Senior Software Engineer - PHP (Contract)

At Lightning Group, we empower non-technical founders to build, fund, and scale revenue-focused tech companies. We enjoy pushing tech boundaries and developing ground-breaking applications. Our cross-functional, high-performing teams support the founders in all aspects of product development, from initial strategy through product discovery and technical R&D through actual high-quality build process and go-to-market opportunity. We take ownership of all aspects of creating customer value and take pride in responding to customer needs with beautifully crafted, technically excellent products that our users love to use. We can't wait to see what we can do together. This role is starting as 4 months contractual position and has a potential to convert to full-time role based on the need of the business. The Person Lots of previous commercial development experience, with expert knowledge of core technology Can take the lead on an area of a project (e.g. BE), making some architectural decisions Ability to mentor and guide more junior developers Ability to explain complicated technical concepts to non-technical people Up to date with the latest trends in their core technology, and expresses an interest in other areas of the tech stack Their Responsibilities Focus on delivering code in PHP (Laravel) Provide inputs during technical discussions, and lead those discussions as well Identify areas of technical improvement within a project Provide support to other team members, including non-technical people (DMs, PMs) Requirements : Core experience : 7-10 years of previous commercial development experience With expert knowledge of PHP (Laravel) (recent Laravel exp. 2-3 yrs with latest version 9 and 10.0) SQL (Postgres / MySQL) GitHub (or any other Git provider) Have experience in writing the test cases or TDD (Test Driven Development), using PhpUnit or PestPHP Focus on code quality and code review policies Strong understanding and implementation of deployments and rollbacks from security and disaster recovery POV Experience in writing APIs [creator and consumer] Laravel commands/jobs Authentication and Authorization (As part of the Laravel ecosystem) Sending transactional emails using PHP/Laravel Webhooks [creator and/or consumer] Additional experience : Experience with CI/CD (on any cloud provider) Docker Integrating UI frameworks with any PHP framework Version-management of APIs (for Mobile apps) Postman Command over editor/IDE Localisation APM [Application Performance Monitoring] Error tracking Logging Technical writing (blog/article) is an added advantage

At Lightning Group, we empower non-technical founders to build, fund, and scale revenue-focused tech companies. We enjoy pushing tech boundaries and developing ground-breaking applications. Our cross-functional, high-performing teams support the founders in all aspects of product development, from initial strategy through product discovery and technical R&D through actual high-quality build process and go-to-market opportunity.