Full-Stack Web Developer - Laravel

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 forefront
• Refactor and update legacy code bases where necessary
• Maintain third-party API implementations to account for upstream changes and deprecations
• Self-motivation to bring new ideas to the team and suggest ways to improve user and developer experiences on existing applications
• Willingness to conduct critical maintenance during off-peak hours on rare occasions
• Communicate necessary infrastructure updates or outages with our managed hosting provider

Qualifications and Requirements:

• Minimum 4-6 years of full-stack PHP development, with a heavy focus on the Laravel framework
• Proficient in front-end technologies, including Vue.js (or similar), CSS and HTML
• Proficient in writing raw SQL queries to maximize performance
• Ability to quickly diagnose bugs and performance bottlenecks in production code
• Deep understanding of the Laravel ecosystem, including Eloquent, migrations, queues, middleware, caching (Redis) and supervisor
• Experience consuming and implementing RESTful and SOAP API’s
• Understanding of various authentication methods (OAuth, JWT, etc)
• Experience with software package managers, including NPM and composer
• Experience using git for source control in a team environment
• Understanding of SEO concepts and front-end performance