[Internal Hiring]: PHP/Laravel Developer

Role Overview We are looking for an experienced Laravel Full-Stack Developer who can independently design, develop, maintain, and enhance web applications. The ideal candidate has strong hands-on experience with Laravel, PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and API development, and can work across both the backend and frontend layers. Key Responsibilities Develop and maintain scalable web applications using PHP and Laravel. Build clean, secure, and reusable backend services and RESTful APIs. Design and integrate MySQL databases, including schema design, queries, indexing, optimization, and migrations. Work on frontend development using HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery, Bootstrap, or similar technologies. Integrate third-party APIs, payment gateways, shipping services, authentication systems, and other external services. Troubleshoot and resolve production issues, bugs, performance problems, and security vulnerabilities. Implement authentication, authorization, validation, and secure coding practices. Develop new features based on business and functional requirements. Optimize existing applications for performance, scalability, and reliability. Write and maintain unit and integration tests where applicable. Work with Git and follow proper branching and code-review practices. Participate in code reviews and contribute to technical decisions. Handle deployment, configuration, and basic server-side troubleshooting where required. Collaborate with project managers, QA engineers, UI/UX designers, and other developers. Required Technical Skills Backend Strong PHP 8+ experience. 4+ years of hands-on Laravel experience. Strong understanding of Laravel MVC architecture. Proficiency with Eloquent ORM, migrations, queues, jobs, events, middleware, authentication, and authorization. REST API development and third-party API integrations. Experience with Laravel security best practices. Database Strong MySQL experience. Complex SQL queries, joins, indexing, transactions, and stored procedures where required. Database optimization and troubleshooting. Frontend Strong JavaScript fundamentals. HTML5 and CSS3. jQuery. Bootstrap or another responsive UI framework. AJAX and API-based frontend integration. Responsive web development. Tools & Other Skills Git / GitHub / GitLab / Bitbucket. Composer and npm. Familiarity with Linux environments. Basic understanding of Apache / Nginx. Debugging and performance optimization. Understanding of OWASP and security practices. Good to Have Vue.js or React.js experience. Redis and caching. Docker. AWS or other cloud platforms. CI/CD pipelines. Payment gateway integrations. E-commerce application experience. Elasticsearch / Meilisearch. Experience working with legacy PHP applications and modernizing them. Candidate Profile The ideal candidate is independent and hands-on, able to take a requirement from understanding to…