PHP Laravel Engineer [gn]

LUMASERV GmbH; Weißenburg in Bayern; Hybrid; EUR 50.000 - 70.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

A leading enterprise application provider located in Germany is seeking a PHP Backend Engineer. In this role, you'll develop and maintain customer projects that support millions of users daily using modern PHP frameworks like Laravel. Your responsibilities will include designing and developing robust REST APIs, conducting code reviews, and implementing coding standards. The ideal candidate has extensive experience in PHP backend development and a passion for clean code and innovative solutions. This position offers an exciting opportunity to influence project direction and quality.

Qualifikationen

• Extensive professional experience in PHP backend development.
• Strong expertise with Laravel or similar frameworks.
• Proficiency in writing automated tests with PHPUnit and Pest.

Aufgaben

• Develop and maintain customer projects serving millions of users.
• Design and develop REST APIs using domain-driven design.
• Monitor application performance with modern APM tools.

Kenntnisse

PHP backend development

Laravel

Automated testing (PHPUnit, Pest)

REST APIs

Docker

web security principles

project management tools

Tools

Docker

MySQL

MariaDB

Redis

Jobbeschreibung

Qualifications

• Extensive professional experience in PHP backend development on enterpriseenter level
• Strong expertise with Laravel (or similar modern frameworks like Symfony) and the Framework's core concepts including dependency injection
• Experience with schema design and and software modelling
• Proficiency in writing automated tests (PHPUnit, Pest)
• Familiarity with HTTP REST/RPC interfaces and API documentation formats (Swagger/OpenAPI)
• Experience with project management tools (e.g. Linear or Notion)
• Strong understanding of web security principles and common vulnerabilities
• Strong experience with local development setups based on Docker (and Laravel Sail)

Summary

As a PHP Backend Engineer at LUMASERV, you'll play a key role in developing and maintaining customer projects that serve millions of users daily. You'll work closely with our product managers, developers, and architects to build robust, scalable backend solutions using modern PHP frameworks, particularly Laravel. If you appreciate clean code, domain-driven design, and the elegance that Laravel brings to application development, this position offers you the opportunity to shape the technical direction of projects while writing high-quality code every day.

Description

• You love working with Laravel (or Symfony) and leverage its full capabilities—including queues, broadcasting, dependency injection, storage and notification systems and Artisan
• You design and develop REST APIs (sometimes GraphQL) using domain-driven design that integrate seamlessly with frontend applications and external systems
• You perform regular code reviews and help establish best practices within the team
• You want to dive deeper into AI protocols like MCP and implement them in large enterprise applications
• You monitor application performance and gain insights using state-of-the-art APM tools (application performance monitoring)
• You write and maintain comprehensive tests using Laravel's built-in testing capabilities (PHPUnit and PEST), supported by AI
• You challenge and improve coding standards with your colleagues
• You work with scalable databases (MySQL, MariaDB, Redis) to design efficient data models and queries
• You participate in technical planning sessions and contribute to architectural decisions with your team
• You understand the concepts behind Laravel Inertia

Desired qualifications

• Experience with domain-driven design and software architecture
• Knowledge of CI/CD processes and DevOps practices
• Experience with message queues and asynchronous processing
• Contributions to open-source projects or active participation in the developer community
• Familiary with application performance monitoring