Senior PHPLaravel Developer TrueView RMA Platform Modernization (Remote & Freelance)

Logiscenter by Levata is launching a strategic greenfield initiative to modernize our legacy TrueView RMA & Asset Management platform used by thousands of customers to manage assets service tickets and maintenance contracts.

The core objective is to decouple a tightly coupled Magento 2 module and transform it into a standalone scalable API-first application built with modern technologies and engineering best practices.

This is not a maintenance role. You will be designing and building a production-grade system from scratch defining the architecture and technical foundations that will support the platform for years to come.

Tasks

• **Build** the core application using Laravel 11 and PostgreSQL
  - **Design and implement** RESTful APIs serving React frontends
  - **Lead technical decisions** on architecture design patterns and technology choices
  - **Establish best practices** for testing documentation and code quality
  - **Integrate** with external systems (NetSuite SOAP Service Now REST Magento API)
  - **Optimize** database queries and application performance
  - **Collaborate** with product owners QAs and DevOps team

This role offers **significant autonomy and ownership** - youll be a key voice in how we build this platform.

Requirements

**Backend (Must-Have)**:
- **5 years of PHP development** experience (PHP 8.1 required)
- **3 years with Laravel** (version 8 Laravel 11 strongly preferred)
- **Strong understanding of OOP SOLID principles and design patterns**
- **Expert-level SQL skills** (PostgreSQL experience preferred MySQL acceptable)
- **RESTful API design and development**
- **Experience with Eloquent ORM** and database optimization
- **Authentication & Authorization** (OAuth JWT role-based access control)
- **Git version control** and collaborative workflows (pull requests code reviews)
- **Unit and feature testing** (PHPUnit Pest)

**Frontend**:
- **Proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript**
- **Experience with React** (Nice to have not mandatory)
- **API integration** (REST GraphQL)
- **Responsive design** principles
- **Modern CSS** (TailwindCSS or similar utility frameworks)

**Architecture & Patterns Understandings**:
- **Domain-Driven Design (DDD)** fundamentals
- **Repository pattern** and service layer architecture
- **Event-driven architecture** experience
- **CQRS pattern** (bonus not required)
- **Microservices architecture**

Benefits

Youre a great fit if you:

• Love greenfield projects and building systems from scratch
• Care deeply about code quality and elegant solutions
• Understand the business impact of technical decisions
• Work independently and take full ownership
• Embrace testing as a core development practice
• Value documentation and knowledge sharing
• Are comfortable working remotely with minimal supervision

This role may not be a good fit if you:

• Prefer working only on mature or legacy codebases
• Dislike testing
• Require constant direction
• Avoid learning new technologies
• Focus only on your code instead of team outcomes