PHP Laravel Developer

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain custom WordPress themes, plugins, and APIs using PHP, MySQL, HTML, CSS, jQuery, and JavaScript.
• Build and optimize REST APIs and integrate with third-party services.
• Ensure high performance, scalability, and security of WordPress applications.
• Collaborate with Product Managers, UI/UX Designers, QA, and DevOps to deliver high-quality solutions.
• Write clean, testable, and maintainable code following best practices.
• Troubleshoot and resolve WordPress-related technical issues.
• Stay updated on WordPress and web technology trends.

Required Skills & Experience

• 7+ years of experience in PHP and WordPress development.
• Strong expertise in custom theme and plugin development.
• Proficiency in JavaScript, jQuery, AJAX, HTML5, and CSS3.
• Solid experience with MySQL and database optimization.
• Hands-on experience with Git and Agile methodologies.
• Knowledge of WordPress security best practices, SEO, and performance tuning.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, Docker, and cloud platforms (AWS/GCP) is a plus.
• Experience with multisite or headless WordPress is an advantage.
• Experience with Laravel, Symfony, Yii, and other PHP-based frameworks is a plus.

Nice to have 

• Cloudflare Workers (Wrangler, KV/R2, Durable Objects) 
• Salesforce OAuth/API experience; HubSpot Forms event hooks; middleware patterns. 
• AWS basic understanding 
• Cloudflare basic understanding 
• Uptime/transaction monitoring via Checkly or other automated systems. 
• Entry-level DevOps/networking understanding: HTTP/TLS, CORS, DNS, proxies, caching, request/response debugging (HAR). 

Qualifications

• Associate or bachelor’s degree preferred (Computer Science, Engineering, etc.), but equivalent work experience in a technology-related area may substitute.
• Proven track record in building and maintaining large-scale WordPress platforms.

We’re looking for an Engineering Manager to guide our micro-service platform and mentor a fully remote backend team. You’ll blend hands-on technical ownership with people leadership—shaping architecture, driving cloud best practices, and coaching engineers in their careers and craft.

Key Responsibilities:

Area

What You’ll Own

Architecture & Delivery

• Define and evolve backend architecture built on Java 17+, Spring Boot 3, AWS (Containers, Lambdas, SQS, S3), Elasticsearch, PostgreSQL/MySQL, Databricks, Redis etc...

• Lead design and code reviews; enforce best practices for testing, CI/CD, observability, security, and cost-efficient cloud operations.

• Drive technical roadmaps, ensuring scalability (billions of events, 99.9 %+ uptime) and rapid feature delivery.

Team Leadership & Growth

• Manage and inspire a distributed team of 6-10 backend engineers across multiple time zones.

• Set clear growth objectives, run 1-on-1s, deliver feedback, and foster an inclusive, high-trust culture.

• Coach the team on AI-assisted development workflows (e.g., GitHub Copilot, LLM-based code review) to boost productivity and code quality.

Stakeholder Collaboration

• Act as technical liaison to Product, Frontend, SRE, and Data teams, translating business goals into resilient backend solutions.

• Communicate complex concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences; influence cross-functional decisions.

Technical Vision & Governance

• Own coding standards, architectural principles, and technology selection.

• Evaluate emerging tools and frameworks (especially around GenAI and cloud-native patterns) and create adoption strategies.

• Balance technical debt and new feature delivery through data-driven prioritization.

Required Qualifications:

● 8+ years designing, building, and operating distributed backend systems with Java & Spring Boot

● Proven experience leading or mentoring engineers; direct people-management a plus

● Expert knowledge of AWS services and cloud-native design patterns

● Hands-on mastery of Elasticsearch, PostgreSQL/MySQL, and Redis for high-volume, low-latency workloads

● Demonstrated success scaling systems to millions of users or billions of events Strong grasp of DevOps practices: containerization (Docker), CI/CD (GitHub Actions), observability stacks

● Excellent communication and stakeholder-management skills in a remote-fi rst environment

Nice-to-Have:

● Hands-on experience with Datadog (APM, Logs, RUM) and a data-driven approach to debugging/performance tuning

● Startup experience—comfortable wearing multiple hats and juggling several projects simultaneously

● Prior title of Principal Engineer, Staff Engineer, or Engineering Manager in a high-growth SaaS company

● Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools (Copilot, CodeWhisperer, Cursor) and a track record of introducing them safely

Job Title: Engineering Manager (Java / Spring Boot, AWS) – Remote

Leadership Role

Location: Remote

Employment Type: Full-time

Responsibilities of a Senior Software Engineer (Backend):

• You will be a guide in the entire application lifecycle including research, design, development, testing (dev owns quality), along with continuous deployment and delivery
• Lead design with a major focus on best user experience, performance, scalability and future expansion
• You will act as a mentor for less-experienced peers through both your technical knowledge and leadership skills to bring in continuous improvements and implement best practices.
• You will apply the latest technology thinking from our tech radar, adopt best design practices to solve complex problems and ensure our product is the best in usability.
• You will work directly with the CEO and the cross functional product teams, align on the needs of the products and operations.
• You will analyze business, technology challenges and suggest solutions
• Build an “Awesome” team

This opportunity is for you if,

• You have 4-6 Years of work experience in building highly-interactive applications using Java, Spring MVC, Spring JMS, Spring JDBC, Spring IOC, Spring Boot, MySQL, MiBatis, ReactJS, Java Script, jQuery, AWS, JMS and have knowledge on wide range of web technologies, tools and Frameworks.
• You have experience in working with Restful webservices
• You have strong knowledge and understanding of design patterns and domain driven design
• You understand fundamental design principles behind building scalable, resilient, and maintainable applications 
• You have functional knowledge of inclusive design: accessibility, and related tooling
• You have consumer web development experience for high-traffic, public facing web applications
• You have knack for writing clean, readable, re-usable code
• You have good knowledge on TDD and CI/CD practices.
• You have experience in managing and publishing releases using Git branching and tools like NPM and YARN.
• You have penchant for learning
• You are a great analytical & logical thinker and someone who loves solving problems
• You are passionate, energetic, enthusiastic and a go-getter
• You are “ FUN @ Work “

• Designing and implementing new features and functionality
• Establishing and guiding the website’s architecture
• Ensuring high-performance and availability, and managing all technical aspects of the CMS
• Helping formulate an effective, responsive design and turning it into a working theme and plugin.
• Self motivated.
• Zeal to learn new things.
• Must be proficient in PHP, MySQL, CSS, HTML, Javascript, AJAX
• Should have experience with WordPress.
• Knowledge of PHP web frameworks like CodeIgnit.

* Write “clean”, 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

Requirements:

* Proven software development experience in PHP

* Understanding of Frameworks like Laravel, CodeIgnitor, Wordpress, Yii, etc

* Demonstrable knowledge of web technologies including HTML, CSS, Javascript, AJAX etc

* Good knowledge of relational databases, version control tools and of developing web services

* Experience in common third-party APIs (Google, Facebook, Ebay etc)

* Passion for best design and coding practices and a desire to develop new bold ideas

* BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related subject

• 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.