Principal Engineer

PHP AI Developer

We are seeking a highly skilled PHP AI Developer with experience in building intelligent web applications, AI-powered automation solutions, and scalable enterprise systems. The ideal candidate should have strong expertise in PHP (Laravel), MySQL, JavaScript, REST APIs, AI integrations (OpenAI/Gemini/LLMs), and workflow automation, along with hands-on experience in developing AI-driven products and business applications. This role offers Permanent Work From Home.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable PHP/Laravel applications integrated with AI capabilities.
• Build AI-powered modules such as chatbots, document processing systems, recommendation engines, and workflow automation tools.
• Integrate Large Language Models (LLMs) like OpenAI, Gemini, Claude, or similar AI services into web applications.
• Develop and optimize REST APIs and third-party integrations.
• Implement AI features including text generation, summarization, classification, semantic search, and conversational interfaces.
• Optimize application performance, scalability, and security.
• Collaborate with product, design, and business teams to deliver AI-enabled solutions.
• Conduct code reviews and mentor junior developers.
• Stay updated with emerging AI technologies and recommend innovative improvements.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• Strong expertise in PHP (Laravel, Core PHP).
• Proficiency in MySQL, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB.
• Experience with AI APIs and LLM integrations (OpenAI, Gemini, Anthropic, Azure OpenAI, etc.).
• Knowledge of Prompt Engineering, RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation), Vector Databases, and AI Workflows.
• Experience with REST APIs, Webhooks, and third-party integrations.
• Hands-on experience with Git/GitHub, Docker, CI/CD pipelines.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) is a plus.
• Minimum 2+ years of software development experience, including AI-powered application development.

Preferred Experience

• Experience developing AI-powered SaaS platforms.
• Knowledge of chatbot development and intelligent automation solutions.
• Experience with vector databases such as Pinecone, Weaviate, ChromaDB, or FAISS.
• Exposure to enterprise-scale applications and high-traffic systems.
• Experience in ERP, CRM, EdTech, HRMS, or workflow management platforms with AI enhancements

Position - Full Stack Developer (MERN + Laravel/PHP)

Responsibilities:

• Front-End Development: Build responsive and modern interfaces using React.js, JavaScript (ES6+), HTML5, and CSS3.
• Back-End Development:
• Develop APIs and server-side logic with Node.js, Express.js, PHP, and Laravel.
• Database & API Work:
• Work with MySQL, MongoDB, and integrate RESTful APIs and third-party services.

Collaboration & Delivery: Contribute in an Agile/Scrum environment, using Git for version control and CI/CD pipelines for deployments.

Problem Solving: Debug, optimize, and ensure scalability and maintainability of applications.

Required Skills & Qualifications:

• Strong knowledge of React.js (hooks, lifecycle, state management).
• Proficiency in JavaScript (ES6+), HTML5, CSS3, and responsive design.Hands-on experience with Node.js + Express.js (middleware, error handling, authentication/authorization).Solid expertise in PHP & Laravel framework (routing, middleware, Eloquent ORM, Artisan CLI).Experience in API design, authentication (JWT, Laravel Sanctum), and integration.Familiarity with Git/GitHub and basic CI/CD tools.Strong problem-solving ability and teamwork in Agile projects.

SleekSky is a fast-growing engineering studio that partners with venture-backed product teams to ship modern, cloud-native software. We’re hiring a Software Engineer to join one of our health-tech clients and help build a scalable, user-centric platform that’s making a real-world impact—without revealing any confidential project details.

What you’ll do

• Build and ship production-ready React features that feel fast, accessible and polished.
• Design and maintain Node.js / Express APIs that are clean, secure and well-documented.
• Leverage AWS services (EC2, Lambda, Elastic Cache / Redis, load balancers, etc.) to deliver reliable, high-performance solutions.
• Automate CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions and uphold strong Git workflows.
• Collaborate in an agile, fully remote team that values code reviews, knowledge-sharing and continuous improvement.
• Champion engineering best practices—testing, monitoring, and infrastructure-as-code—while keeping an eye on new tech that can raise the bar.

What you’ll bring

• 2+ years of hands-on experience in full-stack development.
• Proven expertise with React (hooks, component architecture, state management) and modern JavaScript/TypeScript.
• Solid experience building RESTful services in Node.js with Express (or similar).
• Familiarity with AWS fundamentals (EC2, Lambda, load balancing, caching layers).
• Comfortable with Git, GitHub and automated CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions).
• Self-motivated, proactive and enthusiastic about learning new technologies and sharing knowledge with the team.
• Clear, concise communication skills—vital for an all-remote environment.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CloudFormation, CDK).
• Exposure to containerisation (Docker, ECS, EKS) or serverless architecture patterns.
• Prior work in health-tech or other regulated domains.

Why SleekSky?

At SleekSky, you’ll join a culture that puts people first—pair programming, regular knowledge-sharing sessions and a genuine passion for building things the right way. Expect autonomy, trust and a runway to grow your craft alongside enthusiastic peers.

Ready to level up with SleekSky? Submit your résumé on your preferred hiring portal and we’ll be in touch right away.

Requirements

• 4+ years of experience in professional Web Development
• Proven software development experience in Core PHP, Codeigniter, WordPress; Laravel is a plus.
• Must have 2+ yrs experience in VueJs.
• Experience in ReactJs, NodeJs is a plus.
• Excellent Software Design and Architecting capabilities
• Complete familiarity with client-side scripting and Angular JS, Ember JS , JavaScript frameworks, including jQuery.
• Complete familiarity and expertise in web markup, including HTML5, CSS3.
• Expertise in third party API integration - payment gateways, Storage, Streaming services, etc.
• Complete familiarity and experience working with JSON / XML and REST API structure
• Familiar with Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment technologies such as Bitbucket, Jenkins and Git
• AWS/Google Cloud Deployment is a must; Devops capability is a plus.
• Excellent knowledge of relational databases, version control tools and of developing web services.
• Sound Database experience with MySQL and PostgreSQL experience
• A sound knowledge of Object-Oriented (OOPS) Programming & Design Pattern.
• Agile and Iterative (TDD) development expertise.

• High School diploma or GED required 
• A minimum of 5 years’ experience designing and building scalable web based applications 
• Experience with RESTful web services, Java/Spring framework, NodeJS applications, React & Vue Frameworks 
• Strong relational database modeling and SQL experience (Oracle, MSSQL)f 
• Solid knowledge of testing principle and ability to build comprehensive test suite  
• Demonstrated UI design and UX sensibilities 
• Experience in scripting against Windows/Linux i.e. PowerShell, VB or Unix Shell Script, Python  
• Ability to coordinate the release/deployment process and versioning, code, configuration management 
• Experience with Git/Bitbucket and Opensource Tools and Agile methodologies 
• Experience leading software developers on development best practices as a technical lead 
• Experience with using JIRA (for defect tracking and for ITSM ticketing with Incident/Problem/Change)  

• Work with development teams and product managers to ideate software solutions

• 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

• Write technical documentation

• Proven experience in Software Development

• Experience developing web applications

• Knowledge and Understanding  of programming languages(e.g. Java, Python, C, C++) and Understanding JavaScript frameworks (e.g. React, Node.js)

• Familiarity with databases (e.g. MySQL, MongoDB), web servers (e.g. Apache) 

• Excellent communication and teamwork skills

• Great attention to detail

Vah Vah! is an ed-tech company that offers online makeup courses in micro-batches to students across India to learn from the leading teachers in top cities. We provide holistic education with lots of practical training that makes our students job-ready with not just the base skills but also the soft skills for great customer service. Our teachers have more than 15+ years of experience in training makeup and have certified more than 1000+ students. Vah Vah! is founded by executives with extensive experience running consumer business and mobile games at scale (over 100 million players) at Zynga. Vah Vah! is backed by a leading investment firm.

Website Link: https://vahvah.com/

The Mission

Vah Vah teaches professional makeup to budding makeup artists and influencers through live online classes. We have students from Srinagar, all the way to the Andamans. And experienced teachers who have worked in Bridal Makeup, Ramp Shoots, Film and more. We empower our students to join the workforce as fully trained makeup artists. This is the future of vocational education, and you can help build it.

Our Culture

• Amazing workplace and colleagues to work with
• We have the right mixture of creativity, analytics and hustle to move fast in the right direction.
• You will work with colleagues who don’t take themselves too seriously but move mountains.
• See yourself evolving every month with new problems to solve and new skill to master.
• Work with the smartest engineers so you can learn from them.
• Competitive salary at par with the best in the industry
• Great stock options so you can benefit from the company's growth.
• Immense exposure to new technologies

Responsibilities:

• Complete ownership of building and maintaining Web APP
• Deliver across the entire app life cycle design, build, deploy, test, release to production and support
• Should be comfortable in building a great consumer user interface and responsive web apps.

Requirements:

• Overall experience of 2-4 years
• React Web Developer with 2+ years of experience
• Should have worked on NodeJS with express framework
• Understanding of Backend services, API implementation, and database systems. - Familiarity with MySQL and Mongo databases
• We encourage all our devs to have a base level of DevOps skills & w.r.t
• Source Control, CI/CD systems, Cloud Services such as AWS, Firebase, GCP Minimum 1 year of experience in responsive app development
• Ability to implement designs and functionality provided by UI/UX teams
• Strong knowledge of JavaScript ES6
• knowledge of Java/J2EE, Spring, Spring Boot, Spring Cloud is a plus

Key Skills:

• React/JS, NodeJS, Typescript
• Familiarity with Analytics integrations
• Conversant with Github, CI/CD pipeline

What you get:

• Amazing workplace and colleagues to work with
• Competitive salary at par with the best in the industry
• Immense exposure to new technologies

• Own and implement features used by large customers like Truecaller, Mozilla, Zomato, Netflix, etc.
• Performance, Security and Usability goals are in DNA.
• Full ownership and accountability of Microservices which includes day-to-day operations and maintenance.
• Business and technical Metric definitions and reviews.
• Drive CI & CD Evaluate technologies and development stacks for API-based platform which scales to 100,000 transactions per second.
• Perform push-button deployments of any version of the software to any environment on demand.
• Design and build web apps that are scalable and puts user experience front and center.
• Develop modular UI components for company-wide reuse.
• Evolve a common design language for UI across apps.
• Establish and advocate front-end coding guidelines.
• Meld UX and great-looking UI while keeping excellent code quality.
• Own end-to-end life cycle of the product from requirement analysis, design, development, test, release, and maintenance.
• Develop reusable tools/libraries
• Identify opportunities for automation and collaboration points.
• Continuously improve cycle time, throughput, and code quality.
• Continuously improve value-adding-activities/non-value-adding activities ratio.

• 4 - 6 years of experience in large-scale distributed systems.
• Proficient in Python/Golang/Java/ http://node.js/">Node.js 
• Understanding of CSS, Advanced Javascript, http://vue.js/">Vue.js, http://react.js/">React.js, and other web technologies.
• Understanding of Rest based API Architecture
• Writing high-performance, reliable and maintainable code.  
• Excellent microservices pattern understanding.  
• Ability to define cross-core contracts and bring them to closure through collaboration.
• Good knowledge of database structures, theories, principles, and practices.  
• Experience working with AWS components [EC2, S3, RDS, SQS, ECS, Lambda].
• Analytical and problem-solving skills  
• Good aptitude in multi-threading and concurrency concepts.  
• Working knowledge of Git and proficiency with at least one build server: Jenkins/Travis/Bamboo.
• Good to have a telecom background