[Internal Hiring]: PHP/Laravel Developer

Role Overview

We are looking for an experienced Laravel Full-Stack Developer who can independently design, develop, maintain, and enhance web applications. The ideal candidate has strong hands-on experience with Laravel, PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and API development, and can work across both the backend and frontend layers.

Key Responsibilities

• •Develop and maintain scalable web applications using PHP and Laravel.
• •Build clean, secure, and reusable backend services and RESTful APIs.
• •Design and integrate MySQL databases, including schema design, queries, indexing, optimization, and migrations.
• •Work on frontend development using HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery, Bootstrap, or similar technologies.
• •Integrate third-party APIs, payment gateways, shipping services, authentication systems, and other external services.
• •Troubleshoot and resolve production issues, bugs, performance problems, and security vulnerabilities.
• •Implement authentication, authorization, validation, and secure coding practices.
• •Develop new features based on business and functional requirements.
• •Optimize existing applications for performance, scalability, and reliability.
• •Write and maintain unit and integration tests where applicable.
• •Work with Git and follow proper branching and code-review practices.
• •Participate in code reviews and contribute to technical decisions.
• •Handle deployment, configuration, and basic server-side troubleshooting where required.
• •Collaborate with project managers, QA engineers, UI/UX designers, and other developers.

Required Technical Skills

Backend

• •Strong PHP 8+ experience.
• •4+ years of hands-on Laravel experience.
• •Strong understanding of Laravel MVC architecture.
• •Proficiency with Eloquent ORM, migrations, queues, jobs, events, middleware, authentication, and authorization.
• •REST API development and third-party API integrations.
• •Experience with Laravel security best practices.

Database

• •Strong MySQL experience.
• •Complex SQL queries, joins, indexing, transactions, and stored procedures where required.
• •Database optimization and troubleshooting.

Frontend

• •Strong JavaScript fundamentals.
• •HTML5 and CSS3.
• •jQuery.
• •Bootstrap or another responsive UI framework.
• •AJAX and API-based frontend integration.
• •Responsive web development.

Tools & Other Skills

• •Git / GitHub / GitLab / Bitbucket.
• •Composer and npm.
• •Familiarity with Linux environments.
• •Basic understanding of Apache / Nginx.
• •Debugging and performance optimization.
• •Understanding of OWASP and security practices.

Good to Have

• •Vue.js or React.js experience.
• •Redis and caching.
• •Docker.
• •AWS or other cloud platforms.
• •CI/CD pipelines.
• •Payment gateway integrations.
• •E-commerce application experience.
• •Elasticsearch / Meilisearch.
• •Experience working with legacy PHP applications and modernizing them.

Candidate Profile

The ideal candidate is independent and hands-on, able to take a requirement from understanding to technical implementation, development, testing, and deployment/support without needing continuous supervision.