PHP Developer

We are seeking an experienced, hands-on Backend Team Lead to architect and deliver robust, scalable systems while mentoring a team of developers. The ideal candidate will bridge strategic technical vision with practical execution, ensuring high-quality solutions aligned closely with business objectives and technology best practices.

Responsibilities:

●      Architect, design and deliver mission-critical modules end-to-end

●      Write production-grade code daily; lead reviews, debugging, refactoring

●      Embed TDD, CI/CD, design principles, and engineering best practices

●      Develop high-performance, scalable backend systems that power global products

●      Partner with Team Lead, PMs, QA, and product designers to define and execute features

Criteria:

●      6+ years of backend development experience; 2+ years in technical leadership

●      Experience in leading a team of atleast 3-4 engineers

Preferred Skills:

●      Extensive experience with Laravel, Node.js, Python, MySQL, MongoDB

●      Passionate about writing clean, testable, modular code using design patterns

●      Solid understanding and experience with cloud infrastructure, preferably AWS (ECS, Aurora, Lambda, S3, CloudFront etc), including scaling, and security best practices.

●      Demonstrated expertise in building and maintaining systems using a microservices architecture, with an emphasis on scalability, reliability, and maintainability.

●      Familiarity and practical experience with asynchronous communication between microservices using tools like Kafka etc, event-driven architectures, and messaging patterns at scale.

●      Proven capability in designing inter-service communication protocols to optimize system performance, resilience, and latency under heavy loads.

●      Startup exposure—comfortable with ambiguity, learning quickly, pivoting often

●      Excellent communicator, collaborator, and mentor

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.

Requirements:

• Should have sound knowledge of PHP, MySQL, JQuery & javascript.
• Should know MVC framework Yii/Yii2
• Knowledge of mobile app APIs, JSON, etc.
• Knowledge of version control systems like GIT is a plus.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Troubleshoot and fix any issues relating to PHP programs.

Highlights:

• Working 5 days a week.
• Group Health Insurance for our employees.
• Work with a team of 200+ excellent engineers.
• Extra Compensation for Night Shifts.
• Additional Salary for an extra day spent in the office.
• Lunch buffets for all our employees.
• Yearly and quarterly awards with CASH amount, Dinner coupons, etc
• Team Dinners on Project Completion.
• Festival celebration, month end celebration and much more.

Hello,

Greetings for the day !!!

We are hiring "Backend Developer" for one of the IT & digital tech solutions based organization @ US (Chicago) !!!

JOB BRIEF:

• We are looking for an experienced Back-end developer to join our IT team.
• You will be responsible for the server side of our web applications.
• If you have excellent programming skills and a passion for developing applications or improving existing ones, we would like to meet you.
• As a Back-end developer, you’ll work closely with our engineers to ensure system consistency and improve user experience.
• Ultimately, you should be able to develop and maintain functional and stable web applications to meet our company’s needs.

RESPONSIBILITIES:
Participate in the entire application lifecycle, focusing on coding and debugging

• Write clean code to develop functional web applications
• Troubleshoot and debug applications
• Perform UI tests to optimize performance
• Manage cutting-edge technologies to improve legacy applications
• Collaborate with Front-end developers to integrate user-facing elements with server side logic
• Gather and address technical and design requirements
• Provide training and support to internal teams
• Build reusable code and libraries for future use
• Liaise with developers, designers, and system administrators to identify new features
• Follow emerging technologies

REQUIREMENTS & SKILLS:

• Minimum of 5 years of work experience as a Back-end developer
• In-depth understanding of the entire web development process (design, development, and deployment)
• Knowledge of multiple back-end languages (e.g., C#, Java, Python, PHP, RUBY) and JavaScript
• frameworks (e.g., Angular, React, [website])
• Experience with .NET, C#, [website] MVC framework, .NET web APIs
• Familiarity with databases (e.g., MySQL, MongoDB, SQL server), web servers (e.g., Apache) and UI/UX design
• Skills on Database design, table, views creation,
• Writing SQL scripts, stored procedures, creating SQL Jobs etc. optimizing queries.
• Should be able to work with different rest APIs and consuming the data, make GET, PUT, POST calls
• Should be able to create APIs that others can consume
• Working knowledge of CMS framework
• Familiarity with front-end languages (e.g., HTML, JavaScript, and CSS)
• Excellent analytical and time management skills
• Teamwork skills with a problem-solving attitude
• BSc degree in Computer Science or relevant field

Employment Mode: Full time - Remote opportunity

Joining Period: Immediate to Max 30 days

Location: Full Fledge Remote

Shifts: US Shift

• Research, design and build highly reliable, available, and scalable platforms.
• Explore design implications and work towards an appropriate balance between functionality, performance, and maintainability.
• Lead by example, mentor, and guide team members on everything from structured problem solving to development of best practices.
• Own large technical deliverables and execute in an exemplary way
• Be able to conceptualize and develop prototype quickly
• Working with a cross-discipline team (Design, Product, Engineer, Operations, Sales, Marketing).
• Active participation in the hiring process to bring quality engineers in the team. 
• Lead-out team meetings, stand-ups, and architecture/design discussions
• Writing bug-free code, participating in code reviews, designing/architecting systems of varying complexity and scope, and creating high-quality documentation supporting the design/coding tasks
• Identify areas of improvement in our frameworks, tools, processes and strive to make them better.
• Researching new technologies and adapting them to BeyondSkool’s requirements
• Own and commit to all your work, and be accountable for your results
• Using and understanding code from Open-Source projects
• Participate in a culture of code reviews, writing tech specs, and collaborating closely with other people
• Produce highly reliable systems that are thoroughly tested and benchmarked.
• Develop multi-tier scalable, high-volume performing, and reliable user-centric infrastructure that operates 24x7
• Scale distributed applications, make architectural trade-offs applying synchronous and asynchronous design patterns, and deliver with speediness and quality.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or any other relevant field.
• Experience of 5 - 7 years as a back-end engineer preferably in a microservice environment.
• Strong proficiency of Node.js and frameworks available for it such as Express.js
• Strong proficiency in Javascript and TypeScript

• Must have worked building 2+ backend system using node.js and Express.js
• Strong understanding and experience of creating highly scalable and complex database design.
• Good understanding of Data Modeling using RDBMS and NoSQL (Cassandra, MongoDB, ElasticSearch, Redis) data stores
• Strong problem-solving skills with a good understanding of data structures and algorithms
• Strong understanding of front-end technologies, such as HTML5, and CSS3
• User authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments
• Experience of creating highly scalable, fault tolerant, resilient distributed systems
• Strong knowledge of creating scalable system design and good understanding of microservice based architectures
• Understanding of caching enabled, PubSub and event driven architectures
• Hands on experience and good knowledge of AWS services
• Understanding automated testing platforms like selenium and unit tests like Chai, Mocha, Jasmine etc
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git
• Curiosity to explore the cutting-edge technologies and bake them in the products.
• Zeal and drive to take end to end ownership.

Roles & Responsibilities:

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, etc.).

Integration of User Interfaces developed by front end developers.

Skills and Qualifications:

· Must have a bachelor’s degree or above in Computer Science or in similar field.

· Minimum 4 years of experience in PHP web development.

· Strong knowledge of front-end technologies, such as JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3

· Strong knowledge of PHP web frameworks (CodeIgniter, NodeJS)

· Experience in creating custom modules and themes.

· Expert knowledge in web architecture.

· Strong understanding of MVC design patterns and oops concept.

· Strong understanding of full synchronous behaviour of PHP.

· Experience with modern UI frameworks such as React, Angular or Vue.js

· Experience in MySQL and the ability to write SQL queries.

· Proficient understanding of source control management such as Git, SVN.

· Proficient understanding fundamental design principles behind a scalable application.

· Familiarity with limitations of PHP as a platform and its workarounds.

· Ability to create database schemes that represent and support business processes.

· Experience with Edu Tech companies will be preferred.

. Immediate Joiner Preferred.