Senior Tech Lead

Location: Remote

Type: Full-Time Trainee

Experience: Freshers / Entry-Level

Who We Are

We’re a lean, fast-moving startup on a mission to build cool, scalable web solutions—and we’re looking for a Trainee PHP Developer who’s hungry to learn and ready to dive into real code from day one.

At our place, you won’t be stuck doing repetitive tasks or fetching coffee (unless you want to). You’ll be working side-by-side with experienced devs, building real products, making mistakes, fixing them, and growing fast.

What You'll Be Doing

• Learn the ropes of PHP development, including working with MySQL, APIs, and web services
• Build, test, and improve small features and internal tools
• Collaborate with developers, designers, and product folks
• Experiment, ask questions, break things, and help fix them
• Get hands-on with code reviews, Git workflows, and modern dev tools
• Learn frameworks like Laravel or CodeIgniter (we’ll help!)

What We're Looking For

• A solid foundation in PHP (even basic is fine—you’ll grow here)
• Some exposure to HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
• A learning mindset—we care more about curiosity than experience
• Willingness to try, fail, ask, and try again
• Bonus: You’ve played around with a PHP project or tried building something on your own

What You’ll Get

• Real learning, not just tasks
• Mentorship from passionate devs
• Flexible hours, casual vibes, and startup energy
• Access to paid learning resources (courses, tools, etc.)
• A chance to convert into a full-time junior developer

Eligibility

• Fresh graduates or final-year students (CS/IT or related fields preferred)
• Self-taught developers are welcome too

Responsibilities will include

• To be a part of a highly motivated, young, and energetic product development Team.
• You will be handling high traffic web site operations, pro-active maintenance and problem-solving skills to ensure optimal working and performance of the websites
• Opportunity to collaborate, work with the architects and product owners in the business, and to contribute in all phases of the software development lifecycle.
• Assisting with mentoring junior team members, code reviews.
• To ensure code is clean, effective, simple, and follows coding standards.
• To advise, recommend, and justify critical architecture decisions to management..

Minimum Qualifications

• Minimum 5+ years of experience in IT programming.
• You have strong debugging, problem-solving, and analytical skills.
• Strong sense of writing quality code.
• Passion for developing highly scalable systems.
• You are quick, resourceful, flexible, and an excellent collaborator.
• Hands-on technical designing, coding, and implementing product features.
• Strong experience in OOPS and MVC frameworks in PHP.
• Database experience of the following: PostgreSQL, MySQL, or MS SQL Server (Preferably PostgreSQL).
• Demonstrated ability to incorporate beneficial software design patterns.
• Basic understanding of front-end technologies (JavaScript, Ajax, etc.).
• Experience participating in agile and fast-paced software development methodologies.
• Experience in collaborating in a cross-functional agile team to solve challenging technical problems with innovative solutions.
• Train members on code development, optimization, and debugging techniques.
• Can do best code reviews in a team.
• Can do the best comprehension of business requirements and optimal utilization of available skills, tools, and resources.
• Ability to work independently in all phases of software development.

You have:

• 4- 15  years of relevant experience in full stack development in a reputed B2B SAAS company, preferably contract lifecycle management company (e.g. Pandadoc, Ironclad, Docusign, Zoho, Cloudcherry, Spot Draft etc)
• Experience in the following tech stack: JavaScript, Typescript, Angular, Python, Django, REST API, MySQL, Google Cloud
• Solid understanding of RDBMS concepts and experience managing one database (MySQL, PostgresSQL, etc)
• Solid understanding of Google Cloud Platform (or AWS)
• Strong experience and/or expertise in building customized text editors
• Strong experience with Python data analysis libraries
• Experience and/or expertise in building No-Code platforms
• Experience leading a small team of engineers in an agile/scrum setup

Preferred additional qualifications:

• Experience in building integrations with third party tools.
• Automated testing and data quality assurance experience
• Experience in data analytics
• Experience in working with data scientist to build and/or deploy ML models to solve specific problems
• Experience in working with Microsoft Cloud Storage Partner Program (CSPP)
• Experience in a startup environment
• Experience in Blockchain and Web3 technologies

Essential duties and responsibilities include the following. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Work on a remote cross-functional team where you’ll play a critical role in designing, planning, development, deployment and observing your code in production.   
• Develop high performance, highly scalable and accessible web applications. Our web app is used by over 20 million educators, students and parents worldwide.  
• Meet tight deadlines in a rapid application development environment.  
• Collaborate with Product Management, Design, and Operations teams to create and deliver tested features to production.  
• Collaborate with specialists across web, mobile, and operations to achieve a better user experience for our product.  
• Be able to assess and bring in industry information into your decisions and learn new technologies: AWS is releasing new tools every day, there are new open source libraries to vet and you will be a party to helping us vet and pick the best tool for the job.  
• Be willing to work in any area of the codebase if needed, this can include JavaScript/TypeScript/Node, PHP, Java or other technologies.  
• Help staff, build, and form the culture around a team of 5 engineers, a product manager, designer, QAs and associated supporting roles.

Qualifications include:

• Strong CS fundamentals including familiarity with data structures and especially the asynchronous challenges that face JavaScript developers today.   
• Experience developing in at least 2 server side languages (PHP, node.js, …)  
• Experience developing in at least 1 client side JS framework (ReactJS, Angular, …)  
• Experience testing software in alignment with the Test Pyramid.  
• Experience with datastores, either SQL (MySQL preferred) or NoSQL, and the ability to talk deeply about them.  
• Able to identify the source of complex problems occurring as a result of multiple systems interacting (experience with observability tools such as datadog/newrelic is a plus).   
• Experience working on a team of 5 engineers plus supporting roles (e.g. QA, design, etc), preferably as a Senior Software Engineer.  
• Experience with code review, being able to sign-off on another team member’s code ensuring high quality standards.  
• Be self-sustained even when tackling the highest profile, most difficult work across the organization.  
• Willingness to accept responsibility and be accountable not only for your own work but the work of the team as a whole.  
• Experience working with other people’s code, how to dig into it and make tactical changes with minimal side effects.  
• A solid understanding of how to break down user stories and give estimates that include accessibility and security requirements.  
• Be able to see roadblocks far ahead, across many vectors of risk  
• Be a true team player! Ensuring their knowledge and expertise is shared amongst other team members and even cross-team and be willing to seek out opportunities to mentor teammates.  
• A commitment to learning about anything you don’t know on your own and without much supervision.  
• Superior communications, organization and relationship building skills — you’re going to be working on cross-team efforts, so this is essential.  
• Self-motivation as well as ability and desire to learn new technologies, applications, processes, and environments.  
• A belief that delivering code to production is just one step in the process. Observing and owning the code you wrote goes hand in hand with construction.  
• A desire to take on whatever challenge is most important. This could be tackling something you are familiar with, or it could require a deep dive into a whole new world. The key is having the right attitude.   

What you need to have: