Posted 15 July, 2026
PHP Developer
PeerIslands US Inc
Chennai,Tamil Nadu,India,600028
Full Time
Reference: 135_680814_144
Senior PHP / Laravel Developer
Location: Remote Type: Full-time Experience: 8-12 years
About the Role
We're 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.- Based out of Chennai, as majority of the team is in Chennai and a hybrid model to get the team running
Location: Remote Type: Full-time Experience: 8-12 years
About the Role
We're 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.- Based out of Chennai, as majority of the team is in Chennai and a hybrid model to get the team running
