Steel City Collectibles is seeking a talented, self-motivating full-stack Laravel developer to help maintain and implement new features for existing applications already in production. Work with a small team in the fast-paced and ever-changing landscape of the emerging trading card field for one of the most trusted names in the industry. This is a full-time, on-site position located at our McKeesport, PA headquarters.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
Architect, design and implement end-to-end features within existing Laravel applications being used in production with performance, usability and security at the forefrontRefactor and update legacy code bases where necessaryMaintain third-party API implementations to account for upstream changes and deprecationsSelf-motivation to bring new ideas to the team and suggest ways to improve user and developer experiences on existing applicationsWillingness to conduct critical maintenance during off-peak hours on rare occasionsCommunicate necessary infrastructure updates or outages with our managed hosting provider
Qualifications and Requirements:
Minimum 2-4 years of full-stack PHP development, with a heavy focus on the Laravel frameworkProficient in front-end technologies, including Vue.js (or similar), CSS and HTMLProficient in writing raw SQL queries to maximize performanceAbility to quickly diagnose bugs and performance bottlenecks in production codeDeep understanding of the Laravel ecosystem, including Eloquent, migrations, queues, middleware, caching (Redis) and supervisorExperience consuming and implementing RESTful and SOAP API’sUnderstanding of various authentication methods (OAuth, JWT, etc)Experience with software package managers, including NPM and composerExperience using git for source control in a team environmentUnderstanding of SEO concepts and front-end performance
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