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Laravel · 1 month ago

Full Stack Engineer (Team lead), Web team

United States

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

8+ years exp

Laravel is looking for a Full Stack Engineer with a focus on backend development to enhance their website and ecosystem. The role involves owning the backend architecture, delivering full stack features, and collaborating with marketing to drive business growth.

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Responsibilities

Own the Backend & System Architecture for our website: Architect and implement the core Laravel backend, focusing on robust data models, API design, security, and scalability to support our slick design and overall traffic conversion efforts

Full Stack Feature Delivery: Take backend-leaning full stack features from idea to production, owning the entire stack from database schema and API endpoints (Laravel/PHP) through to the integration layer and light front-end components (Next.js/React)

Conversion & Marketing Systems: Partner closely with Marketing to build and continuously improve the systems that drive business growth—optimizing for speed, conversion, and seamless content management

Integration and Contribution: Act as a critical resource, contributing your expertise across the full Laravel product portfolio, applying deep backend knowledge to solve complex system problems

Technical Taste Setter: Serve as a go-to expert for backend development questions, contributing to technical discovery, setting implementation standards, and driving the long-term technical vision

Elevate the Team: Mentor engineers across both full-stack and specialized teams, raising the bar for architectural quality, code maintainability, and security practices

Pragmatic Problem Solver: Ask critical product and UX questions, ensuring solutions are elegant, scalable, and genuinely solve the user's or business's need

Qualification

LaravelPHPAPI designNext.jsReactSystems ThinkingBusiness FocusCollaborationMentoringProblem Solving

Required

8+ years of experience building production-scale web applications, with a clear focus and deep expertise in Laravel, PHP, and modern backend architecture

Full Stack Fluency: Significant experience shaping the integration layer between a PHP backend and a modern JavaScript front-end (ideally Next.js/React), including building clean, resilient APIs (REST/GraphQL)

Systems Thinking: Demonstrated experience in designing scalable component models, data-loading strategies, and API architectures that scale elegantly under high traffic

Business & Product Focus: Experience delivering features that directly impact key business metrics (e.g., conversion, revenue) and a keen interest in the 'why' behind product decisions

Taste in Architecture: You care deeply about system elegance, data model integrity, performance, and developer experience

Collaboration and Ownership: A proactive mindset, comfortable partnering directly with designers, marketers, and product leaders to define, build, and own projects end-to-end

Bias for Action: A bias toward iteration: prototype fast, refine continuously, and ship without compromising on architectural quality