Most mornings at our Arera Colony office start the same way: someone's already got chai going, two monitors are lighting up with yesterday's bug reports, and by 10am the whole six-person team is deep into whatever client site needs attention that week. This is the seat we're trying to fill right now — someone who'll spend their days inside Laravel, building and fixing the backend of real websites that real Bhopal businesses depend on to take orders, manage bookings, or run their internal operations.
What you'd actually be doing
Devmixa is a small web design and digital marketing team working out of Arera Colony, and our client list is a mix of local retail brands, a couple of clinics, a logistics firm, and a handful of e-commerce stores that ship across Madhya Pradesh. Whoever takes this role will own the backend side of these projects — writing Eloquent models, wiring up Blade templates, building REST APIs that our frontend and mobile folks consume, and making sure the MySQL database behind each site doesn't fall over during a sale or a sudden traffic spike.
A typical week might involve adding a new payment gateway to a client's booking system on Monday, cleaning up a slow database query on Wednesday, and by Friday you're probably knee-deep in a Livewire component for a dashboard one of our clinic clients asked for last month. It's varied work. You won't be stuck maintaining the same five files for a year — our projects rotate often enough that boredom isn't really a risk here.
Who tends to do well in this seat
We've hired both freshers and people with two to four years behind them for roles like this, and honestly both have worked out well when the fit was right. If you're a fresher, we care more about whether you've actually built something with this PHP framework — even a personal project with Composer-managed packages and a working MVC structure counts for a lot — than whether your resume has the "right" company names on it. If you've got two to four years already, we'll expect you to move faster and need less hand-holding on architecture decisions, and the pay reflects that.
Day to day, you'll be working closely with our two frontend developers and occasionally with the digital marketing side when a client needs a landing page tied into some automation. We're not a huge team, so there's no hiding behind five layers of management — if something breaks, you'll likely be the one who gets the Slack ping, and if you ship something clever, the client (and the rest of us) will know it was you.
Salary and what it depends on
For someone just starting out, we're offering ₹15,000 to ₹22,000 a month to begin with. That's the fresher band, and it moves up as you prove you can own tickets without constant supervision. For developers already carrying two to four years of hands-on experience, the range sits between ₹30,000 and ₹50,000 a month, which works out to roughly ₹3–6 LPA depending on what you bring to the table and how the interview goes. We review pay every year, and raises here have generally tracked how much responsibility someone's picked up rather than just time served.
We won't pretend this is the highest-paying backend opening in the city — bigger product companies in Indore or Pune will often pay more for the same skill set. What we offer instead is faster growth in responsibility, direct client exposure fairly early on, and a workplace where you're not another cog lost in a 200-person engineering org.
The Arera Colony location, and why it matters
Our office sits in Arera Colony, one of the easier parts of Bhopal to commute to whether you're coming from New Market, MP Nagar, or the Habibganj side. Pincode 462016 if you're mapping it. This isn't a sprawling tech park — it's a compact office space, which means fewer formalities and a much shorter distance between "I have an idea" and "let's try it on the staging server." If you've been hunting around Bhopal for backend roles and keep running into companies that want you to relocate to Indore or Pune, this one stays local.
Skills we're actually going to test for
We'll look at how comfortable you are with core PHP and this particular framework's conventions — routing, middleware, service containers, the usual. Eloquent ORM is non-negotiable; you should be able to write relationships and query scopes without copying from a tutorial halfway through the interview. Comfort with MySQL database design, writing clean migrations, and understanding indexes well enough to not tank performance on a growing table matters more than people expect.
- Solid grip on this PHP framework's MVC architecture and routing system
- Eloquent ORM — relationships, scopes, and query optimization
- Blade templating for server-rendered views
- Building and consuming REST APIs
- Working knowledge of MySQL database schema design
- Comfort with Composer for dependency management
- Git for version control — we use it on every project, no exceptions
- Bonus points if you've touched Laravel Livewire for interactive UI without a separate JS framework
- Basic HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, since you'll occasionally need to read frontend code to debug an integration
None of this needs to be perfect on day one. We've trained freshers who came in shaky on Eloquent relationships and had them writing clean queries within a month, because the team here reviews code together rather than just merging and moving on.
How the hiring actually works
We keep this simple on purpose. Send your resume through this listing, and if your background looks like a reasonable match, we'll call you for a short technical conversation — sometimes over the phone first, followed by an in-person round at the Arera Colony office where we'll usually hand you a small, realistic coding problem rather than a whiteboard puzzle designed to trip you up. We've also run walk-in rounds in the past when we're hiring for more than one opening at once, so keep an eye on this listing if that's something you're hoping to attend — we'll mention dates here when one's scheduled.
We try to get back to candidates within a week either way, because we remember what it's like waiting on a response that never comes. If you're invited in, bring whatever you've built, even unfinished side projects — we'd genuinely rather look at fifty lines of your own messy code than a polished portfolio page that someone else templated for you.
Growth beyond this role
People who've joined us in backend-focused positions have generally moved in one of two directions over time: deeper into architecture and performance work as our client projects get more complex, or sideways into full project ownership where you're talking to clients directly instead of just taking tickets from a project lead. Neither path is faster than the other — it comes down to what you're drawn to. We're a small enough shop that there isn't a rigid ladder with five rungs you have to climb in order; if you're good and you want more responsibility, you ask for it and we figure out how to give it to you.
Bhopal's IT scene has been filling in steadily over the last few years, and backend-focused hiring in this city isn't the afterthought it used to be. Businesses here increasingly need real web applications, not just a Wix template, and that's created steady demand for people who can actually build and maintain a backend properly. We'd rather bring someone up through that demand locally than watch another good developer feel like they have to leave Bhopal to find real work.
Location: Arera Colony, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh — 462016
Job type: Full-time, on-site
Experience: Freshers welcome; 2–4 years also considered for the higher pay band
Starting pay: ₹15,000–22,000/month for freshers, ₹30,000–50,000/month for experienced candidates