Position: Senior Laravel Developer
Company: Global IT Support
Category: PHP
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper
Published: 2023-04-01T00:00:00+03:00

Would you like to join a Dutch company on a short-term project (4-6 months)? This is a fantastic project for a Laravel fan who is capable of building a nice solution. The goal is to modernize a Generic laravel application (monolith). Are you capable of doing that? Let's talk!

**About the client:**
The company is a Dutch e-commerce company. They build and maintain an online platform to connect to airport services across the world and sell these services to airport travelers. The company employs 120+ people and is growing fast, year on year (Y2Y) basis 100+%. They have the financial resources to extend services on the platform and invest in new. They are currently active in 16 countries in the EU, USA and Australia and are growing fast to become the no. 1 platform for air travelers.

**Requirements:**
﻿- At least 5 years of Laravel experience;
- Experience in upgrading PHP and Laravel to the latest version;
﻿﻿- You are a self-starter, able to work independently, and communicate at a high level;
- ﻿﻿Experience to run your own project: set up the structure/steps but also work with issues and problems and reach project goals;
﻿﻿- Experience with modernizing legacy code to diminish errors;
- Able to read and understand old code and the (in) dependencies;
﻿﻿- Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and collaboration with DevOps;
﻿﻿- Proficient in English, able to express your thoughts, listen, and understand others' ideas with CTO's DevOps and colleagues.

**Responsibilities:**
- Helping with cleaning and modernizing two of our Laravel legacy apps;
﻿﻿- Removing unneeded notices, exceptions, and errors to create a clean log;
﻿﻿- Removing unused modules, pages, and dependencies;
﻿﻿- Updating from Laravel version 8 to 10, including dependencies;
﻿﻿- Updating PHP from 7.3 to 8.2;
﻿﻿- Making sure it's ready for its new life in Kubernetes.

**About you:**
You are an experienced Laravel developer working with monolithic Laravel apps and improving old, legacy code is what you like and are good at it. You have the patience to research and solve the issues with error logs. You are familiar with helping CTO's upgrading Laravel or PHP to newer versions. You are experienced in collaborating with DevOps.

**About the engineering team:**
They currently work with a development team of 30+ developers partly remote and partly from the office consisting of 15+ backend developers with Laravel and node.js experience, full stack Laravel / Vue developers.
The frontend team consists of 10+ Vue/Nut developers. Besides the team has 2 QAs and a Product Owner (PO).
The team works according to the scrum cycle and handels building new functionality, extending existing functionality, bug fixing, refactoring and redesigning. Currently, they are replacing part of Laravel code with microservices (node.js). The team is coached by a highly experienced CTO in leading remote tech teams and technically scaling e-commerce platforms.