Senior Laravel Developer

Overview

In this role you will own the design and development of scalable backend services within a modern Laravel environment, while shaping frontend components using Blade, Livewire and modern tooling. You collaborate across DevOps, QA and cross-functional teams to improve CI/CD, testing, and deployment practices. You’ll tackle complex architecture challenges, optimise integrations with third-party services, and drive technical debt reduction. This position offers autonomy and the chance to influence the full stack in a containerised, AWS-backed environment.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop backend services in Laravel for scalable, maintainable architectures
• Own service-layer logic and modular solutions to support integrations and business operations
• Evolve queue job handling with improved reliability, traceability and error management
• Collaborate with DevOps and QA to enhance CI/CD, automated testing and deployments
• Maintain and optimise Docker-based environments and multiple queue workers
• Identify and resolve technical debt to achieve production-readiness
• Contribute to system integration with RingCentral, Twilio, AWS and internal APIs
• Maintain code quality through peer reviews and mentoring on best practices across the stack
• Improve frontend tooling and workflows with Livewire, TailwindCSS and Vite
• Stay current with Laravel ecosystem updates and contribute to technical strategy

Key requirements

• Strong commercial PHP 8+ experience and Laravel 10+
• Full-stack capability including Blade templating, Livewire and modern frontend tooling (Vite, TailwindCSS, Node)
• Solid database design and optimisation, preferably MySQL, and Redis for caching/queues
• Experience with Docker and docker-compose in containerised environments
• Hands-on with background jobs and queue-based workflows
• Git proficiency, PRs, and peer reviews
• Good communication and collaboration across disciplines
• Testing and CI practices, ideally PHPUnit
• Ability to work independently on large tasks while contributing to technical direction

• clear communicator
• collaborative
• problem-solving mindset
• Laravel 10
• PHP 8+
• Blade, Livewire

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