Senior Full Stack Developer (Backend Heavy – Laravel) at Orange Drugs

Orange group operates from Lagos, Nigeria and for such a fast-paced, entrepreneurial business; some are surprised to learn our company’s history spans over 25 years of innovation for consumers in West Africa. With a wholly- Nigerian heritage, Orange Group’s drive for financial performance and excellent product delivery today can be seen in its deep roots – as shown in this timeline:

1988
Orange Drugs Limited (ODL) is registered and incorporated.

1994/1995
ODL is awarded "Star Donor Award" by the Pharmaceutical society of Nigeria.

2001
ODL is relocated from 4B Okupe Estate to 66/67 Town Planning Way, Ilupeju, Lagos.

2001-2005
Orange Kalbe Limited (OKL) is incorporated.

2006
Orange West Africa Limited (OWAL) and Orange Beauty Care (OBC) is incorporated.

2007
Orange Group begins its regional expansion by incorporating its first overseas business in Accra, Ghana.Read This First

This is not a “CRUD Laravel developer” role.

We are looking for a backend-heavy engineer who can design systems, make architectural decisions, and own production systems under real-world pressure.

If your experience is mostly:

Basic Laravel apps
Tutorials or bootcamp-level projects
Copy-pasting solutions without understanding trade-offs

This role is not for you.

What You’ll Actually Be Doing

Designing and scaling high-performance backend systems
Building robust APIs used by web and mobile apps
Solving real-world problems: performance bottlenecks, concurrency, data integrity
Owning system architecture decisions, not just implementation
Working on systems that must handle growth, transactions, and reliability

What We Expect (Non-Negotiable)

You should be able to confidently:

Design a backend system from scratch (not just follow patterns)
Explain why you chose a particular architecture
Optimize slow queries and debug production issues
Implement queues, caching, and background processing properly
Think in terms of scalability, fault tolerance, and trade-offs

Core Stack

Laravel (Primary)
PHP (Advanced level)
MySQL / PostgreSQL
REST APIs (GraphQL is a plus)
AWS / Cloud Infrastructure
Docker & CI/CD

Strong Signals (What Will Make You Stand Out)

You’ve worked on high-transaction or production-critical systems
You’ve fixed performance issues in production
You’ve designed systems beyond monolith basics (modular, event-driven, etc.)
You can defend your technical decisions under scrutiny
You think like an engineer, not just a coder

What You Get

Real ownership (not ticket-pushing)
A seat at technical decision-making tables
Opportunity to grow into Lead / Architect roles
Competitive compensation
A serious engineering environment (no mediocrity tolerated)