We are looking for a senior PHP developer to help grow, improve, and maintain our Dashboard API and Portal applications built in Laravel. This position requires advanced knowledge of PHP and backend development practices, along with ability to think outside the box, creativeness and strong communication skills.
First Arriving is a fast-growing technology and marketing company serving public safety and local government based in Richmond, Virginia with clients across North America.
Roles and Responsibilities
- Design and develop new features and applications, primarily in Laravel
- Work with IAC (Terraform) to modify cloud infrastructure
- Ensure reliability and uptime of backend services
- Peer review pull requests
- Proactively address security concerns.
- Keep packages and frameworks up to date
- Create and maintain third party REST API integrations
- Optimize current solutions for better performance or cost-saving initiatives.
Qualifications
- Computer Science or related field (Software Engineering, Web Development) bachelor's degree or equivalent job experience.
- Highly experienced in PHP and Laravel
- Experience writing, deploying, and maintaining Terraform IaC.
- Familiar with LEMP/LAMP stack.
- Familiar with Linux systems and Docker.
- Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases such as MySQL and MongoDB.
- Proficient at integrating with and building REST APIs.
- Experience with git.
- Well versed in setting up CI/CD pipelines.
- Software test writing experience.
- Experience with project management software, such as Jira.
- Strong time management skills.
Bonus
- QA experience.
- Node.js experience
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: $110,000.00 - $120,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- 401(k) matching
- Dental insurance
- Employee assistance program
- Employee discount
- Flexible schedule
- Flexible spending account
- Health insurance
- Health savings account
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Parental leave
- Professional development assistance
- Retirement plan
- Vision insurance
Schedule:
Work Location: Remote