[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.