot
• Work on API integrations (REST, SOAP), caching & rate limiting
• Contribute across the full SDLC – design, development, testing & deployment
• Solve problems around performance, scalability & reliability
What We’re Looking For
• Strong knowledge of Data Structures & Algorithms
• Experience with Java, Spring Boot, REST/SOAP
• Hands-on with system & solution design
• Database experience: MongoDB / PostgreSQL / MySQL / Oracle
• Good debugging skills & unit testing
• Familiarity with Git and AI coding assistants (Copilot, Claude, etc.)
Requirements
- 3+ years work experience with production-grade python. Contribution to open source repos is preferred
- Experience writing concurrent and distributed programs, AWS lambda, Kubernetes, Docker, Spark is preferred.
- Experience with one relational & 1 non-relational DB is preferred
- Prior work in the ML domain will be a big boost
What You’ll Do
- Help realize the product vision: Production-ready machine learning models with monitoring within moments, not months.
- Help companies deploy their machine learning models at scale across a wide range of use-cases and sectors.
- Build integrations with other platforms to make it easy for our customers to use our product without changing their workflow.
- Write maintainable, scalable performant python code
- Building gRPC, rest API servers
- Working with Thrift, Protobufs, etc.
● Managing and guiding a team of junior developers for timely delivery of product and
milestones
● Optimization of the application for maximum speed and scalability
● Implementation of security and data protection
● Design and implementation of data storage solutions
● Design & Build: Designing and developing high-volume, low-latency applications for
mission-critical systems, and delivering high-availability and performance.
● Collaborate - Collaborating within your product streams and team to bring best
practices and leverage a world-class tech stack.
● Measurable Outcome - You will need to set quantifiable objectives that encapsulate
the quality attributes of a system. The fitness of the application is measured against
set marks.
● DevOps - You will need to set up every essential (tracking/alerting) to make sure the
infrastructure/software you built is working as expected.
● Design and development of our REST APIs
● Help maintain code quality, architecture, and automation
Required Knowledge and Skills
● 3 - 5 years of experience working in backend development technologies and DevOps
● Highly curious and ready to dive into complex technical challenges.
● Proficiency in development and scripting in Python, Django/Flask framework.
● Database design and management, including being up on the latest practices -
bonus points for MySQL and MongoDB
● User authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and
environments
● Integration of multiple data sources and databases into one system
● Management of hosting environment, including database administration and scaling
an application to support load changes
● Setup and administration of backups
● Understanding differences between multiple delivery platforms such as mobile vs
desktop, and optimizing output to match the specific platform
● Creating database schemas that represent and support business processes
● Implementing automated testing platforms and unit tests
● Understanding of “session management” in a distributed server environment
● Server management and deployment for the relevant environment
● Appreciation for clean and well-documented code
● Hands-on experience with architecture and structural design patterns
● Expertise in designing, developing, deploying, and integrating RESTful APIs
● Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical
requirements
● A knack for benchmarking and optimization
● Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git
Personality
● Requires excellent communication skills – written, verbal, and presentation.
● You should be a team player.
● You should be positive towards problem-solving, have a very structural thought
process to solve problems
● Interest to work in a high paced start-up environment with a large amount of learning.
● Good understanding of different frameworks, and be able to pick up new
technologies at ease.
● You should be agile enough to figure out a need for new technologies/frameworks
and learn new technology for better product performanc
What You'll do:
- 2-5 years of experience building scalable backends using Python
- In-depth knowledge of Python/Django or Flask
- Familiar with oauth integration Social Networking API (Facebook, Twitter, Linked In, Google+)
- Experience integrating with mobile Apps
- Django/Flask permissions model, caching, async mechanisms
- Understanding of caching, database interactions
- Able to engineer the best performing solutions and always keeping scalability in mind
What makes you a great fit:
- Strong problem solving skills
- Knowledge of data structures and algorithms
- Hungry for more responsibility and knowledge
- Passion for building robust systems that are engineered to handle failure scenarios, an undying love and attitude for maintaining coding standards
- Strong advocate for producing quality software who makes sure issues are raised and resolved
- Experience with at least one of the cloud platforms like AWS, GCP, Azure, Digital Ocean etc. (docker, Kubernetes, microservice good to have)
Must have skillsets:
Skills : Python/ Django or Flask
Experience required: 3 -5 years
Job Type: Full time/ Permanent
Perks and Benefits :
- 5 days working.
- Flexible shift timings
- Company-sponsored certifications.
- Team friendly culture
- Flat hierarchy
- Carrom, Table tennis games, Cricket Tournament Participation for interested employees
- Snack-filled pantry for team members
- Group Medical Insurance (*)
- Have thorough knowledge of PHP, JavaScript, AJAX, jQuery, HTML5, CSS3, Bootstrap
- Possess the ability in Angular js, React js
- Top-notch programming skills, ability to produce quality code that is maintainable, efficient, reliable and secure.
- Development of APIs as required. Rest or Soap API integration.
- Strong knowledge of MVC is required
- Must Know Framework like Laravel, CodeIgniter, Cake Php, Yii
- Have experience in MySQL, MariaDB databases.
- Distributed version control and regular deployments.
- Have Good Communication skills.
What you will be doing
You will join our team as our Senior PHP Developer (Laravel) and your main responsibilities will be to:
- Write clean and maintainable code with good test coverage.
- Implement new features in collaboration with our design team.
- Optimize existing code to perfection with special attention to performance and maintainability.
- Do a code review of your colleagues work.
You and our future-proof stack
- We seek a balance between sticking with what works and fearlessly exploring the new.
- We use the latest stable version of PHP 7|8 because it allows us to write better code using features like strict type declarations, typed class properties and arrow functions.
- We leverage the elegance, simplicity and readability of the latest Laravel version.
- We want to spend our precious time on things that matter the most; that's why we perfect our easy to run the development environment with Homestead and custom scripts.
- We write and run tests with PHPUnit and http://cypress.io/">JavaScript End to End Testing Framework.
- We have a great set of tools to maintain the code quality and run on CI/CD (psalm (error level 4), rector, phpcs, php-cs-fixer, phpcpd etc.)
- We use Rector to maintain our code quality.
- We’re constantly refactoring our front-end code intending to reach front-end heaven:
- Laravel Blade template engine.
- PostCSS to maximize the power of modern CSS.
- Webpack for perfect control over front-end assets.
- Latest JS with support for ES2020 features. To accomplish this we use the latest Babel releases.
We ❤ CI (Continuous Integration) and CD (Continuous Delivery) so we usually deploy a few releases per day: Zero downtime. Just a few buttons to push. No sweaty palms.
We care deeply about the Developer Experience (DX) of our codebase and tools. DX and DevOps is our middle name: Git, GitHub, HTTP/2, Assets CDN, AWS, Enterprise SSDs on our high-spec servers, and much more.
About you
- You have expert knowledge of PHP.
- You have expert knowledge of Laravel.
- You have experience with test-driven development (TDD).
- You have 6+ years of experience working professionally with OOP.
- Your work is based on a solid foundation in computer science fundamentals from data structures and algorithms to design patterns.
- You are an engineer by mindset and always try to understand how things work under the hood.
- You have substantial experience working with RESTful web services and ORM concepts.
- You love to learn through doing. You’re ready to put in some hard work to expand your skills.
- You speak and write acceptable English – not perfect English, just acceptable
- You are a team player and you don't bring your ego to work.
- You are self-motivated and self-disciplined and thus work well in a flat hierarchy with lots of freedom.
- You love to have creative freedom, make independent judgments and live up to the responsibility that comes with that freedom.
- You love to create tangible results—every hour and every day.
- You love to make a positive impact on the world and the lives of others.
Senior / Python Developer
We are looking for a Senior / Python Developers to join our engineering team and help us develop and maintain various software products. Your responsibilities include understanding the product very well, and lead the integration of this product into architecture.
To be successful in this role, you should have strong technical knowledge and solid experience of all steps of the software engineering process and the tools associated with those. You should be a go-getter, a clear communicator and a strong collaborator who works well in a team as well as the customer. You should want to do high quality work and produce output that you are proud of.
- Good understanding of Python especially should have used file/directory access, data persistence, compression and archiving, cryptographic services, concurrent operations, networking and IPC, developmental tools etc.
- Good understanding of key differences in Python 2 vs 3
- Knowledge of lib2to3, six, python-future libraries. Compatibility idioms provided by these libs and their limitations, issues in using them as is.
- Knowledge of Python3 changes in data types especially str, bytes in Py3 vs str, unicode in Py2. Should be able to gauge, understand impact of this on data in transit/data at rest in a large project.
- Knowledge of using C extensions in Python code, modifying to run with Python3, Python 2-3 compatibility.
- Experience working with large python codebase.
- Working knowledge of mysql, Python ORM like sqlobject.
- Working knowledge of Common third party modules like cherrypy, falcon, gunicorn, etc.
- Good experience with basic python, no django/flask needed
- Some code needs to run in Python 2, some in Python 3 and some in compatibility mode
- Issues for Druva are in ORM, marshalling, networking
- Need candidates having Understanding of basic data types, extensions of python
- Data type conversion and networking is important
- Internals of Python are important









