Full Stack Engineer (Team lead), Web team

We’re looking for a Full Stack Engineer with a leaning towards the backend who can bring world-class architecture, taste, and engineering excellence to our website and ecosystem.

We find purpose in enabling others to build things that improve their lives. We make software development enjoyable, batteries-included, and productive. We unlock developers, start-ups, and enterprises to confidently ship and scale amazing applications at a velocity they didn’t think was possible.

This role is for someone who thinks in data models, system design, and elegant API architecture, yet possesses the holistic view to own the entire feature lifecycle from database to polished UI. This is a chance to work with one of the world’s most popular open-source leaders on our main website, while also contributing broadly to our full suite of products.

If you succeed in this role, you will be viewed as a key engineering talent and a vital 'taste setter' for backend development. Specifically, you will have:

• Pivotal Enhancements: Led the small but mighty web dev team in the delivery of many new Laravel.com experiences, that deliver significant improvements in converting traffic into revenue.
• Content Excellence: Built upon and substantially improved the management and maintainability of content- and copy-heavy aspects of our web and marketing efforts.
• Cross-Product Impact: Branched out from the web team to act as a key, senior contributor across our various products and engineering teams.
• Leadership & Collaboration: Hit the ground running with the Marketing team, embedding yourself as a critical partner (feeling just as much a part of Marketing as Engineering), and provided clear, low-touch leadership and reporting to the Engineering head.

• Own the Backend & System Architecture for our website: Architect and implement the core Laravel backend, focusing on robust data models, API design, security, and scalability to support our slick design and overall traffic conversion efforts.
• Full Stack Feature Delivery: Take backend-leaning full stack features from idea to production, owning the entire stack from database schema and API endpoints (Laravel/PHP) through to the integration layer and light front-end components (Next.js/React).
• Conversion & Marketing Systems: Partner closely with Marketing to build and continuously improve the systems that drive business growth—optimizing for speed, conversion, and seamless content management.
• Integration and Contribution: Act as a critical resource, contributing your expertise across the full Laravel product portfolio, applying deep backend knowledge to solve complex system problems.
• Technical Taste Setter: Serve as a go-to expert for backend development questions, contributing to technical discovery, setting implementation standards, and driving the long-term technical vision.
• Elevate the Team: Mentor engineers across both full-stack and specialized teams, raising the bar for architectural quality, code maintainability, and security practices.
• Pragmatic Problem Solver: Ask critical product and UX questions, ensuring solutions are elegant, scalable, and genuinely solve the user's or business's need.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience building production-scale web applications, with a clear focus and deep expertise in Laravel, PHP, and modern backend architecture.
• Full Stack Fluency: Significant experience shaping the integration layer between a PHP backend and a modern JavaScript front-end (ideally Next.js/React), including building clean, resilient APIs (REST/GraphQL).
• Systems Thinking: Demonstrated experience in designing scalable component models, data-loading strategies, and API architectures that scale elegantly under high traffic.
• Business & Product Focus: Experience delivering features that directly impact key business metrics (e.g., conversion, revenue) and a keen interest in the