# Senior PHP Full-Stack Developer

About the Role Our client is a well-established US-based B2B SaaS company providing software that supports the day-to-day operations of schools, including enrollment, records, communication, billing, and compliance reporting. You'll join a small, senior engineering team and play a key role in improving and evolving a mature platform used by thousands of people every school day. This is a role for an engineer who enjoys ownership, solving real technical problems, and making meaningful improvements to an existing product. You'll have a direct influence on what gets built and shipped, without layers of bureaucracy between your work and its impact. What You'll Be Working On You'll work across the backend and frontend, with a strong focus on PHP and system improvements: Stabilize and extend a large PHP 8.4 codebase following a major version migration Rebuild and improve a payment processor integration Develop automated recurring billing Modernize the UI using Tailwind and Flowbite Work occasionally on a secondary Ruby on Rails service Introduce automated testing and make incremental improvements to code quality Investigate performance issues and optimize MySQL queries and indexing Use

- **Id**: 4144668
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/theleap-senior-php-full-stack-developer>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-12T06:36:55Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-12
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-12T06:36:55Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3658
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no

## Company

- **Id**: 4537303
- **Name**: TheLeap
- **Domain**: theleap.careers
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/theleap-careers>
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Manatal

## Technologies

- **Flowbite** — Optional: no
- **Laravel** — Optional: no
- **MySQL** — Optional: no
- **PHP** — Optional: no
- **Ruby on Rails** — Optional: no
- **Symfony** — Optional: no
- **Tailwind CSS** — Optional: no
- **Vue.js** — Optional: no
- **JavaScript** — Optional: yes
- **PHP-FPM** — Optional: yes
- **Ruby** — Optional: yes
- **Stripe** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Languages

- Language: English; Level: All levels; Optional: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-12T06:36:55Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 30
- **Reasons**: conf:1, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T07:41:30Z

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