Robust proficiency and experience in PHP backend development in a high-traffic consumer product environment

Proven track record of shipping code and operating production systems at scale - you've owned features through rollout, monitoring, and incident debugging

Solid understanding of API design and client-server communication patterns

Experience serving mobile clients (API versioning across long-tail app versions)

Comfortable using AI tools such as Claude Code

Ability to document and communicate technical approaches clearly

Solid distributed-systems fundamentals like caching, queues, idempotency, failure modes, back-pressure

Ability to work cross-functionally with mobile engineers, QA, product managers, and designers. Strong collaboration and communication skills

Experience with schema-driven APIs (Protobuf/gRPC)

A disciplined testing and code-review habit

Ownership mentality: you follow your code into production and monitor graphs

Familiarity with GCP

Experience with optimizing applications, identifying bottlenecks,



and implementing monitoring/visualization tooling where needed

Solid foundation and experience with MySQL, plus caching layers and high-availability backend systems. SQL depth - schema design, indexing, and query plans at large scale

Comfort working with monetisation and payment flows (credits, subscriptions, in-app purchases)

Nice to have

Computer Science/Tech related degrees

Aerospike, ClickHouse, or other specialised datastores

Experience evolving a large monolith

Track record of building and deploying production-ready services

Experience with CI/CD pipelines and deployment practices (TeamCity or similar)

Experience with containerization technologies, including hands-on experience with Kubernetes

Familiarity with A/B testing frameworks and feature flagging for gradual rollouts

Understanding of GDPR and data privacy requirements in a consumer context

Roles and Responsibilities

Build for scale (mobile and web applications) han

📌 PHP Architect (Bengaluru)
🏢 Tavant
📍 Bengaluru