
As a Senior Principal Engineer, you’ll lead a team of engineers through challenging development projects. Come join a highly collaborative team of skilled engineers with a passion for quality.
What You’ll do:
- Work in an agile environment, orchestrating a group mostly comprised of skilled PHP engineers of various levels to complete User Stories authored by professional Product Managers
- Architect highly scalable/transaction heavy web/API applications
- Work with 1-2 Frontend resources (in addition to backend PHP) through projects in React, Angular (maintenance), MooTools/Jquery (deprecation), Socket.io and serverside NodeJS
- Work with Product and QA Managers in multiple grooming sessions and sprint planning for your team
- Collaborate/coordinate with other Engineering Managers and Leads
- Work with QA and Application Support teams to triage bugs
- Work with DevOps to automate deployment and monitoring of applications
- Design and develop Restful APIs using frameworks with design patterns
- Design JSON payloads and various payload contexts
- Convert complex business rules and workflows from User Story requirements into SalesForce type CRM applications and client facing web portals
- Work with monolithic legacy codebases, along with design patterns in newer repositories
- Work with large database schemas of 500+ tables
- Write complex queries. Efficiently joining upwards of 20 tables, some containing +10m rows. In T-SQL or Doctrine ORM
- Integrate 3rd party platforms via APIs and callbacks
- Write Unit tests and documentation
What You Have:
- 10+ years professional experience developing APIs & web based applications in PHP as an individual contributor
- Prior experience working with organized development teams (5+ member pods)
- Prefer hands-on experience using MS SQL Server, CosmosDB, but other relational databases/NoSQL ok (MySQL, Postgres, MongoDB)
- Professional experience using open source PHP frameworks. Symfony3+ preferred (Laravel, CodeIgniter - ok)
- Experience scaling in LAMP, but also leveraging Redis, RabbitMQ, Elastic Search (ELK), SupervisorD, Socket.io, centralized Session stores
- Prefer experience designing fault tolerant architecture on cloud deployments (loadbalancing, clustering, reducing/eliminating single points of failure, etc)
- Understand branching, merging, pull requests and conflict resolution in Git (Bitbucket or Github)
- Experienced in leveraging issue tracking systems and wikis for documentation (Jira/Confluence)
- Comfortable on CentOS Linux, command line, SSH, SFTP, SCP…
- Full stack is a plus (JavaScript, CSS, HTML, React/Angular/Vue)
- Able to onboard self and others while working entirely remotely in EST
- Experience in Azure PaaS and IaaS
- Experience crafting architecture diagrams in Visio or LucidChart
- Problem solving skills and a proactive work style
- Strong interpersonal & communication skills

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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
Job Title: Java Spring Boot Engineer
📍 Location: Bangalore
🧾 Experience: 3–4 Years
📝 Employment Type: Contract (1 Year + Extendable)
Required Skills & Qualifications:
- Strong expertise in Java, Spring Boot, and backend development.
- Hands-on experience with PHP.
- Good understanding of data structures and algorithms.
- Experience with GraphQL and RESTful APIs.
- Proficiency in working with SQL & NoSQL databases.
- Experience using Git for version control.
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud platforms (AWS, Azure).
- Exposure to monitoring and logging tools like Grafana, New Relic, and Splunk.
- Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work in a collaborative team environment.
- Develop, test, and maintain server-side applications using Node.js and related technologies.
- Design and implement RESTful APIs and microservices architecture to support frontend functionality.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand business needs and translate them into technical solutions.
- Optimize application performance, ensuring scalability and reliability.
- Conduct code reviews, mentor junior developers, and ensure adherence to best practices.
- Stay updated with emerging backend technologies and methodologies to improve development processes.
Mandatory
- SaaS experience of 2 years with total development experience of 4 years
- Must have worked in a smaller company of less than 100
- Should have built solutions/softwares end to end and not just as a part of bigger team
- Should see themselves going deeper into the same role even 5 years down the line
- Should have knowledge on Node.js, MongoDB, and AWS
- Strong understanding of asynchronous programming, event-driven architecture, and Node.js design patterns.
- Proficiency in working with databases such as PostgreSQL, MongoDB, or MySQL.
- Experience with API development, including RESTful services and microservices.
- Familiarity with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
- Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to debug complex server-side issues.
Essential
- Proficiency with version control systems like Git.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation.
- Knowledge of system design and scalable architecture.
- Understanding of security best practices and implementing secure APIs.
Good to Have
- Experience with GraphQL and related backend technologies.
- Knowledge of containerization and orchestration tools like Docker and Kubernetes.
- Familiarity with message brokers like RabbitMQ or Kafka.
- Experience with platforms like Shopify, BigCommerce, or other e-commerce technologies.
- Exposure to frontend technologies such as React for better cross-functional collaboration.
About the job
The Role:
We are looking for an enthusiastic Technology Lead (Python or Node), who adopts a hands-on approach and loves to build scalable, distributed and large web / mobile products. You would be responsible for designing the architecture, reviewing the code, building the technology and deploying web/mobile applications.
Responsibilities:
- Own the product development from scratch.
- Design and implementation of low-latency, high-availability, and performant applications.
- Architect scalable software solutions and mentor a team of high performing developers.
- Participate in code reviews, design reviews, SCRUM ceremonies, and troubleshoot to ensure uptime for live systems etc.
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in a technology-related field from a premier college.
- Prior 4+ years of experience in back-end development (Python/ Golang) in a start-up or a dynamic work environment.
- Good exposure in writing and optimizing SQL for high-performance systems.
- Understanding of asyncio and eventloop/ uvloop concepts. Knowledge of frameworks such as Quart/ Fastapi/ Starlette is preferred.
- Knowledge of AWS; Caching technologies like Redis, Memcache; ELK; mySQL Databases, etc.
- Strong understanding of System Design, Microservice Architecture, Kafka, Pub/Sub, Message queues, and in-memory data stores etc.
- Customer oriented, responsive to changes, and able to multi-task in a fast-paced environment.
We offer an innovative, fast paced, and entrepreneurial work environment where you’ll be at the centre of leading change by leveraging technology and creating boundless impact in the FinTech ecosystem.
Job Responsibilities :
- Must have knowledge of at least two PHP frameworks out of Laravel, Cakephp, CodeIgniter and YII.
- Must have basic knowledge of HTML, CSS, JavaScript and jQuery.
- Knowledge of CMS architectures like Wordpress, Joomla, Drupal etc. will be an added advantage.
- Knowledge of eCommerce frameworks like WooCommerce, Magento, OpenCart etc will be an added advantage.
- Good knowledge of Object-Oriented Concepts & a strong passion for Software Development.
- Strong Interaction and Design Sense
- Familiarity with LAMP stack (Apache, MySQL and phpMyAdmin)
- Comfortable with SQL and/or Script Programming.
- Experience in Designing & Developing Database in MySQL is a MUST.
Required Skills:
- Knowledge and/or willingness to learn, highly motivated.
- Fully comfortable working in English, both in written and spoken language.
Key Responsibilities:
- Rewrite existing APIs in NodeJS.
- Remodel the APIs into Micro services-based architecture.
- Implement a caching layer wherever possible.
- Optimize the API for high performance and scalability.
- Write unit tests for API Testing.
- Automate the code testing and deployment process.
Skills Required:
- At least 2.5 years of experience developing Backends using NodeJS — should be well versed with its asynchronous nature & event loop, and know its quirks and workarounds.
- Excellent hands-on experience using MySQL or any other SQL Database.
- Good knowledge of MongoDB or any other NoSQL Database.
- Good knowledge of Redis, its data types, and their use cases.
- Experience with graph-based databases like GraphQL and Neo4j.
- Experience developing and deploying REST APIs.
- Good knowledge of Unit Testing and available Test Frameworks.
- Good understanding of advanced JS libraries and frameworks.
- Experience with Web sockets, Service Workers, and Web Push Notifications.
- Familiar with NodeJS profiling tools.
- Proficient understanding of code versioning tools such as Git.
- Good knowledge of creating and maintaining DevOps infrastructure on cloud platforms.
- Should be a fast learner and a go-getter — without any fear of trying out new things Preferences.
- Experience building a large scale social or location-base
We are looking for young enthusiastic candidates who have knowledge on development in PHP & MySQL. Requirements are specified in the following points.
- Selected Candidate needs to work as a sole developer / work with other developers depending on the project.
- Selected Candidate needs to handle live projects from day 1.
- Some of our projects include Travel Portal, Airline Booking System, Hotel Booking system, eCommerce Portal etc. We prefer candidates with knowledge in these fields.
This person MUST have:
- BE Computer Science, MCA or equivalent
- Cloud app development experience
- Strong knowledge of Go programming language, paradigms, constructs, and idioms
- Knowledge of common Goroutine and channel patterns
- Experience with the fullsite of Go frameworks and tools, including:
- Dependency management tools such as Godep, Sltr, etc.
- Go’s templating language
- Go’s code generation tools,such as Stringer
- Ability to write clean and effective Godoc comments
- Familiarity with code versioning tools(such as Git, SVN, and Mercurial)
Experience:
- Min 3 year experience
- Not more than 15 year experience.
- Startup experience is a must.
Location
- Remotely, anywhere in India
Timings:
- 40 hours a week but with 4 hours a day overlapping with client timezone. .
Position:
- Full time/Direct
- We have great benefits such as PF, medical insurance, 12 annual company holidays, 12 PTO leaves per year, annual increments, Diwali bonus, spot bonuses and other incentives etc.
- We dont believe in locking in people with large notice periods. You will stay here because you love the company. We have only a 15 days notice period.
Job description
Do you want to work with high traffic OLTP and OLAP systems that provide real value to retailers? Want to build real web applications that work across multiple channels and devices? In this critical role, the right candidate should have an entrepreneurial mind-set, have experience working across an application stack and a strong background in developing complex web experiences that are rich, responsive and interactive. The individual should have exhibited good technical leadership skills and be a highly motivated individual.
Role & Responsibility
- Exhibit strong technical knowledge, leadership skills and independent execution.
- A keen eye for good experiences. Understanding the experience from a customer perspective.
- Drive design discussion of complex features and own development of these modules across the application stack.
- Ability to adapt to changing business and product needs.
- Experience evolving the design and operation scale as new features are added to the product
- Mentor junior developers and ensure quality code output (via code reads, reading references, etc.) from them.
- Co-ordinate with internal teams and external partners in ensuring we build the best solution on time for the customer. Constantly looking at ways to innovate and improve the product.
- 8+ years of experience in Java & J2EE based Web Technologies & Frameworks with a focus in either Service Oriented Architecture or APIs.
- Experience in designing scalable solutions in a large-scale distributed environment.
- Strong knowledge of web technologies, common web frameworks, networking, SQL and database technologies
- Well versed in software engineering principles, frameworks and technologies
- Strong debugging / troubleshooting skills.
- Ability to propose and defend solutions.
- Ability to work closely with product management, customer support, and other engineering teams to continuously evolve and innovate the enterprise-class Products.











