About Gray Media:
Gray Media, or Gray, is a multimedia company headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, formally known as Gray Television, Inc. The company is the nation's largest owner of top-rated local television stations and digital assets serving 113 television markets that collectively reach approximately 36 percent of US television households. The portfolio includes 77 markets with the top-rated television station and 100 markets with the first and/or second-highest-rated television station, as well as the largest Telemundo Affiliate group with 45 markets totaling nearly 1.5 million Hispanic TV Households. The company also owns Gray Digital Media, a full-service digital agency offering national and local clients digital marketing strategies with the most advanced digital products and services. Gray's additional media properties include video production companies Raycom Sports, Tupelo Media Group, and PowerNation Studios, and studio production facilities Assembly Atlanta and Third Rail Studios.
We understand that life needs balance. That is why we offer our employees and eligible family members a comprehensive benefits package, including:
- Comprehensive Medical(Rx), Dental, and Vision Coverage
- Health Savings Account with Company contributions
- Flexible Spending Account
- Employer-paid life and disability benefits
- Paid parental leave benefits
- Adoption and Surrogacy Benefits
- 401(k) Plan, including matching and profit-sharing contributions
- Employee Assistance Program
- Voluntary benefits, including Hospital Indemnity, Critical Illness, Accident Insurance, and supplemental life insurance coverage
- Paid Time Off, including Relocation PTO
- Focus on Caring
Salary/Wage:
$85,000 - $100,000/yr.
Shift and Schedule:
Mon. - Fri. (or at Manager's Discretion)
Job Type:
Full-Time
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Job Summary/Description:
Job Summary/Description: Gray Media is looking for a Senior PHP / Laravel Developer with strong experience building and maintaining modern web applications, with a particular focus on sales and revenue-supporting applications. This role will work alongside the Gray Digital Development team to design, build, and evolve internal tools and integrations that support sales operations, data workflows, and business intelligence. This position is remote.
Duties/Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable applications using PHP (8+) and the Laravel framework
- Lead and contribute to the modernization of legacy PHP applications into Laravel-based solutions
- Build and maintain internal APIs and integrations with third-party platforms
- Design, optimize, and maintain MySQL databases on a per-application basis
- Develop front-end forms and interfaces using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript (TALL Stack)
- Collaborate closely with product owners, project managers, and stakeholders to translate business and sales requirements into technical solutions
- Provide technical leadership through code reviews, architectural input, and mentoring of other developers
- Troubleshoot, debug, and resolve complex application issues
- Collaborate with other developers on multi-developer and cross-team projects
- Write unit and integration tests to help avoid regressions and validate functionality
Qualifications/Requirements:
- 4+ years of professional experience working with PHP
- 4+ years of experience working with the Laravel framework
- Strong experience with relational databases such as MySQL
- Proficient in parsing and serializing JSON data
- Experience building and consuming RESTful APIs
- Proficient in using git and GitHub
- Solid understanding of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
- Ability to work independently while also contributing effectively to a collaborative team environment
Preferred Experience:
- Experience building or supporting sales, advertising, or revenue-focused applications
- Hands-on experience working with external platforms such as Salesforce, Snowflake, and The Trade Desk to support application workflows, data exchange, and reporting
- Experience with Laravel, Livewire, Alpine.js, and Tailwind (TALL Stack)
- Experience integrating AI-powered services or APIs to support automation, data enrichment, analysis, or internal tooling
- Experience using AWS services such as CDK, S3, EC2, and RDS
- Familiarity with Docker or similar containerization tools
- Experience with CI/CD pipeline configuration and maintenance (GitHub actions)
If you feel you’re qualified and want to work with a great group of people, go to https://gray.tv/careers#currentopenings, you may type in the job title, station call letters, or click on "apply now", upload your resume, cover letter, and references
(Current employees who are interested in this position can apply through the Gray-TV UltiPro self-service portal)
GDM-TV/Gray Media is a drug-free company
Additional Info:
Gray Media provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, Gray Media complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.
Gray Media expressly prohibits any form of workplace harassment based on race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, or veteran status. Improper interference with the ability of Gray’s employees to perform their job duties may result in discipline up to and including discharge.
