Laravel Developer

Job description

We are looking for a skilled PHP Developer with strong experience in Laravel to build and maintain scalable, high-performance web applications. The ideal candidate should have solid backend fundamentals, experience with APIs, and the ability to work independently in a remote environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain backend systems using PHP (Laravel framework)
• Build and integrate RESTful APIs and third-party services
• Optimize application performance, database queries, and API response times
• Design and manage database schemas (MySQL/PostgreSQL)
• Implement authentication, authorization, and secure coding practices
• Work with queues, cron jobs, and asynchronous processing
• Debug and resolve production issues efficiently
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams in a remote setup

Required Skills

• Strong experience in PHP and Laravel
• Good understanding of REST API development and integrations
• Solid knowledge of MySQL/PostgreSQL, indexing, and query optimization
• Experience with Git/version control
• Familiarity with Linux/Unix environment
• Understanding of MVC architecture and clean code practices

Good to Have

• Experience with caching tools (Redis/Memcached)
• Exposure to cloud platforms (AWS or similar)
• Experience with real-time features (WebSockets, Socket.io, etc.)
• Basic knowledge of frontend technologies (JavaScript/jQuery)

What Were Looking For

• Strong problem-solving and debugging skills
• Ability to work independently and take ownership
• Good communication skills (important for remote work)
• Experience working on scalable or high-traffic applications is a plus

Job Summary:

We are looking for a skilled and motivated Backend Engineer with 2 to 4 years of professional experience to join our dynamic engineering team. You will play a key role in designing, building, and maintaining the backend systems that power our products. You’ll work closely with cross-functional teams to deliver scalable, secure, and high-performance solutions that align with business and user needs.

This role is ideal for engineers ready to take ownership of systems, contribute to architectural decisions, and solve complex backend challenges.

Website: https://www.thealteroffice.com/about

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and maintain robust backend systems and APIs that are scalable and maintainable.
• Collaborate with product, frontend, and DevOps teams to deliver seamless, end-to-end solutions.
• Model and manage data using SQL (e.g., MySQL, PostgreSQL) and NoSQL databases (e.g., MongoDB, Redis), incorporating caching where needed.
• Implement and manage authentication, authorization, and data security practices.
• Write clean, well-documented, and well-tested code following best practices.
• Work with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) to deploy, monitor, and scale services effectively.
• Use tools like Docker (and optionally Kubernetes) for containerization and orchestration of backend services.
• Maintain and improve CI/CD pipelines for faster and safer deployments.
• Monitor and debug production issues, using observability tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK) for root cause analysis.
• Participate in code reviews, contribute to improving development standards, and provide support to less experienced engineers.
• Work with event-driven or microservices-based architecture, and optionally use technologies like GraphQL, WebSockets, or message brokers such as Kafka or RabbitMQ when suitable for the solution.

Requirements:

• 2 to 4 years of professional experience as a Backend Engineer or similar role.
• Proficiency in at least one backend programming language (e.g., Python, Java, Go, Ruby, etc.).
• Strong understanding of RESTful API design, asynchronous programming, and scalable architecture patterns.
• Solid experience with both relational and NoSQL databases, including designing and optimizing data models.
• Familiarity with Docker, Git, and modern CI/CD workflows.
• Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure and deployment processes (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
• Exposure to monitoring, logging, and performance profiling practices in production environments.
• A good understanding of security best practices in backend systems.
• Strong problem-solving, debugging, and communication skills.
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, agile environment with evolving priorities.

• Understand the requirement and convert that into API design.
• Write the code independently 
• Unit testing and bug fixing
• Write code with standards and conventions and follow best practices.
• Know how to engineer a full-fledged system and not just write code to make things work.
• Knowledge of agile methodologies, scrum.
• Should be able to guide juniors.
• Communication with clients for requirement understanding.
• Code Merging and deployment

• REST APIs in Spring Boot and Spring Framework
• MySQL Database, complex SQL queries (like joining multiple tables)
• Spring Security, JWT Tokens
• Third party Integration
• Unix basic commands
• Apache Tomcat, Deployment of War in Unix environment.
• Jira or any other Issue/Task tracking systems.

Our core customer-facing product today is a native Android application. In addition to this, we are building internal tools for customer support, investment management, marketing analytics and business management. In the future, we plan to hugely expand the features in our core product, build iOS and web products, and continuously improve our internal tools to better serve our customers.

For our back-end, we use Node.js / MySQL / AWS. We are currently a 3-member engineering team (1 back-end, 1 Android, 1 full stack) led by our founding engineer and advised by a senior technology executive from a leading fintech company.

Key Responsibilities of the Role

• Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and improve our software applications
• Build reusable libraries and frameworks that support complex web applications
• Set-up our technology infrastructure and integrate with 3rd party applications
• Contribute to internal discussions around product features, roadmap and technologies used
• Mentor & recruit engineers to the team
• Set up processes related to engineering & product

Skills / Required Experience:

• B.Tech / M.Tech in Computer Science or equivalent, with solid foundational knowledge in at least two general programming languages, data structures, algorithms, system architecture, security and networking protocols.
• At least 6 years of back-end development experience in a software product company is required for this role.
• Exposure to modern software development processes, multiple front-end and back-end technologies, and open-source software.
• Proficiency with tools like Gitlab/Jira/Firebase, as well as AWS and commonly used database systems etc. is required
• Experience in an early-stage startup or having founded your own startup would be good to have (but not necessary).

Must haves 

• At least 3 years of professional programming experience in Ruby on Rails.
• Solid fundamentals with software development, systems, troubleshooting, and teamwork
• Strong testing habits, passionate towards unit testing and TDD. 
• Good understanding of RDBMS like MySQL, PostgreSQL 
• Strong knowledge of git 
• Good understanding of data structures 
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills 

Good to have 

• Experience with Javascript

The ideal candidate is a highly resourceful and innovative developer with extensive experience in the layout, design and coding of websites specifically in PHP format. You must also possess a strong knowledge of web application development using PHP programming language and MySQL Server databases. 

Responsibilities

- Who can understand and demonstrate to maintain Data Quality in high volume data  systems.

- One who can understand and can deliver highly tested system

- Who can routines to test their own code using negative sql concepts.

- Who can use OOP concepts with same class being used everywhere.

- Knowledge in Angular.js and Laravel is mandatory

- College degree is not mandatory

- hike on last salary will be given

-Full time / Remote job

-Can share cv 

Thanks & Regards,

Annu