Software Engineer (Fullstack)

Portonics is a team of technology consultants that specialize in application design, software & mobile application development. Our goal is to help clients understand and make full use of digital technology that can heighten brand awareness and lead to better business.

We are a diverse team of engineers, analysts, and solution architects working on the latest technologies, and running a wide range of projects from business-critical applications to applications serving a large number of customers daily. 

We build and manage in-house, client products, and end-to-end services locally and globally. Services include server management, software management, networking, development, deployments, information security, and consultancy.

We are an agile team who are very passionate about what we build. We design solutions to reduce/automate operations. Along with building custom solutions, we leverage open-source technologies. Our teams build, manage, and automate monitoring systems, alerting, and deployments.

As a digital transformation team, we are big on Dev, DevOps culture, and collaboration.

Full-Stack engineers will champion the development of best-in-class web applications, consistently ensuring UI consistency and quality.

You will create and deploy software building blocks that support the client's and internal product suite, and work cross-functionally with product and leadership teams to implement the best solutions. You will work for standardization and improvement of development processes including technology selection, deployment steps, and code review.

In addition to the above, you will be,

• creating system functionality;

• amending existing features;

• doing research and development of proof of concepts;

• structuring code according to coding standards;

• writing thorough automated tests for your code;

• Updating/managing tasks through JIRA;

• participating in daily standup meetings;

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field; with 3+ years of industry experience or equivalent combination of education, training, and experience;

Must have:

• Proficient at writing production code both manually and with AI coding agents (e.g. Claude Code, Cursor, Codex), with the judgment to review, refactor, and take ownership of AI-generated output.

• Able to critically evaluate AI suggestions for correctness, security, and performance rather than accepting them blindly.

• Excellent PHP (7+), JavaScript, NodeJS development experience;

• 3+ years of experience developing modern, responsive, and cross-browser-compatible websites using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

• Experience in Tailwind CSS, Material Design and/or Bootstrap 5 

• Familiarity with CSS preprocessors such as Sass, Less, or Stylus

• Knowledge of JavaScript frameworks such as React, Angular, or Vue

• Experience in PHP framework Symfony, Laravel, and/or CodeIgniter; 

• Experience in Webpack, Grunt, Gulp;

• Strong understanding of AI principles, algorithms, and techniques.

• Familiarity with various LLM architectures (Transformer-based models, Llama family, GPT variants)

• Skilled in effective prompting and context engineering to get reliable results from LLM-based tools.

• Experience with cross-browser compatibility testing

• Strong experience in working with API’s;

• Comfortable integrating LLM APIs into applications (function/tool calling, structured outputs, streaming, token and cost management).

• Strong experience with data modeling, relational database, SQL and database administration, and complex queries; 

• Prolific experience with NoSQL (MongoDB, DynamoDB etc) databases

• Demonstrated experience supporting enterprise-level, mission-critical applications;

• Exceptional written and oral communication skills, able to synthesize complex information into succinct executive summaries for internal and external audiences;

• Secure coding fundamentals (OWASP Top 10, input validation, authentication/authorization, secrets management).

• Good verbal and written communication skills in english;

Good to have:

• Experience with Next.js

• Experience with Redis/Memcached

• Experience with PHPUnit, mocha, jest, or similar ;

• Experience in server technologies, specifically AWS;

• Experience in Docker applications will be a plus;

• Familiarity with open-source software a plus;

• Familiarity with JIRA, Jenkins, Elasticsearch, Grafana, Kibana is a plus;

• Experience in Kubernetes will be a plus;

• Understanding of vector databases and embedding models

• Awareness of observability basics (structured logging, metrics, tracing).

• Experience building agentic or RAG-based features (retrieval, embeddings, vector search).

• Prompt evaluation and testing practices for AI features.
   

Our Pillars

• We never compromise with ethics.

• We like working hard but also want to have fun while working; If you are not having fun we reassess our approach to the solution through communication and improvement plans continuously.

• Everyone has unique talents, skills, and experiences. We work with people we can learn from and also contribute.

Additional Information

• Communication is extremely important; our team members work across every team in the organization. Candidates need to be able to communicate not only with other developers but also with management, non-tech team members & external parties.

• Someone who will take ownership of a task from initial conception through delivery while also assisting others when the need arises.

• Have an understanding of virtualization and containerization as a tool for growing scalability, reliability, and expediency.

• Ability to learn and teach new technologies and skills as new technology is introduced.

• Sound mature judgment and decision-making ability.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

• We are looking for honest, dedicated, and responsible individuals.