Senior Software Engineer (PHP - Laravel)

🛠 Key Responsibilities

● Architect, design, and develop scalable backend systems and APIs

● Own features end-to-end, from design to deployment and monitoring

● Enforce best practices in clean code, testing, and secure development

● Drive improvements in system performance, observability, and reliability

● Collaborate with Product, Frontend, and DevOps teams

● Participate in sprint planning, estimations, and code reviews

● 5+ years of backend development experience in Laravel

● Proven experience architecting and scaling systems

● Deep understanding of OOP, SOLID principles, and design patterns

● Strong knowledge of relational databases, caching strategies, and optimization

● Experience with Docker and CI/CD pipelines

● Hands-on experience writing unit tests and working in a test-driven environment

● Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills

● Experience with message queues (RabbitMQ, SQS)

● Strong knowledge of API versioning and backward compatibility strategies.

● Familiarity with observability tools (Sentry, Grafana, ELK).

● Strong knowledge of security practices (encryption, rate limiting, secrets management).

💻 Tech Stack:

● Languages: PHP (Laravel)

● Databases: MySQL, Redis

● APIs: REST

● Testing: PHPUnit

● DevOps: Docker, ArgoCd, GitHub Actions / GitLab CI

● Monitoring: Sentry, Grafana

● Cloud: AWS, GCP

💎 Nice to Have

● Experience with microservice architecture

● Experience with Golang, or Nodejs

● Contributions to open-source projects