
Backed by Y Combinator & other leading institutional investors, we help people prevent, manage and reverse Type 2 Diabetes. Co-founded by Rohan Verma(ex- McKinsey) & Aditya Kaicker(ex-Accenture) who are 2nd time founders in the healthcare space.
Breathe Well-being is a clinically verified digital well-being game that helps people with Type 2 Diabetes to reduce blood glucose and lose weight in a fun and engaging way. Our
Net Promoter Score is 76 and more than 40% of our current customers are coming from
word of mouth! Over the next 5 years, we are on a mission to help 10M Indians reverse and manage Type 2 Diabetes while building a trusted and loved community for people with chronic conditions.
Our Team:
We are a diverse group of 18 people (doctors, engineers, designers, fitness coaches and
dieticians) who have been fortunate to study at leading colleges like UCLA, NTU, BITS Pilani and have extensively worked at great companies like McKinsey & Company, Accenture & Nomura.
About the Role :
We are looking for a 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.
In this role, you will:
• Integrate user-facing elements developed by front-end developers.
• Build efficient, testable, and reusable PHP modules.
• Solve complex performance problems and architectural challenges.
• Integrate data storage solutions.
You may be a fit if you have:
• 2 – 4 years of experience in building PHP web frameworks such as Lavarel.
• Understand the fully synchronous behavior of PHP.
• Understanding of MVC design patterns
• A proficient understanding building rich UI & front-end technologies, such as JavaScript,
HTML5, and CSS3.
• Working knowledge of object-oriented PHP programming
• Understanding of accessibility and security compliance.
• Strong knowledge of the common PHP or web server exploits and their solutions.
• Experience in using fundamental design principles for a scalable application.
• Knowledge of user authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments.
• Knowledge of Integrating multiple data sources and databases into one system.
• Familiarity with limitations of PHP as a platform and its workarounds.
• Understanding of creating database schemas that represent and support business processes.
• Familiarity with SQL/NoSQL, Postgresql databases and their declarative query languages

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Backend Engineer Python / Golang / Rust
Location : Bangalore, India
Experience Required : 2-3 years minimum
Job Overview
We are seeking a skilled Backend Engineer with expertise in Python, Golang, or Rust to join our engineering team. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience in building and maintaining enterprise-level, scalable backend services using microservices architecture.
Key Requirements :
Technical Skills :
- Programming Expertise : Advanced proficiency in Python with strong knowledge of Django, FastAPI, or Flask, OR expertise in Golang or Rust for backend development.
- Microservices Architecture : Solid experience in designing, developing, and maintaining microservices-based systems.
- Database Management : Hands-on experience with PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, including database design and optimization.
- API Development : Strong experience in designing and implementing RESTful APIs and GraphQL services.
- Cloud Platforms : Proficiency with AWS, GCP, or Azure services for deployment and scaling.
- Containerization & Orchestration : Strong knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes for scalable deployments.
- Messaging & Caching : Experience with Redis, RabbitMQ, Apache Kafka, and caching strategies (Redis, Memcached).
- Version Control : Advanced Git workflows and team collaboration best practices.
Experience Requirements :
- Minimum 2-3 years of backend development experience.
- Proven track record of working on enterprise-level, production-grade applications.
- Strong background in microservices architecture and distributed systems.
- Experience in building scalable systems capable of handling high traffic loads.
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, DevOps practices, and cloud-native deployments.
Responsibilities :
- Design, develop, and maintain robust, scalable backend services and APIs.
- Architect and implement microservices solutions ensuring modularity and resilience.
- Optimize application performance, database queries, and service scalability.
- Collaborate closely with frontend teams, product managers, and DevOps engineers.
- Implement security best practices and data protection measures.
- Write and maintain comprehensive unit and integration tests.
- Participate actively in code reviews and architectural discussions.
- Monitor, debug, and optimize system performance in production environments.
Preferred Qualifications :
- Strong understanding of software architecture patterns (event-driven, CQRS, hexagonal, etc.).
- Experience with Agile/Scrum methodologies.
- Contributions to open-source projects or personal backend projects.
- Experience with observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Jaeger).
Job Responsibilities :
- Must have knowledge of at least two PHP frameworks out of Laravel, Cakephp, CodeIgniter and YII.
- Must have basic knowledge of HTML, CSS, JavaScript and jQuery.
- Knowledge of CMS architectures like Wordpress, Joomla, Drupal etc. will be an added advantage.
- Knowledge of eCommerce frameworks like WooCommerce, Magento, OpenCart etc will be an added advantage.
- Good knowledge of Object-Oriented Concepts & a strong passion for Software Development.
- Strong Interaction and Design Sense
- Familiarity with LAMP stack (Apache, MySQL and phpMyAdmin)
- Comfortable with SQL and/or Script Programming.
- Experience in Designing & Developing Database in MySQL is a MUST.
Required Skills:
- Knowledge and/or willingness to learn, highly motivated.
- Fully comfortable working in English, both in written and spoken language.
As a Senior Principal Engineer, you’ll lead a team of engineers through challenging development projects. Come join a highly collaborative team of skilled engineers with a passion for quality.
What You’ll do:
- Work in an agile environment, orchestrating a group mostly comprised of skilled PHP engineers of various levels to complete User Stories authored by professional Product Managers
- Architect highly scalable/transaction heavy web/API applications
- Work with 1-2 Frontend resources (in addition to backend PHP) through projects in React, Angular (maintenance), MooTools/Jquery (deprecation), Socket.io and serverside NodeJS
- Work with Product and QA Managers in multiple grooming sessions and sprint planning for your team
- Collaborate/coordinate with other Engineering Managers and Leads
- Work with QA and Application Support teams to triage bugs
- Work with DevOps to automate deployment and monitoring of applications
- Design and develop Restful APIs using frameworks with design patterns
- Design JSON payloads and various payload contexts
- Convert complex business rules and workflows from User Story requirements into SalesForce type CRM applications and client facing web portals
- Work with monolithic legacy codebases, along with design patterns in newer repositories
- Work with large database schemas of 500+ tables
- Write complex queries. Efficiently joining upwards of 20 tables, some containing +10m rows. In T-SQL or Doctrine ORM
- Integrate 3rd party platforms via APIs and callbacks
- Write Unit tests and documentation
What You Have:
- 10+ years professional experience developing APIs & web based applications in PHP as an individual contributor
- Prior experience working with organized development teams (5+ member pods)
- Prefer hands-on experience using MS SQL Server, CosmosDB, but other relational databases/NoSQL ok (MySQL, Postgres, MongoDB)
- Professional experience using open source PHP frameworks. Symfony3+ preferred (Laravel, CodeIgniter - ok)
- Experience scaling in LAMP, but also leveraging Redis, RabbitMQ, Elastic Search (ELK), SupervisorD, Socket.io, centralized Session stores
- Prefer experience designing fault tolerant architecture on cloud deployments (loadbalancing, clustering, reducing/eliminating single points of failure, etc)
- Understand branching, merging, pull requests and conflict resolution in Git (Bitbucket or Github)
- Experienced in leveraging issue tracking systems and wikis for documentation (Jira/Confluence)
- Comfortable on CentOS Linux, command line, SSH, SFTP, SCP…
- Full stack is a plus (JavaScript, CSS, HTML, React/Angular/Vue)
- Able to onboard self and others while working entirely remotely in EST
- Experience in Azure PaaS and IaaS
- Experience crafting architecture diagrams in Visio or LucidChart
- Problem solving skills and a proactive work style
- Strong interpersonal & communication skills
- Selecting the tech stack, programming language, and framework
- Working on Solution architecture, and software development.
- Improving and optimizing the application architecture
- Developing APIs
- Handling Application management, including ongoing support, bug fixes, patches, minimal enhancements code refactoring, etc., maintaining infrastructure (3 rd party hosting/ servers, storage, memory, etc.)
- Managing Network security, data security
- Designing and developing databases and applications that pool, extracting and analysing large amounts of data to provide management with insights on the overall performance of the organization as well as information on markets and competitors.
- Creating dashboards and developing data collection methods.
- Debugging and QA
- Managing vendor relationships
- Managing third-party services used in the application
- Building a deployment pipeline to deliver updates safely and regularly.
- Planning software releases, Managing releases (safe and downtime-proof), tags, and versions, software releases
What you need to have:
- B. Tech in Computer Science or an MCA from a good college
- Minimum 5 years of experience
- Preferably based in Gurgaon. If not, relocation would be required since a lot of hustling and discussions will require physical meetings with the Founders.
- Should know the ins and outs of the software development life cycle
- Experience of designing, architecture, coding, testing, debugging and documenting for both front end and back end applications
- Must have knowledge about development technology like PHP, jQuery, Java script,
HTML, CSS3, JSON, XML, Bootstrap. Third party plugins, Android studio, etc. - Must have knowledge of frameworks such as Laravel, Cake
- Good knowledge of databases (MySQL), version control tools like GitHub, etc.
Skills & JD :
1. Wordpress Development
2. PHP Programming
3. OOPS Concepts in PHP
4. Advanced custom and Security Plugins
5. Good Problem Solving skills.
6. Ability to create/tweak existing plugins
7. Ability to create multiple dashboards apart from admin dashboard
Requirements :
1. Good Knowledge in DB - MySQL/PostGreSQL
2. Ability to debug Frontend applications
3. Http/REST
Experience :
1. Wordpress Hooks
2. HTML, CSS, JS, Github tools, AWS, Basics of React JS.,Github link
3. Ability to create API over existing plugin data
- Developed sites using page builders like divi and elementor.
- Customised the themes.
- Created custom templates like forms, step forms.
- Development expertise with custom post types, custom fields for Wordpress sites
- Experience in woocommerce sites
- Provide technical support to clients.
• Candidate with exceptional programming skills, problem-solving abilities and strong work
ethic.
• The candidate has to work on custom programming and web application development for
Drupal.
• Testing, maintenance and troubleshooting of existing company sites and resolving issues if
any.
• Contributing ideas and efforts towards internal projects and working as part of a team to
find solutions on various problems.
• Communicate technical ideas to business users and other teams (design, QA).
• Collaborate with team members and to work independently when needed.
• Eager to embrace current and emerging web technologies.
To be the right fit, you'll need:
• Experience of total 4+ years working on PHP and Drupal 7,8 Development (at least 2+ years in Drupal 8)
• Strong knowledge of MySQL, jQuery, HTML5, CSS
• Experience with Drupal architecture, best practices and coding standards
• Knowledge on Views, Services etc.
• Experience in custom module and theme creation
• Familiar with sub version control systems such as Git or SVN
• Basic knowledge of environment setup for Linux distribution







