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.