Laravel Developer

Laravel Backend Developer (PHP) – Full Time

About the Role

We are hiring an experienced Laravel Backend Developer to build and maintain enterprise-grade B2B SaaS applications.

This is a hands-on engineering role where you will work on scalable backend systems, secure APIs, management portals, billing modules, and business workflow automation. You will be responsible for complete feature delivery—from database design to backend implementation and Blade-based admin interfaces.

We value clean architecture, maintainable code, security, performance, and engineering discipline over quick fixes.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop scalable backend systems using Laravel.
• Build RESTful APIs following industry best practices.
• Design normalized MySQL database schemas.
• Create and maintain database migrations.
• Optimize SQL queries and indexing.
• Develop reusable Service Layer architecture.
• Implement business logic with clean separation of concerns.
• Build Admin Panels using Laravel Blade.
• Build Merchant/Customer dashboards.
• Develop secure authentication and authorization systems.
• Implement role-based access control (RBAC).
• Develop asynchronous background jobs and queue workers.
• Build webhook delivery and callback systems.
• Integrate third-party APIs and external services.
• Implement retry logic, timeout handling, and failover strategies.
• Maintain audit logs and activity tracking.
• Improve application performance and scalability.
• Debug production issues and optimize existing code.
• Participate in code reviews and follow coding standards.
• Write maintainable, testable, and well-documented code.
• Collaborate closely with product, design, and engineering teams.

Required Technical Skills

PHP

• PHP 8.2+
• Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)
• SOLID Principles
• Design Patterns
• Dependency Injection
• Exception Handling
• Composer

Laravel

• Laravel 11+
• Eloquent ORM
• Query Builder
• Migrations
• Seeders
• Factories
• Artisan Commands
• Form Requests
• Middleware
• Service Layer Pattern
• Repository Pattern (preferred)
• Events & Listeners
• Policies & Gates
• Notifications
• Mail
• Queues
• Scheduling (Cron)
• Caching
• Logging
• Storage
• Pagination

Database

• MySQL 8.0+
• Database Normalization
• Foreign Keys
• Index Optimization
• Transactions
• SELECT ... FOR UPDATE
• Row Locking
• JSON Columns
• Stored Procedures (optional)
• Query Optimization
• Performance Tuning
• EXPLAIN Analysis

Redis / DragonflyDB

• Caching
• Session Storage
• Queue Backend
• Rate Limiting
• Distributed Locking (basic understanding preferred)

API Development

• REST APIs
• JSON APIs
• API Versioning
• HMAC Authentication
• API Key Authentication
• Bearer Tokens
• Pagination
• Filtering
• Sorting
• Validation
• Rate Limiting
• Idempotency
• Webhooks
• Error Handling
• API Documentation

Security

Knowledge of secure backend development practices including:

• CSRF Protection
• XSS Prevention
• SQL Injection Prevention
• Input Validation
• Output Escaping
• AES-256-CBC Encryption
• bcrypt Password Hashing
• Timing-Safe Comparisons
• Secure File Upload Handling
• PII Data Protection
• Security Headers
• Authentication & Authorization Best Practices

Third-Party Integrations

Experience integrating external APIs using:

• Laravel HTTP Client
• cURL
• Request Signing
• Retry Logic
• Timeout Handling
• Response Mapping
• Error Recovery
• Webhooks

Frontend (Requirement)

• Laravel Blade
• HTML5
• CSS3
• JavaScript (ES6)
• Fetch API / AJAX
• Chart.js
• Vue.js
• Bootstrap or Tailwind CSS (basic proficiency)

Version Control

• Git
• GitHub
• Branching Strategy
• Pull Requests
• Merge Conflict Resolution

Deployment & DevOps

• Linux Basics
• SSH
• Composer
• Cron Jobs
• cPanel Deployment
• Shared Hosting
• VPS Management
• AWS (EC2, S3 basics preferred)
• Environment Configuration (.env)
• Queue Workers
• Log Monitoring
• Basic CI/CD Concepts

Preferred Skills

• Queue-based Architecture
• Event-Driven Systems
• Background Job Processing
• Webhook Systems
• Multi-tenant Applications
• Billing Systems
• Performance Optimization
• Caching Strategies
• API Integrations
• PDF Generation
• Excel Import/Export
• Docker (basic understanding)
• PHPUnit/Pest (testing knowledge)

What We Look For

• Strong problem-solving skills.
• Clean and maintainable coding style.
• Attention to detail.
• Ability to work independently.
• Strong debugging skills.
• Ownership mindset.
• Performance-focused development.
• Security-first approach.
• Ability to understand existing codebases and improve them without introducing regressions.

Experience

• 2–4+ years of professional PHP/Laravel development.
• Experience building production applications.
• Experience integrating third-party APIs.
• Experience designing relational databases.
• Experience deploying Laravel applications.
• Experience working with Git-based workflows.

Nice to Have

• Experience with Redis or DragonflyDB
• Experience with AWS
• Experience with queue systems
• Experience with payment gateway integrations
• Experience with webhook architecture
• Experience with analytics dashboards
• Experience with SaaS products
• Experience working in Agile development environments

Working Style

• Full-time
• Production-focused development
• Feature ownership from design to deployment
• Code review-driven workflow
• Long-term product engineering
• Continuous learning and technical improvement

• Join within a Week

We are looking for engineers who enjoy building reliable, secure, and scalable software with attention to correctness, performance, and long-term maintainability.