ETPL (eReleGo Technologies Pvt Ltd) is an Indian technology company specializing in AdTech, EdTech, SaaS ERP, and FinTech solutions, offering services like digital publishing (e-paper), educational automation (eGenius), financial ERP for MSMEs (Munshify), and general IT/consulting, serving schools, publishers, and businesses with cloud, mobile, and digital platforms to enhance efficiency and digital presence. Founded in 2019 and based in Bengaluru, it's a bootstrapped company focused on simple, culturally adaptable technology.

Role Overview

We are seeking a Staff Engineer with 6 to 9 years of hands-on experience in PHP and Laravel to provide backend technical leadership across one or more products within the ETPL AI portfolio. This role carries responsibility for backend architecture, system design, engineering quality, and the technical development of delivery teams.

The Staff Engineer will be the senior technical authority for PHP and Laravel engineering within their product context, owning architectural decisions, enforcing engineering standards, and ensuring that the systems they are responsible for are scalable, modular, secure, and built to serve the demands of enterprise-grade, multi-tenant institutional deployments.

The role is for an engineer who has grown beyond feature delivery into genuine technical ownership, someone who shapes how systems are structured, how teams are guided, and how quality is defined and maintained across a product codebase.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership in the design, development, and evolution of backend systems and APIs built on PHP and Laravel across assigned ETPL AI products.
• Own backend architecture decisions for assigned product areas, ensuring scalability, modularity, data integrity, security, and performance across multi-tenant enterprise deployments.
• Lead and mentor a team of engineers, conducting code reviews, architectural walkthroughs, and technical discussions that elevate the capability and consistency of the broader team.
• Translate complex product requirements and institutional business logic into well-structured, maintainable technical designs, collaborating closely with product managers and senior stakeholders.
• Define and enforce coding standards, architectural patterns, security protocols, and engineering governance frameworks across the product codebase.
• Conduct architectural reviews and deep code audits to identify technical debt, performance bottlenecks, and structural risks, and lead their structured resolution.
• Design and optimise database schemas, query performance, and data access patterns in MySQL to support high-volume, data-intensive enterprise operations.
• Drive backend API design and development using RESTful principles, ensuring clean API contracts, versioning practices, and robust integration patterns with frontend and third-party systems.
• Evaluate and integrate queuing systems, caching layers, and background job frameworks, including Laravel Queues, Horizon, Redis, and similar, appropriate to the scale and performance requirements of the product.
• Own the technical quality of the software delivery lifecycle, including requirements validation, design reviews, testing governance, deployment oversight, and post-release monitoring.
• Act as the escalation point for critical technical issues and production incidents within the product, leading structured root cause analysis and resolution.
• Champion a culture of engineering excellence, documentation discipline, code reusability, and continuous improvement within the product engineering team.

Experience and Profile

• 6 to 9 years of hands-on software engineering experience, with strong and sustained depth in PHP and Laravel.
• Demonstrated experience designing and delivering scalable, high-performance backend systems for enterprise or SaaS products.
• Experience leading or mentoring other engineers within a structured delivery team.
• Proven ability to make and communicate sound architectural decisions across backend systems, APIs, and database design.
• Experience with multi-tenant application architecture and the performance and data isolation considerations it demands.
• Prior exposure to ERP, HRMS, FinTech, or other enterprise product engineering contexts is an advantage.