PHP Team Lead - Backend (Chandigarh)

PHP Team Lead MX Backend Experience: 5 Years Location: Chandigarh (Work from Office) About uEngage uEngage is a leading SaaS company empowering restaurants and food businesses with their own branded ordering apps, websites, and digital engagement solutions. Our platform serves businesses across India, helping them scale their online presence and customer engagement. We are passionate about building reliable, scalable, and high-performance products that make a real business impact. About the Role We are looking for an experienced PHP Team Lead MX Backend to lead our backend engineering team. In this role, you'll be responsible for designing and building scalable backend systems, mentoring developers, and driving engineering excellence across the team. You'll work closely with Product, Frontend, QA, and DevOps teams to deliver secure, reliable, and high-performing backend applications. As a hands-on technical leader, you'll guide architectural decisions, enforce coding standards, conduct code reviews, and ensure best engineering practices while contributing to product development. What You'll Do - Lead, mentor, and manage a team of backend developers. - Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend applications using PHP. - Build secure, reliable, and high-performance RESTful APIs. - Develop and maintain applications using Laravel and/or CodeIgniter frameworks. - Design, optimize, and maintain MySQL databases for high performance and scalability. - Conduct code reviews and ensure adherence to coding standards and engineering best practices. - Implement API security, authentication, authorization, caching, and performance optimization techniques. - Collaborate with Product, Frontend, QA, and DevOps teams to deliver high-quality software. - Troubleshoot production issues and continuously improve application stability and performance. - Drive technical discussions, architecture decisions, and engineering process improvements. What We're Looking ForRequired Skills & Qualifications - 5 years of hands-on experience in PHP backend development. - Strong expertise in Laravel and/or CodeIgniter. - Strong experience with MySQL, including database design, query optimization, and indexing. - Good understanding of RESTful API design, API security, authentication, and authorization. - Experience with caching technologies such as Redis or Memcached. - Robust understanding of backend architecture, object-oriented programming, and software design principles. - Prior experience leading a team of developers, mentoring engineers, and conducting code reviews. - Strong debugging, analytical, and problem-solving skills. - Experience with Git and team-oriented development workflows. Good to Have - Experience with AWS services such as EC2, RDS, S3, Lambda, and SQS. - Familiarity with Docker and containerization. - Experience working with CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation. - Exposure to microservices architecture. - Understanding of application security, scalability, and performance optimization. What Makes You a Great Fit - Passionate about backend engineering and technical leadership. - Strong ownership and accountability. - Ability to mentor developers and build high-performing engineering teams. - Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills. - Strong problem-solving ability with a focus on scalable and maintainable solutions. - Comfortable working in a fast-paced product environment. Why Join uEngage - Lead the development of products used by thousands of businesses across India. - Work on scalable, high-performance backend applications using contemporary technologies. - Mentor talented engineers and influence technical direction. - Collaborate with a highly skilled engineering team in a product-first environment. - Opportunity to solve complex engineering challenges with real business impact. - Ownership, continuous learning, and excellent opportunities for professional growth. Interview Process - HR Discussion - Technical Assessment / Coding Round - Technical Interview - Final Discussion If you're passionate about backend engineering, enjoy mentoring teams, and love building scalable products, we'd love to hear from you. Compensation: 12,867.57 - 57,224.22 per month Benefits - Health insurance - Provident Fund Work Location: In person .