Senior Backend Engineer (PHP/Laravel)

🚀 Your Role at a Glance

We are hiring a Senior Staff Backend Engineer – Site Reliability for our client (Code Name: SORIN), a global leader building high-scale observability platforms. In this high-impact leadership role, you’ll architect, scale, and optimise the systems that drive how enterprises monitor their distributed applications. You’ll collaborate across teams, mentor engineers, and shape the technical direction of mission-critical backend services in a modern cloud-native environment.

This role is ideal for experienced backend engineers who thrive in distributed systems, care deeply about system performance and observability, and want to influence large-scale technical decisions that span multiple teams.

🏢 About the Client (Code Name: SORIN)

Our client is a global enterprise software company focused on simplifying IT management through powerful, secure, and scalable platforms. With a strong commitment to innovation and customer-centricity, they help organisations accelerate digital transformation across observability, incident response, and performance monitoring. You’ll join a team of passionate engineers working on critical systems trusted by Fortune 500 companies and growing SaaS-first businesses alike.

🔧 Key Responsibilities

● Collaborate with software engineering teams to define infrastructure requirements, drive best practices in reliability, monitoring, incident response, and automation, ensuring seamless integration and optimal

performance of applications and systems

● Lead and mentor a team of SREs, providing technical guidance and

support to ensure the ongoing reliability and performance of our systems

● Play a key role in driving the automation, tools, and observability initiatives, assuming ownership of designing and implementing scalable and efficient solutions.

● Leading the response to production incidents, conducting comprehensive learning reviews, driving continuous improvement initiatives, and actively participating in an on-call rotation, fostering a culture of learning, resilience, and ongoing enhancement within our systems.

● Establish and drive operations performance through SLOs

● Demonstrate proficiency in technical skills, exhibit an expert-level understanding of relevant technologies and tools, and use this knowledge to mentor and support team members, helping them improve their skills and succeed in their roles.

✅ Required Skills & Experience

● At least 10 + years of experience designing, building & maintaining SAAS environments

● 8+ years of experience designing, building & maintaining AWS/AZURE infrastructure with Terraform

● 5+ years of experience building and running Kubernetes clusters

● Strong experience working with data platform infrastructure.

● Experience with coding in a high-level programming language like Python, Go (Golang). Knowledge of writing shell scripts, SQL queries.

● Experience with observability (monitoring – logging, tracing, metrics)

● Experience with SQL/NoSQL database technologies.

● Experience with GitOps and CI/CD processes is a plus

● Experience with security operations – security policies, infrastructure, key management, setup of encryption at rest and transport.

● Experience in mentoring and fostering the professional development of team members, promoting a culture of continuous learning and collaboration.

🌟 Nice to Have

● Strong customer orientation

● Excellent interpersonal and organisational skills

● Attention to detail and focus on quality

● Strong communication skills to effectively liaise with both technical and non-technical staff

● Ability to act decisively and work well under pressure

● Must be a collaborative problem solver

● Strong bias for ownership and action

💡 Why Join This Role

● Architect foundational systems for one of the world’s most trusted observability platforms

● Join a fast-paced, mission-driven team with global reach

● Collaborate with senior leaders and contribute to technology direction across the company

● Drive innovation in how modern engineering teams monitor and respond to incidents

● Competitive compensation, strong engineering culture, and direct influence on product direction

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Position: Python Developer

Location: Andheri East, Mumbai

Work Mode: 5 Days WFO

Availability: Immediate joiners only (or notice period completed)

What We're Looking For:

✅ 2+ years of solid Python development experience

✅ Django framework expertise - must have!

✅ FastAPI framework knowledge - essential!

✅ Database skills in MongoDB OR PostgreSQL

✅ Ready to work from office 5 days a week

Required Skills:

• 3+ years of experience in the Development of JAVA technology.
• Strong Java Basics
• SpringBoot or Spring MVC
• Hands-on experience in Relational Databases (SQL query or Hibernate) + Mongo (JSON parsing)
• Proficient in REST API development
• Messaging Queue (RabitMQ or Kafka)
• Microservices
• Any Caching Mechanism
• Good at problem-solving

Good to Have Skills:

• 4+ years of experience in using Java/J2EE tech stacks
• Good understanding of data structures and algorithms.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced internet start-up environment.
• Experience in technical mentorship/coaching is highly desirable.
• Understanding AI/ML algorithms is a plus.

Role & responsibilities

• Senior Java developer with 6 to 10 years of experience having worked on Java, SpringBoot, Hibernate, Microservices, Redis, AWS S3
• Contribute to all stages of the software development lifecycle
• Design, implement, and maintain Java-based applications that can be high-volume and low-latency
• Analyze user requirements to define business objectives
• Envisioning system features and functionality
• Define application objectives and functionality
• Ensure application designs conform to business goals
• Develop and test software
• Should have good experience in Code Review
• Expecting to be 100% hands-on while working with the clients directly
• Performing requirement analysis
• Developing high-quality and detailed designs
• Conducting unit testing using automated unit test frameworks
• Identifying risk and conducting mitigation action planning
• Reviewing the work of other developers and providing feedback
• Using coding standards and best practices to ensure quality
• Communicating with customers to resolve issues
• Good Communication Skills 

• Previous working experience as a MySQL Developer for at least 3 years
• Identify opportunities for improved performance in SQL operations and implementations
• Oversee the operations of the production and staging environments databases
• Give design recommendations for database functions that meet business operating standards while improving the efficiency of business processes
• Train and mentor junior personnel on best practices

Candidate Profile:

• Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science
• At least 5+ years of relevant experience as a database programmer
• Excellent MySQL/PostgreSQL/MS-SQL development skills
• Experience in writing stored views, procedures, triggers etc.
• Excellent knowledge in RDBMS (important features)
• Strong problem-solving skills, technical troubleshooting, and diagnosing
• Solid knowledge of RDBMS and NoSQL technologies
• Experience in developing back-ends for enterprise systems
• Knowledge of debugging, performance and optimization techniques
• Experience in RDBMS technologies like MySQL, PostgreSQL etc.
• Experience in No SQL technologies like MongoDB, Cassandra etc.
• Knowledge of Caching DB like Redis, Memcached etc.
• Knowledge of Search DB like Solr, Elasticsearch etc.
• Demonstrated ability to deliver in a fast-paced environment.

• Using the latest technologies to solve real problems for our customers at a massive scale
• Collaborating closely with other engineers as a valuable member of a cross-functional team
• Sharing your knowledge and building creative solutions while helping the team evolve best practices
• Designing, developing, and deploying backend services with a focus on high availability, low latency, and scalability
• Taking end-to-end responsibility for the services that are owned by your team, including taking part in an on-call rotation

Who you are

• A minimum of B.S. degree in Information Technology or Computer Science or 5+ years in a similar position
• Able to adapt, change and grow quickly as we scale the organization
• Passionate about engineering practices like agile, continuous delivery, test-driven development, traceability, and observability
• Growth mentality is curious and not afraid to be experimental.
• You share your ideas and continuously improve yourself and the team around you
• Solid experience as an Engineer designing, developing and maintaining API driven solutions
• Strong communication skills, high integrity, and great attention to detail

You’ll get to work with:

• Docker and Kubernetes
• Go and/or PHP
• PostgreSQL, Elastic Search, RabbitMQ
• Memcache, Redis
• Microservices architecture
• ELK, Jaeger, Prometheus & Grafana

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Job Details

Job Description

• Design and build web applications
• Work with business stakeholders, managers & other developers to create solutions to business problems.
• Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency
• Work on bug fixing and improving application performance

Ideal candidate must have following skills/experience

• Expert level understanding of object-oriented web development in PHP
• Good understanding of Object-Oriented Architecture & Design
• Profound knowledge of any PHP framework like Yii
• Excellent JavaScript competence and command over JQuery
• Excellent understanding of any RDBMS like Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL
• Knowledge of Web Services and micro services
• Hands on experience with CSS & frameworks like Bootstrap/Material
• Experience with GIT & continuous integration
• Practical experience with well-implemented Scrum

Candidates with following skills/experience are preferred along with must have silks above

• Experience on Yii framework (PHP)
• Experience with AngularJs
• Experience with MongoDB
• Write elegant, well-documented code
• Experience in setting up, managing servers & continuous integration
• Should have good interpersonal skills, communication (verbal & written) skills and ability to work independently