Remote Senior Full Stack Engineer, PHP/Laravel

🌎💻 Fully remote for LATAM!

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❗️ONLY ENGLISH RESUMES WILL BE REVIEWED❗️

About Motum:

Motum focuses on offering specialized recruitment services and creating high-performing international teams for US-based companies. Our mission is to empower ambitious and qualified individuals from all over the world, and connect them with U.S. companies for fully-remote roles that match their skills and aspirations. Ready to join us?

About You:

You’ll be joining a leading global entertainment platform that brings together creatives and professionals. We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer who excels in PHP, Laravel, and full-stack development. You have a talent for modernizing legacy systems and writing scalable, maintainable code. Your passion for technology keeps you up to date with industry trends, and you thrive in collaborative environments.

You’re experienced with databases, API integration, and cloud environments, and your enthusiasm for the entertainment industry’s technological growth makes you an ideal fit for this role.

Responsibilities:

• Refactor and modernize legacy code using modern design principles to create scalable, maintainable and well documented code.
• Maintain existing code as needed through defect correction and refactoring.
• Design and develop new software features and related database functionality.
• Interpret requirements, create technical documents and provide engineer level scope of work for completing objectives.
• Participate in technical design; including data modeling, functional design, test criteria, UX design.
• Maintain coding standards and security best practices.

Projects you will be working on:

• Rewriting legacy CakePHP to PHP Laravel framework and Laravel Nova.
• Refactoring and upgrading a modified Drupal to the latest version.
• Creating embedded video conferencing and tracking for our script services products.
• Assist in migrating and consolidating various 3rd party services to simplify the tech stack.
• Streamline marketing operations by integrating various tools via APIs.
• Creating new subscription products, tuning Shopify headless search and a plethora of product features.

Requirements & Qualifications:

• At least 7 years of experience in software engineering.
• Advanced skill in PHP using the Laravel framework.
• Strong knowledge of software design patterns and best practices.
• Advanced skill in functional testing including unit testing, integration and system testing.
• Fluent in software architecture, software development processes, AGILE methodology and CI/CD processes.
• Advanced skill in SQL or similar database query language
• Advanced skill in OLTP database design including normalization, data modeling, and performance tuning (indexing).
• Fluent using Git and Github for source control.
• Some experience with cloud environments (preferably AWS but Azure and GCP acceptable).

Additional Information:

• 🕘 Working Hours: 9am-5pm PT
• 💼 Full-Time: 40 hours per week, Mon-Fri
• 📑 Type of Contract: Independent contractor

Benefits:

• 🌎 100% remote role!
• 💵 Compensation in USD
• 🏖️ Paid Time Off
• 🇺🇸 Grow along a top US company and shape its future