Laravel Developer

Key Responsibilities

• Architect & Develop: Design, build, and maintain efficient, reusable, and test-driven Laravel code for both new features and legacy refactors.
• API Engineering: Deliver and iterate on RESTful APIs, applying versioning, rate limiting, serialization, and security best practices.
• Code Excellence: Write clean, well-documented, and maintainable code adhering to established coding standards and best practices.
• Performance Optimization: Proactively identify and resolve performance bottlenecks, ensuring optimal application speed, scalability, and responsiveness.
• Collaborative Development: Work closely with product managers, UX/UI designers, and other stakeholders to translate business requirements into technical specifications and deliver effective solutions.
• Testing and Quality Assurance: Maintain and enhance comprehensive test coverage using PHPUnit, Pest , or similar testing frameworks to ensure application reliability and stability.
• Production Support: Debug, analyze, and resolve technical issues reported in production and staging environments promptly and effectively.
• Continuous Improvement: Participate in code reviews, contribute to architectural discussions, and continuously seek opportunities to improve development processes and tools.

Must-Have Qualifications

• Experience: 3+ years building and maintaining Laravel applications in production.
• Laravel Expertise: Deep knowledge of Laravels MVC architecture, Eloquent ORM, service providers, events and listeners, queues with Redis or SQS, and the Artisan CLI.
• Database Proficiency: Strong SQL skills with MySQL or PostgreSQL, including schema design, indexing, query optimisation, and migration planning.
• Version Control: Proficient in using Git and applying best practices for branching, merging, and collaborative development.
• Background Jobs & Queues: Practical experience running background jobs with Horizon, Supervisor, or equivalent tools to ensure reliable asynchronous processing.
• Testing Mindset: A habit of creating comprehensive automated tests and a comfort level with test-driven development or, at minimum, rigorous regression coverage.
• Problem-Solving: Proven ability to identify and resolve complex technical issues and performance bottlenecks in high-traffic web applications.
• Communication: Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to articulate technical concepts clearly.
• Agile Delivery: Active participation in Scrum or Kanban ceremonies, including story pointing and backlog grooming, to support predictable delivery.

Good-to-Have Skills & Experience

• Front-End Collaboration: Working knowledge of or , Livewire, Vite, TailwindCss and TypeScript that enables smooth collaboration on full-stack deliverables.
• Cloud & Containers: Hands-on experience deploying applications to AWS, DigitalOcean, or Heroku and working comfortably with Docker or Laravel Sail.
• DevOps & CI/CD – Familiarity with pipeline tooling (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins) and basic DevOps principles.
• Micro-services: Understanding of event-driven or service-oriented architectures that use Kafka, RabbitMQ, or AWS SNS/SQS.
• Observability: Exposure to OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Prometheus, or similar monitoring stacks.
• AI Tooling: Experience leveraging AI pair-programming tools (e.g., Cursor, GitHub Copilot) to accelerate development.
• Client Interaction: Confidence in gathering client requirements, demoing features, and providing progress updates directly to stakeholders.