Senior Laravel Developer

About the Role

We are looking for a passionate AI/ML Software Engineer to join our product team and help build intelligent, scalable, and production-ready machine learning solutions. You will work closely with product managers, designers, and backend engineers to integrate AI capabilities into core product features and drive data-driven innovation.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and deploy machine learning models into production environments
• Build and maintain scalable ML pipelines for data processing, training, and inference
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify AI-driven product opportunities
• Translate business requirements into ML solutions and technical implementations
• Optimize model performance, accuracy, and latency for real-time applications
• Integrate AI/ML models with APIs and backend systems
• Monitor model performance and implement continuous improvement strategies
• Ensure best practices in data handling, model versioning, and reproducibility
• Stay updated with the latest advancements in AI/ML and apply them to product innovation

Required Skills & Qualifications

• Bachelor’s engineering degree in Computer Science, AI, Data Science, or related field
• Strong programming skills in Python (experience with Java/Go is a plus)
• Hands-on experience with ML frameworks such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, or Scikit-learn
• Solid understanding of machine learning algorithms and statistical concepts
• Experience in building and deploying ML models in production
• Familiarity with REST APIs, microservices architecture, and cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure)
• Experience with data processing tools (Pandas, NumPy, Spark, etc.)
• Knowledge of version control systems like Git 

Tech Lead

Location: On-site, Panaji, Goa

About Joyful

 Joyful is a leading AI-powered stakeholder communication management platform for voice of stakeholder analysis and contact center solutions. Our mission is to use AI to make all interactions between a company and its stakeholders joyful by removing friction. Joyful is a part of Germinait Solutions Pvt. Ltd.

Our Joyful modules, Engage and Listen, help businesses understand and manage stakeholder interactions across digital channels. We enable companies to provide exceptional customer experiences while maximizing the productivity and efficiency of their support teams, all through one seamless platform.

At Joyful, we're committed to fostering meaningful interactions between stakeholders and brands by providing actionable insights, personalized replies, and a joyful experience for customers, users, and employees alike.

The Opportunity

We're seeking a talented Technical Lead who will play a pivotal role in designing, building, and scaling Joyful’s AI-powered products. In this role, you will lead technical architecture decisions, guide the engineering team, and ensure our platform remains robust, scalable, and delightful to use. You’ll work closely with product, design, and business teams to deliver impactful features while maintaining high code quality and performance.

In addition to technical leadership, you’ll champion Vibe Coding—our approach to writing clean, collaborative, and joyful code that engineers love to create and maintain. This means setting the tone for high-quality, maintainable code while fostering an environment where building software is an energizing, shared experience.

What You'll Do

• Technical Leadership & Architecture:
• Lead the design and implementation of scalable, high-performance, and secure software solutions for Joyful’s Engage and Listen platforms.
• Define technical roadmaps, architecture patterns, and coding best practices
• Ensure adherence to software development standards and conduct regular code reviews
• Make critical build-versus-buy and technology adoption decisions
• Team Management & Collaboration:
• Mentor and coach a team of engineers, fostering a culture of learning, ownership, and innovation
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (product, UX, QA) to align technical solutions with business goals
• Drive agile development practices, including sprint planning, retrospectives, and backlog prioritization
• Identify and resolve bottlenecks in development, deployment, and delivery processes
• Vibe Coding Culture:
• Lead by example in practicing Vibe Coding—writing code that is clean, well-structured, and joyful to work with
• Encourage pair programming, open collaboration, and frequent peer reviews
• Maintain high coding standards while keeping the process creative and energizing for the team
• Promote a development culture where engineers feel motivated, supported, and proud of the work they ship
• Hands-On Development:
• Contribute directly to code when needed—particularly for complex modules, integrations, and performance optimization
• Oversee the development of APIs, microservices, and integrations with third-party platforms
• Ensure robust CI/CD pipelines, test automation, and monitoring systems are in place
• Innovation & Continuous Improvement:
• Stay ahead of emerging technologies in AI, cloud, and enterprise communication platforms
• Propose and implement innovative solutions to improve product performance, security, and maintainability
• Drive proof-of-concepts for new features or architectural improvements
• Ensure systems are designed for high availability, scalability, and disaster recovery

What You'll Need

• 6+ years of professional software development experience, with at least 2 years in a technical leadership role
• Proven expertise in Java (Spring Boot), REST APIs, and microservices architecture
• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and container orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Strong understanding of relational and NoSQL databases
• Experience building scalable, high-availability systems in B2B SaaS or AI-powered products
• Solid knowledge of software design patterns, performance optimization, and security best practices
• Familiarity with frontend technologies (Angular, React, or similar) is a plus
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
• Passion for AI technologies and building software in a positive, high-energy coding environment

Why Join Joyful?

• Be at the forefront of the AI revolution in stakeholder management
• Lead impactful projects with a culture of Vibe Coding—where high-quality engineering meets great team energy
• Work with a highly skilled and passionate team
• Enjoy significant growth opportunities in a rapidly scaling organization
• A culture that values innovation, ownership, and collaborative problem-solving
• Work from our beautiful office in Goa, combining cutting-edge tech work with a high quality of life

At Joyful, we believe strong technical leadership is key to making every interaction seamless, intelligent, and joyful. If you’re excited about solving complex technical challenges while mentoring teams to deliver exceptional products, we’d love to meet you!

Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable code with full-stack development in PHP.
• Roll out new features and analyze (and react) to the results you discover from our system services and user feedback
• Optimize existing functionality for improved response times
• Collaborate with the team to design, develop, unit test, and support new features
• Searching creatively for the best solution while building for the end-user
• Consistently deliver readable, maintainable, and efficient code
• Performance tuning, testing, refactoring, usability, and automation
• Participate actively in Scrums, sprint planning meetings, and sprint retrospectives.
• Rapidly mockup-proof-of-concept implementation of ideas and present them to internal stakeholders
• Stay informed of new tools, libraries, and best practices and share ideas with the team for continuous improvement of the toolchain and development process
• Support, maintain, and help document software functionality
• Work with other departments, stakeholders, and customers on software development, improvements, internal tools, and implementation issues

Basic Requirements:

• 5+ years of programming experience in developing web apps. Experience in developing mobile apps would be a bonus.
• Front-end development with technologies such as Javascript, Typescript, VueJS, CSS, Bootstrap, etc
• Strong knowledge of database modeling and design in RDBMS and NoSQL databases
• Strong experience in API design, API Security, API Documentation and REST, GraphQL-based services
• Knowledge of Service Oriented Architecture would be a bonus
• Have a self-directed work ethic with attention to detail and good communication skills
• API Integration and extension development for 3rd party applications e.g. Facebook, Google, etc

Looking for folks with a hacker's mindset

We’re seeking a talented developer to help build our platform from the ground up. As a critical member of a dynamic and highly-motivated team, you will have to perform  a full stack developers role. And will be responsible for designing & coding new functionality from scratch and maintaining or enhancing the current functionality.

Must haves

• Clear communication skills and a strong customer first attitude
• PHP expert with live project implementations in Laravel framework with MySQL database
• Write clean and well-designed & scalable code
• Maniacal about creating flawless & defect-free delivery
• Troubleshoot, test and maintain the core product code and databases. Refactor or optimize existing code & database where needed
• Maintain a positive and healthy work environment within the team and have fun while doing it
• Contribute in all phases of the development lifecycle right from requirements through till deployment
• Ability to learn and implement automated test tools

Responsibilities:

• Designing and developing mobile-first applications.
• Creating and maintaining clean and clear front-end code and backend APIs for our web and mobile applications.
• Automation and Deployments of builds - Frontend and Backend.
• Application Performance And Error Monitoring and Automation.
• Maintaining excellent test coverage for our code base.
• Working with our shared services and field teams to identify application bottlenecks and make relevant architectural decisions.
• Constantly optimizing our code bases with an eye for modularity and legibility.
• Writing documentation for our external and internal APIs.

Requirements:

• 4-7 years of professional web development experience.
• WordPress custom theme/plugin development from scratch.
• Mandatory experience in PHP and NodeJS packages (e. g. express, socket-io).
• Experience with AWS Lambda and EC2 is required.
• MySQL/PostgreSQL/Oracle.
• Javascript / jQuery / ES6
• CSS/SCSS
• Unix Server Administration.
• Gitlab and CI deployment experience.

Nice to have:

• Familiarity with at least one Javascript framework (React, Vue.js, etc.).
• Familiarity with CI/CD Pipeline.
• Excellent documentation skills.
• Ability to clearly articulate technical problems, design and implementation choices to a broad range of stakeholders (e. g. sales team, users, security experts).

Perks and Benefits

• Work from anywhere
• Competitive salary and bonus program
• Annual company retreats to fantastic places
• Unlimited Vacation Policy
• Great healthcare coverage
• Professional development allowance
• Internet Allowance
• Customised CMMversary rewards on your 1,3,5,7 and 10-year work anniversaries
• Career Enablement – We meld your upskilling initiatives with organization’s strategic planning
• Take your Birthday Off

Roles & Responsibilities:

We are looking for a Senior PHP Developer Having expertise in Laravel, Codeigniter & Rest API's

Role Includes -

• Develop, record, and maintain cutting-edge web-based PHP applications.

• Work on Product Development / Enhancements and Bug Fixings.
• Prepare and maintain all applications utilizing standard development tools.
• Develop back-end data services and contribute to increasing existing APIs.
• Coordinate with co-developers and keep project managers well informed of the status of development efforts.
• Understanding of MVC design patterns
• Ability to work individually as well as in a team.

Requirements:

• Expertise in Laravel, Codeigniter, MySQL, MongoDB & Rest APIs
• Thorough in Object-oriented concepts.
• Knowledge of Amazon AWS Cloud services.
• Knowledge of Restful Web services.
• Knowledge of AngularJs or React is a big plus.
• Looking for Immediate Joining

Skills:

• Frameworks Laravel, Codeigniter
• Databases like MySQL and MongoDB