Senior Typesense Developer(PHP) | 8+ yrs exp. | Remote | 5 pm till 2 am IST

Job Title: Senior Typesense Developer (PHP)

Experience: 8+ Years

Work Mode: 100% Remote (Work From Home – India)

Shift Timing: 5:00 PM – 2:00 AM IST (US Client Collaboration)

Employment Type: Full-Time

About the Role

We are seeking a Senior Typesense Developer to join our distributed engineering team and work on enterprise-scale, high-performance search systems for a US-based client.

This is a fully remote (WFH) position, offering long-term engagement and the opportunity to design, build, and scale real-time, low-latency search architectures using Typesense, supported by robust backend services in PHP.

The ideal candidate brings deep expertise in search engineering, a strong backend foundation, and the ability to operate independently in a remote, globally distributed environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Search Engineering & Typesense Development
• Design, implement, and maintain Typesense-based search solutions for large-scale and high-velocity datasets.
• Define and optimize search schemas, collections, indexing strategies, and ranking rules.
• Build typo-tolerant, faceted, filtered, and real-time search experiences tailored to business use cases.
• Continuously tune search relevance, performance, and latency to meet enterprise SLAs.
• Manage data ingestion pipelines, synchronization mechanisms, and re-indexing workflows.

Backend Development (PHP)

• Develop and maintain backend services in PHP to integrate with Typesense APIs.
• Build secure, scalable REST APIs to support search functionality across web and mobile platforms.
• Integrate search systems with relational databases and third-party data sources.
• Write clean, modular, well-documented, and reusable code following engineering best practices.

Architecture, Performance & Reliability

• Design scalable and highly available search architectures with fault tolerance in mind.
• Monitor and optimize query performance, indexing efficiency, and system throughput.
• Implement caching, logging, monitoring, and alerting for search services.
• Ensure data consistency, reliability, and resilience across distributed systems.

Collaboration & Delivery

• Collaborate closely with US-based product and engineering teams in a remote setup.
• Participate in architecture discussions, sprint planning, and technical design reviews.
• Troubleshoot and resolve production issues with a strong ownership mindset.
• Adhere to security, performance, and maintainability best practices across all deliverables.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• 8+ years of backend software development experience.
• Hands-on production experience with Typesense (mandatory).
• Strong proficiency in PHP.
• Solid experience building and consuming RESTful APIs and JSON-based services.
• Deep understanding of search relevance, indexing, ranking, filtering, and faceting concepts.
• Experience with MySQL, PostgreSQL, or equivalent relational databases.
• Familiarity with Docker and cloud environments (AWS / GCP preferred).
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to work independently.
• Excellent communication skills for remote, cross-timezone collaboration.

Good to Have

• Experience with Elasticsearch, Algolia, or similar search platforms.
• Exposure to frontend search integrations (React, Vue, InstantSearch, etc.).
• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and cloud-native deployment strategies.
• Experience working on high-traffic, enterprise-scale applications.

Why Join Us

• 100% Work From Home with long-term stability.
• Opportunity to architect and scale advanced search systems for a global client.
• Work with cutting-edge, performance-driven search technology.
• Competitive compensation aligned with experience and expertise.