Senior Backend Engineer (PHP/Laravel)

 Job Opening: Back-End Developer (PHP & Laravel)

Experience: 1–2 years

Salary: ₹15,000–₹20,000

Location: Remote (Work From Home)

Working Days: Monday–Friday

Joining: Immediate

💼 What We’re Looking For

A skilled Back-End Developer with strong command over Core PHP & Laravel

Someone who can build, maintain, and optimize web applications

Bonus if you can also handle WordPress (theme/plugin customization)

🛠️ Key Responsibilities

Develop, maintain & enhance web applications using Laravel + Core PHP

Work closely with front-end teams to integrate user-facing elements

Write clean, optimized, and well-documented code

Troubleshoot issues, test functionality, and ensure smooth performance

Manage databases, APIs, and backend logic

Ensure applications are fast, scalable, and secure

📌 Requirements

1–2 years of professional experience as a Back-End Developer

Strong working knowledge of Laravel and Core PHP

WordPress experience (custom themes/plugins) is a plus

Must have:

A good laptop

Stable internet connection

Quiet & professional work setup

*Excellent English communication skills (verbal & written) — MANDATORY

Only Immediate Joiners will be considered

As a PHP Laravel Backend Developer at Chhayakart, you will play a crucial role in designing, developing, and maintaining the backend infrastructure of our web applications. Your expertise in backend development and API development & integration will be vital in ensuring the seamless operation of our product

Qualification :

 Bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, or a related field is preferred.

Experience :

  Minimum 1 year experience in PHP, Laravel Also API Integration profile.

Technical Skills Required:

 Laravel , PHP (oops Concept Also), JavaScript, React.js, HTML5, CSS3.

Job Type: Full-time

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate closely with the frontend development team to understand the requirements and design APIs that align with the frontend components developed in React.
• Proven experience as a Backend Developer with a strong focus on PHP Laravel development.
• Strong understanding of database design and management, including SQL and NoSQL databases.
• Experience with unit testing, debugging, and troubleshooting techniques.
• Ability to work both independently and collaboratively within a team environment.
• Ability to adapt to changing requirements and priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Design, develop, and maintain efficient and reliable PHP Laravel backend systems that support the functionality of our web applications.
• Build RESTful APIs that enable smooth communication between the frontend and backend, ensuring optimal performance and responsiveness.
• Implement data storage solutions, including databases, caching mechanisms, and other data persistence technologies.
• Write clean, modular, and reusable code while adhering to coding standards and best practices.
• Ensure the security and data protection of the backend systems, implementing necessary authentication and authorization measures.
• Optimize application performance, scalability, and responsiveness through techniques such as caching, query optimization, and load balancing.
• Troubleshoot and resolve backend-related issues and bugs in a timely manner.
• Stay up-to-date with the latest industry trends and advancements in backend development and technology.

You will be responsible for:

• Developing and maintaining highly scalable websites
• All aspects of the project development cycle using PHP and strong OOPS concepts
• Code review and walkthroughs
• Sprint planning and effort estimations

You have in-depth experience in: 

• Developing complex web-applications
• Frameworks such Laravel, CakePHP , React.js
• RDBMS such as MySQL, SQL

You add value with exposure to:

• Flutter Development
• Cloud hosting & Auto Scaling: AWS, Azure, Google cloud
• Unit testing: PHPUnit, PEST
• Cache / Data structure 
• CI/CD: Bitbucket pipelines, AWS Codepipeline, Jenkins

• Elocity is a cleantech start-up striving to make the world a better place through technology innovations. We are building a global infrastructure for making the transition to electric vehicles viable, affordable, and sustainable by working closely with the utilities, governments, and public.  
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• Headquartered out of Canada, we are a team of highly specialized domain experts and problem solvers enabling utilities, public and private sector entities to successfully manage the demands of electric vehicle charging and its infrastructure needs to pave the way for electromobility in future.  
• To know more visit https://elocitytech.com/" target="_blank">https://elocitytech.com/ 

• Responsibilities:  
• Determines technical feasibility of features or solutions by evaluating problem, customer requirements, possible solutions and technology requirements.  
• Exercises judgement in prioritizing tasks and selecting methods and techniques for obtaining solutions.  
• Create low-level design of modules of a software application through proper documentation and diagrams.  
• Develops software solutions by studying requirements, clarifying customer/user needs, analysing data and processes and following established software development practices and processes.  
• Develops proof of concepts for technical evaluation and early customer feedback  
• Updates and shares knowledge by studying state-of-the-art development tools, programming techniques, and computing technology; reading professional publications  
• Networks with internal and external personnel in own area of expertise.  

• Good command in JavaScript/TypeScript. Knowledge of Java/Python will be a plus.  
• Experience in Debugging/troubleshooting TypeScript code.  
• Experience in API development (REST/GraphQL etc)  
• Experience in development of Web and Mobile(android/iOS) applications  
• Exposure of Parallel and Asynchronous programming  
• Experience in writing Unit tests (Jest or any similar framework)  
• Should be proficient in relational Database concepts (Postgres etc.)  
• Knowledge of Non-relational Databases would be a plus.  
• Good Understanding of Object-Oriented Programming Concepts.  
• Good Understanding of Design Patterns.  
• Good command of Data structures, Algorithms and Complexity.  
• Good at problem solving and analytical skills.  
• Experience with Source Code Versioning systems (Git etc)  
• Understanding of Micro services Architecture would be a plus has context menu

-Previous experience working as a Shopify developer.

-Strong knowledge of liquid programming language
-Generate custom – tailored Shopify theme and altering pre – existing template.
-Act as Shopify expert, specializing in all facets of the ecommerce platform.
-Strong hands to Install & Customize new Shopify theme.
-Clear concept of HTML5, CSS3, javascript/Jquery.
-Knowledge in other ecommerce platforms like Magento, woocommerce, BigCommerce will be preferred.
-Strong hands to Install & Customize new Shopify theme.
-A proficiency in working with different Shopify JS APIs (storefront, AJAX Cart, Sections etc.
-Excellent troubleshooting skills.
-Good project management skills

REQUIRED SKILLS:

• 8+ years experience in web application development and architecture.
• ·Extensive experience using open source software libraries
• Strong experience in at least one MVC architecture or application of the pattern
• Solid hands on experience with Java
• Strong experience with SQL ( Oracle, MySQL, Postgres)
• Strong experience in Data Structures & Algorithms
• ·Must have built end to end continuous integration and deployment infrastructure for micro services
• Strong commitment to good engineering discipline and process including code reviews and delivering unit tests in conjunction with feature delivery
• Must possess excellent communication and teamwork skills. Strong presentation and facilitation skills are required.
• Self-starter that is results focused with the ability to work independently and in teams.
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GOOD TO HAVE:

• Prior experience building modular, common and scalable services
• Experience using chef, puppet or other deployment automation tools
• Experience working within a distributed engineering team including offshore
• Bonus points if you have contributed to an open source project
• Familiarity and experience with agile (scrum) development process
• Proven track record of identifying and championing new technologies that enhance the end-user experience, software quality, and developer productivity

About the Role

The Dremio India team owns the DataLake Engine along with Cloud Infrastructure and services that power it. With focus on next generation data analytics supporting modern table formats like Iceberg, Deltalake, and open source initiatives such as Apache Arrow, Project Nessie and hybrid-cloud infrastructure, this team provides various opportunities to learn, deliver, and grow in career. We are looking for technical leaders with passion and experience in architecting and delivering high-quality distributed systems at massive scale.

Responsibilities & ownership

• Lead end-to-end delivery and customer success of next-generation features related to scalability, reliability, robustness, usability, security, and performance of the product
• Lead and mentor others about concurrency, parallelization to deliver scalability, performance and resource optimization in a multithreaded and distributed environment
• Propose and promote strategic company-wide tech investments taking care of business goals, customer requirements, and industry standards
• Lead the team to solve complex, unknown and ambiguous problems, and customer issues cutting across team and module boundaries with technical expertise, and influence others
• Review and influence designs of other team members 
• Design and deliver architectures that run optimally on public clouds like GCP, AWS, and Azure
• Partner with other leaders to nurture innovation and engineering excellence in the team
• Drive priorities with others to facilitate timely accomplishments of business objectives
• Perform RCA of customer issues and drive investments to avoid similar issues in future
• Collaborate with Product Management, Support, and field teams to ensure that customers are successful with Dremio
• Proactively suggest learning opportunities about new technology and skills, and be a role model for constant learning and growth

Requirements

• B.S./M.S/Equivalent in Computer Science or a related technical field or equivalent experience
• Fluency in Java/C++ with 15+ years of experience developing production-level software
• Strong foundation in data structures, algorithms, multi-threaded and asynchronous programming models and their use in developing distributed and scalable systems
• 8+ years experience in developing complex and scalable distributed systems and delivering, deploying, and managing microservices successfully
• Subject Matter Expert in one or more of query processing or optimization, distributed systems, concurrency, micro service based architectures, data replication, networking, storage systems
• Experience in taking company-wide initiatives, convincing stakeholders, and delivering them
• Expert in solving complex, unknown and ambiguous problems spanning across teams and taking initiative in planning and delivering them with high quality
• Ability to anticipate and propose plan/design changes based on changing requirements 
• Passion for quality, zero downtime upgrades, availability, resiliency, and uptime of the platform
• Passion for learning and delivering using latest technologies
• Hands-on experience of working projects on AWS, Azure, and GCP 
• Experience with containers and Kubernetes for orchestration and container management in private and public clouds (AWS, Azure,  and GCP) 
• Understanding of distributed file systems such as  S3, ADLS or HDFS
• Excellent communication skills and affinity for collaboration and teamwork