Backend Developer - PHP / Laravel

Job Description

Full-time | On-site / Hybrid

Experience

3 Years

Job Overview

We are looking for a skilled Backend Developer – PHP/Laravel with 3 years of experience in developing scalable, secure, and high-performance web applications and REST APIs. The candidate should have strong experience in Laravel, MySQL, API development, and server-side application development, along with hands-on experience with AWS or

Linux-based production servers.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain backend applications using PHP and Laravel.
• Design, develop, and maintain RESTful APIs.
• Implement business logic, validations, authentication, and authorization.
• Design and optimize MySQL databases and queries.
• Work with Laravel Eloquent ORM, Migrations, Seeders, Middleware, Jobs, Queues,

and Scheduler.

• Integrate third-party APIs, payment gateways, email, SMS, and other external services.
• Develop secure and reusable backend components.
• Troubleshoot application and production issues.
• Optimize API, database, and application performance.
• Write clean, maintainable, and well-structured code.
• Collaborate with frontend developers, QA, UI/UX, and product teams.
• Participate in code reviews and technical discussions.
• Deploy, maintain, and troubleshoot applications in AWS/Linux server environments.

Required Skills

PHP & Laravel

• Strong knowledge of PHP 8
• Strong hands-on experience with Laravel
• MVC architecture ● Laravel Eloquent ORM
• Laravel Middleware
• Authentication & Authorization
• Laravel Validation
• Jobs & Queues
• Events & Listeners
• Task Scheduling
• Laravel Sanctum / Passport

Database

• Strong knowledge of MySQL
• Database design and relationships
• Complex SQL queries
• Joins and subqueries
• Indexing
• Transactions
• Query optimization

API Development

• REST API development
• JSON
• API authentication
• Third-party API integration
• Webhooks
• Postman
• Swagger/OpenAPI — preferred

AWS / Server-Side

• 3 years of backend/server-side development experience
• Hands-on experience with AWS or Linux production servers
• AWS EC2 / S3 / RDS — preferred
• Linux / Ubuntu
• Nginx / Apache
• PHP-FPM
• Cron jobs
• SSL and basic server configuration
• Application deployment and monitoring

Tools

• Git / GitHub / GitLab / Bitbucket
• Composer
• Postman ● Docker — preferred
• CI/CD — preferred

Project Experience

Candidates should have experience working on at least one production-level Laravel project involving:

• User Management
• Role & Permission Management
• Authentication
• Admin Dashboard
• REST APIs
• Database-driven business logic
• Third-party integrations
• Payment Gateway Integration
• Notifications
• Background Jobs / Queues
• File Upload & Storage
• Reports
• Production Deployment
• Server Monitoring & Troubleshooting

Preferred Experience

• E-commerce application development
• Payment gateway integration
• Redis / caching
• Laravel Horizon
• Docker
• Microservices
• Elasticsearch
• PHPUnit / Pest
• CI/CD pipelines
• AWS services
• High-traffic application development

Qualification

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, IT, Software Engineering, or a related field.
• 3 years of professional experience in PHP/Laravel backend development.
• Strong problem-solving and debugging skills.
• Good understanding of software development lifecycle and coding standards. Ideal Candidate

3 Years Experience | PHP 8 | Laravel | MySQL | REST APIs | Eloquent ORM |

• Authentication | Third-Party APIs | AWS/Linux Server | Nginx/Apache | Git | Production Deployment

Pay: ₹25,000.00 - ₹45,000.00 per month

Benefits

• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Provident Fund

Work Location: In person