PHP Fullstack Developer

Role Overview

• We’re looking for an experienced Laravel Developer to join our Mumbai team.
• You’ll be a key contributor to our product development and delivery initiatives, helping build and maintain high-quality web applications that power impactful solutions worldwide.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain robust, scalable web applications using Laravel (v8 or higher).
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and deliver new product features.
• Write clean, secure, and efficient code following best practices.
• Build and maintain RESTful APIs and third-party integrations.
• Troubleshoot, debug, and optimize applications for performance and reliability.
• Manage and optimize MySQL/PostgreSQL databases and queries.
• Participate in code reviews, daily stand-ups, and Agile ceremonies.
• Contribute to maintaining code quality, CI/CD pipelines, and deployment processes.

Required Skills

• Strong hands-on experience with Laravel (v8 or higher) and PHP.
• Sound understanding of MVC architecture and OOP principles.
• Proficiency with MySQL/PostgreSQL, Eloquent ORM, migrations, and seeders.
• Solid knowledge of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and frontend libraries like Bootstrap.
• Experience building and consuming RESTful APIs.
• Familiarity with Git and version control workflows.
• Good understanding of application hosting, deployment, and CI/CD.
• Strong problem-solving and communication skills.

Good to Have (Preferred Skills)

• Experience with Vue.js, React.js, or other frontend frameworks.
• Knowledge of Docker, Kubernetes, or containerization tools.
• Familiarity with AWS, Azure, or other cloud platforms.
• Basic understanding of Linux server administration.
• Exposure to Agile/Scrum methodologies.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, IT, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
• Minimum 2+ years of experience in developing and deploying Laravel-based applications.
• Certification(s) in PHP or Laravel development is a plus.

Why Join Us

• Opportunity to work on projects that create real social impact across multiple countries.
• Collaborative, fast-paced, and growth-oriented environment.
• Exposure to cutting-edge technologies and global clients (including UN agencies).

What You’ll Do

• Build & tune models: embeddings, transformers, retrieval pipelines, evaluation frameworks.
• Architect Python services (FastAPI/Flask) to embed ML/LLM workflows end-to-end.
• Translate AI research into production features for data extraction, document reasoning, and risk analytics.
• Own the full user flow: back-end → front-end (React/TS) → CI/CD on Azure & Docker.
• Leverage AI coding tools (Copilot, Cursor, Jules) to meet our 1 dev = 4 devs productivity bar.

Core Tech Stack:

• Primary:

Python · FastAPI/Flask · Pandas · SQL/NoSQL · Hugging Face · LangChain/RAG · REST/GraphQL · Azure · Docker

• Bonus:

React.js · Vector Databases · Kubernetes

You Bring:

• Proven track record shipping Python features and training/serving ML or LLM models.
• Comfort reading research papers/blogs, prototyping ideas, and measuring model performance.
• 360° product mindset: tests, reviews, secure code, quick iterations.
• Strong ownership and output focus — impact beats years of experience.

Why Join Intain?

• Small, expert team where your code and models hit production fast.
• Work on real-world AI problems powering billions in structured-finance transactions.
• Compensation & ESOPs tied directly to the value you ship.

📍 About Us

Intain is transforming structured finance using AI — from data ingestion to risk analytics. Our platform, powered by IntainAI and Ida, helps institutions manage and scale transactions seamlessly.

• Build campaign generation services which can send app notifications at a speed of 10 million a minute
• Dashboards to show Real time key performance indicators to clients
• Develop complex user segmentation engines which creates segments on Terabytes of data within few seconds
• Building highly available & horizontally scalable platform services for ever growing data
• Use cloud based services like AWS Lambda for blazing fast throughput & auto scalability
• Work on complex analytics on terabytes of data like building Cohorts, Funnels, User path analysis, Recency Frequency & Monetary analysis at blazing speed
• You will build backend services and APIs to create scalable engineering systems.
• As an individual contributor, you will tackle some of our broadest technical challenges that requires deep technical knowledge, hands-on software development and seamless collaboration with all functions.
• You will envision and develop features that are highly reliable and fault tolerant to deliver a superior customer experience.
• Collaborating various highly-functional teams in the company to meet deliverables throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Identify and improvise areas of improvement through data insights and research.

• 2-5 years of experience in backend development and must have worked on Java/shell/Perl/python scripting.
• Solid understanding of engineering best practices, continuous integration, and incremental delivery.
• Strong analytical skills, debugging and troubleshooting skills, product line analysis.
• Follower of agile methodology (Sprint planning, working on JIRA, retrospective etc).
• Proficiency in usage of tools like Docker, Maven, Jenkins and knowledge on frameworks in Java like spring, spring boot, hibernate, JPA.
• Ability to design application modules using various concepts like object oriented, multi-threading, synchronization, caching, fault tolerance, sockets, various IPCs, database interfaces etc.
• Hands on experience on Redis, MySQL and streaming technologies like Kafka producer consumers and NoSQL databases like mongo dB/Cassandra.
• Knowledge about versioning like Git and deployment processes like CICD.

• Previous working experience as a MEAN Stack Developer for 1+ years
• BSc degree in Computer Science or similar relevant field 
• In-depth knowledge of NodeJS, ExpressJS or Restify
• Experience implementing applications using Angular 1 or React
• Experience creating front end applications using HTML5, Angular, LESS/SASS
• Hands-on experience with JavaScript Development on both client and server-side
• Experience with modern frameworks and design patterns, minimum one-year experience with MEAN Fullstack paradigm
• Knowledge of the following will be considered as an advantage:
• Consumer Web Development Experience for High-Traffic, Public Facing web applications
• Experience with cloud technologies also a plus
• Creating secure RESTful-based web services in XML and JSON, Javascript, JQuery
• Continuous integration (Jenkins/Hudson) and version control (SVN, Git).