Job Overview
Location
Mumbai Metropolitan Region
Job Type
Full-time
Category
Software Engineering
Date Posted
December 5, 2025
Full Job Description
đź“‹ Description
- • Own the full product lifecycle—from whiteboard sketches to production deployment—on a platform that connects 1M+ students, alumni, and professionals across 300+ universities and Fortune-500 companies.
- • Ship new features end-to-end in PHP (Laravel) and modern JavaScript (Vue.js/React) that directly improve mentor–mentee matching, video-chat scheduling, and community analytics dashboards used daily by millions.
- • Refactor and scale our monolithic Laravel application into service-oriented modules, introducing caching layers (Redis), message queues (RabbitMQ), and container orchestration (Kubernetes) to cut page-load times by 40 %.
- • Build internal tooling that slashes client onboarding from weeks to hours: self-service theming wizards, CSV ingest pipelines, and automated QA suites that surface configuration issues before clients ever see them.
- • Modernize the front-end incrementally—migrate legacy jQuery widgets to Vue 3/React, establish a component library with Storybook, and implement real-time updates via WebSockets so users never refresh for new messages.
- • Establish CI/CD best practices: GitHub Actions pipelines, automated testing (PHPUnit, Jest, Cypress), blue-green deploys, and infrastructure-as-code so every pull request ships to production safely within minutes.
- • Collaborate daily with a cross-functional squad of product managers, designers, and customer-success engineers in Notion, Slack, and Figma; your prototypes often become the spec that the rest of the team rallies around.
- • Instrument everything with observability: structured logging, distributed tracing, and anomaly alerts that let us detect and fix issues before clients open tickets—turning reactive firefighting into proactive delight.
- • Champion accessibility and inclusive design; audit components for WCAG 2.1 compliance and mentor junior engineers on semantic HTML, keyboard navigation, and screen-reader testing.
- • Influence technical strategy: evaluate new frameworks, propose architectural RFCs, and run fortnightly “lunch & learn” sessions to keep the entire engineering team on the cutting edge.
- • Participate in rotating on-call with follow-the-sun coverage; we value sleep, so you’ll have ample runbooks, automated rollbacks, and a culture that treats incidents as learning opportunities—not blame games.
- • Contribute to open-source: upstream bug fixes to Laravel, release internal packages, and represent PeopleGrove at PHP and JavaScript meetups (we cover travel and speaking fees).
🎯 Requirements
- • 4+ years shipping consumer-facing web applications in PHP (Laravel) and JavaScript (Vue.js, React, or similar).
- • Demonstrated ability to own features from conception to release: writing specs, schema design, API endpoints, automated tests, and deployment automation.
- • Strong eye for product design and UX—comfortable translating Figma mocks into pixel-perfect, responsive interfaces without a design hand-off checklist.
- • Self-starter who proposes architectural improvements, initiates refactors, and drives adoption of best practices across the team.
- • Nice-to-have: hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Elasticsearch, CI/CD pipelines, or mentoring junior developers.
🏖️ Benefits
- • Fully remote—work from any location in India with a one-time home-office setup reimbursement (₹50,000) and monthly internet stipend.
- • Competitive salary benchmarked to top Indian product companies plus annual performance bonus.
- • Flexible paid vacation policy (minimum 24 days) and company-wide mental-health days every quarter.
- • Friendly, mission-driven culture that celebrates diversity and offers clear career-growth paths to Staff Engineer or Engineering Manager.
Skills & Technologies
JavaScript
PHP
React
Vue.js
Laravel
Full Stack
Remote
About PeopleGrove, Inc.
PeopleGrove provides a software platform that connects students and professionals with mentors, alumni, and industry experts to support career development, networking, and skill-building. The platform integrates with existing university and corporate systems, offering tools for one-on-one mentoring, group discussions, events, and analytics to measure engagement and outcomes. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, the company serves higher education institutions, workforce development organizations, and employers seeking to scale mentorship and community-driven learning.
