Senior Backend Developer (Laravel)

Please read this job description carefully before applying. By submitting your application, you confirm that you have read and understood the role, responsibilities, work policy, interview process, and employment terms.

At PayOn, we believe professionalism is reflected through your work, ownership, discipline, attitude, and the quality of your output—not simply the way you speak or present yourself. We value people who take responsibility, learn quickly, solve problems, and contribute positively to the team.

If you are comfortable with our work culture, hiring process, and expectations, we encourage you to apply.

Immediate Joiners Only

At PayOn, we are building the next generation of hospitality technology for restaurants, cafés, hotels, and food courts. As our platform continues to grow, we are looking for an experienced Senior Backend Developer (Laravel) who can contribute to large-scale SaaS and fintech-related systems.

We are seeking a developer with strong technical expertise, excellent code understanding skills, and a professional attitude who can work on live production applications, improve existing backend architecture, and build secure, scalable backend solutions.

• Minimum 5+ years of professional Laravel experience.

• Strong expertise in PHP and Laravel.

• Experience building and maintaining large-scale production applications.

• Strong understanding of REST APIs and third-party integrations.

• Experience working on SaaS and fintech-related applications.

• Strong understanding of MySQL and database optimization.

• Ability to read, understand, and improve existing codebases.

• Strong debugging, analytical, and problem-solving skills.

• Experience with Git and collaborative development workflows.

• Good verbal and written communication skills in English.

• Develop and maintain scalable backend services using Laravel.

• Build and optimize REST APIs.

• Work on SaaS and fintech-related backend features.

• Contribute to payment processing, transaction workflows, and third-party integrations.

• Review, refactor, and improve existing backend architecture.

• Debug and resolve production issues.

• Collaborate with frontend developers, QA engineers, and product teams.

• Write clean, secure, maintainable, and scalable code.

We are seeking individuals who demonstrate:

• Strong code reading and system understanding skills.

• Professionalism, confidence, and maturity.

• Calm, respectful, and solution-oriented behavior.

• Ownership and accountability.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving ability.

• Excellent teamwork and communication skills.

• A continuous learning mindset.

To ensure a fair, structured, and objective hiring experience, all applicants will progress through the following evaluation stages.

A preliminary conversation to assess communication skills, professionalism, eligibility, and overall suitability for the role.

Shortlisted candidates will be invited to submit a 20–30 second introductory video covering:

• Personal introduction

• Professional background

• Communication ability

• Interest in joining PayOn

Candidates progressing to the final stage will participate in a comprehensive interview designed to evaluate:

• Technical knowledge and backend understanding

• Code reading and problem-solving ability

• Behaviour assessment

• Communication skills

• Learning agility and adaptability

• Cultural alignment with PayOn

• Overall role suitability

Note: Depending on the hiring requirements and candidate evaluation, one or more interview stages may be combined into a single interview.

Additional assessments or practical exercises may be incorporated where relevant to further evaluate technical competency, analytical thinking, communication, and decision-making.

To maintain a fair and efficient recruitment process for all applicants:

• Only candidates shortlisted for the next stage will be contacted.

• Due to the volume of applications received, individual feedback or rejection notifications may not be provided.

• If you do not receive further communication from us after your assessment, please consider that your application has not progressed on this occasion.

• Applications are evaluated strictly on merit, role requirements, and organizational needs.

• Recruitment decisions are final and made at the sole discretion of PayOn.

• Candidate information and interview outcomes are handled with appropriate confidentiality and professional discretion.

We sincerely appreciate every applicant's interest and the time invested throughout the recruitment process.

PayOn operates within a fully remote, virtual workplace.

Candidates should be comfortable attending interviews, meetings, and work-related discussions with their camera enabled whenever reasonably required for communication, collaboration, identity verification, or professional engagement.

During working hours, screen sharing will be required for collaboration, productivity, and maintaining our virtual office environment.

Applicants who are not comfortable working in a camera-enabled and screen-sharing remote environment are respectfully advised not to apply.

• Remote Position

• Full-Time

• Working Hours: 4:00 PM – 1:00 AM

• Saturday & Sunday Off

• Salary: KPI-Based & Performance-Based

• 1-Month Probation Period

Please apply only if you have 5+ years of professional Laravel experience, are available for immediate joining, and are comfortable participating in every stage of the recruitment process outlined above.

• We value transparency, accountability, ownership, teamwork, and merit-based hiring, and we look forward to welcoming professionals who share those principles.