About the role

Design, architect, and optimize microservices across a distributed Laravel environment. Lead code reviews and guide the team on design decisions, patterns, and best practices.

What they look for

PHP Laravel Microservices Software Architecture Code Reviews Mentoring SOLID Design Patterns OOP SQL MySQL PostgreSQL REST APIs Git Automated Testing Lumen

Requirements

8–12 years of professional PHP development with deep hands-on Laravel experience is required. Candidates should have proven software architecture expertise and a strong track record of leading code reviews and mentoring engineers.

Full description

Senior PHP / Laravel Developer

Location: Remote · Type: Full-time · Experience: 8–12 years

About the Role

We're looking for a Senior PHP Developer to help lead the design and evolution of our product — a microservice-based Laravel architecture spanning multiple functional areas, with newer services built on a custom in-house micro-framework (leveraging Lumen packages rather than the stock Lumen framework). This is a senior, hands-on role: you'll own architectural decisions, design and optimize services, and act as a technical anchor for the team — setting the bar on code quality, design, and engineering best practices.

What You'll Do

- Design, architect, and optimize microservices across a distributed Laravel environment, including our custom Lumen-based packages. - Define and evolve service boundaries, inter-service communication, and API contracts. - Drive performance, scalability, and reliability improvements across services. - Lead code reviews and guide the team on design decisions, patterns, and best practices. - Set and enforce engineering standards — testing, documentation, and maintainability. - Mentor mid-level and senior engineers; raise the overall technical bar. - Own features end-to-end across multiple service areas — from data model to API contract.

What We're Looking For

- 8–12 years of professional PHP development, with deep hands-on Laravel experience. - Proven software architecture expertise — designing and optimizing microservices, service boundaries, distributed data, and API contracts. - Strong track record of leading code reviews and mentoring engineers on design and best practices. - Expert-level understanding of SOLID, design patterns, and architectural trade-offs. - Comfort working within custom/proprietary frameworks and packages (Lumen-based), not just off-the-shelf tooling. - Strong grasp of modern PHP (8.x) and OOP fundamentals. - Proficient SQL skills (MySQL/PostgreSQL) and query optimization. - Solid experience with REST APIs, Git, and automated testing (PHPUnit/Pest).

Nice to Have - Hands-on experience with Lumen — a strong advantage, given our custom Lumen-based services. - Experience building or extending micro-frameworks / custom packages. - Message queues / async processing (RabbitMQ, Redis, Laravel Queues). - Caching strategies and event-driven design. - API gateways and service discovery patterns. - Based out of Chennai, as majority of the team is in Chennai and a hybrid model to get the team running