PHP Developer

Criteria:

2–8+ years software development with 3+ years building systems with Laravel, PHP & MySql. Worked On Micro Service Architecture.

Technical Skills:

● Strong Laravel expertise (v9–12.x): service container, Eloquent ORM, middleware, events, queues, caching.

● Proficiency in PHP 8+, OOP, design patterns, and unit testing (PHPUnit).

● Expertise in MySQL: schema design, indexing, and query optimisation.

● Experience with caching/in-memory stores: Redis, Memcached.

● Hands-on with message queues (Redis queues, RabbitMQ, SQS, or equivalent).

● Familiar with Docker / containerised environments.

● Experience with AWS services: ECS, S3, RDS, API Gateway, Lambda, Cloudwatch, SES, etc.

● Ability to effectively use AI-powered tools (e.g., for code generation, refactoring, documentation, testing, and productivity improvements).

Soft Skills

● Clear and effective communication.

● Strong ownership and accountability.

● Ability to break down complex problems and provide accurate estimates.

● Openness to adopt new tools/technologies to improve team efficiency.

What we offer:

● An exceptional team: Our hiring bar is high, and your colleagues are talented, motivated self-starters.

● A learning environment: We are a learning organization and as a team we will help you grow and encourage you to learn and upgrade your skills.

● Outstanding compensation: top talent deserves top pay, and our salary, equity and benefits reflect this.

● Opportunities to grow: Encourages you to attend technical conferences and take company funded educational courses to advance your skills.

● An opportunity to be a key member of a well-capitalized leading brand in online real estate investing platform.

We are looking for a highly skilled computer programmer who is comfortable with both front and back end programming. Full stack developers will be required to see out a project from conception to final product, requiring good organizational skills and attention to detail.

Responsibilities:

• Developing front end website and back-end website applications.

• Seeing through a project from conception to finished product.

• Designing and developing integrations with 3rd party apps.

• Working on Next JS and Node JS .

• Design, build and maintain SaaS-based products.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features.

• Web services and Integration with Business applications and various softwares

• Work with outside data sources and API’s, REST API's

• Unit-test code for robustness

• Work on bug fixing and improving application performance.

Requirements:

• Experience of 1-3 years.

• Proficiency with fundamental front-end languages such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

• Proficiency with languages such as React JS, Next JS, Node JS, PHP Laravel, Angular, WordPress, REST API's

• Excellent verbal communication skills.

• Good problem-solving skills.

• Knowledge of software development principles and design patterns.

• Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to learn new technologies quickly.

• Strong communication skills and ability to work collaboratively in a team environment.

Job Type: Full-Time, 9 am to 6:30 pm (Monday to Friday)

• Experience in building both front-end and back-end of the website
• Knowledge of WordPress Plugins
• Excellent and written and verbal communication skills with proven fluency in English
• Good understanding of Web architecture
• Analysing website performance and troubleshooting errors
• Conducts Wordpress design/development research and performs discovery analyses for new client projects, including content reviews and wireframing.
• Creates Wordpress design/development strategies based on research.
• Stay up-to-date with new web technologies.

Perks

• Best hardware and software to help you get the job done in the best way possible
• Remote office allowance to support you regardless of where you work
• Learning and development allowance to help you grow your career
• Flexible leave policy to give you more control over your time.
• Health insurance for your family and you to keep you well.

Required experience and skills

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science and Engineering. Bonus: Masters degree.9+ years of total full-time work experience, preferably shipping SaaS applications.
• Startup experience strongly desired.
• Played a pivotal role in scaling a company and led teams in an agile environment where iteration has led to perfection.
• Proven track record of on time project deliveries with balanced calls on technical designs and tech debt.
• Expert proficiency in:
• 1. Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Mysql, Linux, Git, AWS, CI/CD, NewRelic.
• 2. broad range of internet technologies and applications.
• 3. interacting, building, and improving the performance of systems end-to-end.
• 4. architecting/designing complex systems
• Strong collaborator and thought partner to Product team.Driven by outcomes more than output.
• Have led projects with small, dynamic, and fast-paced teams (3-5 engineers), with great flexility and adaptability on large projects, delegating working effectively.
• Viewed by the team as their evangelist, role model and bar raiser.
• Past teams and co-workers attest to your prowess & agility in building great products, and driving sound technical decision making.Mentored engineers within and outside own team.
• High on EQ, humility, curiosity and self drive.

Responsibilities

We use a rubric / career ladder as a framework to help our engineers grow in their careers. Please refer to the SDE IV section in the rubric (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1z_51E1mZ3qf0MBuAyfHjKE1HN6h_yghAx2WMaB1z-Ms/edit?usp=sharing">click to view) to understand our expectations on your role and responsibilities.

Your responsibilities include:

• Leading completion and delivery of multiple concurrent projects with clear deliverable timelines and milestones
• Providing key input and guidance in helping to solve our most difficult and challenging issues, and providing recommendations for preventing or mitigating the effects of the issues in the future
• Identifying inconsistencies caused by lack of best practices and patterns, and proactively collaborate with the team to gather input to define and rollout new best practices
• Mentoring other engineers on increasing their impact both within and outside of their team, including identifying opportunities for them to do so
• Participate in shaping longer term technical and architectural goals in consideration of product/company strategy, organizational growth, scalability, security, and other factors