Senior PHP / Laravel Developer

Location: Remote

Type: Full-time

Experience: 8 - 12 years

About the Role:

We're looking for a Senior PHP Developer to help lead the design and evolution of our product a microservice-based Laravel architecture spanning multiple functional areas, with newer services built on a custom in-house micro-framework (leveraging Lumen packages rather than the stock Lumen framework). This is a senior, hands-on role: you'll own architectural decisions, design and optimize services, and act as a technical anchor for the team setting the bar on code quality, design, and engineering best practices.

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.

What We're Looking For:

- 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 trade-offs.
- Comfort working within custom/proprietary frameworks and packages (Lumen-based), 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).

Nice to Have:

- Hands-on experience with Lumen a solid 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.

📌 Senior PHP / Laravel Developer (Microservices & Architecture) (Chennai)
🏢 Bramkas
📍 Chennai