I started out writing Laravel backends for ERP and billing systems, where the brief was usually "it's slow and it breaks." That's where I learned the unglamorous half of this job — indexing, caching, queue reliability, and reading someone else's code carefully before changing it.
Today I work fully remote with a distributed European product team, building the front end of a multi-tenant CRM/ERP platform with 30+ modules. I own a module end-to-end, and everything I merge goes through review under a zero-warning lint policy.
Remote work is the whole job for me, not a perk — written updates, small reviewable commits, and a staging URL you can check any time. Alongside that I take freelance projects through Fiverr, Upwork and Freelancer, and maintain a PHP micro-framework on Packagist.