PHP 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

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and deploy scalable Java applications.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and deliver new 

features.

• Solve complex technical problems with innovative, simple solutions.

• Write clean, efficient, and well-documented code.

• Participate in code reviews to maintain code quality.

• Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize 

development efficiency.

• Exhibit ownership and responsibility for assigned deliverables.

Qualifications and Required Skills

• 3 to 6 years of hands-on Java development experience.

• Strong experience in building products or applications from scratch (not just 

maintenance/support).

• Good understanding of object-oriented programming principles.

• Experience with frameworks like Spring, Spring Boot, Hibernate, etc.

• Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and design patterns.

• Should have strong problem-solving abilities.

• Familiarity with RESTful APIs and microservices architecture is a plus.

• Solid understanding of database technologies (SQL, NoSQL).

• Exposure to cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) will be an advantage.

• Strong debugging and troubleshooting skills

Required Skills: TypeScript, MVC, Cloud experience (Azure, AWS, etc.), mongodb, Express.js, Nest.js

Criteria:

Need candidates from Growing startups or Product based companies only

1. 4–8 years’ experience in backend engineering

2. Minimum 2+ years hands-on experience with:

• TypeScript
• Express.js / Nest.js

3. Strong experience with MongoDB (or MySQL / PostgreSQL / DynamoDB)

4. Strong understanding of system design & scalable architecture

5. Hands-on experience in:

• Event-driven architecture / Domain-driven design
• MVC / Microservices

6. Strong in automated testing (especially integration tests)

7. Experience with CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions or similar)

8. Experience managing production systems

9. Solid understanding of performance, reliability, observability

10. Cloud experience (AWS preferred; GCP/Azure acceptable)

11. Strong coding standards — Clean Code, code reviews, refactoring

Description 

About the opportunity

We are looking for an exceptional Senior Software Engineer to join our Backend team. This is a unique opportunity to join a fast-growing company where you will get to solve real customer and business problems, shape the future of a product built for Bharat and build the engineering culture of the team. You will have immense responsibility and autonomy to push the boundaries of engineering to deliver scalable and resilient systems.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be responsible for shipping innovative features at breakneck speed, designing the architecture, mentoring other engineers on the team and pushing for a high bar of engineering standards like code quality, automated testing, performance, CI/CD, etc. If you are someone who loves solving problems for customers, technology, the craft of software engineering, and the thrill of building startups, we would like to talk to you.

What you will be doing

• Build and ship features in our Node.js (and now migrating to TypeScript) codebase that directly impact user experience and help move the top and bottom line of the business.
• Collaborate closely with our product, design and data team to build innovative features to deliver a world class product to our customers. At company, product managers don’t “tell” what to build. In fact, we all collaborate on how to solve a problem for our customers and the business. Engineering plays a big part in it.
• Design scalable platforms that empower our product and marketing teams to rapidly experiment.
• Own the quality of our products by writing automated tests, reviewing code, making systems observable and resilient to failures.
• Drive code quality and pay down architectural debt by continuous analysis of our codebases and systems, and continuous refactoring.
• Architect our systems for faster iterations, releasability, scalability and high availability using practices like Domain Driven Design, Event Driven Architecture, Cloud Native Architecture and Observability.
• Set the engineering culture with the rest of the team by defining how we should work as a team, set standards for quality, and improve the speed of engineering execution.

The role could be ideal for you if you

• Experience of 4-8 years of working in backend engineering with at least 2 years of production experience in TypeScript, Express.js (or another popular framework like Nest.js) and MongoDB (or any popular database like MySQL, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, etc.).
• Well versed with one or more architectures and design patterns such as MVC, Domain Driven Design, CQRS, Event Driven Architecture, Cloud Native Architecture, etc.
• Experienced in writing automated tests (especially integration tests) and Continuous Integration. At company, engineers own quality and hence, writing automated tests is crucial to the role.
• Experience with managing production infrastructure using technologies like public cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure, etc.). Bonus: if you have experience in using Kubernetes.
• Experience in observability techniques like code instrumentation for metrics, tracing and logging.
• Care deeply about code quality, code reviews, software architecture (think about Object Oriented Programming, Clean Code, etc.), scalability and reliability. Bonus: if you have experience in this from your past roles.
• Understand the importance of shipping fast in a startup environment and constantly try to find ingenious ways to achieve the same.
• Collaborate well with everyone on the team. We communicate a lot and don’t hesitate to get quick feedback from other members on the team sooner than later.
• Can take ownership of goals and deliver them with high accountability.

Don’t hesitate to try out new technologies. At company, nobody is limited to a role. Every engineer in our team is an expert of at least one technology but often ventures out in adjacent technologies like React.js, Flutter, Data Platforms, AWS and Kubernetes. If you are not excited by this, you will not like working at company. Bonus: if you have experience in adjacent technologies like AWS (or any public cloud provider, Github Actions (or CircleCI), Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Pulumi, etc.), etc.

Navtech is looking for a PHP Wordpress Developer to work on cutting edge technologies combined with an ability to be innovative while creating solutions in a team environment.

Working as PHP Wordpress Developer at Navtech, you will:

• Write reusable, testable, and efficient code. Test and debug programs.
• Participate in full development life-cycle: concept, design, build, deploy, test and release.
• Integrate user-facing elements with server-side logic.
• Integrate data storage solutions like MongoDB, MySQL etc.
• Work with product teams on new product ideas, designs, prototypes, and estimates.
• Drive a best practices approach to the continuous improvement of our products, processes, and tools.
• Write and maintain documentation for all features in development.
• Develop back-end components to improve responsiveness and overall performance.
• Implement security and data protection solutions.
• Coordinate, guide, and mentor other software engineers within the team to
• understand user requirements and provide better technical solutions.

Who Are We Looking For Exactly?

• 1-3 years of experience as a PHP Wordpress Developer.
• Knowledge of object-relational mapping (ORM).
• Able to integrate multiple data sources and databases like MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB into one system.
• Familiarity with Python, JavaScript, MySQL, Apache, Nginx, APIs, HTML, etc.
• Working experience in wordpress is a plus.
• Proficient understanding of any of the code versioning tools like Git, SVN etc.
• Understanding of open source projects like Joomla, Drupal etc.
• Familiarity with NoSQL database (Redis, Cassandra).
• Ability to work in a cloud environment. Experience on AWS or Azure would be an added advantage.
• Should have a Master’s Degree /Bachelor's (BS) in computer science, Software
• Engineering, IT, Technology Management or related degrees and throughout education in English Medium.
• Should have good logical, analytical and communication skills with client interaction experience.

Why Navtech?

• Performance review and Appraisal Twice a year.
• Competitive pay package with additional bonus & benefits.
• Work with US, UK & Europe based industry renowned clients for exponential technical growth.
• Medical Insurance cover for self & immediate family.
• Work with a culturally diverse team from different geographies.

About us:

Navtech is a premier IT software and Services provider. Navtech’s mission is to increase public cloud adoption and build cloud-first solutions that become trendsetting platforms of the future. We have been recognized as the Best Cloud Service Provider at GoodFirms for ensuring good results with quality services. Here, we strive to innovate and push technology and service boundaries to provide best-in-class technology solutions to our clients at scale. We deliver to our clients globally from our state-of-the-art design and development centers in the US, Hyderabad, and Pune.

We’re a fast-growing company with clients in the United States, UK, and Europe. You will join a team of talented developers, quality engineers, product managers whose mission is to impact above 100 million people across the world with technological services by the year 2030.

• Owns team's output and E2E definition and execution of SDLC. Drives sprint planning, estimates & prioritizes tasks, Keeps key stakeholders updated on progress, milestones, and any potential slippages.
• Identifies pitfalls across codebases proactively. Writes model code that is looked up to. Understands internals of programming languages & runtimes. Creates common reusable components/libraries- Uses advanced data structures.
• Designs API contracts between large systems with end-to-end service design and active leadership towards long-term sustainability including versioning, complex migration plans, impact analysis across products.
• Owns NFRs and pushes the envelope on performance, scalability, and high availability with cognizance towards the cost of infra. Drives tech stack selection independently, mentors junior engineers. Evangelises of generic platform building across the organization.
• Troubleshoots unseen issues across codebases. Solves large end-to-end cross-cutting problems with elegant solutions with an eye on long-term sustainability.
• Partners with and influences product managers on “how”. Leads the pack on hiring and evangelizes steeper hiring standards towards building an A+ team. Represents company on external platforms/conferences.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or similar discipline
• 7+ years relevant work experience in software engineering while leading teams.
• Proficiency in more than one modern programming language such as Python (preferred) associated tech stack to write maintainable, scalable, unit-tested code
• Experience in building complex software systems that have been successfully delivered
• Should be strong with System Design and Database designing
• Deep understanding of design patterns, optimizations, deployments with Strong object-oriented design skills
• Experience mentoring other software engineers.
• Experience with full life cycle development in any programming language

- Build the backend for Android & iOS application and website with Company Dashboard (MIS). 
- Integration of user-facing elements developed by front-end developers with server side logic 
- Design and implementation of low-latency, high-availability, and performance applications
-Well versed with AWS and Server deployment 
- Excellent knowledge of Spring frameworks 
- Excellent knowledge of Java, JSP, JavaScript, AJAX, HTML, JSON 
- Good knowledge of MySQL 
- Knowledge of coding standards and good commenting practices 
- Experiences in developing RESTful web services must. 
- Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements 
- Ability to design applications around natural user interfaces 
- Experience with REST API connections 
- Writing reusable, testable, and efficient code 
- Integration of data storage solutions
- Build the backend for application and website with Android App, IOS, Company Dashboard. 
- Own software quality and optimize UI 
- Understand closely the requirements of the customers and get the features implemented on time 
- Creating of strong project timeline along with budgeting and regular reporting