Senior PHP / Laravel Developer

Senior PHP / Laravel Developer | www.bytestrone.com | [HIDDEN TEXT]

Experience: 8–12 years | Job type : Contract | Immediate Joiners are preferred

Job Mode: Work From Office

Location : Bytestrone India Pvt. Ltd.

201, Lulu IT Cyber Twin Tower 1,Smart City SEZ, Kakkanad -Kochi -Kerala

About the Role

Bytestrone is 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 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.

Skills Required
Git, Laravel, Microservices, Automated Testing, Rest Apis, Php, Phpunit, Lumen, Sql, PEST, Mysql, Postgresql