SDE 2: Backend Engineer (Symfony/Laravel)

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About the Role

Important: Laravel-only experience is not qualifying; proven Symfony experience is mandatory!!!

We’re hiring a Senior PHP & Symfony Software Engineer to work on mission-critical backend systems where code quality, reliability, and accountability are non-negotiable. This role goes far beyond feature delivery; it’s about engineering craftsmanship, technical ownership, and building systems you can truly stand behind.

You’ll be part of a highly collaborative Agile team, working closely with product, QA, and other engineers across the full lifecycle from ticket definition and design through testing, review, and production deployment. This role is ideal for someone who values clean architecture, Test-Driven Development, thoughtful technical decisions, and mentoring others while building robust, scalable solutions.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain high-quality backend systems using PHP and Symfony
• Own features end-to-end, from ticket creation and technical design to production release
• Write clean, strongly-typed, maintainable, and testable code that meets strict quality standards
• Apply design patterns thoughtfully and consistently
• Build and maintain comprehensive automated test coverage using PHPUnit and similar tools
• Follow and promote Test-Driven Development (TDD) practices
• Use static analysis, linters, and code quality tools to ensure reliability and consistency
• Participate actively in code reviews, providing and receiving constructive feedback
• Collaborate closely with product, design, and QA teams to deliver robust solutions
• Break down complex initiatives into well-defined, actionable tasks and guide implementation
• Monitor systems and participate in a rotating on-call schedule when required
• Promote secure coding practices and ensure code is free from known vulnerabilities
• Document architecture, decisions, and processes to support team-wide knowledge sharing
• Mentor junior and mid-level engineers and contribute to a strong engineering culture

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional experience with PHP (7.4 / 8+)
• 3+ years of hands-on experience with the Symfony framework
• Strong understanding and practical use of design patterns
• Solid experience with unit and integration testing (PHPUnit, Behat, or similar)
• Hands-on experience with Test-Driven Development (TDD)
• Familiarity with static analysis tools (PHPStan, Psalm, or similar)
• Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines, code coverage, and deployment workflows
• Excellent technical communication skills and ability to explain and defend technical decisions
• High ownership mindset and strong sense of accountability

Nice-to-Have

• Experience working with MongoDB
• Familiarity with JavaScript, React, Node.js, and/or TypeScript
• Experience with Docker and/or Kubernetes
• Experience working on high-availability or mission-critical systems

Benefits

• Fixed Shifts: 12:00 PM - 9:30 PM IST (Summer) | 1:00 PM - 10:30 PM IST (Winter)
• No Weekend Work: Real work-life balance, not just words
• Day 1 Benefits: Laptop and full medical insurance provided
• Support That Matters: Mentorship, community, and forums where ideas are shared
• True Belonging: A long-term career where your contributions are valued

Job description

Job Title: PHP Backend Developer with React Native Experience

Experience: 6–10 Years (EdTech experience mandatory)

Company Description

iCloudEMS, a market leader in providing cloud-based end-to-end comprehensive education management solutions, empowers learner-centric approaches in India, UAE, and Africa. Since 2011, iCloudEMS has been committed to revamping education through technology, offering integrated digital platforms for educational institutions. Our mission is to automate and streamline academic activities, making education management efficient and hassle-free. We aim to expand our reach in Asia and the Pacific, fulfilling diverse educational needs with innovative solutions.

Role Description

This is a full-time remote role for a We are looking for a Mobile Application Developer with strong expertise in PHP development to join our fast-growing EdTech product-based company. The ideal candidate should have hands-on experience in developing scalable mobile applications and be able to join immediately.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• Strong knowledge of PHP and backend development.
• Experience in mobile application development (Android/iOS or hybrid frameworks).
• Hands-on experience with RESTful APIs and database management.
• Good understanding of software development life cycle (SDLC).
• Ability to write clean, maintainable, and efficient code.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working in a product-based company, preferably in the Educational Technology (EdTech) domain.
• Candidates who can join immediately will be highly preferred.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms and version control systems (Git).

Industry

• Software Development

Job Type: Full-time

Benefits:

• Provident Fund
• Work from home

Industry

• Software Development

Employment Type

Full-time

Industry

• Software Development

Employment Type

Full-time

About NonStop io Technologies:

NonStop io Technologies is a value-driven company with a strong focus on process-oriented software engineering. We specialize in Product Development and have a decade's worth of experience in building web and mobile applications across various domains. NonStop io Technologies follows core principles that guide its operations and believes in staying invested in a product's vision for the long term. We are a small but proud group of individuals who believe in the 'givers gain' philosophy and strive to provide value in order to seek value. We are committed to and specialize in building cutting-edge technology products and serving as trusted technology partners for startups and enterprises. We pride ourselves on fostering innovation, learning, and community engagement. Join us to work on impactful projects in a collaborative and vibrant environment. We're seeking an experienced Backend Software Engineer to join our team. As a backend engineer, you will be responsible for designing, developing, and deploying scalable backends for the products we build at NonStop. This includes APIs, databases, and server-side logic.

Responsibilities:

● Design, develop, and deploy backend systems, including APIs, databases, and server-side logic

● Write clean, efficient, and well-documented code that adheres to industry standards and best practices

● Participate in code reviews and contribute to the improvement of the codebase

● Debug and resolve issues in the existing codebase

● Develop and execute unit tests to ensure high code quality

● Work with DevOps engineers to ensure seamless deployment of software changes

● Monitor application performance, identify bottlenecks, and optimize systems for better scalability and efficiency

● Stay up-to-date with industry trends and emerging technologies; advocate for best practices and new ideas within the team

● Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify and prioritize project requirements

Requirements:

● At least 3+ years of experience building scalable and reliable backend systems

● Strong expertise in NodeJS/NestJS, Express, PostgreSQL

● Experience with microservices architecture and distributed systems

● Proficiency in database design (SQL and NoSQL)

● Knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and CI/CD pipelines

● Deep understanding of design patterns, data structures, and algorithms

● Hands-on experience with containerization technologies like Docker and orchestration tools like Kubernetes

● Exceptional communication and leadership skills

● Strong understanding of object-oriented programming principles and design patterns

● Familiarity with automated testing frameworks and methodologies

● Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail

● Strong communication skills and ability to effectively lead and maintain a collaborative team environmen

● Ready to be a tech-agnostic engineer and comfortable to shift on any tech stack (Java, Node, Python etc)

● Comfortable working with AI (Claude code, Cursor etc)

Backend Developers

• Contract To Hire (Initial Engagement: 6 months)

Experience: 5+ years

Mandatory Skills:

● Node.js

● Python

● MongoDB

● PostgreSQL

● REST API design and development

● Backend architecture and service design

● Database design, indexing and query optimisation

● Performance tuning

● Authentication/authorisation

● Third-party integrations

● Asynchronous processing and background jobs

● Logging, monitoring and debugging

● Git and collaborative development

● Scalable, maintainable and testable backend services

● Architecture discussions, code reviews, debugging and production support

Good to have:

● Microservices

● Docker

● Cloud platforms

● Redis

● Message queues

● CI/CD

● Observability

Primary Skills:

Python / Golang, RESTful APIs, Docker, Kubernetes, Linux

Core Responsibilities:

• Design & Development: Architect and implement scalable backend services and APIs using Python or Golang, ensuring high performance, resilience, and extensibility.
• System Ownership: Take end-to-end ownership of critical modules, from design and development to deployment and support.
• Technical Leadership: Conduct design and code reviews, enforce best practices, and mentor junior engineers to raise the team’s technical bar.
• Collaboration: Work closely with product managers, architects, and other engineers to translate business requirements into technical solutions.
• Performance & Reliability: Troubleshoot complex issues in production systems, identify root causes, and design sustainable long-term solutions.
• Innovation: Evaluate new technologies, contribute to proof-of-concepts, and recommend tools that can improve developer productivity.
• Process Improvement: Drive initiatives to improve coding standards, CI/CD pipelines, and automated testing practices.
• Knowledge Sharing: Document designs, create technical guides, and share insights with the broader engineering team.

Experience and Expertise:

• 4–7 years of backend development experience with Python or Golang.
• Strong expertise in designing, developing, and scaling microservices and distributed systems.
• Solid understanding of concurrency, multi-threading, and performance optimization.
• Proficiency with databases (SQL/NoSQL), caching systems (Redis, Memcached), and messaging systems (Kafka, RabbitMQ, etc.).
• Hands-on experience with Linux development, Docker, and Kubernetes.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure) and related services.
• Strong debugging, profiling, and optimization skills for production-grade systems.
• Experience with AI-powered development tools is a strong plus; familiarity with concepts like 'agentic coding' for workflow automation or 'context engineering' for leveraging LLMs in system design is highly desirable.

Skills:

• Strong problem-solving ability, with experience handling complex technical challenges.
• Ability to lead technical initiatives and mentor junior engineers.
• Excellent communication skills to collaborate with cross-functional teams and articulate trade-offs.
• Self-motivated, proactive, and able to operate independently while aligning with team goals.
• Passionate about engineering culture, quality, and developer productivity.

About VerbaFlo.ai

VerbaFlo.ai is a fast-growing AI SaaS startup revolutionizing how businesses leverage AI-powered solutions. As a part of our dynamic team, you’ll work alongside industry leaders and visionaries to drive innovation and execution across multiple functions.

Role Overview

We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to design and develop user-friendly, scalable, and high-performance web applications. This role requires deep expertise in backend technologies, attention to detail, and the ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend systems, APIs, and data pipelines.
• Collaborate closely with frontend engineers, product managers, and AI teams to deliver cohesive features and seamless user experiences.
• Ensure the reliability, security, and performance of backend systems.
• Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code using modern backend practices.
• Implement automated testing, CI/CD workflows, and infrastructure as code (where applicable).
• Own the end-to-end lifecycle of backend features, from architecture to deployment.
• Monitor production systems and resolve performance and scalability issues.
• Contribute to architectural decisions and help evolve our engineering best practices.

Requirements

• 4–6 years of experience in backend development in startups, preferably in SaaS or AI-driven products.
• Proficiency in Node.js, Python, or Go
• Deep understanding of RESTful API design.
• Strong experience with databases: PostgreSQL, MongoDB, ElasticSearch.
• Exposure to message queues, job schedulers, or event-driven architectures (e.g., SQS, Celery, etc).
• Familiarity with cloud platforms like AWS, GCP, or Azure and containerization tools (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Experience with Git, CI/CD tools, and writing unit/integration tests.
• Strong problem-solving skills and a mindset geared toward performance and security.
• Excellent communication and collaboration abilities.

Why Join Us?

• Work directly with top leadership in a high-impact role.
• Be part of an innovative and fast-growing AI startup.
• Opportunity to take ownership of key projects and drive efficiency.
• A collaborative, ambitious, and fast-paced work environment.
• Perks & Benefits: gym membership benefit, workation policy, and company-sponsored lunch.

If you’re looking for an exciting role that combines strategy, execution, and leadership exposure, we’d love to hear from you!

Senior Software Engineer – Backend

Company: House of EdTech (Goenka Kachave LLP)

Location: Bangalore, Hybrid

Job Type: Full-Time

Experience: 5+ Years

About the Role

House of EdTech is looking for a Senior Software Engineer – Backend to design, develop, and scale high-performance backend services and APIs supporting products used by millions of learners.

You’ll work closely with Product, Frontend, Data, and Engineering teams while taking end-to-end ownership of backend features and contributing to system architecture and technical decisions.

What You'll Do

• Design and develop scalable backend services and REST APIs.
• Build reliable systems capable of handling high traffic and large data volumes.
• Own backend features from design and development through deployment and monitoring.
• Work with microservices, databases, and distributed systems.
• Identify and solve performance, scalability, reliability, and security challenges.
• Participate in system design and architecture discussions.
• Conduct code reviews and contribute to engineering best practices.
• Mentor junior and mid-level engineers.
• Monitor production systems and troubleshoot incidents.

What We're Looking For

• 5+ years of professional backend development experience.
• Strong hands-on experience with Java, Python, Scala, C++, or a similar language.
• Experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems.
• Strong understanding of REST APIs, microservices, and databases.
• Experience with cloud/infrastructure technologies such as GCP, Docker, or Kubernetes.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals, including security, reliability, testing, and code quality.
• Experience with system design, architecture, and technical decision-making.
• Strong communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.
• Experience mentoring engineers is a plus.

Why Join House of EdTech?

• Work on products impacting millions of learners.
• Solve challenging backend and scalability problems.
• Take significant ownership of architecture and engineering decisions.
• Opportunity to grow into technical leadership and architectural ownership.
• Work in a fast-growing technology environment.

Responsibilities

● Architect and build end-to-end backend services and APIs.

● Integrate with external systems such as insurers, payment gateways, and other

partners.

● Ensure high observability, performance, and reliability across systems.

● Write clean, reusable, and maintainable code with a focus on scalability.

● Implement comprehensive test coverage and maintain code quality.

● Manage database design, migrations, scripting, and administration.

Experience & Skills

● 2-8 years of experience in backend development.

● Hands-on experience with low-level & high-level system design.

● Proven experience building scalable, secure backend systems (APIs, middleware, caching).

● Proficiency in Python, Django, Django REST Framework (DRF), PostgreSQL, Redis,

Celery, and basic HTML/CSS.

● Experience developing RESTful APIs.

● Familiarity with AWS or other major cloud platforms is a plus.

● Strong sense of ownership, problem-solving ability, and leadership qualities.

● 4–7 years of backend development experience with Python or Golang.

● Strong expertise in designing, developing, and scaling microservices and distributed

systems.

● Solid understanding of concurrency, multi-threading, and performance optimization.

● Proficiency with databases (SQL/NoSQL), caching systems (Redis, Memcached),

and messaging systems (Kafka, RabbitMQ, etc.).

● Hands-on experience with Linux development, Docker, and Kubernetes.

● Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure) and related services.

● Strong debugging, profiling, and optimization skills for production-grade systems.

● Experience with AI-powered development tools is a strong plus; familiarity with

concepts like 'agentic coding' for workflow automation or 'context engineering' for

leveraging LLMs in system design is highly desirable.

● Ability to lead technical initiatives and mentor junior engineers.

About Solutionara

Solutionara is a U.S.-based IT Consulting and Technology Services firm with a Global Delivery Center (GDC) in Noida, India. We are a fast-scaling firm that works with high ownership, lean teams and disciplined execution, and we are evolving toward an AI-enabled delivery model focused on enterprise integration, digital transformation and scalable technology solutions for global clients.

Role Overview

As a PHP Developer – Pimcore & Symfony, you will design, develop, enhance and support enterprise applications and digital experience solutions using Pimcore, Symfony and PHP. You will customize Pimcore, build integrations and APIs, work with complex product and digital asset data, and collaborate with Solution Architects, Tech Leads, PMs, QA and DevOps in a client-focused consulting environment.

Location: Noida, Sector 62 (Full-time, On-site)

Experience: 3–6 years

Key Responsibilities

Pimcore Development

• Design, develop, customize and maintain enterprise solutions using Pimcore.
• Configure and extend Data Objects, Assets, Documents, Class Definitions, Relations and Workflows.
• Develop PIM and DAM capabilities for complex product information and digital assets.
• Build custom Pimcore bundles, services, event listeners and extensions.
• Develop product-data models, classifications, attributes, validation rules and workflows; support bulk import/export and data synchronization.
• Work with Pimcore DataHub, REST APIs and GraphQL; integrate Pimcore with ERP, CRM, eCommerce, marketplaces and third-party platforms.

PHP & Symfony Development

• Build scalable backend applications and services using PHP 8+ and Symfony.
• Apply strong OOP, MVC, design patterns and clean-code principles.
• Build and consume RESTful APIs; work with Composer, dependency injection, Symfony services, events and console commands.
• Optimize application performance, database queries, caching and backend processing.

Data & Integration

• Work with MySQL/MariaDB and relational data models.
• Develop integrations for product, customer, asset and reference data across enterprise systems.
• Implement data validation, transformation, mapping, error handling and reconciliation; troubleshoot data-quality issues.

Quality, Delivery & Collaboration

• Participate in Agile/Scrum ceremonies – sprint planning, estimation, stand-ups and retrospectives.
• Perform unit testing, debugging, peer code reviews and root-cause analysis.
• Support deployments, production troubleshooting and post-release activities.
• Follow secure coding, version control and documentation best practices.
• Contribute to technical design discussions and guide junior developers where appropriate.

AI-Enabled Engineering

AI is part of how we build. You should be comfortable using AI-assisted development tools to improve coding, testing, debugging, documentation, code reviews and productivity – while reviewing and validating AI-generated output before it reaches production.

Required Qualifications

• 3–6 years of professional PHP development experience.
• Hands-on development experience with Pimcore (Data Objects, Assets, Documents, Class Definitions).
• Strong experience with Symfony and PHP 8+.
• Experience developing or supporting PIM and/or DAM solutions.
• Strong understanding of OOP, MVC, design patterns and clean coding.
• Experience building RESTful APIs and integrating enterprise systems.
• Strong SQL skills with MySQL or MariaDB; experience with Git.
• Experience debugging application and integration issues in Agile environments.

Preferred Skills

• Pimcore: Workflows, DataHub, GraphQL, Import/Export, product-data modeling.
• Backend: Composer, JSON, OAuth/JWT, queues/background processing.
• Frontend exposure: JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3, Bootstrap/Tailwind, Twig, React or Vue.js.
• Database & caching: PostgreSQL, Redis.
• DevOps: Docker, Linux, Apache/Nginx, CI/CD pipelines.
• Cloud: AWS, Azure or GCP.
• Experience in IT consulting/technology services, eCommerce, CMS, enterprise integrations or multi-client environments.

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering or a related discipline.