PHP Laravel Architect

Title: PHP Laravel Architect Location: St. Louis, MO onsite 2 days weekly. Salary: $110-120K + Bonus + ESOP + 401k No sponsorship As a PHP Architect, you will personally make an impact by: Leading the establishment of an IT Architecture practice, and the adoption of an architecture and standards methodology Developing coding best practices, playbooks, frameworks and solutions for our customers and internal team Working with our team to create great products for our customers Writing clean, maintainable and performance code Outlining architectural best practices for our platform Optimizing applications for maximum speed and scalability Helping to drive, document and continually refine platform standards Helping to drive new tech research and experimentation Collaborating with other team members and stakeholders Qualifications Minimum of five (5) years of WordPress development experience Minimum of five (5) years writing PHP Experience with at least one PHP framework like Symphony, Laravel, CodeIgniter or an understanding of PHP-open source projects like WordPress, Joomla or Drupal Experience leading IT Architecture decisions Knowledge working with common third-party APIs Knowledge and experience with W3 Standards and cross-browser compatibility Experience with source control such as Git or Mercurial Experience in guiding and mentoring junior developers Flexibility in a fast-paced dynamic environment with shifting roles and responsibilities Technically creative and open-minded Experience working at a digital agency Ability to solve complex performance problems and architectural challenges Great communication and problem-solving skills Comfortable working on PC platform Detail oriented and focus on quality assurance of work Online portfolio or personal website with samples of relevant work a plus