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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Senior PHP / Laravel Engineer - **Company:** DH & RK Investments LLC - **Location:** Boca Raton, FL, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $75,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** PHP (Programming Language), Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Amazon S3, Cloud Computing, Code Review, Cyber Security, Continuous Integration, Data Integrity, Cursor (Graphical User Interface Elements), DevOps, Github, Identity and Access Management, Key Management, Laravel, MySQL, OAuth, Open Web Application Security, Query Optimization, Systems Integration, WordPress, Zoho Office Suite, Delivery Pipeline, Prompt Engineering, Indexer, Build Management, Api Design, Cloudwatch, Restful APIs, Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), DocuSign, Webhooks - **Published:** May 15, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=f530dda56359ff37 ## About the Role Do you have experience in Technology security practices?, * 7+ years of professional backend engineering experience, with strong recent senior-level Laravel and modern PHP (Laravel 10 or 11, PHP 8.2+) production experience. * Deep MySQL skills: schema design, indexing, query optimization, migrations, and data integrity. * Production AWS experience: ECS or EC2, RDS, Secrets Manager, CloudWatch, IAM, S3, SQS. * Strong API design and integration experience: REST, OAuth 2.0, webhooks, retries, idempotency, rate limiting. * Security-conscious development: PII handling, encryption at rest and in transit, OWASP Top 10, secrets management. Comfortable working in a SOC 2 environment. * Real-world experience using AI coding tools (Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, or similar) to accelerate development, with disciplined validation of every output. We use AI aggressively. We do not ship vibe-coded software. * Strong written communication. You can explain technical decisions to non-technical leadership and document your work clearly. * Self-directed: comfortable owning production systems with limited oversight, asking the right questions, and pushing back when something is wrong. Preferred * Fintech, lending, payments, or banking experience. * Direct experience with Plaid, DocuSign, Zoho CRM, or comparable enterprise SaaS APIs. * OpenAI or Anthropic API experience in production, including prompt engineering and structured output validation. * Experience modernizing legacy applications (PHP 5.x to 8.x, Laravel 5.x to 10 or 11, or similar major-version uplifts). * CI/CD pipeline setup using GitHub Actions, AWS CodePipeline, or equivalent. * Filament, Livewire, Sanctum, or Jetstream production experience. ## Description We are building the in-house engineering team that will own and modernize Lendzi's lending platform end to end. This is a founding-engineer level role, reporting directly to the Director of Technology. You will work on production systems handling real lending decisions for thousands of businesses every month, and you will help architect and build the next-generation platform that replaces our current stack. You will not be one of many engineers maintaining a legacy codebase. You will be one of a small group of senior engineers operating with high leverage, accountable for production systems from day one, and partnering directly with leadership to shape the technology roadmap. What You Will Do Own production Laravel applications. Maintain, improve, and refactor our WordPress and Laravel applications. Triage and resolve issues, ship features, and harden security and reliability across the stack. Integrate with the financial ecosystem. Build and maintain integrations with external lenders and partners' APIs. Design clean, observable, repeatable abstractions for the integrations we will keep adding. Lead the AWS migration. Help with DevOps and cloud infrastructure setup and management. Architect the platform rebuild. Help design and build a consolidated modern Laravel platform with AI at the center, including merchant, partner, lender, and admin portals. Orchestrate AI agents responsibly. Use agentic coding tools as a force multiplier on every project, with rigorous engineering judgment applied to every line of code that ships. Review, validate, test, and refactor AI-generated output to production-grade standards. Build internal tools and product features that put AI to work for our team and our merchants. Set the engineering bar. Establish code review, testing, security, and deployment standards as we scale the team. 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