Senior PHP/Laravel Web Developer - Full Stack (remote)

About ScreenPal

With over 60 million recordings and 30 million published videos, ScreenPal empowers educators, small businesses, enterprises, vloggers, gamers, and creatives to capture and share authentic, engaging video experiences. Our SaaS platform offers both free and premium tiers, delivering fast, reliable screen and webcam recording, editing, hosting, and analytics—all on AWS. We’re a dynamic, privately held company founded in 2006 and headquartered in Seattle, WA.

Role: Senior PHP/Laravel Full Stack Engineer (Remote)

We’re looking for a seasoned, self-driven engineer who treats high-level product goals as a map, not a grid of step-by-step instructions. You’ll partner with program management, the product team, and sometimes key customers to turn broad requirements into production-ready features. Your questions and insights will help refine scope and elevate our entire engineering process. The ability to contribute to a collaborative process is key. Daily standup is 8:00am Pacific Time. Must be available at typical business hours.

What You’ll Do

• Collaborate & Refine: Work directly with program management and cross-functional teams to clarify requirements, suggest improvements, and devise elegant and efficient solutions.
• Architect & Build: Contribute to the overall design process by assisting in paring down business requirements relative to cost, and influencing UI/UX department decisions for optimized MVPs. Then, execute on architecture and build the final product to meet those requirements, or provide the clarity and guidance for a junior developer to execute upon.
• Front-End Excellence: Translate high-fidelity Figma flow charts and designs into responsive UI components using Laravel Livewire and modern HTML/CSS.
• API & Data Design: Implement robust RESTful services in PHP/Laravel with Eloquent ORM, and design efficient MySQL schemas and queries.
• Performance & Automation: Monitor and tune application performance, ensure efficient database queries, write thorough unit tests, and maintain clear code documentation with doc blocks.
  
  

Ownership & Mentorship: Own full lifecycle delivery of features from GitHub ticket to production. Participate in peer code reviews and coach junior engineers on best practices.

Requirements

Must-Have Skills

• 10 years in full stack web development utilizing PHP specifically, with a majority of experience utilizing Laravel, preferably with Livewire.
• Deep expertise in responsive HTML/CSS and cross-browser compatibility.
• Proven experience designing and optimizing MySQL databases and writing complex queries.
• Strong understanding of RESTful API design, versioning, and security.
• Hands-on with AWS (i.e. EC2, S3, RDS) to architect and implement scalable Laravel-based features.
• Familiarity with Git for source control and collaboration. Preferably little experience with revert commits…
• Constant habit of asking clarifying questions and proposing potentially better approaches.
• Demonstrated track record of shipping features independently and mentoring others.
• Fluent command of spoken English to enable clear and effective collaboration in planning meetings and team discussions.
  
  

Nice-to-Have

• Background in video hosting/streaming (HTML5 Video, Video.js, HLS).
• Familiarity with embedding CMS content (e.g., WordPress) into Laravel pages via iframes.
• Experience developing modular Laravel packages and reusable components to build scalable, maintainable features.
• Experience architecting and delivering end-to-end full-stack features at scale, including complex business logic implementation and performance optimization.
  
  

Why You’ll Love Working Here

• Autonomy: We trust you to own your work and contribute ideas from day one.
• Impact: Directly shape the user experience for millions of creators and learners worldwide.
• Growth: Collaborate with smart, supportive teammates and access ongoing learning opportunities.
• Flexibility: Fully remote work.
  
  

Application Process

As part of the application, you’ll be asked to answer a few written questions. These are the first things we review, before your resume or cover letter, so please take them seriously.

• Responses that show clear overuse of AI, or placeholders such as “–”, “.”, or “n/a,” will result in disqualification.
• This role requires 10 years of professional PHP experience. If you have significantly less (e.g., 5 years), we kindly ask that you do not apply.
  
  

Because we are a video company building easy-to-use video tools, we also ask candidates to upload a short video as part of the process. If you do not submit a video, your application will almost certainly be disqualified.

In Your Video, Please

• Introduce yourself.
• Share your screen and walk through code that demonstrates your senior-level expertise.
• Explain how you approach architecture with scalability and performance in mind.
  
  

A webcam overlay is not required, but we do need to see your screen and hear you speak during the walkthrough.

The video can be recorded and hosted for free using our tools at ScreenPal.com. Or you can use our free https://screen-recorder.com/ tool and host it somewhere else. Or you can use a different tool you are already comfortable with.

Benefits

The rate for this remote hire position is ~$30 to ~$50/hour determined by work location and other factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education and training.