Backend Developer—PHP/Laravel

JobItUs; Kolkata District; On-site; INR 600,000 - 1,100,000; Full time

Job summary

JobItUs in Kolkata, India is seeking a backend engineer to own features end-to-end on a live marketplace — listings, orders, payments, payouts, and integrations. You’ll work with Laravel, MySQL, and a modern front-end stack, shipping to production regularly and collaborating with QA and product teams.

2–4 years of hands-on PHP and Laravel experience, strong MySQL fundamentals, REST API design, and fluent Git workflows are required.

Qualifications

• 2–4 years of hands-on PHP and Laravel experience (mandatory).
• Solid Laravel core knowledge: Eloquent, middleware, auth, migrations and routing.
• Strong MySQL fundamentals: schema design, joins, indexing and query optimization.
• Experience designing/consuming REST APIs with auth, validation and error handling.
• Experience with third‑party APIs and Laravel queues, schedulers, and caching.
• Git and standard branching workflows; basic HTML/CSS/JavaScript familiarity.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain backend features and REST APIs for web and mobile clients.
• Own modules end-to-end: requirements, build, test, deploy, and production support.
• Design MySQL schemas and write efficient queries for growing data.
• Work with Laravel queues, jobs, and schedulers for asynchronous processing.
• Integrate third‑party services: payment gateways, messaging, logistics.
• Debug production issues, perform root‑cause analysis, ship fixes.
• Participate in code reviews and raise the team’s quality bar.
• Write and maintain automated tests using Pest/PHPUnit.

Skills

PHP

Laravel

REST APIs

MySQL

Git

HTML/CSS/JavaScript

Tools

AWS

DigitalOcean

Postman

Job description

ABOUT THE ROLE:

You'll own backend features end-to-end on a live marketplace—listings, orders, payments, payouts, and the integrations that hold them together. It's the kind of surface area where correctness genuinely matters: a mis-settled payout or a double-charged buyer is a real problem for a real person.

Our backend runs on Laravel [version] with MySQL, deployed on [AWS / DigitalOcean / etc.], with [Blade + jQuery / Vue SPA] on the front end. Queues and scheduled jobs drive order events, notifications, and third-party syncs.

You’ll work directly with the frontend, QA, and product teams, and you’ll ship to production regularly.

WHAT YOU'LL DO:

• Build and maintain backend features and REST APIs for our web and mobile clients
• Own assigned modules end-to-end — requirements, build, testing, deployment, and production support
• Design MySQL schemas and write efficient queries against growing data
• Work with Laravel queues, jobs, and schedulers for asynchronous and background processing
• Integrate third‑party services: payment gateways, messaging/notification providers, and logistics partners
• Debug production issues, perform root‑cause analysis, and ship durable fixes
• Participate in code reviews and help raise the quality bar on the team
• [Write and maintain automated tests using Pest/PHPUnit]

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR:

• 2–4 years of hands‑on PHP and Laravel experience (mandatory)
• Solid working knowledge of core Laravel: Eloquent and relationships, middleware, request validation, auth, migrations, routing
• Strong MySQL fundamentals — schema design, joins, aggregation, indexing, and query optimization
• Practical experience designing and consuming REST APIs, including auth, validation, and error handling
• Experience integrating third‑party APIs in production
• Working knowledge of Laravel queues, jobs, schedulers, and caching
• Comfortable with Git and standard branching workflows
• Working knowledge of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
• Clear written and verbal communication

NICE TO HAVE:

• Experience with Vue.js, React, or Next.js
• Comfort with Linux servers, environment configuration, deployments, and reading application logs
• eCommerce or marketplace experience, particularly payments or order lifecycle
• Familiarity with Agile workflows and tools like Postman

WHY JOIN US:

• Small team, high ownership — your work ships and is used by real customers within days, not quarters
• Genuinely interesting problems: marketplace trust, payment and settlement flows, returns, and abuse prevention
• A product with a purpose — every transaction keeps something usable out of a landfill
• Direct access to founders and room to grow with the company