PHP Full Stack Engineer

Company: Aheadrace

Website: Visit Website

LinkedIn: Visit LinkedIn

Business Type: Small/Medium Business

Company Type: Product & Service

Business Model: B2B

Funding Stage: Pre-seed

Industry: Information Technology

Salary Range: ₹ 25-40 Lacs PA

Job Description

We are hiring a Senior Software Engineer (Full Stack – PHP + React + JavaScript) for a hands-on, coding-intensive individual contributor role. This position is ideal for experienced engineers who enjoy solving complex technical problems and building scalable systems from the ground up.

This is not a management or delegation role. It is strictly a coding-first IC position, and we also welcome former tech leads or architects who are willing to return to deep, hands-on engineering work.

Required Skills & Experience

• PHP
• JavaScript
• React
• MySQL
• Docker
  
  

• Framework experience with Symfony or Slim
• Experience with microservices architecture
• Exposure to event-driven systems (Kafka / RabbitMQ)
• Cloud platform experience (AWS / GCP / Azure)
• Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines
• Experience building and maintaining RESTful APIs
• Focus on clean, testable, and maintainable code
  
  

• Design, build, and maintain scalable full-stack applications
• Own features end-to-end: from architecture to deployment
• Develop high-performance backend services in PHP
• Build responsive and dynamic frontend interfaces using React
• Work with APIs, databases, and distributed systems
• Implement CI/CD pipelines and deployment workflows
• Ensure code quality through testing and best practices
  
  

• Strong problem-solving mindset
• Deep hands-on coding experience
• Ability to work in high-scale, performance-driven systems
• Passion for writing clean, maintainable code
• Comfortable working independently with full ownership