Senior Associate - PHP

Department: IT

Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time

Location: Pune

Reporting To: Abhinav Gupta

Description

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain applications using PHP, Laravel/Symfony, MySQL, and modern front-end technologies.
• Develop RESTful APIs, integrations, and microservice-based solutions.
• Write clean, maintainable, and testable code following SOLID principles and industry best practices.
• Participate in application architecture discussions and technical design reviews.
• Ensure application security, scalability, maintainability, and performance optimization.

• Work closely with Product Owners, QA Engineers, Architects, and Senior Developers to deliver solutions from concept through production.
• Participate actively in Agile ceremonies including sprint planning, stand-ups, retrospectives, and sprint reviews.
• Assist in supporting and enhancing existing enterprise applications.
• Contribute ideas and recommendations for improving application architecture and development processes.

• Develop unit, integration, and functional tests using modern testing frameworks.
• Participate in code reviews and promote coding standards across the team.
• Support CI/CD pipelines and automated deployment processes.
• Identify and remediate technical debt while maintaining application quality and stability.

• Stay up to date with emerging PHP technologies, frameworks, and development practices.
• Contribute to engineering excellence initiatives and technology modernization efforts.
• Participate in knowledge-sharing sessions, technical workshops, and peer mentoring activities.

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field.
• 5+ years of commercial software development experience.
• Minimum 4+ years of hands-on PHP application development experience.
• Commercial experience with PHP 8+, Laravel and/or Symfony Frameworks.
• Strong experience with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and database design principles.
• Experience developing and consuming RESTful APIs and third-party integrations.
• Good understanding of object-oriented programming, design patterns, and SOLID principles.
• Experience building scalable web applications and services.
• Knowledge of Microservices Architecture and event-driven systems.
• Experience with Git-based source control and collaborative development workflows.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and DevOps practices.
• Familiarity with Docker and containerized application deployments.
• Understanding of web security best practices including OWASP standards.
• Experience working within Agile Scrum teams.
• Strong troubleshooting, debugging, and performance optimization skills.