Real Estate Platform Backend
Leader Realty — West Palm Beach, FL
Backend services for a real estate platform, focused on speed under peak traffic, safe releases and new revenue streams.
- Delivered performance optimizations across core Laravel services, including queue-based job processing and Eloquent query tuning, significantly cutting average page load times under peak traffic and improving retention and SEO rankings.
- Engineered an automated MySQL migration and versioning pipeline that eliminated deployment-related downtime risk and kept schemas consistent across environments.
- Built Stripe and Apple Pay integrations from the ground up, opening new revenue streams.
- Implemented Google and Apple social authentication, reducing sign-up friction and increasing conversion.
- Integrated a third-party real estate data provider through its REST API, powering the platform's core value with live, always-current property listings.