Laravel Engineer, 4-Month Contract
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Who We Are
Planet Argon provides dependable support and maintenance of existing web applications for multiple clients in a variety of industries. We take care of new feature requests, bug fixes, and performance improvements.
What We Need
We are currently looking for an experienced Laravel Engineer that can provide 20-30 hours per week of development support for two high-profile clients:
The Project Timeline
We hope to select this contractor by May 2nd, 2025. The following is a rough timeline of the rest of the project engagement:
We're looking for contractors that embody our core values:
Requirements
As our Contract Laravel Engineer, you will work through our client's backlog of bugs, feature requests, and technical debt.
Your responsibilities will include:
The ideal contractor is comfortable working remotely within 1-2 hours of EST timezone. South and Latin American contractors are highly encouraged to apply.
This is a remote, short-term contract position. The ideal candidate will be available for periodic meetings during EST business hours.
Benefits
Our ideal contractor has an hourly rate of $55.00 - $65.00 USD.
We address monthly or bi-weekly invoices within 10 business days.
If you're passionate about maintaining and improving the code base of a high-profile client and working with a team of skilled developers, we'd love to hear from you!
Planet Argon provides dependable support and maintenance of existing web applications for multiple clients in a variety of industries. We take care of new feature requests, bug fixes, and performance improvements.
What We Need
We are currently looking for an experienced Laravel Engineer that can provide 20-30 hours per week of development support for two high-profile clients:
- Client 1: a powerhouse global brand in the sports retail industry;
- Client 2: an industry leader in self-storage property investments
The Project Timeline
We hope to select this contractor by May 2nd, 2025. The following is a rough timeline of the rest of the project engagement:
- May: Project onboarding and initial tasks (:20 hours/week)
- June: Near full-time project contribution (:20-25 hrs/week)
- July - August: Full-time project contribution (:30-35 hrs/week)
- September: Contract reevaluation
We're looking for contractors that embody our core values:
- PROACTIVE - We actively seek opportunities to improve our client's products, our processes, and our abilities
- CURIOUS - A natural curiosity for the undiscovered results in remarkable work for our clients - and stronger connections for our team. We ask questions, learn, and aren't afraid to fail
- DEPENDABLE - We are invested in our work. We manage expectations. We support our clients and teammates. We hold ourselves, our teammates, and our clients accountable
- VERSATILE - We readily adapt to change and encourage innovation because our team and work are transparent and flexible
- DELIGHTFUL - We choose to set a mindful, positive tone that allows everyone to flourish.
Requirements
As our Contract Laravel Engineer, you will work through our client's backlog of bugs, feature requests, and technical debt.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Update or add functionality to their open-source Laravel CMS
- Update or add functionality to backend APIs to handle complex user interactions
- Estimate and execute software version upgrades for PHP and Laravel
- Implement front-end performance improvements intended to increase the speed and user experience of the site
- Implement SEO best practices to improve the site's search ranking
- Improve the accessibility of the site
- Resolve bugs as they come in from the client
- Work with the project manager and site reliability engineer to resolve outages, security issues, and other incidents in a timely manner
- Laravel and PHP
- React, JavaScript, TypeScript, and Next.js
- CSS and styling frameworks, such as Tailwind
- Terraform, API gateways, Cloudfront, Lambda, and other AWS/serverless infrastructure tools
- GitHub Actions
- Docker
The ideal contractor is comfortable working remotely within 1-2 hours of EST timezone. South and Latin American contractors are highly encouraged to apply.
This is a remote, short-term contract position. The ideal candidate will be available for periodic meetings during EST business hours.
Benefits
Our ideal contractor has an hourly rate of $55.00 - $65.00 USD.
We address monthly or bi-weekly invoices within 10 business days.
If you're passionate about maintaining and improving the code base of a high-profile client and working with a team of skilled developers, we'd love to hear from you!
Post Date
2025-04-18
Job Type
REMOTE
Employment type
Contract
Category
Engineering
Level
Mid-Senior
Country
Brazil
Industry
IT ServicesIT Consulting ,
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