Senior PHP Developer(SJ-BY)
Senior PHP Developer(SJ-BY)
SE-Mentor Solutions (P) LtdThis job is no longer accepting applications
Job Description
What You'll Do
- Design, architect, and optimize microservices across a distributed Laravel environment, including our custom Lumen-based packages.
- Define and evolve service boundaries, inter-service communication, and API contracts.
- Drive performance, scalability, and reliability improvements across services.
- Lead code reviews and guide the team on design decisions, patterns, and best practices.
- Set and enforce engineering standards — testing, documentation, and maintainability.
- Mentor mid-level and senior engineers; raise the overall technical bar.
- Own features end-to-end across multiple service areas — from data model to API contract.
- 8-12 years of professional PHP development, with deep hands-on Laravel experience.
- Proven software architecture expertise — designing and optimizing microservices, service boundaries, distributed data, and API contracts.
- Strong track record of leading code reviews and mentoring engineers on design and best practices.
- Expert-level understanding of SOLID, design patterns, and architectural tradeoffs.
- Comfort working within custom/proprietary frameworks and packages (Lumenbased), not just off-the-shelf tooling.
- Strong grasp of modern PHP (8.x) and OOP fundamentals.
- Proficient SQL skills (MySQL/PostgreSQL) and query optimization.
- Solid experience with REST APIs, Git, and automated testing (PHPUnit/Pest).
- - Hands-on experience with Lumen — a strong advantage, given our custom Lumen-based services.
- - Experience building or extending micro-frameworks / custom packages.- Message queues / async processing (RabbitMQ, Redis, Laravel Queues).
- - Caching strategies and event-driven design.
- - API gateways and service discovery patterns.
More Info
Key Skills
API contracts
OOP fundamentals
SOLID design patterns
