PHP/Laravel Application Developer

About the Role

DXC Technology is seeking an experienced PHP/Laravel Application Developer to join their team in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This full-time role involves the development, maintenance, troubleshooting, and support of enterprise PHP/Laravel applications within Linux production environments.

Role Overview

The ideal candidate will possess strong hands-on development expertise combined with application support and troubleshooting capabilities. This position requires the ability to independently investigate production issues, perform code-level analysis and root-cause analysis, and manage application dependencies and releases. Collaboration with development, infrastructure, security, database, and integration teams is essential to ensure application stability and reliability.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain, troubleshoot, and enhance existing PHP/Laravel applications.
• Provide hands-on application support with a focus on stability, reliability, performance, and production availability.
• Perform code-level troubleshooting and root-cause analysis for complex application issues.
• Configure, troubleshoot, maintain, and upgrade PHP and Nginx within Linux environments.
• Manage Laravel applications, Composer packages, dependencies, libraries, and package versions.
• Identify and resolve application dependency, compatibility, and versioning issues.
• Utilize Git for source-code management, branching, versioning, and release management.
• Develop and maintain frontend components using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and jQuery.
• Perform web UI maintenance, including updates to application content, images, and layouts.
• Use Photoshop or similar image-editing tools for basic web application visual requirements.
• Work with MySQL databases, including developing, analyzing, and troubleshooting SQL queries.
• Investigate database and data-related production issues and support data-integrity validation.
• Develop, maintain, integrate, and troubleshoot RESTful APIs.
• Troubleshoot application integrations and communication with internal and external systems.
• Support application deployments, releases, patches, and upgrades across development and production environments.
• Ensure appropriate application versioning and coordination during release and deployment activities.
• Analyze application and server logs to identify technical issues and support incident resolution.
• Implement targeted code fixes while minimizing impact on existing application functionality.
• Collaborate with development, infrastructure, security, database, and integration teams to resolve complex technical issues.
• Support continuous improvements to application reliability, maintainability, and operational stability.

Qualifications and Requirements

• Over 12 years of experience in PHP/Laravel application development.
• Proficiency in PHP, Laravel, Nginx, Linux, MySQL, and RESTful APIs.
• Experience with frontend technologies including HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and jQuery.
• Strong understanding of application dependencies, Git, deployment processes, and production troubleshooting.
• Demonstrated ability to perform code-level analysis and root-cause analysis for complex issues.

Technical Environment

The role operates within Linux production environments, requiring expertise across the full stack including PHP, Laravel, Nginx, MySQL, and various frontend technologies. Familiarity with application dependencies, Git for source control, and deployment strategies is essential.

Application Process

Candidates interested in this PHP/Laravel Application Developer position are encouraged to apply. Salary details will be discussed during the interview process.