Senior Laravel Developer

As a Senior Laravel Developer at Mediatech, your primary responsibilities include developing and maintaining robust web applications using Laravel, optimizing backend performance, and ensuring secure, clean code. You will also collaborate with our Information Security research team to build automation tools, analyze cybersecurity data, and contribute significantly to our internal tools’ enhancement with your coding skills.

Candidates for the Senior Laravel Developer role at Mediatech should possess strong experience in Laravel (such as Laravel 12 or Symfony), PHP 8, SQL, and RESTful APIs. Proficiency in front-end technologies like Javascript, Vue.js, and Bootstrap is highly beneficial. Familiarity with security principles in web development is also essential, alongside strong problem-solving skills and excellent collaboration abilities.

In your role as a Senior Laravel Developer at Mediatech, you will play a critical part in advancing cybersecurity efforts by building and optimizing tools for the Information Security team. This involves automating complex research processes, analyzing collected data for insights, and collaborating directly with security experts to ensure that our digital applications remain secure and resilient against threats.

A Senior Laravel Developer at Mediatech should be well-versed in backend technologies such as Laravel, PHP 8, SQL, and RESTful APIs. Additionally, familiarity with front-end frameworks and libraries including Javascript, Vue.js, jQuery, and Bootstrap is crucial. Knowledge of cybersecurity principles and best practices will also enhance your contributions to the role.

At Mediatech, the gross salary for a Senior Laravel Developer ranges from 5460 to 6290 EUR per month. This salary may vary based on your skills and specific competencies, and we are open to discussing adjustments to ensure it aligns with your experience.

In your response, highlight your experience with developing features using Laravel's MVC structure, managing migrations and database interactions, and implementing RESTful APIs. Be sure to mention any projects where your use of Laravel significantly improved application performance or security.

Discuss specific strategies such as caching data, optimizing queries, utilizing Laravel's eager loading for relationships, and using job queues. Providing an example where performance improvement was evident will strengthen your answer.

Detail practices such as validating inputs, utilizing Laravel's built-in features to prevent SQL injection, implementing CSRF protection, and keeping user data safe. Mention your proactive stance on staying informed about emerging threats.

Share an experience where you worked closely with a security team, emphasizing how you communicated, addressed security concerns during development, and any resulting changes made to improve the application.

Outline your process of setting up APIs for front-end consumption, using tools like Vue.js or Blade templating, and ensuring the seamless integration of frontend frameworks with the Laravel backend.

Indicate your commitment to ongoing education through online courses, community forums, contribution to open-source projects, and following influential developers or blogs in the PHP and Laravel communities.

Mention tools like Laravel Telescope, Xdebug, and utilizing logging practices with Laravel's built-in logging capabilities. Discuss how these tools have helped you resolve issues more efficiently.

Narrate a specific example illustrating your problem-solving skills, focusing on the challenges faced and how you effectively used Laravel features to arrive at a solution.

Explain your method for prioritizing tasks based on deadlines, project significance, and resource availability, and how you adapt to shifting priorities based on project needs.

Discuss your enjoyment of adaptability, continuous learning, and the collaborative nature of fast-paced environments. Describe how this enhances your ability to contribute effectively to projects.