A PHP Role for Someone Who'd Rather Ship Than Sit in Meetings
There's a mobile app somewhere with a bug that's been annoying its users for three weeks. There's another one about to get a feature nobody's asked for yet, but everyone will end up using. Both of those things run through PHP code on the backend. That's the job. It's remote, it pays $95,000 a year, and it's built around actual output rather than hours logged.
The Day-to-Day
Most of your time is spent on Laravel and PHP, working on the backend systems that mobile apps rely on. Some weeks you're fixing something small that turns out to matter a lot. Other weeks, you're building an API endpoint from scratch because the mobile team needs something the current setup can't do. Nobody hands you a script to follow — you're expected to figure out the right approach and talk it through with the team when it's not obvious.
- Write and maintain PHP/Laravel code for mobile app backends
- Build and troubleshoot REST APIs used by the iOS and Android apps
- Track down and fix bugs reported by mobile developers or users
- Keep MySQL queries and schema design in decent shape as things scale
- Sit in on short sprint check-ins every two weeks instead of daily status calls
- Coordinate with mobile devs so backend changes don't break their side of things
Before You Apply
A Bachelor's degree is the minimum education requirement. On the experience side, we're looking for at least 3 years of hands-on PHP development, and ideally one of those years involved backend work for a mobile app specifically — the constraints are different from a typical web project, and it helps to already know that.
What You'll Need to Bring
- Real, practical PHP experience — not just coursework
- Laravel, used in production, not just a tutorial project
- Comfort with MySQL and relational database design
- Experience designing or consuming REST APIs
- Git, and general ease working async across time zones
- Code that other people can read without asking you what it does
Nice to Have, Not Required
None of these are dealbreakers, but they'll make your first month easier:
- Experience working alongside iOS or Android developers on shared features
- OAuth 2.0 or JWT for API authentication
- Some exposure to CI/CD setups for backend deployment
- An eye for mobile-specific concerns — payload size, caching, syncing when the connection drops
Why Take This One
Pay is $95,000 a year, and the hours are yours to arrange — early riser or night owl, it doesn't matter as long as the work gets done. There's a real budget for courses or certifications if you want to keep building your skills on the company's dime. And ownership grows fast here: people who show up and do good work end up running their own projects within a couple of months, not a couple of years. Postings like this one are exactly why Naukri Mitra exists — to match developers who want that kind of setup with teams that actually offer it.
The Team
It's a mixed group — different countries, different schedules, all working on the same product. There's a weekly video call to catch up on what shipped and what's stuck, plus a running chat that's half work questions, half whatever someone's dog did that morning. Nobody's pretending remote work is frictionless. Time zones are annoying sometimes, the internet drops at the worst moment occasionally, and you'll deal with both. The difference is people actually respond when you flag it.
Your first few months look roughly like this: the first two weeks are for learning the codebase and how the team operates, your first shipped update lands by the end of month one, month two brings bigger tasks, and by month three you're expected to own something end-to-end.
How to Apply
Send over your background and be upfront about where your PHP experience comes from—production systems, not just personal projects, are what we're weighing. This role is open to candidates in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, the European Union, Australia, India, and other eligible regions.
