Technical Lead – Backend

Job description:

Job Title: PHP Developer

Location: Mumbai

Experience: 3–5 years

Immediate Joiners

Role & Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain robust, scalable web applications using the Laravel framework.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and deliver new features.
• Ensure the performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications.
• Identify and correct bottlenecks and fix bugs.
• Help maintain code quality, organization, and automation.
• Write clean, secure, and efficient code while following best practices.
• Build and maintain APIs and third-party integrations.
• Troubleshoot and debug application issues in development and production environments.
• Manage and optimize MySQL databases and queries.
• Participate in daily stand-ups, code reviews, and agile ceremonies.

Required Skills:

• Strong experience in developing web applications using Laravel (v8 or higher).
• Solid understanding of MVC architecture and OOP principles.
• Experience working with MySQL, including database design and query optimization.
• Hands-on knowledge of Eloquent ORM, migrations, seeders, and factories.
• Proficiency in PHP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and frontend libraries (like Bootstrap).
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs and API security best practices.
• Experience with version control systems such as Git.
• Understanding of application hosting, deployment, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Good analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.
• Ability to work independently and take ownership of projects.

Preferred Skills:

• Knowledge of Docker, Kubernetes, or similar tools for containerization.
• Familiarity with AWS, Azure, or other cloud service providers.
• Understanding of SEO-friendly website development.
• Exposure to AI tools (e.g., ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot, or similar) to assist in coding, debugging, documentation, or productivity.
• Exposure to Agile/Scrum development methodologies.

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 3 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-based app.

• Experience building large scale, large volume services & distributed apps., taking them through production and post-production life cycles
• Experience in Programming Language: Java 8, Javascript
• Experience in Microservice Development or Architecture
• Experience with Web Application Frameworks: Spring or Springboot or Micronaut
• Designing: High Level/Low-Level Design
• Development Experience: Agile/ Scrum, TDD(Test Driven Development)or BDD (Behaviour Driven Development) Plus Unit Testing
• Infrastructure Experience: DevOps, CI/CD Pipeline, Docker/ Kubernetes/Jenkins, and Cloud platforms like – AWS, AZURE, GCP, etc
• Experience on one or more Database: RDBMS or NoSQL
• Experience on one or more Messaging platforms: JMS/RabbitMQ/Kafka/Tibco/Camel
• Security (Authentication, scalability, performance monitoring)

• Must have experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• Experience with Python/Node.JS/Typescript
• At least 2+ years as back-end software developer
• A deep understanding of the benefits of the Microservice and serverless paradigms
• Prepared technical documentation, and understand why it’s important
• Understanding of database principals: SQL and NoSQL
• Collaboration and communication skills (you’ll be working with clients and internal teams)
• An understanding of programming fundamentals (OOP, data structures, algorithms)
• Familiarity and comfort with REST API, Postman
• The ability to work independently or within a team structure.
• A “lead by example” attitude, and motivation to deliver work you’re proud of

• 4+ years of experience with Node.js
• Expertise in Typescript, AWS, Firebase, MongoDB, and Express

You will be bringing:

• Hands-on experience in writing applications using Node.js (including Socket.io and Express or similar)
• Excellent knowledge of a few of the available databases such as MySQL, MongoDB, etc.
• Proficiency in application deployment on Linux or Ubuntu environments
• Proficiency in JavaScript languages like React and/or Angular, along with a comprehensive experience in open-source frameworks
• Experience in server-client architecture project(s)
• Ability to prioritize in a chaotic and ambiguous environment
• An open, growth mindset when giving and receiving feedback

We are looking for a humble, but ambitious, razor-sharp engineering technical leader who can teach us a thing or two. We promise to return the favor. Like us, you take product development, cloud services research and platform engineering seriously; you’re passionate about technology and, even more so, about leadership. We embrace those who see things differently, aren’t afraid to experiment, and who have a healthy disregard for constraints. That’s where you come in.

We are currently seeking a Fullstack technical lead of core product development to help senior management drive the technical vision, architectural guidance and provide leadership for a team of software engineers in an innovative and fast-paced environment. Our selection process will emphasize hands-on engineering and other technical or architectural skills as well as leadership/management/SDLC process/organizational skills equally. The ideal candidate must be a master of their domain and be able to contribute as an individual contributor (software engineer and architect) half of the time. Furthermore, the ideal candidate must be able to improve SDLC and Scrum processes or inspire, champion and teach his / her team when the need arises. We are looking for a rare mix of intelligence, integrity, domain knowledge, verbal and written agility, and diplomacy which allows you to rapidly earn the trust of technically astute engineers.

mail resume fullstack @ theintegrityglobal.com

• Responsible for championing persistence, business logic and other back-end layers architectural and SDLC process strategy as well as the planning and successful execution of said strategy
• Effectively balance technical leadership and software engineering individual contributor responsibilities
• Directly or indirectly drive projects and provide architectural and technical leadership in an innovative and fast-paced environment
• Continually retrospect and drive innovation within the back-end development process to ensure our software engineers execute at the highest possible level
• Hire, onboard, develop and manage back-end and user interface engineers
• Manage technical debt 
• Responsible for execution of SDLC processes to include sprint pre-planning/planning, retros, demos, architecture and code reviews
• Work closely with the rest of the tech leads, data scientists, senior engineering leadership and product managers to ensure we're building awesome, feature-rich, scalable and secure product and features
• Work closely with the rest of the tech leads and senior engineering leadership team to ensure we're building the highly reusable codebase
• Provide mentoring and guidance to junior engineers. Create an environment for engineers to continually reach new heights within their career

• The ability to take technical ownership of assigned projects from high-level project scope down to details of the individual class and API design
• Experience in a product-based environment, balancing the competing priorities of project management, and your development team
• Developed Java-based server-side solutions such as JEE and Spring
• Solid experience and passion for working with data structures and data model
• Proficiency in Hibernate and SQL
• Passion and commitment to work in a start-up environment.
• Experience of working in an Agile environment.
• Developed solutions using AWS services. 
• Developed scalable and distributed solutions
• Experience with JavaScript, ReactJS/ AngularJS, Docker, relational databases
• Experience with AWS services like EC2, Lambda, RDS, Redshift, S3, Kinesis, EMR
• Excellent oral and written communication skills

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering from a reputed institution. Master’s degree preferred. 
• 9+ years of full-stack development experience
• Experience in leading software development teams before, ideally using Agile Scrum methodology