Senior PHP Laravel Backend Engineer / ERP Architect – Scalable ERP & Microservices
About the Role
We are looking for 2 highly experienced and technically strong PHP Laravel professionals who have hands-on experience developing large, highly scalable ERP systems and microservices-based applications.
For this position, we are not primarily evaluating candidates based on the number of years of experience. Our primary focus is on the quality, scale, complexity, architecture, and ownership of the projects the candidate has actually developed.
The ideal candidate should have worked on multiple enterprise-grade ERP projects, preferably 7–8 or more substantial ERP implementations/products, and should have hands-on experience in designing and developing scalable Laravel applications and microservices architectures.
This is a hands-on technical role. We are looking for someone who can understand complex business processes, design the backend architecture, develop scalable APIs, optimize databases, and contribute to the technical architecture of large ERP systems.
What We Are Looking For-
- Must-Have Project Experience
- Strong hands-on experience in developing large-scale and highly scalable ERP systems.
- Candidate should have worked on multiple ERP projects/products, ideally 7–8 or more substantial ERP implementations.
- Experience should be demonstrated through actual projects delivered, not only through duration of employment.
- Strong experience in Microservices Architecture and distributed application development.
- Hands-on experience developing Microservices using PHP Laravel / Laravel ecosystem.
- Strong experience in designing and developing RESTful APIs and backend services.
- Experience in developing modular, scalable and maintainable ERP architectures.
- Strong understanding of complex ERP business workflows, role-based systems, approvals, transactions, reporting, inventory, finance, HR, procurement, sales, etc.
- Experience working with high-volume data, multiple users, multiple branches/sites/stores/business units, or similarly complex enterprise environments.
Technical Skills — Mandatory
- PHP – Advanced
- Laravel – Advanced / Strong
- REST API Development
- Microservices Architecture
- MySQL / Relational Database Design
- Database optimization and query optimization
- Authentication, authorization and role-based access control
- API integration and third-party integrations
- Backend architecture and system design
- Git / Version Control
- Debugging, performance optimization and scalability
- Background jobs, queues, caching and asynchronous processing
- Error handling, logging and monitoring
- Understanding of application security and secure API development
Strongly Preferred
- Experience breaking a monolithic ERP/application into microservices.
- Experience designing service-to-service communication and API-based architectures.
- Experience with Redis, queues, caching and event-driven processing.
- Experience with Docker / containerized deployments.
- Experience with AWS / Azure / GCP or similar cloud environments.
- Experience with CI/CD and deployment pipelines.
- Experience handling large datasets and performance-intensive ERP modules.
- Experience working with distributed systems and third-party integrations.
- Familiarity with React.js, Vue.js or another modern frontend framework is an added advantage.
- ERP Experience Is the Primary Evaluation Criteria
We are particularly interested in candidates who have worked on ERP systems involving areas such as:
Finance & Accounting | Procurement | Inventory | Purchase | Sales | Warehouse | HRMS | Payroll | CRM | Projects | Manufacturing | Supply Chain | Multi-branch Operations | Multi-company Operations | Approval Workflows
Experience in Retail ERP, Manufacturing ERP, Construction/Project ERP, Supply Chain ERP, HRMS/Payroll ERP or other enterprise ERP platforms will be highly relevant.
What We Will Evaluate
Instead of evaluating candidates only based on their CV or total years of experience, we will primarily evaluate:
- ERP Projects Delivered- How many significant ERP systems/products have you actually designed or developed?
- Scale of the ERP- Number of users, branches, stores, sites, transactions, modules, integrations and overall system complexity.
- Your Actual Contribution- Which parts of the project did you personally architect, develop and own?
- Microservices Experience- Which projects were built using microservices? What services did you design/develop? How did those services communicate?
- Laravel Expertise- How deeply have you worked with Laravel beyond basic CRUD development?
- Architecture & Scalability- How have you designed the system to support increasing users, transactions, modules and business units?
- API Development- What type of APIs and integrations have you developed and maintained?
Important
Please do not apply only by mentioning your total years of experience.
When applying, candidates are expected to provide details of their major ERP projects and Microservices projects, including:
- Project / Product Name
- ERP Type / Industry
- Approximate number of users
- Number of branches / stores / sites, if applicable
- Major modules developed
- Technology stack
- Laravel version / architecture used
- Whether the project was Monolithic, Modular Monolith or Microservices
- Number and type of microservices developed
- APIs / integrations developed
- Your specific role and responsibilities
- Major scalability / performance challenges solved
- Whether you were involved in architecture/design decisions
- Live project URL, GitHub/GitLab link, demo or other verifiable project information where possible