Job Overview Mumzworld is scaling fast as an AI-native
organization, and building reliable, scalable backend systems is
key to our future. We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer
PHP (Laravel) who thinks beyond features - someone who builds
maintainable systems, reusable components, and strong foundations
for the engineering team. In this role, you will build robust APIs
and services powering our core e-commerce experience and go beyond:
You will create reusable modules, enforce code quality standards,
and help streamline development through automation and internal
tooling. You will apply software engineering excellence - clean
code, modular architecture, CI/CD, observability - to everything
you build. You will think long term, building scalable, secure, and
performant systems that reduce tech debt and increase team
velocity. Key Responsibilities Design and build backend services in
Laravel — APIs, background workers, and event consumers that carry
real production traffic. Own services end to end: schema design,
implementation, tests, deployment pipeline, dashboards, and on-call
for what you ship. Design and optimise relational schemas in
MySQL,Postgresql, with attention to indexing, query performance,
and migration safety at scale. Model DynamoDB tables around access
patterns for the services where we use it, and know when a workload
does not belong there. Build integrations between our services and
the platforms around them — Magento, NetSuite, Algolia, and our
carrier and logistics systems — with sane retries, idempotency, and
failure handling. Use SQS and event-driven patterns to decouple
services and keep them resilient when a dependency degrades. Apply
Redis (ElastiCache) deliberately for caching and rate limiting,
with clear invalidation rules rather than TTL guesswork. Write
clean, tested PHP, and build reusable modules and internal tooling
that make the rest of the team faster. Own CI/CD for your services
and keep deployments boring and zero-downtime. Work fluently with
AI-assisted development tools (Claude Code,



Codex, and similar),
and help improve the AI development workflows our engineering teams
already run on. Experience 5+ years building production backend
systems, with deep Laravel and up-to-date PHP experience. Proven
relational database skills — schema design, query optimisation, and
safe migrations on MySQL or a MySQL-compatible engine. Solid AWS
experience: RDS/Aurora, ElastiCache, SQS, DynamoDB, and the
operational side of running services there. Experience with
microservices, queues, and event-driven architecture — including
the failure modes, not just the happy path. Comfort with Docker,
Linux, and CI/CD pipelines. Experience integrating with large
third-party or legacy systems where you don't control the other
side. Working proficiency with AI-assisted development tools, and
judgement about where they help and where they don't. Familiarity
with Jira and Confluence. Nice to have - exposure to Magento 2 as
an integration target, or experience migrating services off a
monolith. What Success Looks Like First 30 days. You've shipped
something real to production — not a starter ticket, a service or a
feature with users behind it. You can draw how our Backend services
and the systems around them actually fit together, including the
parts that are ugly. Your code reviews have started catching things
other people missed. By 3 months. You own a service outright:
schema, deploys, dashboards, and on-call. It has observability
someone else can read at 2am and boundaries that are documented
rather than tribal. Your code reviews are catching things other
people missed, and you've made the case for fixing at least one




thing that's architecturally wrong. By six months. Other engineers
are building on patterns you established, without being asked to.
Incidents in your services are rarer, and the ones that happen are
diagnosed in minutes instead of hours. Work that used to need three
people coordinating now takes one — and the reason traces back to
foundations you laid. Why This Role Matters Mumzworld is the
largest e-commerce platform for parents and families in the region,
and our backend carries every order, every catalogue update, and
every stock and price change through it. As we scale and become an
AI-native organisation, the constraint is not ideas — it is how
quickly and safely we can build on top of what we already have.
We're not short of things we want to build. What decides how much
of it actually ships is the state of the backend and services layer
underneath. Clean boundaries and well-shaped schemas mean a new
feature takes days and an incident is diagnosed in minutes. The
alternative is every change needing three teams in a room and a
rollback plan. A small number of engineers get to decide which of
those we live with over the next few years. This is one of those
roles. Who You Are We’re looking for a builder: someone who
engineers foundations that make others faster, safer, and more
effective. ? Software Engineering Mindset – You build systems that
are modular, observable, and maintainable — not throwaway scripts.
?️ Platform Thinker – You don’t just solve a request; you build
reusable solutions that scale across teams. ? Pragmatic Problem
Solver – You find the right balance between speed, maintainability,
and performance. ? Clear Communicator – You document your work,
share your thinking, and collaborate effectively. ? Independent and
Impact-Driven – You proactively identify opportunities to automate,
accelerate, and improve. ? Team Player – You uplift others, share
knowledge, and build a stronger data culture around
you.

📌 Senior Software Engineer (Bengaluru)
🏢 Mumzworld
📍 Bengaluru