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Bright People, Brighter Ideas

We’re on a mission to make our clients’ programs better, their jobs easier, and make them look good. We want to be a bright spot for our individual customers and make their incentive or event the bright spot for their company.

At Brightspot Incentives & Events, we are people people with a dedication to building unforgettable programs and events. Here you’ll find a passion for creativity and fanatical customer service. We combine exceptional execution, custom web development, industry-leading creative services, and award-winning incentive designs to drive motivation and real results.

Open Positions

Laravel / PHP Web Developer

Based in beautiful Irving, TX, we are an Incentive Services company that provides marketing management to enterprise-level clients. Due to growth and demand for our services, we are looking for a Web Developer that possesses strong experience with Laravel, PHP and MySQL.

The ideal PHP Developer is self-motivated, creative, and excited about developing solid solutions for our marketing automation platform. The PHP Developer will collaborate with internal program managers to translate complex business initiatives into innovative solutions. Must have a can-do-attitude, with the ability to energize and work with cross-functional teams is required. Our organization works with Fortune 1000 clients to design, develop, and support web applications for marketing promotions and global incentive programs.  The individual selected for this position will be challenged to drive a high level of service excellence both internally and externally.

The Perfect Hire

  • Enjoys being involved in all phases of the software development lifecycle.
  • Loves working in a fast-paced agency environment.
  • Has strong communication skills.
  • Works equally as well by themselves as they do with a team.
  • Approaches software development as an entrepreneur as well as an engineer.

Responsibilities

  • Develop and maintain new features across multiple subsystems utilizing our Ignite platform.
  • Produce stable solutions and ensure that all code is well documented, with automated tests.
  • Collaborate with development team members to ensure the implementation and regular reinforcement of best practices.

Qualifications

Required

  • 5+ years of PHP web development experience writing OO code that is scalable, performant, and secure.
  • 3+ years of professional experience with Laravel.
  • 3+ years of experience with MySQL or similar relational databases.
  • Knowledge of reactive JavaScript frameworks, preferably Alpine.js.
  • Source code management, preferably Bitbucket or Git.
  • Experience with application architecture and SOLID principles.
  • Experience with consuming RESTful APIs.
  • Experience creating functional and unit test cases.
  • Must be authorized to work in the United States.

Desired

  • Experience with the Laravel ecosystem (Homestead, Forge, Envoyer, Horizon etc.) and packages. (Mix, Dusk, Echo, Scout, Passport, Socialite etc.)
  • Experience with queues/workers in a distributed workload system. Supervisor and Redis preferred.
  • HTML, CSS (LESS, SASS), Bootstrap, jQuery, Gulp/Grunt/Webpack, AWS, Redis.
  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field.

Reports to: Director of Information Technology

You bring to the table:

  • Play well with others
  • High energy and focus with a passion for learning and growing your craft
  • Strong work ethic
  • Team and individual accountability
  • Good problem-solving skills

We bring to the table:

  • Friendly family culture
  • Competitive salary
  • Fulltime position with good benefits package
  • PTO
  • Remote work days
  • Work/Life balance
  • Casual dress environment
  • Endless development and growth opportunities

General Application

"Best Places" to work

Meetings & Conventions (M&C) Magazine named our company one of the best places to work in the meetings industry. We believe M&C correctly captured our fun environment, culture, teamwork, and care for each co-worker, which directly impacts the creativity, flexibility, and commitment we deliver to each client.

CONTINUING EDUCATION & DEVELOPMENT

We make a big commitment to staff development with a robust CE&D program, unlike any other in our industry. Subject matter experts drive trainings in each focus area in addition to keeping the team abreast of trends and best practice learnings. With monthly collaborative thinkstorms termed “11:11” meetings, bi-weekly trainings from internal and external speakers, a dedication to achieving industry certifications and more, our team earns over 1,600 CE hours each year!