Senior PHP Engineer (Laravel)

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior PHP Engineer with expertise in Laravel to join our backend engineering team. This role will be responsible for maintaining and enhancing our Laravel-based backend, which powers a mobile app via Web API and WebSocket services and supports a web-based admin portal. The ideal candidate will play a crucial role in analyzing the existing codebase, improving the system design, and collaborating with the backend and mobile teams to implement new product features.

What You Will Deliver 🚀

• Develop, maintain, and optimize the Laravel-based backend that supports a mobile app and web admin portal.
• Analyze the existing architecture, identify areas for improvement, and propose scalable system designs for new features.
• Implement and maintain RESTful APIs and WebSocket services for real-time communication.
• Work with MySQL to design efficient database schemas and optimize queries for performance.
• Ensure code quality, security, and scalability by writing automated unit tests and API tests.
• Participate in code reviews, provide constructive feedback, and ensure best practices in coding standards and design patterns.
• Collaborate closely with backend and mobile developers to align backend API implementations with frontend requirements.
• Write clear and comprehensive technical documentation for APIs, system architecture, and feature implementations.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex backend performance and scalability issues.
• Work within an Agile Scrum development process, actively participating in sprint planning, daily stand-ups, and retrospectives.
• Stay up to date with the latest Laravel and PHP ecosystem advancements and integrate them into our projects where appropriate.

• 5+ years of experience in PHP development, with strong expertise in Laravel.
• Proficiency in building and consuming RESTful APIs and WebSocket services.
• Strong understanding of MySQL database design, query optimization, and performance tuning.
• Experience with writing automated tests (unit and API tests) using PHPUnit or similar frameworks.
• Familiarity with modern software development practices, including CI/CD, version control (Git), and containerization (Docker is a plus).
• Experience with code review processes and ability to mentor other developers.
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to analyze and improve existing architectures.
• Ability to write clean, maintainable, and well-documented code.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, working effectively in a team environment.
• Experience with Agile Scrum development methodology.
• Experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP); experience with other similar cloud platforms is helpful.
• Experience with Pusher for real-time messaging and WebSocket event broadcasting.
• (Bonus) Experience with message queues (Redis, RabbitMQ, Kafka, etc.).

If you are passionate about Laravel development, have a strong backend engineering mindset, and enjoy collaborating in a dynamic team, we'd love to hear from you! Apply today!