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Job Description: About You -

As a Senior Software Engineer, you are a results-oriented backend engineer or full-stack developer with a strong track record in building large-scale, resilient software systems using PHP. You understand the value of software architecture, clean code, and engineering best practices. You’ve worked with microservices, cloud infrastructure, and containerized applications — you love to see your code run in production with performance, stability, and security in mind.

You’re familiar with Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, and observability tools, and you thrive in collaborative, fast-paced environments. Above all, you're passionate about empowering product teams by delivering core capabilities and internal platforms that accelerate innovation.

Responsibilities -

Develop Scalable and Reliable Systems: Design, build, and maintain high-availability services that meet SLAs/SLOs and can handle increasing traffic and complexity.
Own and Operate Production Systems: Take responsibility for the full lifecycle of the systems you build. Monitor, support, and continuously improve production systems through on-call rotation participation
Technical System Design & Architecture: Designing and evolving scalable, secure, and maintainable architectures by building, refactoring or rewriting APIs etc for modernization
Performance & Reliability Engineering: Play a critical role in ensuring our systems are fast, resilient, and scalable to directly impact uptime, latency, and overall platform health
Infrastructure, Observability and CI/CD: Designing, building, and maintaining the foundational infrastructure that supports our platform. This includes managing scalable cloud environments, building and/or maintaining CI/CD pipelines etc to ensure high system availability through modern observability practices
Incident Management & Outages: Respond to high-impact incidents and outages, ensuring rapid mitigation to diagnose root causes, restore service, and drive post-incident reviews to prevent recurrence.
Improve Developer Experience: Create robust API documentation, system diagrams, and user guides to support internal and external developers in a self-service environment.
Drive Engineering Excellence: Champion testing, automation, and best practices in code reviews, documentation, and deployment strategies.
Cross Team Collaboration: Work closely with product and program managers, front-end developers, DevOps engineers, and infrastructure teams to ensure technical solutions align with business goals.
Leadership: Mentor and support junior engineer without the people management responsibilities

Qualifications -

Bachelor’s Degree or above in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience
5+ years of professional experience as a Software Engineer or Backend Developer
Proficiency in PHP and frameworks such as Symfony or Laravel
Experience with JavaScript, Node.js, and frameworks like Express and Next.js
Solid experience with SQL databases, database schema design, and performance optimization
Strong knowledge of REST APIs, event-driven architectures, and microservices
Cloud (AWS) Infrastructure and Observability experience.
Familiarity with HTML5, SASS, and modern JavaScript front-end development
Hands-on experience with containerization using Docker and orchestration via Kubernete
Understanding of DevOps practices, including CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, and alerting
Experience with end-to-end testing frameworks like Cypress or Playwright
Excellence at debugging complex JavaScript bugs and tracing issues across systems
Strong communication and collaboration skills; able to work cross-functionally and adapt to evolving priorities
Comfortable with Agile methodologies and fast-paced development cycles
Willingness to participate in on-call rotations

OUR TECH STACK - 

PHP (Symfony, Laravel)
JavaScript / Node.js (Express, Next.js)
SQL Databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL)
Docker & Kubernetes
CI/CD: GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or similar
Observability: DataDog, Prometheus, Grafana, Sentry, or similar
Testing: Cypress, Playwright, PHPUnit