SDE 1 - Platform Backend Engineer (Symfony/Laravel)

About Us: Astra is a cybersecurity SaaS company that makes otherwise chaotic pentests a breeze with its one-of-a-kind AI-led offensive Pentest Platform. Astra's continuous vulnerability scanner emulates hacker behavior to scan applications for 13,000+ security tests. CTOs and CISOs love Astra because it helps them to achieve continuous security at scale, fix vulnerabilities in record time, and seamlessly transition from DevOps to DevSecOps with Astra's powerful CI/CD integrations. Astra is loved by 800+ companies across 70+ countries. In 2024 Astra uncovered 2.5 million+ vulnerabilities for its customers, saving customers $110M+ in potential losses due to security vulnerabilities. We've been awarded by the President of France Mr. François Hollande at the La French Tech program and Prime Minister of India Shri Narendra Modi at the Global Conference on Cyber Security. Loom, MamaEarth, Muthoot Finance, Canara Robeco, Dream 11, OLX Autos etc. are a few of Astra’s customers Role Overview: As a back end engineer you will be responsible for developing and maintaining the platform/dashboard backend. This would involve developing & maintaining RESTful services for vulnerability management, scan orchestration, inventory management and platform features such as on-boarding, trust centers, certificates, payment integrations, vulnerability ingestion, authentication etc. You should have a strong background in backend programming (Symfony preferred, or Laravel) and have experience with an event driven, async & distributed architecture. During the first 6 months of your role, you will be involved in the 0->1 journey of two upcoming products in our platform along with the respective product owners. Are you someone who finds joy in building smooth, scalable systems with clean backend code? If you’re comfortable working in PHP, especially with Symfony (preferred) or Laravel , and want to join a team where your code powers meaningful features—this is your cue. Your mission: Design, develop, and maintain backend services and APIs using Symfony PHP framework. What you create is also what you own. Collaborate with front-end developers to integrate user-facing elements with server-side logic. Collaborate with scanner teams to orchestrate scans, ingest vulnerabilities, configure scanners etc. Write clean, well-documented, and efficient code. Optimize and refactor existing code to improve performance and reliability. Implement security and data protection measures. Triage, troubleshoot and upgrade existing systems. Ship code to production multiple times a day/week. Ensure timely delivery of the features. Test your own features and write test cases for continuous automated testing. Participate in code reviews and contribute to best practices and standards. Participate in code reviews and contribute to best practices and standards. What we are looking for: 1-3 years' experience in a similar role or similar working experience. Strong background in PHP backend programming. Symfony preferred, or Laravel. Strong understanding of software architecture principles and design patterns. Experience with an event driven (subscribers/listeners), async (MessageHandlers & job queues) & distributed (load-balanced) architecture. Experience with PostgreSQL database and data modeling. Understanding of concepts such as Dependency Injection, ORM, data validation, error handling etc. Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions (good to have). Experience with Agile methodologies. Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to think strategically about technical solutions. Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional remote teams. Demonstrated track record of delivering high-quality software products on schedule. Knowledge of industry best practices in software development, security, and compliance. Knowledge of application & infrastructure security - helps you stand out Benefits of being an Astra-naut: Adrenalin rush of being a part of a fast-growing company and working on hard problems that matter. Good engineering culture with full ownership in design, development, release lifecycle. A wholesome opportunity where you get to build things from scratch, improve and ship code to production in hours, not weeks. Holistic understanding of SaaS and enterprise security business. Experience with the security side of things. Annual trips to beaches or mountains (last one was to Wayanad). Open and supportive culture. Health insurance & other benefits for you and your spouse. Maternity benefits included. P.s: This is an onsite position from Bangalore. Folks with a background in working for a Product based/SaaS company will be preferred.