PHP Developer

Acufore India Private Limited · India

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain secure, scalable, and high-performance web applications using PHP.
• Build and integrate RESTful APIs and third-party APIs.
• Develop backend modules using CodeIgniter and follow proper MVC architecture.
• Design, write, and optimize MySQL queries, stored procedures, indexes, and database structures .
• Implement authentication, authorization, sessions, cookies, and role-based access control.
• Identify and fix security vulnerabilities , performance issues, and application bugs.
• Integrate external services such as payment gateways, email/SMS services, and other third-party APIs.
• Work closely with frontend developers to integrate APIs and develop complete application features.
• Write clean, reusable, maintainable, and well-documented code.
• Perform debugging, unit testing, and troubleshooting of production issues.
• Use Git for source-code management and follow proper branching and code-review practices.
• Participate in requirement analysis, technical discussions, code reviews, testing, and deployment activities.
• Monitor and optimize application performance, database performance, and API response times.

Required Technical Skills

Backend

• PHP 8+
• CodeIgniter
• RESTful API development
• MVC architecture
• Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)

Database

• MySQL
• Complex SQL queries
• Joins, indexes, transactions, and query optimization
• Database design and normalization

Frontend

• JavaScript
• jQuery
• AJAX
• HTML5
• CSS3
• Bootstrap
• JSON

Tools & Development

• Git / GitHub / GitLab
• Postman
• Composer
• API debugging and troubleshooting

Security Knowledge

The candidate should have a good understanding of common web application security issues, including:

• SQL Injection
• Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
• CSRF
• Authentication and authorization issues
• Session and cookie security
• File upload vulnerabilities
• API security
• Input validation and output encoding
• Password hashing and secure credential handling

Why Join us:

• Exposure to global projects and international client engagements.
• Opportunities to work with diverse teams across multiple geographies.
• Accelerated learning and career growth through high-impact assignments.
• Flexible work environment that supports work-life balance.
• Flat organizational structure where one take ownership of their own growth, where leaders play as enablers.
• Best of both worlds, the security of a large-scale organization and opportunities of a startup environment.