- Location
- Remote, India
- Workplace
- Remote
- Department
- Engineering
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Source
- Keka
Description
About the Role
We are looking for an experienced PHP Laravel Developer with 5+ years of hands-on experience in developing scalable, secure, and high-performance web applications. The ideal candidate should have strong expertise in Laravel, PHP, MySQL, REST APIs, and modern backend development practices.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable web applications using PHP and Laravel.
- Develop clean, reusable, and well-structured backend code.
- Build and integrate RESTful APIs and third-party services.
- Work with MySQL and optimize database queries, indexes, and overall performance.
- Implement authentication, authorization, security, and data protection best practices.
- Develop and maintain Laravel applications, including migrations, queues, jobs, events, and middleware.
- Troubleshoot, debug, and resolve application and production issues.
- Collaborate with frontend developers, QA, designers, and project managers to deliver quality solutions.
- Conduct code reviews and ensure adherence to coding standards and best practices.
- Optimize applications for scalability, performance, and reliability.
- Participate in system design, technical discussions, and architecture decisions.
- Maintain technical documentation and contribute to continuous improvement of development processes.
Required Skills
- 5+ years of professional experience in PHP development.
- Strong hands-on experience with Laravel Framework.
- Strong hands-on experience with CodeIgniter 3 Framework.
- Strong knowledge of PHP, OOP, MVC architecture, and design patterns.
- Excellent experience with MySQL/database design and optimization.
- Strong understanding of REST APIs, JSON, API integrations, and web services.
- Good knowledge of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and frontend/backend integration.
- Experience with Git/GitHub/GitLab and version control.
- Understanding of Linux/Unix environments and basic server configuration.
- Experience with debugging, performance optimization, and application security.
- Good understanding of software development lifecycle and Agile methodologies.
Good to Have
- Experience with Redis, queues, caching, and background jobs.
- Knowledge of Docker and CI/CD pipelines.
- Experience with AWS or other cloud platforms.
- Exposure to microservices architecture.
- Experience working with payment gateways and third-party API integrations.
- Familiarity with automated testing using PHPUnit/Pest.
Skills
JavaScriptPHPLaravelAWSDockerCI/CDLinuxMySQLRedisGitGitHubGitLabRESTAgileMicroservices