Responsibilities: - Problem solve and proactively identify opportunities for improvement - Collaborate with front-end developers and other team members, including code reviews - Understand and contribute to scalable database architecture - Collaborate on refining ideas for new products, features, and improvements - Be a mentor and support internal teams. - Understand and implement security and data protection. - Stay educated about new technologies - Mentor/Guide Engineering Team re: best practices - Effectively communicate - Coordinate tasks with team - Lead functional and architectural decisions for Codebase - Create best practices and standards for Codebase - Set reasonable patterns for team members to follow; Required Skills: - Previous working experience as a Laravel developer for a minimum of 3 years - Experience working with CI platforms like CircleCi or GitHub Actions - Experience with large datasets and high-volume application architecture - Build RESTful endpoints for use by Vue.js SPA and public facing API - Fluency in PHP, SQL, Redis, Laravel - Queues with Laravel Horizon - Experience with other Data storage / Query platforms a plus (Elasticsearch, MongoDB, etc) - OSX/Linux command line - Experience with Git or other VCS - Familiarity with modern IDEs (PHPStorm, VSCode) - Experience writing unit and integration tests in PHPUnit - Knowledge of Service Oriented Architecture patterns - Experience within AWS ecosystem (EC2, Redshift, RDS, Elasticache, Athena, etc)