PHP Laravel Developer - Senior & Mid level

Our Mission

To make video as accessible to machines as text and voice are today.

At lookup, we believe the world's most valuable asset is trapped. Video is everywhere, but it's unsearchable—a black box of insight that no one can open or atleast open affordably. We’re changing that. We're building the search engine for the visual world, so anyone can find or do anything with video just by asking.

Text is queryable. Voice is transcribed. Video, the largest and richest data source of all, is still a black box. A computer can't understand it, and so its value remains trapped.

Our mission at lookup is to fix this.

About the Role

We are looking for founding Backend Engineers to build a highly performant, reliable, and scalable API platform that makes enterprise video knowledge readily available for video search, summarization, and natural‑language Q&A. You will partner closely with our ML team working on vision‑language models to productionize research and deliver fast, trustworthy APIs for customers.

Examples of technical challenges you will work on include: distributed video storage, a unified application framework and data model for indexing large video libraries, low‑latency clip retrieval, vector search at scale, and end‑to‑end build, test, deploy, and observability in cloud environments.

What You’ll Do:

• Design and build robust backend services and APIs (REST, gRPC) for vector search, video summarization, and video Q&A.
• Own API performance and reliability, including low‑latency retrieval, pagination, rate limiting, and backwards‑compatible versioning.
• Design schemas and tune queries in Postgres, and integrate with unstructured storage.
• Implement observability across metrics, logs, and traces. Set error budgets and SLOs.
• Write clear design docs and ship high‑quality, well‑tested code.
• Collaborate with ML engineers to integrate and productionize VLMs and retrieval pipelines.
• Take ownership of architecture from inception to production launch.

Who You Are:

• 3+ years of professional experience in backend development.
• Proven experience building and scaling polished WebSocket, gRPC, and REST APIs.
• Exposure to distributed systems and container orchestration (Docker and Kubernetes).
• Hands‑on experience with AWS.
• Strong knowledge of SQL (Postgres) and NoSQL (e.g., Cassandra), including schema design, query optimization, and scaling.
• Familiarity with our stack is a plus, but not mandatory: Python (FastAPI), Celery, Kafka, Postgres, Redis, Weaviate, React.
• Ability to diagnose complex issues, identify root causes, and implement effective fixes.
• Comfortable working in a fast‑paced startup environment.

Nice to have:

• Hands-on work with LLM agents, vector embeddings, or RAG applications.
• Building video streaming pipelines and storage systems at scale (FFmpeg, RTSP, WebRTC).
• Proficiency with modern frontend frameworks (React, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS) and responsive UI design.

Location & Culture

• Full-time, in-office role in Bangalore (we’re building fast and hands-on).
• Must be comfortable with a high-paced environment and collaboration across PST time zones for our US customers and investors.
• Expect startup speed — daily founder syncs, rapid design-to-prototype cycles, and a culture of deep ownership.

Why You’ll Love This Role

• Work on the frontier of video understanding and real-world AI — products that can redefine trust and automation.
• Build core APIs that make video queryable and power real customer use.
• Own systems end to end: performance, reliability, and developer experience.
• Work closely with founders and collaborate in person in Bangalore.
• Competitive salary with meaningful early equity.

1. PHP Developer/Sr. PHP Developer:

• Reviewing (if already developed) current system workflow and database design.
• Analyzing the needs of system and producing detailed specification document
• Create a step by step flow chart or psudocode for computing systems that shows how program code must be written in order to work properly.
• Develop a functional modules according as required under deadline.
• Integrating 3rd party tools wherever required.
• Perform and document unit testing for developed functions.
• System maintenance by monitoring and correcting software defects.
• Continuously updating technical knowledge and skills as per industry standards.
• Contribute to technical writers to create users documents.
• All tasks must be carried out at the highest standards.

• Strong experience on any of the modern PHP based frameworks like Laravel, Cake PHP, Symphony, etc.
• Ability to create Data Structures and Algorithms.

Experience of developing highly scalable web services and APIs using PHP.

• Development skills of Database design and information schema using NoSQL/SQL.
• Source control management (e.g. Git, SVN, Mercurial) to enable teams to work together to manage source code.
• Working over cloud computing platform like Amazon Web Service (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Microsoft Azure
• Strong designing / problem solving skills.

• Education: BCA, MCA, Msc IT, Bsc IT or any equivalent qualification
• Work Experience: 2-6 year of experience in same field
• Good Communication skill (Preferred)
• Can work under pressure
• Meet deadlines

Skyber is a fintech based in Mumbai, India, and is building a connected commerce platform and disruptive Enterprise SaaS with the fundamental of digitalizing, unifying, and streamlining business processes and transactions.

Our flagship platform - Dhanda (https://mydhanda.com">https://mydhanda.com) is live on Play Store and iOS App Store🚀

At Skyber, we are obsessed with our vision to create an ecosystem for Micro, Small, and Medium-sized Business Owners & freelancers of Bharat where we provide them with procurements to payments & enquiry to invoicing platform. Skyber was born out of the need to bring back the focus on these business owners, to empower them so that they can ride along with the technology wave and adopt the phigital way.

To build such a community we require people with the same vision who are working towards making this dream possible for us and for all these business owners.

Your Key Responsibilities:

• Developing and maintaining all server-side network components.
• Ensuring optimal performance of the central database and responsiveness to front-end requests.
• Collaborating with front-end developers on the integration of elements.
• Developing high-performance applications by writing testable, reusable, and efficient code.
• Implementing effective security protocols, data protection measures, and storage solutions.
• Running diagnostic tests, repairing defects, and providing technical support.
• Documenting Node.js processes, including database schemas, as well as preparing reports.
• Recommending and implementing improvements to processes and technologies.
• Keeping informed of advancements in the field of Node.js development
• Following an agile framework of development

Who can apply :

Only those candidates can apply who:

1. Are available for full time. Right now the team is working from home but when the situation improves we expect them to come to Office. ( Office is situated in Goregaon, Mumbai )
2. At least 2 years of professional work experience in the field of design along with a strong portfolio demonstrating past work experience.
3. Can join the team on an immediate basis.
4. Have relevant skills and interests.

Perks :

• Flexible work hours
• Informal dress code
• A ticket on our rocket ship to the Moon 🚀

Here’s what you will get if you work with us :

1. Working with a young & dynamic team that constantly tests your thinking and beliefs.
2. No specific work timings. We believe that your work should speak for you and not the time.
3. Constant amusement by Dot (Warning: Apply only if you love dogs) 🐶
4. Occasional doses of Yummy Home Cooked food 😋
5. Homelike Work Environment (We also have a bed if you need to sleep - even though we think you won't get any for a while)

Job Description -

We are looking to hire an experienced Magento Developer to build and maintain eCommerce websites for our clients.

Role Responsibilities:

●▪Meeting with the design team to discuss the needs of the company

●▪Building and configuring Magento 2x eCommerce websites

●▪Coding of the Magento templates

●▪Developing Magento modules in PHP using best practices

●▪Designing themes and interfaces

●▪Setting performance tasks and goals

●▪Troubleshooting integration issues

●▪Updating website features and security patches

Technical & Professional Requirements:

●▪Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

●▪Experienced in Magento (eCommerce CMS) 1-3 years (Familiar with Zend Framework)

●▪Experience with Magento modules and has customized the same

●▪Advanced knowledge of Magento, JavaScript, HTML, PHP, CSS, and MySQL

●▪Experience with complete eCommerce lifecycle development

●▪Understanding of modern UI/UX trends

●▪Should be capable of integrating open source scripts and tools

●▪Experience with software development tools like Jira,git,selenium

Strong attention to detail

●▪Ability to project-manage and work to strict deadlines

●▪Ability to work in a team environment

Service Line/Domain: Information Technology.

• Good rate of pay .  Developers have a higher starting wage bracket all around the world.
• The skills are transferable .  The skills you acquire will never be out of use.
• Work anywhere .  As a developer you aren’t limited to a particular region or country as 1’s and 0’s are understood everywhere.
• Comfortable Working Environment .  Wherever you go, you’ll have an air conditioned office, fast internet and a powerful laptop. What more does a man need?
• Constant learning  curve .  You will only get better with passing time as you will be in sync with the technological changes.
• You can be as creative as you want . Each day you create something from nothing. The only thing that  limits you will be your imagination.
• Maternity/paternity leave. Pursue career goals while growing your family.
• Professional development.   Get opportunities for professional development, to master new skills and to grow into other roles.

Responsibilities

Design Develop and maintain web functionalities

Work with Tech Lead to propose a technical solution

Liaise with designer to implement the UI/UX elements for web and mobile interfaces

Troubleshoot production problems and provide user support.

Design and conduct tests:

• Integrate multiple systems from different vendors with seamless data flow
• Investigate new technologies and continue to update your technical skills
• Write well-structured and testable code following the set guidelines

Requirements

Degree in IT or equivalent

More than 3 years of web-based application development experience in PHP.

Strong knowledge of PHP web frameworks: CodeIgniter, Laravel, Bootstrap, AngularJs, Angular Material, Symphony, Zend, Cake and Flask.

Languages

PHP, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Python.

Databases: MySql

Operating Systems: Ubuntu, Windows and Macintosh.

Others: jQuery, AJAX, JSON, Celery, Git, API, AWS, Facebook API, Twitter API, Google API,PayPal Integration, nginx, Apache,AmCharts, Mpdf and PhantomJs.

Mandatory:

Strong knowledge in Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery tools, e.g. Jenkins

Strong knowledge in planning for testing strategy, test suites and test cases.

Proficient understanding of code versioning tools (e.g. Git)

Understands web trends, including social media integration and the impact of the growth of mobile/tablet browsing

More than 3 years of web service (REST, SOAP) and API development and management

Strong Knowledge of security standards and techniques for web applications

Strong technical knowledge in software development methodologies, design patterns and implementation

Proven ability to carry a feature from start to finish, including prototypes, design specifications, constructive coding, unit testing and problem resolution

Preferred

Strong in SQL & PL/SQL and have good working knowledge on the relational database(s) (MySQL)

Experience With Selenium Web, Appium, Endtest.io Automated Regression Tools

Advantage

Experience with other server-side stacks (Node.js, Python, Java etc.) a plus

Experience developing native or hybrid mobile applications for IOS and/or Android a plus

Experience in the development and production of standards-based websites using HTML/5, CSS/3, JavaScript, jQuery, AJAX, JSON across multiple browsers a plus