Experienced PHP / Laravel Developer Needed

Experienced PHP/Laravel developer sought to rescue and enhance an unfinished commerce platform. The assignment involves restructuring and hardening the backend, stabilizing incomplete features, auditing and optimizing the MySQL environment, and improving performance and scalability. Frontend modernization is required to deliver a contemporary, responsive shopping experience with smoother navigation and checkout flow, improved layout, spacing, typography, and mobile usability. Strengthen technical SEO foundations and metadata. Ideal candidate has strong Laravel/PHP skills, proven experience with inherited codebases and commerce projects, MySQL troubleshooting expertise, and a pragmatic independent work style. Budget $3,000–$5,000, timeline 4–8 weeks, remote collaboration.