Full Stack Developer (Laravel, Node.js)

On-site in Gurnee, IL. You must already live within commuting distance.

This role is based in our office at 1800 Nations Drive in Gurnee, Illinois, about four days a week, with flexible work-from-home when you need it. You must already live within commuting distance: Lake County, the north Chicago suburbs or the Kenosha area. All interviews are in person. We cannot consider remote-only applicants, and we do not sponsor visas.

Pay: $75,000 to $100,000 per year, full-time
Benefits: health insurance, 401(k) with company match, paid time off and holidays, company-paid AI development tools and training, flexible schedule

Build the engine behind websites that sell hypercars.

All Auto Network designs, builds and markets websites for exotic, luxury and classic car dealers selling Ferrari, Lamborghini, McLaren, Rolls-Royce, Aston Martin, Rimac, Zenvo and Spyker, and more. We work with hundreds of dealerships, including some of the largest exotic dealer groups in the country.

Clients see the websites. Underneath is a platform we built ourselves:

• inventory feeds that move thousands of vehicles and photos every day and syndicate them to third-party marketplaces
• lead routing into dealer CRMs, including location-aware routing for multi-location dealer groups
• vehicle-acquisition programs that help dealers buy cars directly from the public
• integrations with dozens of automotive vendors
• the internal admin, billing and reporting tools our whole company runs on

On our sites, a vehicle page is never just a page. It’s wired to live inventory data, photos, search rankings, ad campaigns, lead routing and the dealer’s CRM. That’s the system you’ll own.

And there’s always something custom on the bench. Recent examples:

• a specialty auction platform
• an acquisition program expanding from classic cars into exotics, motorcycles and boats
• an outside website moving onto our platform without losing the search rankings it has earned

What makes this role different

We’re not hiring someone to close tickets on one slice of a giant codebase. We want a builder. You’ll design new systems, keep proven ones running, and decide where the platform goes next. Most developers only get to do one of those. Here you’ll do all three.

You’ll own real production systems from start to finish: architect, build, test, ship and support. The people who depend on your work are down the hall in support, accounting, operations and project management. When you ship a tool on Tuesday, you’ll watch someone use it Wednesday morning.

Keep it running. Make it better. Decide what’s next.

Our stack is Laravel and PHP at the core, Node.js services alongside it, React and Next.js for a growing set of tools and front ends, MySQL, and Linux. Some of that PHP has been running dealer sites reliably for years. Running a platform like that well means three things:

• Keep it running. Understand why the existing code works before you change it, and keep it reliable for the people who depend on it every day.
• Make it better. Spot where it’s holding the business back, and fix it in deliberate steps. Don’t rewrite things just to follow a trend, and don’t let anything rot.
• Decide what’s next. Turn what you learn into upgrade plans covering the approach, the tradeoffs, the risks and the rollout. Then present them to leadership and lead the work once they’re approved.

Your voice will shape our architecture. Senior leadership and our systems administrator are your partners on infrastructure and the biggest bets. Bring them a well-reasoned plan and they’ll back you.

What you’ll own

• The design and build of new systems, services and integrations, from first sketch to production
• Our in-house Laravel and PHP applications: admin tools, reports, billing workflows and dealer back offices
• Node.js services and tools, plus front ends built in React, Next.js and whatever framework fits the job best
• Inventory feeds that import, normalize and distribute vehicle data and images over XML, JSON, CSV, FTP/SFTP and APIs
• Lead forms, CRM delivery, spam protection and role-based access
• MySQL schema design, migrations, data quality and query performance
• Production health on Linux: logs, processes, workers and service status
• Safe releases: staging, deployment, monitoring and rollback
• The modernization roadmap: what to upgrade, in what order, and why
• Daily work in Claude Code and Cursor (we pay for them), with every change r…