Laravel Engineer (Night Shift)

iLabs is a global software product engineering company headquartered in Sri Lanka, with deep roots in the US Silicon Valley. We deliver world-class solutions in Web, eCommerce, Mobile, AI/ML, and Cloud technologies, serving industries such as fintech, edtech, medtech, martech, and hospitality. Guided by our vision “to become a global powerhouse in information technology to push humanity forward” we focus on delivering innovative, impactful solutions that empower businesses and create meaningful change in the world.

With a global talent network, we build agile remote teams for leading tech companies worldwide, including Silicon Valley pioneers. Our in-house ventures include Cloud of Goods, a fast-growing eCommerce rental marketplace, and Xenia, a customizable web platform for modern businesses.

At iLabs, we’re on a mission to advance lifestyles through technology and empower our partners to scale smarter and faster. Our culture is driven by creativity, innovation, ownership, teamwork, and global impact; giving you the opportunity and freedom to challenge the norm, spark change, and make a real difference.

If you’re ready to break boundaries and create your defining moment, we’re here to make it happen. Be part of something bigger. Join iLabs.

Job Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain, and enhance web applications using Laravel, Go, and modern full-stack technologies.

• Build and integrate RESTful APIs, third-party services, and backend systems.

• Develop responsive and user-friendly front-end interfaces using modern JavaScript frameworks.

• Design and optimize databases, application performance, and system scalability.

• Troubleshoot, test, debug, and resolve technical issues while ensuring application security and reliability.

• Implement best practices for authentication, authorization, caching, and background job processing.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality software solutions.

• Participate in code reviews and maintain clean, scalable, and well-documented code.

• Support application deployment and maintenance in Linux, cloud, or hosting environments.

• Utilize AI-powered tools to improve coding efficiency, testing, debugging, documentation, and productivity.

Shift: 1pm - 10pm (USA Day Time)

Location: Battaramulla (On-Site)

Job Requirements

• 2+ years of professional experience in Laravel and full-stack web development.

• Strong knowledge of PHP, Laravel, MySQL, database design, and query optimization.

• Experience building and consuming RESTful APIs.

• Proficiency in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, responsive design, and modern front-end frameworks such as React or Next.js.

• Strong familiarity with Git version control, MVC architecture, software design principles and design patterns, microservices architecture and Agile/Scrum development methodologies.

• Knowledge of web security, authentication, authorization, testing, debugging, caching, queues, and performance optimization.

• Experience integrating third-party APIs and working with Linux environments; cloud platform experience is a plus.

• Mandatory experience using AI-assisted development tools (e.g., ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude, Gemini) and AI-driven development workflows.

• Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, and teamwork skills with the ability to write clean, maintainable code.