Key Responsibilities :

- Design, develop, enhance, and maintain web applications using PHP.

- Develop and integrate RESTful APIs and backend services.

- Work with PHP frameworks such as Laravel, Symfony, or CodeIgniter.

- Develop database-driven applications using MySQL/MariaDB or PostgreSQL.

- Write efficient SQL queries and perform database optimization.

- Troubleshoot application defects, performance issues, and production incidents.

- Implement secure coding practices, authentication, authorization, input validation, and error handling.

- Perform unit testing, code reviews, debugging, and application performance optimization.

- Use Git for source-code management and support CI/CD-based deployments.

- Collaborate with frontend developers, QA, product owners, infrastructure teams, and other stakeholders.

- Maintain technical documentation and participate in application support and continuous improvement activities.

Required Skills :

- Strong hands-on experience with PHP.

- Laravel / Symfony / CodeIgniter.

- REST APIs and JSON.

- MySQL / MariaDB / PostgreSQL.

- HTML, CSS, JavaScript fundamentals.

- Git and version control.

- Object-Oriented Programming (OOP).

- MVC architecture and design principles.

- API integration and troubleshooting.

- Application debugging and performance optimization.

- Unit testing and secure coding practices.

- Basic understanding of Linux/web-server environments such as Apache or Nginx.

Preferred Skills :

- Docker/containerized applications.

- CI/CD pipelines.

- Cloud platforms such as Azure or AWS.

- Microservices architecture.

- Redis/caching concepts.

- Agile/Scrum delivery experience.