Sr. Laravel Developer

Twin River is hiring a Senior Laravel Developer for an on-site role in Pontiac, Michigan. This position offers a collaborative culture with real ownership and impact, a competitive salary, and paid time off. You will own production web applications end to end, mentor junior developers, and collaborate with DevOps, product, and security teams.

Benefits

• Paid time off

Location and work environment

• Location: Pontiac, Michigan (onsite)
• Collaborative engineering team with tangible ownership and impact

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain high-performance Laravel applications in production environments
• Architect scalable, maintainable systems using Laravel best practices
• Write clean, testable, well-documented code
• Lead architectural decisions around application structure, service layers, and data flow
• Refactor legacy systems and optimize codebases for performance and scalability
• Design and implement RESTful APIs and GraphQL APIs
• Integrate with third party APIs including OAuth, webhooks, rate-limited endpoints, and signed requests
• Build secure API authentication and authorization mechanisms (JWT, OAuth2, API keys)
• Ensure API reliability, versioning, error handling, and documentation
• Design and maintain relational databases schemas (MySQL / PostgreSQL)
• Create efficient data models, migrations, indexes, and relationships
• Optimize complex queries and improve database performance
• Understand transactional integrity, locking, and concurrency concerns
• Experience with large datasets and production-scale databases
• Assist in or own deployment workflows (CI/CD pipelines)
• Work with Docker, Docker Compose, and containerized environments
• Experience with Linux servers and cloud infrastructure (AWS, DigitalOcean, Azure, etc.)
• Configure and maintain environment-specific application settings
• Understand application monitoring, logging, and alerting
• Collaborate with infrastructure and security teams to ensure uptime and reliability
• Implement secure coding practices and follow OWASP guidelines
• Manage authentication, authorization, and role-based access control
• Secure APIs, user data, and sensitive configuration values
• Participate in security reviews and remediation efforts
• Mentor junior and mid-level developers
• Perform code reviews and enforce coding standards
• Collaborate with product owners, designers, and stakeholders
• Participate in technical planning, estimations, and roadmap discussions
• Take ownership of deliverables and deadlines

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional Laravel development experience
• Strong mastery of PHP 8+ and the Laravel ecosystem
• Proven experience building production-grade APIs
• Deep understanding of MVC architecture
• Advanced experience with MySQL and/or PostgreSQL
• Knowledge of: Eloquent ORM, Queues & background jobs, Events & listeners, Caching (Redis, Memcached), Authentication & authorization
• Experience with Git and collaborative workflows
• Ability to troubleshoot complex production issues
• Strong communication and documentation skills

Technologies

• Laravel
• PHP
• MySQL
• PostgreSQL
• Eloquent ORM
• Redis
• Memcached
• JWT
• OAuth2
• API keys
• Docker
• Docker Compose
• Linux
• AWS
• DigitalOcean
• Azure
• GraphQL
• RESTful APIs
• Git
• Vue.js
• React
• RabbitMQ

Compensation

Salary: USD 50,000 - 90,000 per year

• Competitive salary based on experience
• Performance based growth opportunities
• Opportunity to work on complex, real world systems

What we're looking for

• A senior software engineer with substantial experience rather than a junior or mid-level candidate
• Ability to own end to end systems rather than just handling tasks
• Proven problem solving in production environments
• Meticulous focus on maintainability and long term code quality
• Thrives in fast paced, technically demanding environments

Experience

• Laravel: 5 years (Required)

Ability to commute

• Pontiac, MI 48341 (Required)