
Software Development Engineer
at India’s largest vernacular test prep App. (P1)
- 1+ year of experience
- Full responsibility for designing and building core back-end modules and system architectures.
- Good understanding of database concepts.
- Experience with at least two programming languages (PHP & GoLang).
- Experience in creating at least one web application.
- Knowledge of MySQL in-depth and basic understanding of MongoDB along with basic understanding about different paradigms of programming.
- Ability to interact and coordinate with a team.
- Should have a basic understanding of APIs.
- Modify code in time to keep code dry and reusable.
- Should have worked in at least one framework in the backend.
- A background in Software Architecture would be preferred.
Requirements
- Develop data-driven web solutions on PHP frameworks (ideally CakePHP), but be undeterred when the need arises to create an application from the ground up as required, maintain, contribute and adhere to our programming best practices and guidelines.
- Work with a team of UI designers, programmers, and server admins, to bring brand new concepts to the market.
- Help improve our code quality through writing unit tests, automation and performing code reviews.
- Immediate Joiner

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Location:Banaglore
We are looking for a skilled Golang Developer with strong experience in backend development, microservices, and system-level programming. In this role, you will work on high-performance trading systems, low-latency architecture, and scalable backend solutions.
Key Responsibilities
• Develop and maintain backend services using Golang
• Build scalable, secure, and high-performance microservices
• Work with REST APIs, WebSockets, message queues, and distributed systems
• Collaborate with DevOps, frontend, and product teams for smooth project delivery
• Optimize performance, troubleshoot issues, and ensure system stability
Skills & Experience Required
• 3–5 years of experience in Golang development
• Strong understanding of data structures, concurrency, and networking
• Hands-on experience with MySQL / Redis / Kafka or similar technologies
• Good understanding of microservices architecture, APIs, and cloud environments
• Experience in fintech/trading systems is an added advantage
• Immediate joiners or candidates with up to 30 days notice period preferred
If you are passionate about backend engineering and want to build fast, scalable trading systems.
Location: Mumbai (Onsite)
Experience: 6–8 Years
Salary: ₹75,000 – ₹1,20,000 per month (depending on experience & skill set)
Employment Type: Full-time
Job Description
We are looking for an experienced PHP – Laravel Developer to join our onsite team in Mumbai. The ideal candidate should have strong backend expertise in Laravel along with advanced frontend knowledge, the ability to work closely with clients, and experience managing tasks using project management tools.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop, maintain, and enhance web applications using PHP and Laravel
- Build and consume RESTful APIs
Required Skills & Qualifications
- 4–6 years of hands-on experience in PHP development
- Strong expertise in Laravel framework (Laravel 10+)
- Solid understanding of MVC architecture
- Strong knowledge of JavaScript
- React.js experience (good to have working knowledge)
- TypeScript – good to know
- Advanced frontend knowledge using HTML, CSS, JavaScript
- Experience with Tailwind CSS
- Strong experience with MySQL
- Hands-on experience with REST APIs
- Proficiency in Eloquent ORM
- Familiarity with Git / version control
- Experience working in Linux environments
Additional Requirements
- Excellent client communication skills
- Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical solutions
- Experience using project management tools (Jira, Trello, ClickUp, etc.)
- Ability to work independently and take ownership of modules
Good to Have (Preferred Skills)
- Exposure to CI/CD pipelines
- Basic understanding of application security best practices
- Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments
What We Offer
- Competitive salary based on skills and experience
- Onsite role with a collaborative work environment
- Opportunity to work directly with clients
- Growth opportunities and exposure to modern tech stack
Job Type: Full-time
Application Question(s):
- If selected, how soon can you join?
Experience:
- Total: 5 years (Required)
- Laravel: 5 years (Required)
Location:
- Mumbai, Maharashtra (Required)
Work Location: In person
Job Type: Full-time
Application Question(s):
- Are you located in Mumbai ? Commuting to Borivali(West) would be feasible for you ?
- What is your notice period ?
- Are you okay with the salary slab between (70,000-1,20,000),
depending upon your experience ?
- Do you have 6–8 years of hands-on experience working onsite on production applications using Laravel 10+, JavaScript, React.js, Tailwind CSS, REST APIs, direct client communication, and project management tools?”
Work Location: In person
Who You Are:
- You’ve built scalable, production-ready APIs in fast-paced environments, and are comfortable with the challenges that come with a growing startup.
- You understand event-driven architectures and have hands-on experience building real-time applications.
- You are fully capable of taking ownership of backend systems, from designing the database schema to writing efficient, maintainable code.
- You think beyond the code: optimizing performance, scalability, and security are as important as building new features.
- You’re comfortable troubleshooting complex issues, whether that’s API bottlenecks, database performance, or production issues.
Responsibilities:
- Design, implement, and manage a NestJS backend with a modular, scalable architecture that can easily handle real-time events and communication.
- Develop and maintain WebSocket services for real-time event-driven updates and ensure seamless communication across the system.
- Integrate RabbitMQ for reliable internal messaging, handling queues and ensuring event-driven workflows are efficient and fault-tolerant.
- Implement database management strategies using MongoDB, Redis, and Elasticsearch, ensuring efficient data handling, indexing, and optimization.
- Integrate with external APIs (JSON-RPC, XML-RPC, REST) to enhance system capabilities.
- Ensure high performance of the system by optimizing database queries, implementing caching strategies using Redis, and ensuring optimal indexing and data flow.
- Implement role-based authentication and authorization mechanisms using JWT, OAuth, and RBAC patterns within NestJS.
- Follow security best practices to ensure sensitive data is protected, credentials are stored securely, and the system is resilient to common vulnerabilities.
- Work collaboratively with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless integration between different services and technologies.
Must-Have Skills:
- Strong proficiency in Node.js and NestJS with TypeScript.
- Solid experience with MongoDB, Redis, and Elasticsearch for data storage and real-time data handling.
- In-depth knowledge of WebSockets and Socket.IO in NestJS Gateways, enabling real-time communication and updates.
- Experience with RabbitMQ for message queuing and asynchronous task handling.
- Strong understanding of authentication & authorization systems using JWT, OAuth, and RBAC (Role-Based Access Control).
- Expertise in optimizing APIs, including techniques for caching, improving database performance, and reducing latency.
- Familiar with API security best practices, including secure storage of credentials, encryption, and safeguarding sensitive data.
Key Skills:
- TypeScript, NestJS, WebSockets, Socket.io
- Redis, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, RabbitMQ
- API Optimization, JWT, OAuth, RBAC
- Real-time communication, Event-driven architecture
Role- Software Development Engineer-2
As a Software Development Engineer at Amazon, you have industry-leading technical abilities and demonstrate breadth and depth of knowledge. You build software to deliver business impact, making smart technology choices. You work in a team and drive things forward.
Top Skills
- You write high quality, maintainable, and robust code, often in Java or C++ or C#
- You recognize and adopt best practices in software engineering: design, testing, version control, documentation, build, deployment, and operations.
- You have experience building scalable software systems that are high-performance, highly-available, highly transactional, low latency and massively distributed.
- Roles & Responsibilities
- You solve problems at their root, stepping back to understand the broader context.
- You develop pragmatic solutions and build flexible systems that balance engineering complexity and timely delivery, creating business impact.
- You understand a broad range of data structures and algorithms and apply them to deliver high-performing applications.
- You recognize and use design patterns to solve business problems.
- You understand how operating systems work, perform and scale.
- You continually align your work with Amazon’s business objectives and seek to deliver business value.
- You collaborate to ensure that decisions are based on the merit of the proposal, not the proposer.
- You proactively support knowledge-sharing and build good working relationships within the team and with others in Amazon.
- You communicate clearly with your team and with other groups and listen effectively.
Skills & Experience
- Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science or relevant technical field.
- Experience in software development and full product life-cycle.
- Excellent programming skills in any object-oriented programming languages - preferably Java, C/C++/C#, Perl, Python, or Ruby.
- Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and designing for performance, scalability, and availability.
- Proficiency in SQL and data modeling.
About Amazon.com
“Many of the problems we face have no textbook solution, and so we-happily-invent new ones.” – Jeff Bezos
Amazon.com – a place where builders can build. We hire the world's brightest minds and offer them an environment in which they can invent and innovate to improve the experience for our customers. A Fortune 100 company based in Seattle, Washington, Amazon is the global leader in e-commerce. Amazon offers everything from books and electronics to apparel and diamond jewelry. We operate sites in Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, Spain, United Kingdom and United States, and maintain dozens of fulfillment centers around the world which encompass more than 26 million square feet.
Technological innovation drives the growth of Amazon, offering our customers more selection, convenient shopping, and low prices. Amazon Web Services provides developers and small to large businesses access to the horizontally scalable state of the art cloud infrastructure like S3, EC2, AMI, CloudFront and SimpleDB, that powers Amazon.com. Developers can build any type of business on Amazon Web Services and scale their application with growing business needs.
We want you to help share and shape our mission to be Earth's most customer-centric company. Amazon's evolution from Web site to e-commerce partner to development platform is driven by the spirit of invention that is part of our DNA. We do this every day by inventing elegant and simple solutions to complex technical and business problems. We're making history and the good news is that we've only just begun.
About Amazon India
Amazon teams in India work on complex business challenges to innovate and create efficient solutions that enable various Amazon businesses, including Amazon websites across the world as well as support Payments, Transportation, and Digital products and services like the Kindle family of tablets, e-readers and the store. We are proud to have some of the finest talent and strong leaders with proven experience working to make Amazon the Earth’s most customer-centric company.
We made our foray into the Indian market with the launch of Junglee.com, enabling retailers in India to advertise their products to millions of Indian shoppers and drive targeted traffic to their stores. In June 2013, we launched http://www.amazon.in">www.amazon.in for shoppers in India. With http://www.amazon.in">www.amazon.in, we endeavor to give customers more of what they want – low prices, vast selection, fast and reliable delivery, and a trusted and convenient online shopping experience. In just over a year of launching our India operations, we have expanded our offering to over 18 million products across 36 departments and 100s of categories! Our philosophy of working backwards from the customers is what drives our growth and success.
We will continue to strive to become a trusted and meaningful sales and logistics channel for retailers of all sizes across India and a fast, reliable and convenient online shopping destination for consumers. For us, it is always “Day 1” and we are committed to aggressively invest over the long-term and relentlessly focus on raising the bar for customer experience in India.
Amazon India offers opportunities where you can dive right in, work with smart people on challenging problems and make an impact that contributes to the lives of millions. Join us so you can - Work Hard, Have Fun and Make History.
● 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.
➢ Agility and ability to adapt quickly to changing requirements and scope and priorities
➢ Strong proficiency with JavaScript (ECMAScript 5, 6)
➢ Knowledge of Node.js and frameworks available for it (SailsJS, Express)
➢ Understanding the nature of asynchronous programming and its quirks and workarounds
➢ Familiarity with front-end technologies
➢ User authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments
➢ Interaction with multiple data sources
➢ Good understanding of SQL syntax
➢ Understanding fundamental design principles behind a scalable application
➢ Understanding differences between multiple delivery platforms, such as mobile vs. desktop, and optimizing output to match the specific platform.
➢ Implementing automated testing platforms and unit tests
➢ Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git .
➢ Knowledge in the field of IOT is good to have.










