Sr. PHP Developer

The Senior Developer will work on core product features, uphold architectural standards, and collaborate closely with the Team Leader to deliver high-quality, scalable solutions.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain major product features
• Follow technical guidance from the Team Leader
• Ensure adherence to coding standards and system architecture
• Perform thorough testing of assigned tasks

Required Skills:

• Strong expertise in Next.js, React.js, Express.js, and PostgreSQL
• Solid understanding of system design, clean code practices, and performance optimization

Key Responsibilities

Develop and maintain scalable applications using MongoDB, MySQL/PostgreSQL, Node.js, Express.js, React.js, and TypeScript.

Design, develop, and optimize RESTful APIs and GraphQL services.

Lead and mentor a team of developers, ensuring best coding practices, performance, and security.

Collaborate with UI/UX designers, product managers, and DevOps teams to streamline development.

Contribute to AI-powered application development (if experienced in AI/ML).

Required Skills & Qualifications

✅ 3+ years of experience in MERN stack development.

✅ Expertise in React.js, TypeScript, Node.js, and Express.js.

✅ Strong database management skills with MongoDB, MySQL, or PostgreSQL.

✅ Proven experience in leading development teams and conducting code reviews.

✅ Excellent problem-solving and communication skills.

✅ Bonus: Experience in AI/ML-based applications is a plus.

Why Join Us?

🚀 Exciting Projects – Work on AI-driven and scalable web solutions.

🤝 Leadership Opportunity – Lead and mentor a talented team of developers.

🏡 Dynamic Work Environment – Collaborative, innovation-driven workplace.

Position: Laravel + Vue.js Full-Stack Developer

Location: Pune (Hybrid)

Experience: 1 – 4 years

Type: Full-time

Role and Responsibilities

You will work on:

Backend (Laravel)

• Develop new modules: booking, calendar, supplier section, pricing & markup logic.
• Maintain existing modules (boats, tours, enquiries, bookings).
• Handle database queries, migrations, policies, and relationships.
• Integrate and maintain APIs.
• Fix backend bugs and optimize performance.
• Implement new logic updates based on business requirements.

Frontend (Vue.js + Blade)

• Work on Vue.js modals, forms, calendar interactions.
• Manage Vue 2 components (v-model, v-if/v-show, events, watchers).
• Improve user experience in admin panel forms.
• Fix HTML/Bootstrap/JS issues.

Admin Panel & Role Management

• Work with Laravel’s Role-Based Access:
• Gates
• Policies
• Permissions
• Middleware (auth, role, permission)
• Protect admin routes and operations.
• Add new roles/permissions when needed.

System Tasks

• Debug issues related to file storage, PDFs, fullcalendar, daterangepicker.
• Work on server-side tasks (logging, error handling, optimization).
• Work with Ajax (jQuery + Vue mixed old-style admin panel).
• Understand and extend existing architecture.

Required Technical Skills

Must-Have (Strong Knowledge)

• Laravel (5+ to 10+ series experience)
• Vue.js (Vue 2)
• MySQL
• Blade Templates
• jQuery
• AJAX
• Bootstrap
• Role & Permission system (Spatie or native)
• Middleware, Gates, Policies
• REST API development
• Git
• Deployment on Linux/VPS
• Cron jobs & queues

Good to have

• FullCalendar experience
• Payment Gateway Integration
• Daterangepicker
• PDF generation
• Travel booking experience (bonus)
• AWS basics (optional)

Expected Experience

• 1–4 years in Laravel development
• At least 1 project with Vue.js
• Must have worked on admin dashboards or SaaS systems
• Experience with RBAC (role-based access control)

What You Will Work On Immediately

• Fixing and adding availability calendar features
• Enhance booking logic for boats/tours
• Markup percentage/amount handling
• Role-based access improvements
• UI fixes in admin panel
• PDF/file handling improvements
• Vendor/supplier module enhancements

Salary / Compensation

• Monthly: ₹15,000 – ₹35,000

We are looking for a talented Full Stack Developer with strong hands-on experience in Node.js and either Angular, React, or Next.js. The ideal candidate should have experience working with microservices, fintech/banking products, queuing systems, and scalable architectures. This role requires excellent problem-solving skills, strong coding fundamentals, and the ability to work in a fast-paced, product-focused environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop scalable, secure, and high-performance full-stack applications using Node.js and Angular/React/Next.js.
• Design, build, and maintain microservices-based architectures.
• Work with large datasets and ensure efficient data processing, storage, and handling.
• Integrate and manage message queuing systems such as RabbitMQ, Google Pub/Sub, or other brokers.
• Collaborate with Product, UI/UX, QA, and DevOps teams to deliver high-quality product features.
• Build reusable front-end components and optimize applications for maximum speed.
• Implement RESTful APIs, backend services, and API integrations.
• Follow best coding practices, testing methodologies, and documentation standards.
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues related to backend, frontend, databases, and cloud deployments.
• Manage deployments and automate workflows using CI/CD pipelines.
• Ensure robust security practices in code, APIs, and database management.

🎯 Role Overview

We are a UK-based SaaS company powering online ordering, POS, and mobile apps for restaurants and takeaways. We already serve 1200+ clients on our legacy platform and are migrating to a modern Python-Django, React, Flutter, microservices stack hosted on OVH Cloud.

We’re looking for a hands-on Senior Architect/Lead based in India (preferably Kerala) who can:

• Audit and stabilize our current build,

• Deliver MVP in weeks, not months,

• And evolve into the future CTO of the company.

This role is high-impact: you’ll work closely with the UK leadership team and lead a growing India-based engineering group.

🛠️ Key Responsibilities

• Architecture & Ownership

• Review and refactor existing codebase (Django backend, Flutter apps, React admin).

• Define clean architecture, APIs, and service boundaries.

• Simplify into a stable MVP (modular monolith first, microservices later).

• Delivery Management

• Enforce agile sprints (2-week cycles).

• Set up CI/CD pipelines, test automation, QA cycles.

• Ensure smooth and secure deployments on OVH cloud.

• Hands-On Development

• Lead by example — write/refactor core backend/frontend code.

• Mentor and guide 3 in-house developers (transitioning from PHP/Opencart).

• Scaling & Future Roadmap

• Prepare system for multi-language support, payments, POS integrations.

• Define a 12–24 month tech roadmap aligned with business goals.

• Explore AI-assisted coding/testing to boost team productivity.

• Leadership

• Act as technical counterpart to business leadership in the UK.

• Build and lead a strong India-based engineering team as we scale.

✅ Required Skills & Experience

• 7–10 years professional development experience, with at least 3 years leading teams or projects.

• Strong hands-on expertise in:

• Python-Django (backend, APIs, ORM, migrations)

• Flutter (cross-platform apps)

• React (admin dashboards)

• DevOps (CI/CD, Docker, cloud deployments)

• Proven track record of shipping SaaS products from MVP → production.

• Experience cleaning up/refactoring messy codebases.

• Ability to mentor mid-level and junior devs.

• Bonus: Experience with restaurant/retail tech, POS, or fintech/payments.

🚀 Desirable Traits

• Pragmatic “builder” mindset → knows how to cut complexity and ship fast.

• Hands-on problem solver, not just a PowerPoint architect.

• Ambition to grow into CTO role (lead a larger tech org, own platform strategy).

• Strong communicator — can bridge between UK business team and India dev team.

💼 What We Offer

• Competitive salary for senior-level (₹12 -  ₹18 lakhs INR / year depending on experience).

• Future CTO track opportunity.

• Chance to lead the rebuild of a SaaS platform already trusted by 1200+ businesses.

• Direct collaboration with UK leadership, high ownership and visibility.

📌 How to Apply

Send CV + GitHub/LinkedIn. In your cover note, describe:

• A time you had to rescue a struggling project.

• Your experience with Django + Flutter + React in one product.

• Why you’d want to grow into CTO responsibilities.

1. Developing and maintaining web applications: coding, testing, and debugging both client-side (front-end) and server-side (back-end) components of web applications. This includes working with languages like HTML, CSS, JavaScript for the front-end, and server-side languages like Node.js, MySQL, MongoDB, or PostgreSQL.

2. Collaborating with cross-functional teams: The candidate need to collaborate with other team members, such as UI/UX designers, product/operations managers, and other developers, to understand requirements and implement solutions.

3. Learning and applying new technologies: Given the rapid pace of technological advancement in web development, candidates are often expected to learn and adapt to new frameworks, libraries, and best practices. They might spend time researching and experimenting with new tools or technologies and applying them to current projects. This continuous learning is crucial for personal development and for staying relevant in the field.

• Experience in software / web application architecture, estimates, design and development experience
• Knowledge of formal methods and techniques in software development
• Experience / Knowledge in the following technologies/languages/libraries/frameworks:
  • Primary Experience in C#, NodeJS and React JS.
  • Add on experience in HTML5, CSS, jQuery, JSON, API, Angular JS, AWS / Azure.
  • Experience with Version Control Software (GIT)

Job Summary
We are looking for a PHP Developer responsible for managing back-end services and the interchange of data between the server and the users. Your primary focus will be the development of all server-side logic, definition and maintenance of the central database, and ensuring high performance and responsiveness to requests from the front-end. You will also be responsible for integrating the front-end elements built by your co-workers into the application. Therefore, a basic understanding of front-end technologies is necessary as well.

• Minimum experience should be 5 years.
• Strong knowledge of PHP frameworks (such as OpenCart, Zend)
• Advance understanding of front-end technologies, such as JavaScript & JS based frameworks like jquery.

• Understanding of MVC design patterns.

• Good hands on in integrating payment API's and CRM software development.

• Preference for experience on rest API's.

• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git.

Merkle|Sokrati, a leader in Paid Search & Social Advertising, provides a sophisticated technology solution to efficiently manage Digital Marketing campaigns for several brands in India. The technology developed takes a beating of serving and tracking 20M+ impressions a day. It runs crunching algorithms and keyword discovery routines using distributed computing, housing the entire data in distributed caches and sharded MySQL databases.

To be a geek at Merkle|Sokrati you need to know how to build scalable and high-performance systems. Nothing at Sokrati is small. We start with a proof of concept that demands a traffic rate of 10M+! To achieve any of this you need to understand Distributed Systems, Distributed Caching, High-scale Databases. And we possess the skills to create software that makes this entire heterogeneous system function together even if it runs on 100 boxes. A system that is so widely used cannot sustain any downtime and hence it uses elegant high-availability techniques to survive an outage. Not many startups can say “been there, done that”!

@Merkle|Sokrati, you will:

• Implement solutions for broadly defined problems
• Drive best practices and engineering excellence
• Be involved in the development of code in object-oriented languages like Java etc and build large scale robust distributed systems
• Be involved in full fledged product development.
• Build New Features, Push them to production fast.
• Debug production issues across services and levels of the stack
• Build services or APIs which will for easy application integrations at Sokrati to develop applications faster.
• Build scalable/fault-tolerant backend systems that process and analyze billions of data points every day.

You'd fit right in if you have:

• 2-4 years of experience in building successful production software systems
• A solid grounding in Computer Science fundamentals (based on a BE/BTech or MS in Computer Science)
• Experience developing software services and an understanding of design for scalability, performance and reliability.
• Mastery of the tools of the trade, including a variety of modern programming languages (Python, Java, JavaScript, C/C++) and open-source technologies (Linux, Spring)
• Proven ability to work in a fast paced, agile and in an ownership and results oriented culture

If you are excited about:

• Having an unmatched startup experience that allows you to work on bleeding-edge technologies.
• Making a splash in a multi-billion dollar Digital Advertising industry
• Learning & Growing far beyond your current horizon
• A place full of like-minded & ridiculously smart folks
• A start-up culture that you'd cherish forever in your work life

Feel like you are a good fit? We would love to hear from you!