Senior PHP & Laravel

Nasoft is hiring a Senior PHP Laravel Engineer for a Software House to our client in Saudi Arabia ,
with strong technical expertise in PHP, Laravel, database design, software architecture, and automated testing.
The ideal candidate has hands-on experience building and maintaining large-scale, scalable applications, particularly SaaS platforms and ERP systems, and can translate complex business requirements into reliable, secure, and maintainable solutions.

The candidate should demonstrate strong problem-solving skills, ownership, and the ability to collaborate effectively within an Agile development team while maintaining high engineering standards.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and maintain scalable backend applications using PHP and Laravel.
• Build and maintain RESTful APIs and integrate third-party services.
• Develop and optimize complex database queries using Laravel Eloquent ORM and Query Builder.
• Design efficient database schemas, relationships, indexes, and transactions.
• Apply SOLID principles, design patterns, and clean code practices.
• Develop and maintain automated unit, feature, and integration tests.
• Ensure code quality, security, performance, scalability, and maintainability.
• Identify and resolve technical issues, bugs, and performance bottlenecks.
• Participate in code reviews and provide constructive technical feedback.
• Collaborate with frontend engineers, QA engineers, DevOps, business analysts, and other stakeholders.
• Participate in Agile/Scrum ceremonies, including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, reviews, and retrospectives.
• Contribute to technical documentation and continuous improvement of development processes.

• At least 5 years of professional experience developing applications with PHP and Laravel.
• Strong knowledge of PHP 8+ and modern PHP development practices.
• Solid understanding of programming fundamentals, including algorithms, data structures, problem-solving, time and space complexity, and memory management.
• Strong understanding of OOP principles, including encapsulation, inheritance, polymorphism, and abstraction.
• Proven hands-on experience developing and maintaining large-scale, scalable applications, including SaaS platforms and/or ERP systems.
• Experience handling complex business workflows, system architecture, performance optimization, data integrity, and high-volume data processing.
• Strong practical experience with Laravel features, including Eloquent ORM, Query Builder, migrations, middleware, service providers, queues, events, jobs, and task scheduling.
• Advanced SQL skills, including complex queries, joins, subqueries, aggregations, relationships, and query optimization using Eloquent and Query Builder.
• Strong experience with MySQL and/or PostgreSQL, including database design, indexing, transactions, and performance tuning.
• Experience designing and developing RESTful APIs and integrating third-party services.
• Strong understanding of SOLID principles, common design patterns, clean code, and maintainable software architecture.
• Practical experience writing and maintaining automated unit, feature, and integration tests using PHPUnit or Pest.
• Strong understanding of software testing principles, TDD concepts, and QA best practices.
• Commitment to writing or updating automated tests for all new features and modified existing functionality.
• Experience using Git, branching strategies, pull requests, and code review workflows.
• Good understanding of application security, authentication, authorization, validation, and common web vulnerabilities.
• Strong debugging and troubleshooting skills, including diagnosing and resolving production issues.
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum teams and participating in related ceremonies.
• Strong communication, collaboration, ownership, and technical problem-solving skills.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automated quality checks.
• Experience with Redis, caching strategies, queues, and background processing.
• Familiarity with Docker and containerized development environments.
• Experience working with multi-tenant SaaS architectures.
• Experience with ERP systems, accounting workflows, inventory management, or other complex business domains.
• Familiarity with static analysis tools such as PHPStan and code formatting tools such as Laravel Pint.
• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS.
  
• Technical Skills
• Backend: PHP 8+, Laravel, RESTful APIs
• Programming: OOP, algorithms, data structures, SOLID, design patterns
• Database: MySQL and/or PostgreSQL, SQL optimization, schema design
• Laravel Data Access: Eloquent ORM, Query Builder, relationships, transactions
• Testing: PHPUnit or Pest, unit testing, feature testing, integration testing, TDD concepts
• Code Quality: Clean code, static analysis, code reviews, refactoring
• Tools: Git, Composer, Docker, CI/CD
• Architecture: Scalable systems, SaaS applications, ERP systems, performance optimization
• Ways of Working: Agile, Scrum, cross-functional collaboration

Working Condition :

Working Days : 5 days / week
Working hours : 9AM : 6 pm
Working Model : Remotely