Senior Laravel/PHP developer

• Design, build and maintain innovative PHP applications
• Collaborate with the UI/UX team to create compelling user experiences
• Lead the entire web application development life cycle
• Keep abreast of new trends and best practices in web development
• Write clean, secure, maintainable, testable, and modular codes
• Design and maintain databases
• Troubleshoot and debug applications

What does a "Senior PHP / Laravel Developer" do?

Your primary focus will be the development of all backend-side logic, definition and maintenance of the central database, and ensuring high performance and responsiveness to requests from the front-end. You will also be responsible for integrating the front-end elements built by your co-workers into the application. Therefore, a basic understanding of front-end technologies is necessary as well.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Develop, record and maintain cutting edge web-based PHP applications on portal plus premium service platforms
• Build innovative, state-of-the-art applications and collaborate with the User Experience (UX) team
• Prepare and maintain all applications utilizing standard development tools
• Utilize backend data services and contribute to increasing existing data services API
• Lead the entire web application development life cycle right from concept stage to delivery and post-launch support
• Convey effectively with all task progress, evaluations, suggestions, schedules along with technical and process issues
• Document the development process, architecture, and standard components
• Coordinate with co-developers and keeps project manager well informed of the status of development effort and serves as a liaison between development staff and project manager
• Keep abreast of new trends and best practices in web development

Requirements

• Previous working experience as a PHP / Laravel developer for a min. of 3 years
• BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering, MIS or similar relevant field
• In-depth knowledge of object-oriented PHP and Laravel 5 PHP Framework
• Hands-on experience with SQL schema design, SOLID principles, REST API design
• Software testing (PHPUnit, PHPSpec, Behat)
• MySQL profiling and query optimization
• Creative and efficient problem solver