Laravel Developer

Wama Technology

Location: Mumbai (Onsite - Vidyavihar)

Experience: 8 – 14 years

Salary: ₹10L – ₹16.5L/yr (Monthly: ₹85,000 – ₹1,40,000 depending on skill set)

Employment Type: Full-time

Job Description

We are looking for a high-caliber Lead PHP – Laravel Developer with a strong background in technical leadership to join our team. This role requires a blend of deep hands-on coding and strategic team management. You will oversee a team of developers while acting as the primary technical liaison for our client, ensuring that the architecture is scalable and that the team follows rigorous development standards.

Key Responsibilities

• Team Leadership: Manage and mentor a team of developers, conduct code reviews, and drive technical excellence across the sprint.
• Architecture & Design: Design complex database schemas and system architectures using Laravel 10+ and PHP 8.x best practices.
• Client Management: Lead technical discussions with client stakeholders to gather requirements and provide progress updates.
• Code Quality: Implement standardized linting, unit testing, and documentation protocols to maintain a high-quality codebase.
• Performance Optimization: Identify and fix bottlenecks in high-traffic applications, focusing on Eloquent query optimization and caching strategies.

Technical Skills & Qualifications

• Total Experience: 8–14 years in PHP Development.
• Leadership Experience: Strictly 4+ years of experience in leading technical teams, managing sprints, and mentoring junior/mid-level developers.
• Laravel Expertise: Advanced proficiency in Laravel (Service Containers, Service Providers, Middlewares, and Custom Packages).
• Full-Stack Capability: * Strong frontend skills: Tailwind CSS, JavaScript (ES6+), and HTML5/CSS3.
• Working knowledge of React.js and TypeScript for modern interface development.
• Database & API: * Expertise in MySQL (Complex joins, indexing, and optimization).
• Deep experience in developing and securing RESTful APIs with OAuth/Sanctum.
• Environment: Proficiency in Docker, Linux/Ubuntu server management, and Git (Gitflow workflow).

Additional Requirements

• Agile Mastery: Deep understanding of Scrum/Agile ceremonies and the ability to manage workloads via Jira or ClickUp.
• AI-Driven Development: Experience integrating or using AI-assisted tools (Cursor, Windsurf, or GitHub Copilot) to increase team velocity is a significant plus.
• Communication: Fluent professional English is mandatory for client-side coordination.

What We Offer

• Leadership Role: High-level autonomy to make architectural decisions and lead a dedicated team.
• Competitive Pay: A performance-driven salary package with growth opportunities.

Experience:

• Total PHP Development: 8+ years (Required)
• Team Leading: 4+ years (Required)
• Laravel: 6+ years (Required)

Work Location: In person

• Must have hands-on experience in web applications development, and open-source technologies stack (Node.JS, React JS, Gatsby, PHP, etc.).
• Resolution conflicts and understands the logical implementation to find optimal solutions.
• Experience in developing end-to-end solutions and backend architecture.
• Ability to apply advanced concepts, and contribute to the development of innovative principles and ideas.
• Advanced knowledge of back-end configuration and deployments.
• Advanced understanding of RDBMS and NoSQL databases.
• Advanced knowledge Git source code management.
• Minimum 8 years of experience required.

Requirements:

• Experience in Frameworks: YII
• Must have good analytical and problem solving skills.
• Good Knowledge of OOPS.
• Write error free code and follow coding standards. Able to perform Code Review job.
• Work closely with QA person to assist in the testing process. 
• Perform R&D tasks if assigned and communicate with the Designer and UI team.
• Build reusable code and libraries for future use.
• Able to work closely with the team and meet the tight deadlines where necessary.
• Strong Communication Skills.

Roles & Responsibilities :

• You’ll work as part of the software engineering team along with other front-end, back-end, mobile app, QA teams & you will also closely work with the founder.
• You should be able to take the ownership of a project end to end.
• Your primary focus will be to build, implement & maintain the complete back-end stack of the product.
• You will create production grade code and will implement the solutions which run bug free.
• Participate in product development discussions and product development road-maps.
• Collaborate with members across departments to identify and build on improvements to product, process and systems.
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• Required Experience and Qualifications:

• 2 to 6 years of software development experience.
• Experience of working on application architecture design will be preferred.
• Experience of working in at least 1 or 2 projects, managing or leading the entire tasks.
• Experience in Docker/Kubernetes, Agile methodologies & CI/CD  automation process.
• Knowledge of Queueing technologies like Kafka, RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ, Version control using Git.
• Experience in microservices architecture, in-memory systems like Redis and basic knowledge of Linux/Unix systems.
• Experience of building applications processing large volumes of streaming data will be preferred.
• Experience from a middle size company or from a startup will be preferred.
• BE/MCA/MSc in Computers/Information technology with a good academic record.

Key Skills:

• Java, & Spring boot
• Hibernate
• Spring Boot JPA
•  Object Oriented Programming
• MySQL & MongoDB
• Jenkins

Perks & Benefits:

• Great learning, innovative and development platform.
• Remote work and flexible timings.
• Reimbursement of the online learning courses on certification.
• Medical insurance coverage for you and the dependence.
• Five Working days per week.

Description:

1. Hands-on backend web and API development experience.

2. Has strong MySQL and Database knowledge.

3. Working experience in building and deploying applications on servers like AWS, etc.

4. Good understanding of architectural patterns (e.g., MVC) is required.

5. Good communication and analytical skills.

6. Experience in building REST APIs in NodeJS and/or TypeScript.

7. Code repositories management in GIT.

8. Provide leadership to the team around new approaches, workflows, and technologies.

9. Experience in client requirement analysis and estimating projects timeline and efforts.

• Play a complete Backend development role for Magento store development, maintenance, upgradation and customization projects. Also provide support to clients, via project management tool. Handle the complete project and achieve 100% client satisfaction.
• Must posses fair, clear understanding of fundamentals and concepts of Magento 1/2, PHP, Zend Framework
• Knowledge in Magento Extension development.
• Write well-engineered source code that complies with accepted web standards.
• Good experience in Magento 2 Store development - design implementation, creating themes, create custom modules;
• Strong Knowledge of Magento Best Practices, including experience developing custom extensions and extending third party extensions
• Ability to develop and manage e-commerce websites, web applications, and websites.
• Can understand the goals and create strategies for each project.

Technical Skills:

• Possess good exposure on Magento, CMS, CodeIgnitor, OpenCart, JavaScript/ jQuery.
• Extensive experience of PHP and MySQL.
• Focused on Object-Oriented Programming (OOP),
• Demonstrable knowledge of XML, XHTML, CSS, Modules i.e. API integration, Payment Gateways, XML with a focus on standards.