PHP Developer

We're seeking passionate, next-gen minded engineers who are excited about solving complex technical challenges and building innovative, first-of-its-kind products which make a tangible difference for our customers. As a Backend SDE-1, you will play a key role in driving strategic initiatives, collaborating with cross-functional teams across business, product, and operations to solve exciting problems. This role demands strong technical acumen, leadership capabilities, and a mindset focused on innovation and operational excellence.

We value individuals who think independently, challenge the status quo, and bring creativity and curiosity to the table—not those who simply follow instructions. If you're passionate about solving problems and making an impact, we'd love to hear from you.

Key Responsibilities

• Strategic Planning: Work closely with senior leadership to develop and implement engineering strategies that support business objectives. Understand broader organization goals and constantly prioritise your own work.
• Technical Excellence: Understand the onground problems, explore and design various possible solutions to conclude and implement scalable, extensible and secure software systems. Implement and learn best practices in technical architecture, coding standards, and software testing to ensure product delivery with highest speed AND quality.
• Project and Program Management: Setting up aggressive as well as realistic timelines with all the stakeholders, ensure the successful delivery of engineering projects as per the defined timelines with best quality standards ensuring budget constraints are met. Use agile methodologies to manage the development process and resolve bottlenecks.
• Cross-functional collaboration: Collaborate with Product Managers, Design, Business, and Operations teams to define project requirements and deliverables. Ensure the smooth integration of engineering efforts across the organization.
• Risk Management: Anticipate and mitigate technical risks and roadblocks. Proactively identify areas of technical debt and drive initiatives to reduce it.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• 1+ years of experience in software engineering
• Excellent problem-solving skills, with the ability to diagnose and resolve complex technical challenges.
• Strong understanding of software design principles and patterns.
• Hands on with multiple programming languages and modern development frameworks.
• Understanding of relational and non-relational databases.
• Experience with Redis, ElasticSearch.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence and inspire teams and stakeholders at all levels.

Skills:- MySQL, Python, Django, AWS, NoSQL, Kafka, Redis, ElasticSearch

• Discussing the project aims with the company requirement and development team.
• Designing and building web applications using Laravel.
• Troubleshooting issues in the implementation and debug builds.
• Working with front-end and back-end developers on projects.
• Testing functionality for users and the backend.
• Ensuring that integrations run smoothly.
• Scaling projects based on Company feedback.
• Recording and reporting on work done in Laravel.
• Maintaining web-based applications.
• Presenting work in meetings with clients and management.

Candidate Profile:

• Strong understanding of PHP and Laravel Framework.
• Produce high quality code and experience with security implementations Identifying application security risks and Implementing security patches procedures.
• Strong hold on MySQL and experience on other SQL/No SQL databases.
• Hands on experience in Architecture and Design with experience in UML and Work-flow diagrams.
• Good knowledge on coding standards, unit testing.
• Strong hold on Data Structures and Algorithms.
• Expertise in building scalable & reliable systems.
• Good Experience in working with technologies like AWS.
• Strong problem solving and analytical skills.
• Able to architect large software from scratch.
• Team building and resource allocation.
• Should be able to work with the management to identify and address any issues that may impact the project.

We are looking for a Senior PHP Developer, responsible for managing back-end services and the interchange of data between the server and the users. Your primary focus will be the development of all server-side logic, definition and maintenance of the central database, and ensuring high performance and responsiveness to requests from the front-end. You will also be responsible for integrating the front-end elements built by your co-workers into the application. Therefore, a basic understanding of front-end technologies is necessary as well.

Responsibilities

• Integration of user-facing elements developed by front-end developers
• Build efficient, testable, and reusable PHP modules
• Solve complex performance problems and architectural challenges
• Integration of data storage solutions (may include databases, key-value stores, blob stores, etc.)

Skills :

• Strong knowledge of PHP web frameworks {uch as Laravel, Magento, Joomla and Drupal}
• Understanding the fully synchronous behavior of PHP
• Understanding of MVC design patterns
• Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3
• Knowledge of object-oriented PHP programming
• Understanding accessibility and security compliance {Depending on the specific project}
• Strong knowledge of the common PHP or web server exploits and their solutions
• Understanding fundamental design principles behind a scalable application
• User authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments
• Integration of multiple data sources and databases into one system
• Familiarity with limitations of PHP as a platform and its workarounds
• Creating database schemas that represent and support business processes

This person MUST have:

• BE Computer Science, MCA or equivalent
• Cloud app development experience
• Strong knowledge of Go programming language, paradigms, constructs, and idioms
• Knowledge of common Goroutine and channel patterns
• Experience with the fullsite of Go frameworks and tools, including:
• Dependency management tools such as Godep, Sltr, etc.
• Go’s templating language
• Go’s code generation tools,such as Stringer
• Ability to write clean and effective Godoc comments
• Familiarity with code versioning tools(such as Git, SVN, and Mercurial)

Experience:

• Min 3 year experience
• Not more than 15 year experience.
• Startup experience is a must. 

Location

• Remotely, anywhere in India

Timings:

• 40 hours a week but with 4 hours a day overlapping with client timezone. .

Position:

• Full time/Direct
• We have great benefits such as PF, medical insurance, 12 annual company holidays, 12 PTO leaves per year, annual increments, Diwali bonus, spot bonuses and other incentives etc.
• We dont believe in locking in people with large notice periods.  You will stay here because you love the company.  We have only a 15 days notice period.

Job Description

Paytm is looking for hands-on technologists, who will be responsible for architecting & designing new age mobile & web 3.0 products at Paytm.

Key Responsibilities

 Incumbent will be architecting our futuristic mobile & web 3.0 products and choose the best

technologies, components and subsystems on different server side tech.

 Driving innovations in the product constantly to remain ahead of the curve.

 Serve as a thought leader and mentor on technical, architectural, design and related issues.

 Proactively identify architectural weaknesses and recommend appropriate solutions.

 Balance short-term versus long-term actions, strategic versus tactical requirements, while

continuing to move forward towards the strategic vision.

 Collaborate with cross functional teams to solve complex problems and building products

spanning across multiple teams to deliver end-to-end products & features.

 Estimates efforts, identify risks, devises and meets project schedules.

 Provide functional, design, and code reviews in related areas of expertise with-in team and

cross-team.

 Mentor / coach engineers to facilitate their development and provide technical leadership to

them. 

Skills required

 MS or BS/B.Tech in computer science or equivalent experience from top college.

 3+ years of strong software design/development experience in building massively large scale

distributed internet systems and products.

 Hands-on experience in Advanced Java/ Node.JS/other backend JavaScript

frameworks, MySQL/NoSQL, golang, etc.

 Excellent data structure & algorithm and problem solving skills.

 Experience and knowledge of open source tools & frameworks, broader cutting edge

technologies around server side development.

 Should be an active contributor to developer communities like Stackoverflow, Topcoder, Github,

Google Developer Groups (GDGs).

 Superior organization, communication, interpersonal and leadership skills.

 Must be a proven performer and team player that enjoy challenging assignments in a high-

energy, fast growing and start-up workplace.

 Must be a self-starter who can work well with minimal guidance and in fluid environment.