PHP Developer

Job Title: Backend Developer (Bench Role – Staff Augmentation)

Location: Remote

Engagement Type: Contract / Project-based / Full-time (depending on client)

Experience Range: 2–7 years

About the Opportunity

We are building a strong remote bench of Backend Developers for ongoing and upcoming projects with global SaaS, FinTech, and product-based startups across the US, Canada, and Middle East.

Selected developers will work on exciting projects with flexibility, clear deliverables, and competitive monthly retainers.

Core Skills Required

(You should be confident in at least 1–2 of the stacks below)

Primary Languages & Frameworks:

• Java/Kotlin (Spring Boot)
• Node.js (Express.js or NestJS)
• Python (Django or FastAPI)
• Go (preferred for microservices)
• Ruby on Rails or .NET Core (nice to have)

Backend Architecture & APIs:

• REST API & GraphQL development and consumption
• Microservices & event-driven architecture
• Auth systems (JWT, OAuth2)
• API documentation/testing tools (Swagger, Postman)

Databases:

• Relational: PostgreSQL, MySQL (schema design, indexing, optimization)
• NoSQL: MongoDB, Redis
• Nice to have: Cassandra, ElasticSearch

Messaging & Caching

• Kafka, RabbitMQ, or AWS SNS/SQS
• Caching strategies for performance improvement

Cloud & Infrastructure

• AWS (preferred), GCP, or Azure
• Docker and Kubernetes (required)
• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Helm)

CI/CD & Testing

• CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI) – required
• Unit/integration testing frameworks (Jest, PyTest, JUnit)
• Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, or ELK stack

Security & Performance

• Secure coding practices (OWASP Top 10)
• API rate-limiting, secrets management, abuse prevention
• Performance profiling & optimization

 Ideal Candidate Should Be

• Able to own backend modules end-to-end
• Strong in debugging, performance tuning, and scalable backend design
• Comfortable working in distributed teams across time zones
• Familiar with Agile/Scrum workflows and cross-functional collaboration
• Brings a product mindset—focus on business impact, not just code

 Perks for Bench Developers

• Access to global projects (short-term and long-term)
• Regular evaluation & project matching
• Competitive monthly retainers (based on skills & experience)
• Remote-first flexibility with clear deliverables

Apply If You Have Experience In

• Working with startups or product companies
• Building scalable, secure, and maintainable backend systems
• End-to-end feature/API ownership in a fast-paced environment

Engineering Lead (Backend/Full stack)

About

It is a mission-oriented high-growth fintech startup building payment &

lending products to simplify education payments. Jodo’s suite of products make education payments convenient & affordable for parents while simplifying & streamlining fee collections for educational institutes. Jodo aims to be a category-defining company with a mission to be a

trusted partner to parents in fulfilling their aspirations for their kids’ education.

We are backed by marquee VC investors – Tiger Global, Elevation Capital and Matrix Partners – to realize this mission. It is started by three co-founders who have a pedigreed education

(IIT/IIM) and professional background (Nomura, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Barclays, Matrix Partners).

🎬Job Description:

We are looking for an Engineering Leader with a focus on building maintainable and scalable applications. The Lead will be responsible for the design and development of Jodo’s fee payments platform and be owning one of the products/verticals. Leads will be closely working

with Product Managers and Founders to execute projects from ideation to completion. As a hands-on Team Lead, you will take ownership of services/systems and guide a team of

developers.

📈Key Responsibilities

● Own and drive the development of one or more of Jodo’s products

● Take the lead in the design and development of the backend platform

● Mentor a team of developers, promote collaboration and engagement, and promote practices that improve the developer experience

● Work closely with Product Managers and Founders to brainstorm requirements and prioritize

● Own quality - actively participate in code reviews

● Own reliability - continuously monitor Production Health, proactively fix production issues

● Own execution - Plan and delegate work for the team, optimize for speed of development and incremental delivery

📃Requirements

● 6+ years of hands-on experience in application development

● 1+ years of leading a team

● Experience in working with distributed systems

● Proficient in building Microservices/RESTful APIs with any modern tech stack

● Working knowledge of relational and nonrelational databases

● Prior working knowledge of Python/Django is a big plus

● Familiarity with modern CI/CD tools

● Knowledge of AWS or any other Cloud Platform services

● Champion code quality and drive best practices

● Ability to analyze and convert business requirements into technical requirements

● Self-starter and ability to take the ownership

● Prior experience working in a startup environment is great to have

● Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

🤩Benefits

● Becoming a part of the early core team

● Competitive salary

● Work with colleagues from strong backgrounds & hungry to succeed

● Opportunity to interact with and learn from high-pedigree investors & mentors -

○ VCs: Elevation Capital (erstwhile SAIF Partners), Matrix Partners

○ Select angel investors: Kunal Shah, Nithin Kamath, Amit Ranjan

🔎What are we looking for?

● Self-starter with a high sense of ownership → Comfortable to work with minimal

supervision

● Hungry to learn and grow → Passion to learn & be a better version of oneself; motivated to succeed

● Bias for action → Have the temperament to experiment and execute in uncertainty

● Hustler → Ability to generate resources to solve a problem

● Intellectual honesty → Always seeking and presenting truth irrespective of personal

POV or beliefs

● Mission-oriented → Deeply care about delivering value and making an impact on customer’s lives

✅Key Details

● Role: Engineering Lead

● Location: Bengaluru

● Compensation: Negotiable based on candidate profile (structured as Fixed + ESOPs)

● Date of Joining: ASAP

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. You will also be required to maintain the central database and respond to requests from front-end developers.

To ensure success as a PHP developer, you should have in-depth knowledge of object-oriented PHP programming, an understanding of MVC designs, and working

Knowledge of front-end technologies including HTML5, JavaScript, and CSS3. Ultimately, a top-level PHP Developer can design and build efficient PHP modules while seamlessly integrating front-end technologies.

• Analyzing website and application
• Writing back-end code and building efficient PHP modules.
• Developing back-end portals with an optimized
• Troubleshooting application and code
• Integrating data storage
• Responding to integration requests from front-end developers.
• Finalizing back-end features and testing web
• Updating and altering application features to enhance

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a similar
• Knowledge of PHP web frameworks including Yii, Laravel, and CodeIgniter.
• Knowledge of front-end technologies including CSS3, JavaScript, and
• Understanding of object-oriented PHP
• Previous experience creating scalable
• Proficient with code versioning tools including Git, Mercurial, CVS, and
• Familiarity with SQL/NoSQL
• Ability to project
• Good problem-solving skills

Responsibilities:

• The candidate will get an opportunity to work on AI/ML technologies using NodeJS for web applications.
• Deliver high-quality code in a fast-paced customer-facing product.
• Specify, design, and implement the functionality and behaviors of the web infrastructure.
• Be involved in the full life-cycle of development from concept through integration, test, and high web traffic deployments.
• Interface with the firmware team as well as clients and end-users of the products.
• API development using REST JSON/XML, and security standards like OAuth.

Requirements:

• BTech or MTech in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or other similar majors.
• Experience building products with full-stack technologies, and an excellent understanding of computer science fundamentals, data structures, and algorithms.
• Must have experience in version control systems like GIT.
• Strong in NodeJS, MySQL, MongoDB, Kafka, Elasticsearch.

• Write well-designed code.
• Produce detailed specifications.
• Troubleshoot, test and maintain the core product software and databases to ensure strong optimization and functionality.
• Contribute in all phases of the development lifecycle.
• Follow industry best practices.
• Develop and deploy new features to facilitate related procedures and tools if necessary

• Expertise in any MVC framework, RDBMS, JSON,PHP and Rest APIs.
• Good understanding of design patterns.
• Should be flexible to work on multiple technologies as per project requirements.
• Candidate should be able to handle given task independently with minimal help.
• He/She should be a team player and be able to complete assign tasks on time.