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Lead PHP Developer

📍 Mysore 🏷️ Software Development 💰 ₹150,000 / month

About the Role

Hebbal Industrial Area in Mysore also has a Lead PHP Developer opening, full time, on site, with a software team maintaining and extending a mature web application. Ten years of experience is the expectation, and the team wants someone comfortable owning both new feature delivery and the accumulated weight of an older codebase.

A Day in This Job

The work covers implementing new features based on project requirements, debugging and resolving technical issues, documenting work for future reference, and participating in code reviews. A lead developer here reviews architecture decisions from the rest of the team before they ship, since a poorly designed change to a mature application tends to cause ripple effects that are expensive to unwind.

What You'll Be Doing

  • Design and implement new features using PHP and Laravel or Symfony
  • Review architecture and code changes from other developers
  • Debug and resolve issues across the application
  • Own MySQL schema decisions and query performance

Qualifications

A bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, or a related field is expected, along with practical, hands-on project experience and proven proficiency in the relevant languages and frameworks. Ten years is a genuinely senior bar, and the team is looking for someone who's led real architecture decisions before.

Skills That Matter

  • PHP at an advanced level
  • Laravel or Symfony
  • MySQL
  • REST APIs, Git, and debugging

Good to Have

Experience migrating a legacy PHP application to a modern framework, familiarity with performance profiling for slow queries or endpoints, and any background balancing new feature delivery against the real risk of breaking a long-standing user's workflow.

Why This Role

Hebbal Industrial Area sits on the edge of Mysore's growing tech corridor, and the application this team maintains has been in active use for close to a decade, meaning a fair amount of institutional knowledge lives with the current team. Naukri Mitra has listed a few software roles from this employer, and lead developers who've joined recently describe the codebase's history as a genuine part of the onboarding, with senior team members walking through why certain unusual patterns exist before anyone starts refactoring them.

The Interview Process

Interviews include a practical exercise working with an anonymized slice of the real codebase and a discussion of a legacy system you've worked in previously. Candidates who ask about the history behind unusual code, rather than assuming it's simply bad, tend to interview well.

Benefits

  • Health insurance covering the employee and immediate family
  • Paid time off
  • Performance-linked bonuses
  • Relocation assistance and accommodation support for candidates moving to Mysore

Location & Pay

This role is based at Hebbal Industrial Area, Mysore, pin code 570016, five days a week on site. Pay runs up to ₹1,50,000 a month. The team hopes to fill this seat within six weeks.

Frequently Asked Questions

It's been in active use for close to a decade, so a fair amount of institutional knowledge lives with the current team.
PHP with either Laravel or Symfony, along with MySQL for schema and query decisions.
It uses an anonymized slice of the real codebase, since a candidate's reaction to genuinely older code tells the team more than a clean take-home project would.
Ten years, a genuinely senior bar for someone expected to lead architecture decisions on a mature application.
Pay runs up to ₹1,50,000 a month, and the team hopes to fill the seat within six weeks.
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