Senior Backend Engineer (Laravel)

Rightangled; New Delhi; On-site; INR 3,000,000 - 6,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Rightangled in Delhi is seeking a senior backend engineer to own backend architecture from design to production, focusing on scalable Laravel services and AI-powered workflows.

You will work across products, mentor teammates, review PRs, and shape engineering standards while integrating AI services and ensuring reliability on AWS, Redis, and MySQL.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of backend development with strong Laravel production experience.
• Deep knowledge of OOP, SOLID, design patterns, and system design.
• Strong data modeling and system design instincts; ability to trade-off decisions.
• Experience with Shopify APIs, Eloquent optimization, MySQL performance, Redis, queues, AWS, and scalable REST APIs.
• Solid MySQL depth (indexing, query optimization) and Redis with asynchronous processing.
• Experience with AWS, Docker, Linux, Git, CI/CD, monitoring and performance optimization.
• Testing as a habit; CI should catch problems and reliability matters.

Responsibilities

• Design and build backend services in Laravel from architecture through production.
• Work on core platform capabilities: data modeling, APIs, background processing, and integrations.
• Design secure, well-documented, versioned REST APIs.
• Build event-driven and asynchronous systems with queues and background jobs.
• Optimize database performance and application scalability.
• Write automated tests and improve our engineering and release practices.
• Integrate third-party services including commerce, logistics, and AI/LLM APIs.
• Review code and help raise the overall standard of the team.

Skills

Backend development

Laravel expertise

OOP & SOLID

System design

Data modeling

REST APIs design

Testing & CI/CD

Tools

MySQL

Redis

Docker

AWS

GitHub Actions

Job description

About The Role

We're a digital healthcare company building the platform that powers our clinical and pharmacy operations. We're expanding that platform significantly this year, and we're looking for a senior backend engineer to help design and build its next generation.

You'll take ownership of backend services from initial architecture through deployment and long‑term maintenance. You'll design scalable systems, implement new features, review code, improve application performance, and continuously reduce technical debt.

You'll regularly switch between multiple products and projects, helping teams deliver features quickly without compromising quality or maintainability. Beyond writing code, you'll participate in architecture discussions, mentor developers, review pull requests, and help shape the engineering standards followed across the company.

As AI continues to play an increasingly important role in our products, you'll also help build intelligent workflows, integrate AI services, and explore new ways of using modern language models to improve customer experiences and internal operations.

What You'll Be Doing

• Design and build backend services in Laravel, from architecture through to production.
• Work on core platform capabilities: data modeling, APIs, background processing, and integrations.
• Design secure, well‑documented, versioned REST APIs.
• Build event‑driven and asynchronous systems with queues and background jobs.
• Optimize database performance and application scalability.
• Write automated tests and help improve our engineering and release practices.
• Integrate third‑party services, including commerce, logistics, and AI/LLM APIs.
• Review code and help raise the overall standard of the team.

Requirements

• 7+ years of professional backend development, with at least 3 years of strong Laravel experience in production systems you helped design — we care more about what you've built than the exact number of years.
• Deep understanding of OOP, SOLID principles, design patterns, and system design.
• Strong data modeling and system design instincts, and the ability to reason about trade‑offs.
• Experience with Shopify APIs, Eloquent ORM optimization, MySQL performance tuning, Redis, queue‑based systems, AWS infrastructure, and scalable REST APIs is essential.
• Solid MySQL depth (indexing, query optimization, performance under growth), plus Redis and queue‑based asynchronous processing.
• Experience with AWS, Docker, Linux, Git, CI/CD, application monitoring, and performance optimization is essential.
• Testing as a habit: you write tests, you expect CI to catch problems, and you take reliability seriously.
• Working knowledge of AWS (EC2, RDS, S3, IAM, CloudWatch), enough to be self‑sufficient.
• Clear written communication and the ability to document and defend design decisions.

Nice to Have

• Experience in a regulated domain (healthcare, fintech, or similar) where compliance and auditability are design inputs.
• Multi‑tenant SaaS experience.
• LLM integration work (Anthropic or OpenAI APIs), with an interest in evaluation and reliability rather than demos.
• Shopify API experience.
• Event‑driven architecture in production.

Tech Stack

PHP 8.x / Laravel (Horizon, Queues, Events, Scheduler)

• MySQL
• Redis
• REST APIs
• AWS
• Docker
• GitHub Actions
• Anthropic & OpenAI APIs
• Vue.js + Inertia on the frontend (this is a backend‑focused role; frontend fluency is welcome but not required)

Challenges you'll be working on include:

• Designing backend systems capable of handling millions of requests.
• Building AI‑powered products and integrating LLMs into real‑world workflows.
• Architecting and developing greenfield applications from concept to production.
• Scaling and optimizing large Laravel codebases.
• Designing secure, maintainable, and high‑performance REST APIs.
• Building event‑driven and asynchronous systems using queues and background processing.
• Optimizing database performance, caching strategies, and application scalability.
• Improving developer experience through automation, tooling, and engineering best practices.
• Building reliable cloud‑native applications on AWS.

Benefits

We're an equal‑opportunity employer. As a regulated healthcare business, the successful candidate will undergo a basic background check.