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