The Role
You’ll be the primary developer responsible for our Laravel application and its integration with our WordPress infrastructure.
This is not a typical CRUD app role. You’ll be working across payment gateways, queue-based job processing, external API orchestration, and server-side WordPress management , all in a production environment serving real paying customers.
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What You’ll Own
* Subscription & billing engine : Payment processing (Stripe, regional gateways), renewal logic, retry flows, grace periods, plan switching, and wallet-based transactions.
* Site lifecycle management : Provisioning new WordPress/WooCommerce sites, suspending/activating based on subscription status, domain changes, and site deletion via our internal API.
* Platform Infrastructure sync : Ensuring the Laravel app and the PHP-based mini-api (which manages WordPress sites on AWS) stay in sync reliably.
* Queue & scheduled job reliability : Maintaining and improving background jobs that handle payment retries, renewal reminders, status updates, and cleanup tasks.
* Customer experience improvements : Identifying and fixing friction points in the signup, payment, and site management flows to improve conversion and retention.
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What We’re Looking For
Must Have
* 3+ years with Laravel : You’re comfortable with Eloquent, queues/jobs, scheduled commands, service classes, and event/observer patterns.
* Payment integration experience : You’ve worked with Stripe or similar gateways, handled webhooks, retries, and edge cases around failed/partial payments.
* Debugging complex async flows : You can trace a bug across a scheduled command → queued job → HTTP API call → external server and figure out where it broke.
* PHP proficiency : Strong understanding of PHP 8.x features.
* MySQL/Database skills : Query optimization, understanding of transactions and race conditions.
* API integration : Experience consuming and building REST APIs, handling timeouts, retries, and error states.
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Nice to Have
* WordPress/WooCommerce experience (WP-CLI, plugin development)
* AWS experience (EC2, EFS, S3, or Cloudflare R2)
* Experience with subscription/SaaS billing patterns (dunning, grace periods, plan proration)