PHP developer

Senior Backend Engineer

As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will play a critical role in designing and building highly scalable, reliable

backend systems that power our global Yoga & Fitness platform. You will own backend architecture, make

key technical decisions, and ensure our systems perform reliably at scale in production environments.

Responsibilities

● Design, build, and own scalable, high-performance backend systems and APIs.

● Make key architectural and technical decisions with long-term scalability and reliability in mind.

● Lead backend development from system design to production rollout.

● Own production systems including monitoring, performance tuning, and incident response.

● Handle scale, performance, and availability challenges across distributed systems.

● Ensure strong security, data protection, and compliance standards.

● Collaborate closely with product and frontend teams to deliver impactful features.

● Mentor engineers and lead knowledge-sharing sessions.

● Champion AI-assisted development and automation to improve engineering productivity.

Qualifications

● 5+ years of experience in backend software engineering with production-scale systems.

● Strong expertise in Go (Golang) and backend service development.

● Experience designing scalable, distributed system architectures.

● Strong experience with SQL and NoSQL databases and performance optimization.

● Hands-on experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure and cloud-native architectures.

● Strong understanding of scalability, performance, and reliability engineering.

● Excellent communication and technical decision-making skills.

Required Skills

● Go (Golang)

● Backend system design and architecture

● Distributed systems and scalability

● Database design and optimization

● Cloud-native development

● Production debugging and performance tuning

Preferred Skills

● Experience with AI-assisted development tools and workflows

● Knowledge of agentic workflows or MCP

● Experience scaling consumer-facing or marketplace platforms

● Strong DevOps and observability experience

About the Company

● MyYogaTeacher is a fast-growing health-tech startup focused on improving physical and mental

well-being worldwide.

● We connect highly qualified Yoga and Fitness coaches with customers globally through personalized

1-on-1 live sessions.

● 200,000+ customers, 335,000+ 5-star reviews, and 95% sessions rated 5 stars.

● Headquartered in California with operations in Bangalore.

• Good knowledge in PHP , Linux and DB.
• Good knowledge in Laravel, Codeigniter Framework or any Framework.
  
• Good knowledge in Javascript.
• Candidate must have a good experience in Practical PHP, OOPS & SQL concepts.

Job Description:
      We are looking for a self-starter/ Back End Developer who can work well with minimal guidance and in a fluid environment. Proficient at programming and interacting with APIs and good knowledge of RESTful design. Customer-focused reacts well to changes, works with teams, and is able to multitask. A natural communicator who can articulate and express thoughts and explain technical concepts in clear, plain English (both written and verbal)

Key Responsibilities: 

Hands-on experience in different technologies and languages such as JavaScript, NodeJS, MongoDB, Express JS, MySQL, REST API, Web Services/REST/JSON, MVC Framework to develop Web /mobile applications. Participating in the design and creation of scalable software. Writing clean, functional code on the back-end. Testing and fixing bugs or other coding issues

Position Type: Full-Time

Educational Qualifications: B.Tech/B.Sc/MCA/Relevant Degree in Computer Science.

Experience: 3+ years of hands-on experience in Backend

Reports to: Development Manager

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Work with development teams and product managers to ideate software solutions
• Design client-side and server-side architecture
• Develop and manage well-functioning databases and applications
• Write effective APIs
• Test software to ensure responsiveness and efficiency
• Troubleshoot, debug and upgrade software
• Create security and data protection settings
• Build features and applications with a mobile responsive design
• Write technical documentation
• Work with data scientists and analysts to improve software
• Excellent scoping and estimation skills

Skills and Responsibilities:

• Proven experience as a Backend Developer or similar role
• 4+ years of hands-on software engineering experience in Node.js and Typescript

(Including Express, Feathers.js, and/or Nunjucks)

• Strong understanding of node modules, npm, nodemon.
• Strong understanding of production systems and Cloud deployments, especially in AWS
• Good understanding of test frameworks like Chai, Mocha, and Sinon
• Good understanding of javascript concepts like Promises and Async-Await
• Deep understanding of mobile backend infrastructure including service-oriented or

microservice architecture.

• Strong experience using a client-side MVC framework such as NodeJS, NextJS, Redux.Good experience working on Backend.
• Ensure the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs.
• Experience with filesystems, server architectures, and performance tuning
• Building reusable code and libraries for future use
• Experience in a relational database and version control tools and integration of third.
• Maintain existing code base including troubleshooting of issues and fixing bugs.
• Experience developing desktop and mobile applications
• Developing and implementing highly responsive user interface components using react
• Strong knowledge in databases MySQL, MongoDB, web servers Apache, and UI/UX design.
• Top-notch programming skills and write code for robust software design.
• Experience in responsive design, cross-browser compatibility, and website performance.
• Knowledge of performance testing frameworks including Mocha and Jest
• Aggressive problem diagnosis and creative problem-solving skills.
• Good understanding of how browsers and DOM work.
• Experience with handling Services, RESTful, APIs.
• Excellent communication and teamwork skills
• Great attention to detail and organizational skills
• An analytical mind and problem-solving skills.
• F&B (Food and Beverages) domain experience is a plus.
• Monitoring and improving front-end performance
• A passion for new consumer technology and the emerging media landscape
• F&B (Food and Beverages) domain experience is a plus.
• Keywords skill sets:- Node Js, Express Framework, Feathers Js, JavaScript, PHP, MVC Framework, REST API, Web Services/REST/JSON, MySQL, MongoDB, AWS

Personality fit 

Looking to hire a Backend developer, who wakes up every day with the zeal of learning something new - a mind that is always curious. Not only this, he should be proud to have a good experience on algorithms and understand his technology at the atomic level.

Preliminary requirements for the role

1. Should understand the architecture of Node Js language, and must have had at least 1 year of solid experience in writing robust code in this language.
2. Should be well versed with basic algorithms on ( array, Linked list, stack, queue)- Yes, we do ask questions associated with time and space complexity for the above-mentioned algorithms
3. Thorough understanding of MySQL, in that, creating all types of joins ( inner, outer, left, and right) on multiple tables, views, and triggers are a piece of cake for you.
4. Further, you should have a decent understanding of database designs so that you can make quick decisions about normalization, inclusion/exclusion of foreign keys, etc
5. Should have a decent understanding of code repository tool such as GitHub
6. Should be well versed with the basics of AWS ( understanding of cloud architecture would be a plus)
7. Should be aware of the commonly used encryption techniques such as JWT, API encryption, Token management, etc
8. Exposure to working in E-commerce related applications as well as in a startup environment would be an add on.