01Overview
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 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. .
