Job Title- Full-Stack PHP Engineer

Location-Pune

Qualifications:

• Junior Engineer: 2–4 years

• Mid-Level Engineer: 3–8 years

• Lead Engineer: 8+ years

Mandatory skills- PHP 7/8, Laravel/Symfony, React/Angular/Vue.js, SQL/MySQL & REST APIs.

ABOUT SONATA SOFTWARE

Sonata Software is an AI-first modernization engineering company that helps enterprises transform legacy systems into intelligent, scalable business platforms. Powered by its Platformation™ framework and Harmoni.AI platform, Sonata delivers AI-led modernization across cloud, data, AI, Dynamics, test automation, and managed services. Headquartered in Bengaluru, India, Sonata has more than $1.2 billion in revenue and 6,400+ AI engineers supporting global delivery across regions including the US, UK, India, Malaysia, Mexico, Australia, DACH, and the Nordics. With deep partnerships across Microsoft, AWS, Salesforce, and Snowflake, Sonata helps Fortune 500 enterprises accelerate innovation, improve efficiency, and drive sustainable growth. For more information, please visit www.sonata-software.com

Job Overview

We are looking for versatile Full-Stack PHP Engineers to join our Engineering team. The team works across multiple Business Units and technology initiatives, supporting new product development, application enhancements, application modernization, integrations, and specialized engineering projects.

The role requires strong hands-on expertise in PHP, combined with the ability to work across frontend, backend, databases, cloud, DevOps, and emerging technologies. Our environment includes both modern PHP applications and significantly older enterprise systems, so engineers should be comfortable understanding, maintaining, troubleshooting, and modernizing legacy PHP applications toward current PHP versions and frameworks.

The ideal candidate is a strong problem solver who can quickly understand unfamiliar codebases, adapt to different technology environments, leverage AI-assisted development tools effectively, and take ownership of delivering high-quality engineering outcomes.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, maintain, and modernize PHP applications.

• Develop applications using modern PHP frameworks.

• Build and consume REST APIs.

• Develop full-stack applications using PHP with React, Angular, Vue.js, or similar technologies.

• Work with both modern and legacy PHP applications.

• Analyze existing codebases and identify modernization opportunities.

• Upgrade PHP versions, frameworks, libraries, and dependencies.

• Refactor legacy PHP applications toward modern architectures.

• Work with relational and NoSQL databases.

• Develop integrations with enterprise applications and third-party services.

• Work with AWS or Azure cloud platforms.

• Implement CI/CD pipelines and automated testing.

• Troubleshoot application and production issues.

• Improve application performance, security, reliability, and maintainability.

• Participate in technical design, architecture discussions, and code reviews.

• Where applicable, integrate AI/ML services, LLM APIs, and intelligent automation.

• Collaborate with engineers, product teams, architects, and Business Unit stakeholders.

• Adapt to different projects and technology environments based on business priorities.

Required Skills

PHP

• Strong hands-on PHP development experience.

• PHP 8.x preferred.

• Experience with PHP 7.x.

• Strong understanding of object-oriented PHP.

• Namespaces and Composer.

• Dependency management.

• REST API development.

• Modern PHP development practices.

Legacy PHP

Experience working with:

• PHP 5.x / older PHP applications.

• Legacy PHP frameworks.

• Custom MVC architectures.

• Older third-party libraries.

• Procedural or tightly coupled PHP applications.

Candidates should be comfortable understanding, troubleshooting, and modernizing legacy PHP applications.

PHP Frameworks

Experience with at least one:

• Laravel.

• Symfony.

• Equivalent modern PHP framework.

Frontend

Hands-on experience with at least one:

• React

• Angular

• Vue.js

• JavaScript / TypeScript

Database

• Strong SQL fundamentals.

• MySQL preferred.

• PostgreSQL or other relational databases.

• Understanding of database performance and optimization.

Engineering Practices

• Git.

• Automated testing.

• CI/CD.

• Debugging and troubleshooting.

• API design.

• Secure coding practices.

Good to Have Skills

• AWS or Azure.

• Docker / containerization.

• Kubernetes.

• Infrastructure as Code.

• Microservices.

• Message queues.

• Serverless technologies.

• Java or .NET.

• Python.

• AI/ML services.

• Generative AI / LLM APIs.

• AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot, Claude, Cursor, or similar.

• Application modernization.

• Observability and monitoring.

Senior Engineer – Additional Expectations

• Technical design and architecture.

• Leading application modernization initiatives.

• Assessing legacy PHP architectures and defining pragmatic migration strategies.

• Strong understanding of application security, scalability, reliability, and maintainability.

• Mentoring engineers and leading technical initiatives.

• Stakeholder engagement and technical problem solving.