About the Role:
We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Laravel Engineer who is passionate about building high-quality, scalable applications while remaining deeply involved in day-to-day coding. In this role, you will focus on hands-on development while contributing to technical design decisions and collaborating closely with product managers and other engineers. While not a full-time architect, you will have the opportunity to influence architecture and technical direction within your projects. If you have deep Laravel expertise, strong backend development skills, and enjoy writing production code while contributing to overall system design, we’d love to connect.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop, maintain, and optimize complex backend features using Laravel, ensuring scalability, performance, and security.
• Collaborate with Product Managers to translate business requirements into actionable technical solutions.
• Provide input into architectural decisions and recommend technical approaches for assigned projects.
• Write clean, efficient, and well-documented code following best practices.
• Conduct code reviews and provide constructive feedback to other developers.
• Implement and maintain comprehensive testing strategies to ensure system reliability.
• Troubleshoot, debug, and resolve technical issues across the application stack.
• Stay current on emerging technologies and contribute to continuous improvement of engineering practices.

Qualifications:

• Experience: 7+ years of professional experience as a PHP Developer, with extensive Laravel experience.
• Backend Expertise: Strong proficiency in PHP, Laravel, MySQL or PostgreSQL, and server-side development.
• Front-End Familiarity: Working knowledge of front-end frameworks like Vue.js, React, or similar.
• API Development: Experience designing, building, and integrating RESTful APIs.
• Deployment: Familiarity with server management, CI/CD pipelines, and deployment strategies (Docker or similar tools).
• Testing: Solid experience with testing frameworks such as PHPUnit or Laravel Dusk.
• Best Practices: Strong understanding of OOP, SOLID principles, security standards, and efficient coding practices.

Bonus Qualifications:

• Exposure to AI and OCR tools (e.g., OpenAI) to enhance product features.
• Familiarity with SaaS multi-tenant architecture and microservices.
• Experience with advanced containerization and deployment strategies (e.g., Kubernetes).

Soft Skills:

• Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
• Ability to make technical decisions within assigned projects.
• Excellent written and verbal communication.
• Comfortable collaborating with cross-functional teams and taking ownership of deliverables.

Location:

• This is a flexible, remote position; however, candidates must currently reside in and be legally authorized to work in the United States. 

Benefits:

• Health & Wellness: Medical, Dental, Vision, STD, LTD/ADD, Life Insurance, HSA/FSA.
• Retirement: Matching 401(k) plan.
• Time Off: Generous time off policy, 11 paid holidays, and office closure during the last week of the year.

About Leasecake:

Leasecake empowers customers to gain clear insights into their real estate portfolios, helping them identify and mitigate location risks. By reducing risk, our customers can focus on their core business, driving greater growth and efficiency. We serve corporations, franchisors, and franchisees within the restaurant and service-retail sectors across North America. As we succeed in this market, we aim to expand our offerings to other industries and regions globally. Leasecake is consistently recognized as a leader in Lease Administration and Lease Accounting.

We hire smart, curious people who smile easily and love to learn. Our team is diverse, high-performing, and self-starting, always seeking to improve value creation for our teams, customers, and investors. If this sounds like you, we’d love to hear from you! Please submit your resume to tastycareers@leasecake.com.

Interview Process:

We value your time and strive to make our interview process transparent. Here’s what to expect:

1. Resume Screening: Our team will review your resume to ensure you meet our qualifications. Successful candidates will move on to the next step.
2. Introductory Call: A call with our People Leader to discuss role expectations, career opportunities at Leasecake, salary, benefits, and company culture.
3. Up to 3 Technical Interviews: Meetings with members of our Technical, Product, and Executive teams.

Throughout the process, we’ll ask questions and actively listen to learn about you. Not all candidates will go through every step, as you or we may determine you aren’t the right fit for Leasecake. If this happens, we will be candid with you so that you can pursue a career at a company that is a better fit for helping you become the best version of yourself.

While we are committed to finding the right person for this role, we are not under a strict timeline to fill the position. Our priority is finding the right match rather than rushing to fill a spot.

Leasecake is an equal opportunity employer. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, or disability status.