NewsBytes is India's only multi-lingual digital media company with the capability to produce content via an AI-based engine.
We are looking to hire a back-end developer who is proficient in PHP.
- Minimum of 2 years of experience
- Knowledge of PHP and Laravel Framework is a plus
- Basic understanding of CSS, JS, and HTML5
- The familiarity of Linux Environment is a plus
- Sound knowledge of design patterns and algorithms

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Key Responsibilities:
- Design and develop backend components and sub-systems for large-scale platforms under guidance from senior engineers.
- Contribute to building and evolving the next-generation customer data platform.
- Write clean, efficient, and well-tested code with a focus on scalability and performance.
- Explore and experiment with modern technologies—especially open-source frameworks—
- and build small prototypes or proof-of-concepts.
- Use AI-assisted development tools to accelerate coding, testing, debugging, and learning while adhering to engineering best practices.
- Participate in code reviews, design discussions, and continuous improvement of the platform.
Qualifications:
- 0–2 years of experience (or strong academic/project background) in backend development with Java.
- Good fundamentals in algorithms, data structures, and basic performance optimizations.
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or IT (B.E / B.Tech / M.Tech / M.S) from premier institutes.
Technical Skill Set:
- Strong aptitude and analytical skills with emphasis on problem solving and clean coding.
- Working knowledge of SQL and NoSQL databases.
- Familiarity with unit testing frameworks and writing testable code is a plus.
- Basic understanding of distributed systems, messaging, or streaming platforms is a bonus.
AI-Assisted Engineering (LLM-Era Skills):
- Familiarity with modern AI coding tools such as Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, Windsurf, Opencode, or similar.
- Ability to use AI tools for code generation, refactoring, test creation, and learning new systems responsibly.
- Willingness to learn how to combine human judgment with AI assistance for high-quality engineering outcomes.
Soft Skills & Nice to Have
- Appreciation for technology and its ability to create real business value, especially in data and marketing platforms.
- Clear written and verbal communication skills.
- Strong ownership mindset and ability to execute in fast-paced environments.
- Prior internship or startup experience is a plus.
• Design, develop, code and test the solution
• Experience working with large datasets and NoSQL database technologies (e.g. Cassandra, ES)
• 5-10 yrs of industry experience
• Energetic self-starter, with a desire to work in a startup environment
• Proficient in advanced Java programming skills
• Expert in Application development cloud/on premise end to end. Middle layer, DB layer.
• Nice to have understanding on MQ (e.g. Kafka)
• Good hands on in Complex Event Processing systems
• Solved scale and performance issues while dealing with huge sets of data. Pre compute or data aggregation frameworks to achieve good response time
• Experience working with large datasets and NoSQL database technologies (e.g. Cassandra, ES)
• Experience of debugging applications running on Unix like systems (e.g. Ubuntu, CentOS)
• Experience developing RESTful APIs for complex data sets
• Knowledge of container based development & deployment (e.g. Dockers, K8s)
• Expertise in software security domain, a plus
Responsibilities:
- Build and maintain REST APIs
- Proficient in Python or any other programming language
- Experience in writing Unit/Integration tests.
- Experience with Distributed Version Control System.
- Elasticsearch or Solr experience.
- NOSQL experience- Cassandra, MongoDB.
- Experience in Message brokers - Rabbitmq.
- Experience with AWS Infrastructure, Lambda, Docker/Containers
Desired to have:
- Should be pragmatic and realize when a solution is over-engineered as well as knowing when to spend time on creating the right abstraction that allows us to move faster in the long run.
- Passion for your work and striving to do things “the right way”.
- Familiarity with Agile/Lean process.
- Willingness to work in a Startup environment.
- Excellent debugging and optimization skills.
- Knowledge of emerging technologies and a solid understanding of the full product development life cycle.
- Excellent knowledge of mobile user experience, information architecture and trends
About the company
Currently we are hiring for a VC backed startup a fast growing fintech startup based in Bangalore.
It is a super app to digitize India’s 50M+ sales agents where they can get access to relevant products & services, receive training through interactive videos on “how to sell, what to sell and whom to sell”, and earn money. For businesses, we help them save a huge effort in managing and training these agents and help them increase their reach to every nook and corner of the country.
India is a trust deficit market which cannot be accessed through Internet Marketing on Facebook and Google as the majority of the customers need training, push, motivation and a primer on why and how to use a product.
To solve this problem, traditional industries like BFSI, Telecom, Automobile, Real Estate etc. use 50M+ frontline sales executives to drive distribution. We believe that not just for these traditional industries but also for emerging companies in FinTech, EdTech etc these agents will play a pivotal role in accessing trust deficit customers.
They have grown to a 100,000+ agent network across India (growing 50% MoM) & are funded by tier1 VC’s and angels in India.
Summary of Role
As a lead of the consumer products software engineering division, you will take an active role in the definition and evolution of standard practices and procedures. You will be responsible for defining and developing software for tasks associated with the developing, designing and debugging of the software applications.
Responsibilities:
- Overlook development of all consumer products in JAVA
- Lead a team of 4-5 developers
- Optimize components for maximum performance across a vast array of web-capable devices and browsers
- Focus on code maintainability and performance of application
- Provide technical advice and assists in solving programming problems
- Continuously create new and interactive features that would help to improve user experience and user engagement.
- Assist with troubleshooting of issues as needed
- Lead the design and architecture of software solutions
- Assist in developing and maintaining continuous integration pipelines
Required Skills for this Role:
- JAVA
- Spring/Spring Boot
- Hibernate
- Linux
- REST
- Kafka
- Mysql
- AWS
- ELK Stack (Elasticsearch)
- CI/CD Pipelines
- Team Leadership experience of at least 3 year
Qualifications:
- 4+ years of experience in Java based technologies
- Experience in designing databases and system architecture
- Experience in building products from scratch at well funded start-ups
- Team Lead/Team Manager experience of at least 3 years
2) Strong experience with Spring and Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Spring Data, Spring Security
3) Experience building REST and SOAP web services using Java, Micro Services
4) Experience with Web Services (JSON, REST, Spring based REST services)
5) Experience with Java and J2EE/Java EE (including servlets, JSP, JDBC)
6) Strong Core Java development
7) Experience with development tools like Eclipse, Git,.etc
8) Experience with web application servers like Tomcat
9) Experience in scripting and working in a Linux/Windows environment
You’ll be joining the engineering team responsible for delivering SaaS and on-premise solutions that orchestrate case data workflows and provide data driven legal insights for our clients. You will be leading the development, maintenance and scaling of our strategic initiatives - using a variety of distributed systems and cloud-technology stacks, driving our next level of growth. As an early member of our small team, you will have ample opportunity to lead and scale the product and the team.
Responsibilities
- Work with product management to understand customers' case data workflows to translate their pain points to requirements.
- Gain a solid understanding of customer backend pipelines and integration surfaces.
- Breakdown large projects into potentially shippable incremental units within a timeframe.
- Understand the current system architecture and design sub systems.
- Be hands-on and build end-to-end new features and support existing features.
- Engage in all stages of the product development life cycle.
- Adopt a customer-centric and iterative mindset.
- Promote engineering best practices such as API design standards, coding standards, code test coverage, code reviews, CI/CD, and documentation.
- Work with lead engineers and mentor junior engineers to deliver on large initiatives.
- Our tech stack is varied - you will start with Ruby/Rails, JavaScript/React, Postgres, Redis, Sidekiq, Heroku, AWS, and more.
Required Skills:
- Exposure to a variety of stacks building SaaS platforms and/or on-premise solutions.
- Experience with building sub-systems or services in a distributed system.
- Exposure to one or more backend architectures such as event-driven, micro services, and cloud architectures.
- Experience troubleshooting performance and/or scale issues.
- Strong in RDBMS and/or NoSQL databases.
- Proficient in one or more scripting languages - experience in Ruby/Rails and JavaScript/React is a plus.
- Strong in data structures, algorithms, object-oriented programming, and design patterns.
- Ability to effectively communicate and collaborate with both technical and nontechnical team members.
- Prior experience in the legal tech industry is a plus.
Years of Experience : 5+ years
Educational Qualification: BE or BCA or MCA OR Msc IT
We are looking for a Full Stack Laravel Developer who is dedicated to the craft, writes code that they are proud of and can hit the ground running.
You will be a part of a full-stack creative team that is responsible for all aspects of the ongoing software development from the initial specification, through to developing, testing and launching.
Responsibilities
- Write “clean”, well-designed code
- Produce detailed specifications
- Troubleshoot, test and maintain the core product software and databases to ensure strong optimization and functionality
- Contribute in all phases of the development lifecycle
- Follow industry best practices
- Develop and deploy new features to facilitate related procedures and tools if necessary
Requirements
- Proven software development experience in Laravel Framework
- Demonstrable knowledge of web technologies including HTML, CSS, Javascript, AJAX etc
- Good knowledge of relational databases, version control tools and of developing web services
- Passion for best design and coding practices and a desire to develop new bold ideas
- BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related subject

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Total of 3-5 years of experience building cutting-edge products.
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Must have a degree in Computer Science or a related field. Strong understanding of object-oriented programming, concurrency, and fundamentals of computer science.
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Technically Hands-on, prior experience with scalable Architecture.
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Bring 3-5 years of software engineering and product delivery experience, with a strong background in algorithms.
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Excellent command over Data Structures and Algorithm Proficiency in implementation of algorithms and use of advanced data structures to solve problems in computing
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Exceptional coding skills in an Object-Oriented programming language (Python preferred with Django framework).
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Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
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Experience with web technologies Java/Python, Linux, Apache, MySQL, solr, memcache, redis.
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Experience in architecting & building real-time, large-scale e-commerce applications.
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Experience with high-performance websites catering to millions of daily traffic is a plus.
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Java/ Python, MySQL, Redis, ElasticSearch, Problem Solving, Scalability, Design Patterns, Distributed System
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Develop complex software products that include scale, algorithmic complexity, and a huge amount of data.
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Build cutting-edge scalable systems by writing simple and efficient code.
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Code, develop, design, and architect features related to the existing application. We expect you to own modules end to end and take pride in the work products you ship
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Contribute to all aspects of an agile software development lifecycle including design, architecture, development, documentation, testing, and operations.
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Design, implement, and maintain highly scalable, multi-tier, distributed server software applications
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Deliver across the entire app life cycle, design, build, deploy, test, release to app stores, and support
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Working directly with developers and product managers to conceptualize, build, test, and release products
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Take responsibility for performance and stability for all server functions
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Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency
● 3-6 Years of experience with a Bachelor’s/Master's degree in Computer Science, Math, or related
technical domain
● Skilled in software development lifecycle, and designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered,
distributed software applications, tools, systems or services using Object Oriented Design,
distributed programming, Java, Python, Node.js.
● Knowledge of ORM tools like Hibernate, JPA.
● Good knowledge of one or more relational and NoSQL databases
● Experience in deployment of microservices over Amazon Web Services
● Experience in delivering quality products using microservices architecture.
● Knowledge of Agile methodologies & best practices for the full software development life cycle,
including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing,
and operations
● Strong hold on Data Structure, Problem solving skills
To succeed at Zest, you will need
● Ability to operate and communicate with every business unit and level of hierarchy
● High levels of energy and enthusiasm for all that you do
● Be someone who does not take “no” for an answer and pushes for continuous innovation and
evolution
● Have extremely high standards in everything you do – you will be required to keep raising the bar
● Ability to think big and to inspire a vision in others
● Kindness, warmth and a positive, optimistic attitude
And what do you get in return?
● Opportunity to be part of one of the most exciting consumer growth stories in the world
● One of the best funded and most far advanced companies in the space (investors are leading
global VCs)
● We will teach you all you need to know about “Fintech”
● Endless amounts of learning and development – formal and informal
● Ability to work with some of the best, nicest and most passionate people in the digital lending
industry – from all over the world
● Founders with the right vision and motivation to make this a success story
● Freedom to work how you like (we do not do ‘facetime’)
● A culture of trust and honesty – we will not second guess you
● A flat structure with minimal politics or hierarchy
● Recognition and respect for your work
● Market beating compensation and Equity ownership for the best candidate
● Lunch, great healthcare, decent coffee and a nice office.









