Senior Backend Developer (Laravel Expert)

Job Title: Senior Backend Developer (Laravel Expert)
Location: Belgrade
Job Type: Full-time
Experience Level: Senior
Salary: Competitive, based on experience
Start Date: July

About Us
We are a product-focused tech startup building robust and scalable web applications used by thousands daily. We're on the lookout for a Senior Backend Developer with deep Laravel expertise to join our engineering team. This role is ideal for someone who thrives in a high-performance environment and knows how to design, optimize, and maintain complex backend systems—with a particular focus on asynchronous job processing and Laravel Queues.

Responsibilities

• Design and build advanced backend services using Laravel and modern PHP practices
• Architect and manage Laravel Queues (Redis, database, SQS, etc.) and job pipelines at scale
• Implement queue workers, job batching, delayed jobs, and failure/retry strategies
• Optimize and debug database load
• Collaborate with frontend developers, DevOps, and delivery managers to ship new features
• Maintain clean, testable, and well-documented code
• Perform code reviews, mentor junior developers, and drive best practices
• Write unit and integration tests using PHPUnit or Pest

Key Requirements

• 5+ years of PHP experience, 3+ years with Laravel
• Deep experience with Laravel Queues, Laravel Horizon, job chaining/batching
• Solid understanding of Redis, Supervisor, SQS, or similar queue backends
• Strong knowledge of Eloquent, Service Containers, Events, and Laravel internals
• Experience with RESTful APIs and API authentication (Passport, Sanctum, OAuth2)
• Familiar with database optimization, indexing, and query profiling (MySQL or PostgreSQL)
• Comfortable writing tests (feature/unit) and maintaining high test coverage
• Experience working with Docker-based development environments

Bonus Points For

• Experience with Laravel Octane, Vapor, or Forge
• Working knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and DevOps tooling
• Familiarity with event-driven systems or message queues (e.g., RabbitMQ, Kafka)

What You’ll Get

• Flexible working hours
• Opportunities to work on challenging, large-scale systems
• Tech stack decisions that actually matter—your voice is heard
• Friendly, senior-level team who values quality over shortcuts

How to Apply
Send your CV and a short intro electronically.
Bonus points for sharing GitHub projects, PRs to Laravel packages, or examples of real-world queue architectures you’ve built or optimized.