Senior Backend Engineer | Full Time(Remote)

PHP

Job description

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Software Developer with proven experience in developing and scaling Education ERP solutions. The ideal candidate should have strong expertise in Core PHP, MySQL, and React Native, along with hands-on experience in implementing ERP modules such as HR, Exams, Inventory, Learning Management System (LMS), Admissions, Fee Management, and Finance.

Key Responsibilities

Design, develop, and maintain scalable Education ERP modules.

Work on end-to-end ERP features, including HR, Exam, Inventory, LMS, Admissions, Fees, and Finance.

Build and optimize REST APIs/GraphQL services and ensure seamless integrations.

Optimize system performance, scalability, and security for high-volume ERP usage.

Conduct code reviews, enforce coding standards, and mentor junior developers.

Stay updated with emerging technologies and recommend improvements for ERP solutions.

Required Skills & Qualifications

Strong expertise in Node.js and Core PHP.

Proficiency with MySQL, MongoDB, PostgreSQL (database design & optimization).

Frontend knowledge: JavaScript, jQuery, HTML, CSS (React Native/Vue preferred).

Experience with REST APIs, GraphQL, third-party integrations (payment gateways, SMS, email).

Hands-on with Git/GitHub, Docker, CI/CD pipelines.

Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) is a plus.

6 years of professional development experience, with a minimum of 3 years in ERP systems.

Preferred Experience

Prior work in Education ERP domain.

Deep knowledge of HR, Exam, Inventory, LMS, Admissions, Fees & Finance modules.

Exposure to high-traffic enterprise applications.

Strong leadership, mentoring, and problem-solving abilities

Benefit;

 Permanent Work From Home.

Job description

🔧 Key Responsibilities:

• Design and implement robust backend services using Node.js.
• Develop and maintain RESTful APIs to support front-end applications and third-party integrations
• Manage and optimize SQL/NoSQL databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Snowflake)
• Collaborate with front-end developers to ensure seamless integration and data flow
• Implement caching, logging, and monitoring strategies for performance and reliability
• Ensure application security, scalability, and maintainability
• Participate in code reviews, architecture discussions, and agile ceremonies

✅ Required Skills:

• Proficiency in backend programming languages (Node.js, Java, .NET Core)
• Experience with API development and tools like Postman, Swagger
• Strong understanding of database design and query optimization
• Familiarity with microservices architecture and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Knowledge of cloud platforms (Azure, AWS) and CI/CD pipelines.

About Company

Our client delivers personalized luxury interior design to India’s discerning homeowners and corporates. Led by highly admired luxury brand builders, internationally trained designers, world-class technology professionals, and curated teams of turnkey project execution specialists. We seek perfection in design and are committed to bringing back trust and excitement in the design process.We are a lean team of high-performing go-getters, we take ownership in our roles and lead with knowledge. Debates and discussions are an important part of our culture and we encourage people to bring unique perspectives to their conversations. Most importantly, we love solving problems. Each day is inspiring and we encourage you to apply for this role and experience it for yourself. 

Requirements

• Write code and tests, build prototypes, solve issues, profile, and analyze bottlenecks

• Design performance gauging, building robust APIs to support mobile and desktop clients

• Manage and optimize scalable distributed systems on the cloud

• Optimization of web applications for performance and scalability

• Develop automated tests to ensure business needs are met and allow for regression testing

• Participate in the entire application lifecycle, focusing on coding and debugging

• Write clean code to develop functional web applications

• Troubleshoot and debug applications

• Perform UI tests to optimize performance

• Manage cutting-edge technologies to improve legacy applications

• Collaborate with Front-end developers to integrate user-facing elements with server-side logic.

• Gather and address technical and design requirements

• Provide training and support to internal teams

• Build reusable code and libraries for future use

What skills we are looking for?

•Good communication skill to communicate with stakeholders, project managers, quality assurance teams, Regularly and other developers  regarding progress on the long-term technology roadmap

•Curious and progressive mind to Create and maintain workflows with teams to provide visibility and to ensure workload balance for consistent visual designs

•Good technical knowledge to Produce quality code, raising the bar for the whole team on quality and speed

•Through analytical skills to Recommend system solutions by comparing advantages and disadvantages of custom development and purchase alternatives.

Who qualifies? 

• PHP Laravel Framework, PHP Design Patterns.

• Proficient in MySQL. MongoDB knowledge is plus

• APIs, REST API, API Security.

• Laravel Events, Queue, Observers

• Excellent foundation in computer science, algorithms, and web design

• Experience writing highly secure web application

• Experience with core AWS web-enabling technologies

• Growth mindset, challenging status quo to find new solutions and out- of-the-box ideas

• Experience designing RESTful APIs, specifically for mobile apps

• Computer science degree or equivalent experience

• Experience leading a team is a bonus.

• 3+ Years of relevant experience.

Role Overview 

As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will be working closely with our core team in building products from  scratch into large-scale platforms and solving business problems leveraging new and innovative  technology. More than anything, we are looking for engineers that are eager to learn and build a  meaningful company. We are a small team and encourage engineers to wear many hats 

Responsibilities  

• Design and build highly reliable and performant applications that deliver a great user experience.
• Own large technical deliverables and execute in a structured manner.
• Take the accountability of the overall health of the applications you build.
• Platformize components as libraries, utilities and promote reuse.
• Be able to conceptualize and develop prototypes quickly

Skills & Requirements

      ▪ Work Experience between 2 to 6  years in large scale applications with desire to work  in fast paced startups  

▪ Experience/Knowledge of Node.JS, Express .JS, AWS, MongoDB.

      Deep understanding of your tools: Languages, frameworks, systems.

StoryXpress (a Techstars-backed company) is an end-to-end video platform and is an efficient and effective way of humanizing the way you promote and sell your product or services, and communicate with your customers. With a suite of professional video tools (Video Creator, Video Recorder, Video Hosting and Analytics, Video APIs, and SDKs), we help small and medium-sized businesses drive more revenue through the strategic use of video. Founded in 2014, StoryXpress has a rich community of 500K+ users including small enterprises to Fortune 500 companies.

Why Work with Us:

• Get an opportunity to contribute to an exciting, forward-thinking and fast-moving Start-Up.

• Shape-Up your career by working with young and supportive teams and peers!

• Innovation and Creativity is all what matters!

• Friendly Policies, good competitive salaries, team outings and what not!
  
  

Job Description:

We're looking for an enthusiast Back End Developer who will be an integral part of the early StoryXpress team and can produce scalable solutions. The creativity and intelligence are much more essential to us than the experience with our stack.Thus, you’ll be part of a cross-functional team that’s responsible for the full software development life cycle, from conception to deployment, in order to strive for excellence!

If you’re also familiar with Agile methodologies, we’d like to meet you :)

Job Responsibilities:

Building and scaling web products that directly impact our customers or partners.

Translate several RESTful data sources to be used in a front-end application.

Dig into bugs and feature requests.

Monitor reliability and performance through dashboards and tools to ensure availability.

Help other engineers on the team and across StoryXpress.

Work with our team to engineer new growth initiatives.

Job Requirements:

• Skills: Node.js, Express.js, REST APIs, Express.js, MySQL, Git, Go
• Proficiency JavaScript developer.
• Should have a good understanding of micro-server architecture and REST API.
• Thorough understanding of MVC principles and JS design patterns. *Node.js, Express.js, MySQL should be thoroughly worked upon
• GIT, GitOps and standard versioning management tools should be known.
• Knowledge of User authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments.

Brownie Points For:

• Knowledge of Go will be a big plus
• Experience with Redis and TypeScript would fetch you a brownie point