Senior Full Stack Developer

Overview

We’re looking for a senior, hands-on Full Stack Developer with strong PHP backend experience and solid modern frontend skills.

This person will work on an existing production application spanning PHP, PostgreSQL, TypeScript, Alpine.js, SCSS, and external API integrations. You should be comfortable working across the entire request lifecycle—from browser interactions and server-rendered templates through controllers, services, database models, and third-party APIs.

This is not a role for someone who only builds APIs or only works in React. We need an experienced developer who can understand an existing application, diagnose problems across the stack, make sound technical decisions, and ship production features independently.

You’ll work on business-critical applications that support guided workflows, capture and process data, and integrate with external systems and services.

What You’ll Do

• Build and maintain functionality in an existing PHP application
• Develop new backend functionality using modern PHP and established application patterns
• Debug and resolve production issues across the frontend, backend, database, and external integrations
• Develop and maintain controllers, services, models, console commands, and API integrations
• Work extensively with PostgreSQL, including queries, schema changes, data relationships, and troubleshooting
• Build and improve user-facing workflows using TypeScript, Alpine.js, SCSS, and server-rendered templates
• Translate Figma designs and product requirements into clean, responsive interfaces
• Develop reusable frontend components and interaction patterns
• Integrate with REST APIs and external services
• Work with authentication and authorization flows, including Azure Entra ID / SSO
• Understand existing architecture before introducing new frameworks or abstractions
• Make pragmatic technical decisions that favor maintainability and simplicity
• Collaborate directly with product, engineering, and business stakeholders
• Participate in architecture and product discussions, not just ticket implementation
• Take features from requirements through production deployment

Core Requirements

PHP / Backend — Primary Focus

• Strong professional experience with modern PHP
• Experience building and maintaining production PHP applications
• Strong understanding of object-oriented PHP and modern coding practices
• Experience with a structured PHP framework or application architecture
• Symfony experience is highly desirable
• Laravel experience is also highly relevant
• Experience working with MVC-style controllers, services, models, middleware, and routing
• Strong understanding of REST APIs and external system integrations
• Ability to diagnose and debug unfamiliar backend code independently
• Comfortable working in an existing codebase rather than requiring a greenfield rewrite

Experience with the following is particularly relevant:

• PHP 8.x
• Symfony components
• Laravel / Illuminate components
• Eloquent ORM
• Composer
• Strict typing and typed PHP
• Server-side templating such as Latte, Twig, or Blade

Database

• Strong SQL skills
• Professional experience with PostgreSQL or a comparable relational database
• Ability to:
• Write and troubleshoot queries
• Understand schemas and relationships
• Work with migrations
• Diagnose permissions and data issues
• Understand transactional application workflows
• Experience using an ORM such as Eloquent, Doctrine, or similar

Frontend

Strong working experience with:

• JavaScript and TypeScript
• HTML5
• CSS3 / SCSS
• Responsive design
• Modern layout techniques including Flexbox and Grid
• Reusable UI/component patterns
• API-driven user interfaces

Experience with lightweight JavaScript frameworks is particularly valuable:

• Alpine.js
• Stimulus
• HTMX
• Similar server-rendered / progressively enhanced architectures

React or Vue experience is useful, but the application does not require a React or Vue architecture.

You should be comfortable working effectively within the existing frontend architecture rather than assuming the frontend needs to be rewritten into another framework.

Design & UX

• Ability to translate Figma designs into polished production interfaces
• Strong UI/UX instincts around spacing, typography, forms, navigation, validation, loading states, error handling, and user workflow
• Understanding of responsive design and cross-browser compatibi…