Team Lead - Laravel Developer Job in Optimumbrew

About Us:

At OptimumBrew, we are a team of thinkers, problem-solvers, and collaborators. Our team is smart, passionate, and experienced, and we re known for getting things done. Our league of superheroes includes 10+ certified PHP & Laravel developers, and we pride ourselves on creating impactful solutions. OptimumBrew is a process-driven, adaptive, and human-first company, where your growth is just as important to us as our business success both professionally and personally.

Job Title: Team Lead - Laravel Developer

We are looking for a talented and motivated Team Lead Laravel Developer to help us build innovative products that drive customer growth. In this role, your primary responsibility will be developing robust server-side logic, maintaining and defining databases, and ensuring high performance and responsiveness for front-end requests. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure the smooth development and deployment of our solutions.

Primary Objectives:

• Strong expertise in PHP and Laravel framework.

• In-depth knowledge of SQL databases.

• Ability to complete demos and training sessions provided by senior developers and team leads.

• Proactive, problem-solving attitude.

• Clear understanding of core OOP (Object-Oriented Programming) concepts.

• Excellent coordination and communication with colleagues and teams.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with the Project Manager to understand the project requirements and implement them using back-end technologies.

• Contribute to the product roadmap, providing feedback and working closely with the product team on prioritization, resource allocation, and timelines.

• Ensure the backend infrastructure is scalable, optimized, and aligned with business goals.

Technical Skills You Should Have:

• Proficiency in PHP and familiarity with web frameworks like Laravel (or similar, such as Yii, depending on the stack).

• Experience working on large-scale Laravel applications.

• Advanced understanding of Laravel s core concepts, including Eloquent, Queues, Form validation, Collections, Console commands, Task scheduling, and Cache.

• Strong knowledge of PHP/web server exploits and strategies to prevent them.

• Experience with user authentication and authorization across multiple systems, servers, and environments.

• Familiarity with code versioning tools like Git, Bitbucket, etc.

• Competency with IDE tools such as vsCode, Chrome, PhpStorm, and MS Word.

• Strong knowledge of MySQL databases, MySQL Workbench, WAMP server, and local development environments.

• Expertise in debugging code.

• Basic understanding of front-end technologies like JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3.

• Familiarity with Amazon Web Services (AWS) products.

Key Expertise:

• Laravel, PHP, GitHub, Bitbucket, PhpStorm, vsCode, MySQL, MySQL Workbench, WAMP Server, local development environments.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, B.Tech (CSE/IT), BCA, MCA, or related fields.

Experience:

• 4+ years of experience in PHP, Laravel, and backend development.