PHP Laravel Developer (Senior)

Role Overview: As a Laravel Backend Developer at our company, you will be responsible for designing and developing scalable Laravel backend services. Your main focus will be on building inventory and reservation flows, implementing and maintaining payment workflows, and ensuring performance, reliability, and observability of the system. You will collaborate with front-end and devops teams, participate in architecture decisions, and write automated tests to ensure secure coding practices. Key Responsibilities: - Design and develop scalable Laravel backend services using PHP 8.x and Laravel 10/11 - Build inventory and reservation flows including seat/zone inventory, hold windows, and anti-oversell logic - Implement and maintain payment workflows including webhooks, reconciliation, refunds, and idempotency - Own performance, reliability, and observability by managing caching, queues, metrics, logs, and alerts - Model and optimize databases for high read/write operations by implementing indexes, transactions, locking, and query tuning - Collaborate with front-end and devops teams, participate in architecture decisions, and code reviews - Write automated tests (unit/integration) and ensure secure coding practices Qualifications Required: - Strong Laravel backend expertise with a focus on the service layer, events/listeners, queues, and jobs - Deep understanding of transactions, locking, concurrency, and preventing race conditions - Practical experience with Redis for cache, locks, and rate limiting, and queues using Horizon - Solid database skills with MySQL/Postgres including indexing, query optimization, and schema design - Strong API design skills following REST best practices, validation, versioning, and authentication (JWT/OAuth/Sanctum) - Clean code practices, testing discipline, Git workflows, and strong debugging skills Additional Details: - Experience with real-time features like WebSockets (Laravel Echo/Pusher/Soketi) or SSE is strongly preferred - Knowledge of payments systems, especially Stripe integrations with webhook reliability, is a big plus - Experience with search/filtering at scale, CDN usage, and image/ticket PDF generation is beneficial - Familiarity with handling high-traffic launches, flash sales, and traffic spikes is desirable - Nice to have experience delivering AI/ML-adjacent projects and DevOps skills like Docker, CI/CD, and basic AWS/GCP knowledge (Note: The additional details section has been omitted as it was not present in the provided job description) Role Overview: As a Laravel Backend Developer at our company, you will be responsible for designing and developing scalable Laravel backend services. Your main focus will be on building inventory and reservation flows, implementing and maintaining payment workflows, and ensuring performance, reliability, and observability of the system. You will collaborate with front-end and devops teams, participate in architecture decisions, and write automated tests to ensure secure coding practices. Key Responsibilities: - Design and develop scalable Laravel backend services using PHP 8.x and Laravel 10/11 - Build inventory and reservation flows including seat/zone inventory, hold windows, and anti-oversell logic - Implement and maintain payment workflows including webhooks, reconciliation, refunds, and idempotency - Own performance, reliability, and observability by managing caching, queues, metrics, logs, and alerts - Model and optimize databases for high read/write operations by implementing indexes, transactions, locking, and query tuning - Collaborate with front-end and devops teams, participate in architecture decisions, and code reviews - Write automated tests (unit/integration) and ensure secure coding practices Qualifications Required: - Strong Laravel backend expertise with a focus on the service layer, events/listeners, queues, and jobs - Deep understanding of transactions, locking, concurrency, and preventing race conditions - Practical experience with Redis for cache, locks, and rate limiting, and queues using Horizon - Solid database skills with MySQL/Postgres including indexing, query optimization, and schema design - Strong API design skills following REST best practices, validation, versioning, and authentication (JWT/OAuth/Sanctum) - Clean code practices, testing discipline, Git workflows, and strong debugging skills Additional Details: - Experience with real-time features like WebSockets (Laravel Echo/Pusher/Soketi) or SSE is strongly preferred - Knowledge of payments systems, especially Stripe integrations with webhook reliability, is a big plus - Experience with search/filtering at scale, CDN usage, and image/ticket PDF generation is beneficial - Familiarity with handling high-traffic launches, flash sales, and traffic spikes is desirable - Nice to have experience delivering AI/ML-adjacent projects and DevOps skills like Docker, CI/CD, and basic AWS/GCP knowledge (Note: The additional details section has been omitt