GoDigit - PHP Laravel Developer - Microservices Architecture

Overview

Role : PHP Laravel Developer

Job location : Pune

About Digit Insurance

Digits mission is to Make Insurance, Simple. We are backed by Fairfax- one of the largest global investment firms. We have also been ranked as 'LinkedIn top 5 startup of 2018' and 2019 and are the fastest growing insurance company. We have also been certified as a Great Place to Work!

Digit has entered the Unicorn club with a valuation of$1.9 billion and while most companies take about a decade to get here, we have achieved this in just 3 years. And we truly believe that this has happened as a result of the mission of the company i.e. to make insurance simple along with the sheer hard work & endeavours of our employees. Our current valuation stands at $3.5 billion.

We are reimagining products and redesigning processes to provide simple and transparent insurance solutions, that matter to consumers. We are building a technology-driven platform that can offer customized products at reduced cost and provide a great customer service.

We are also the only cloud-based insuretech company, with a very focused approach towards in-house development. We are using new age Technologies like Java Microservices, Full Stack, Angular 6, Python, React Native, DB2, Machine Learning, Data Science, cloud native architecture in AWS, Azure.

Now we have started a Life Insurance company as well. We are also the only cloud based Insuretech company, with a very focused approach towards inhouse development. We are using new age Technologies like Java Microservices, Full Stack, Angular 6, Python, React Native, DB2, Machine Learning, Data Science, cloud native architecture in AWS, Azure.

We are headquartered in Bangalore with development centers in Pune, Trivandrum and Hyderabad. The team is a great mix of Industry veterans who know whats working and new age technology specialists who know what could be improved.

What are we looking for ?

We are looking for candidates to join us as a part of our Technology team as PHP Laravel Developer.

Total Experience range : 1 to 3 years of experience of experience in Java development.

Role Summary

• Build, maintain, and optimize Laravel-based backend services and REST APIs.
• Work across modules : authentication, routing, queues, jobs, caching, and integrations.
• Collaborate with frontend, QA, DevOps, and product teams to deliver features on time.
  
  

• Design and develop scalable Laravel applications and microservices.
• Implement RESTful APIs, request validation, middleware, policies, and guards.
• Write Eloquent models, repositories, and optimize complex queries.
• Build queued jobs, events/listeners, schedulers (cron), notifications, and mailers.
• Integrate external services (AWS S3, RDS, SES, Redis, third-party APIs).
• Ensure security (OWASP best practices), input sanitization, and role-based access control.
• Improve performance via caching, indexing, pagination, and query optimization.
• Participate in code reviews, debugging, profiling, and documentation.
  
  

• 1to 3 years in PHP (7/8) with solid Laravel (8/9/10) experience.
• Strong MySQL/PostgreSQL, schema design, migrations, indexing.
• Eloquent ORM, Query Builder, relationships, scopes.
• API development (REST), JSON, API versioning, Swagger/OpenAPI.
• Caching (Redis), queues (Redis/SQS), jobs and workers.
• Authentication/Authorization (Passport/Sanctum/JWT).
• Git, branching workflows; CI/CD (GitHub Actions/GitLab CI/Azure DevOps).
• Basic Docker and environment configuration (.env), multi-env deployments
  
  

• AWS (EC2, RDS, S3, SES, Secrets Manager), Terraform basics.
• Frontend familiarity (React, Blade).
• Message brokers (SQS/RabbitMQ/Kafka) and microservices.
• Domain-driven design, repository/service patterns.
  
  

• Bachelors in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent experience.
  
  

• Clear communication, problem solving, ownership, and collaborative mindset.
• Ability to estimate, prioritize, and deliver in sprints
  
  

(ref:hirist.tech)