PHP Laravel Developer (Senior)

Responsibilities

Design and develop

scalable Laravel backend services

(PHP 8.x, Laravel 10/11). Build

inventory & reservation flows

(seat/zone inventory, hold windows, anti-oversell logic). Implement and maintain

payment workflows

(webhooks, reconciliation, refunds, idempotency). Own

performance, reliability, and observability : caching, queues, metrics, logs, alerts. Model and optimize databases for

high read/write

(indexes, transactions, locking, query tuning). Collaborate with front-end/devops and participate in architecture decisions and code reviews. Write automated tests (unit/integration), ensure secure coding practices. Must-have skills (non-negotiable for this project)

Strong Laravel backend expertise (service layer, events/listeners, queues, jobs, policies). Deep understanding of

transactions, locking, concurrency , and preventing race conditions. Practical experience with

Redis

(cache + locks + rate limiting) and

queues

(Horizon). Solid database skills (MySQL/Postgres): indexing, query optimization, schema design. Strong API design: REST best practices, validation, versioning, auth (JWT/OAuth/Sanctum). Clean code, testing discipline, Git workflows, strong debugging skills. Strongly preferred (big plus for ticketing)

Real-time features:

WebSockets

(Laravel Echo/Pusher/Soketi) or SSE. Payments: Stripe integrations with

webhook reliability . Search / filtering at scale (Meilisearch/Elastic), CDN usage, image/ticket PDF generation. Experience with

high-traffic launches / flash sales

and traffic spikes. Familiarity with microservices or modular monolith architecture. Nice to have

Experience delivering AI/ML-adjacent projects (not required). DevOps comfort: Docker, CI/CD, basic AWS/GCP knowledge. What success looks like (first 60–90 days)

Stabilize/ship core flows:

Reserve → Pay → Confirm → Issue ticket . Reduce oversells to ~0 via correct locking/idempotency. Improve p95 latency and checkout reliability under simulated spike load.