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 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).

Nice to Have

- - Hands-on experience with Lumen — a robust 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 Developer(SJ-BY) (Kochi)
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