PHP/Laravel Application Developer

Position Summary

Key Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain, troubleshoot, and enhance existing PHP/Laravel applications.
• Provide hands-on application support with a strong focus on stability, reliability, performance, and production availability.
• Perform code-level troubleshooting and root-cause analysis for complex application issues.
• Configure, troubleshoot, maintain, and upgrade PHP and Nginx within Linux environments.
• Manage Laravel applications, Composer packages, dependencies, libraries, and package versions.
• Identify and resolve application dependency, compatibility, and versioning issues.
• Use Git for source-code management, branching, versioning, and release management.
• Develop and maintain frontend components using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and jQuery.
• Perform web UI maintenance, including updates to application content, images, layouts, and other visual elements.
• Work with MySQL databases, including developing, analyzing, and troubleshooting SQL queries.
• Develop, maintain, integrate, and troubleshoot RESTful APIs.
• Support application deployments, releases, patches, and upgrades across development and production environments.

Technical Requirements

• Strong hands-on experience with PHP.
• Strong experience with Laravel Framework.
• PHP/Laravel application maintenance and production support.
• Linux environments.
• Nginx configuration and troubleshooting.
• MySQL and SQL query development and troubleshooting.
• RESTful APIs and API integration and troubleshooting.
• Composer and PHP/Laravel dependency and package management.
• Git, source-code version control, branching, and release management.
• HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and jQuery.
• Application deployment and release support.
• Production troubleshooting, code-level debugging, root-cause analysis, and log analysis.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field.
• 12+ years of relevant experience in software development, PHP development, web application development, or application production support.
• Proven hands-on experience developing and supporting PHP/Laravel applications.
• Strong experience working with applications hosted in Linux production environments.
• Proven experience troubleshooting application issues at both code and infrastructure integration levels.
• Strong experience with MySQL, RESTful APIs, Nginx, Composer, and Git.
• Experience managing application releases, dependencies, upgrades, and production deployments.
• Ability to independently investigate production issues and perform root-cause analysis.
• Experience working with development, infrastructure, security, database, and integration teams.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, problem-solving, and communication skills.

Nice to Have

• Experience supporting large-scale or business-critical PHP/Laravel applications.
• Experience with CI/CD and DevOps-based deployment practices.
• Experience with application monitoring and logging tools.
• Experience with application performance optimization.
• Experience with application security and secure coding practices.
• Experience with Photoshop or similar image-editing tools for basic web UI requirements.
• Experience supporting integrations between PHP applications and enterprise platforms.