Senior Fullstack Engineer - PHP/Laravel/ 1 week ago
Quick Summary
About UJV
Who Are We?
Planning and managing a 5-star vacation from scratch demands expertise, ingenuity, and a genuine passion for detail. This is the essence of UJV. UJV is a service-driven team of experts working behind the scenes, engineering luxury travel experiences for advisors globally. Our mission is to empower advisors to grow their businesses and fully satisfy their exclusive clients.
We serve as the luxury travel advisor's essential partner:
- UJV is a team of travel experts advising and supporting luxury travel advisors worldwide.
- We collaborate behind the scenes as allies to top luxury travel advisors, ensuring a 5-star experience for their clients.
- We provide travel advisors with the knowledge and tools necessary to expand their business and better serve their exclusive clientele.
- Our service is experience-centered, built on passion, expertise, integrity, and meticulous attention to detail.
- We are committed to doing the hard work to ensure our clients' success.
Role Mission
We are seeking a skilled Full Stack Engineer with a strong background in travel tech, specifically in online booking engines, group travel, and eCommerce. In this role, you will optimize critical systems for UJV, including CRM systems, pipeline management, and Book of Business Management, to enhance operational efficiency and client experiences. You will be responsible for building scalable applications using a tech stack that includes PHP, Laravel, MySQL, and modern JavaScript frameworks, within an agile, fast-paced environment focused on daily deployments, usability, and performance.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain features across the full stack, including React/Next.js, NestJS middleware, and PHP Laravel services (Admin, Payments, SSO, Product Vault).
- Contribute to the migration of the legacy Node.js API Gateway (AWS Lambda) to the new NestJS-based platform, incorporating Redis and message queues.
- Define and implement scalable architecture patterns for both backend services and frontend components.
- Integrate and leverage AI-powered tools (GitHub Copilot, Claude, Cursor) to accelerate development and support internal workflows.
- Collaborate proactively in a remote-first environment, communicating blockers, documenting decisions, and participating in technical discussions.
- Contribute to DevOps practices, including CI/CD pipelines, containerization, and infrastructure as code.
- Apply travel/hospitality domain knowledge to inform product decisions, data models, and integrations.
- Support UX/UI discussions where technical constraints intersect with user experience.
Required Qualifications
- Thrive in a fast-paced environment, managing multiple projects and meeting deadlines.
- 5-7 years of experience in full-stack development, with expertise in travel tech (online booking engines, group travel, eCommerce).
- Passion for building scalable systems that support business operations and deliver reliable user experiences.
- Strong experience developing and maintaining modular PHP Laravel applications, including hands-on experience with Livewire and Filament.
- Experienced in integrating external hotel availability suppliers such as HBSI, Expedia, or similar travel industry APIs.
- Strong knowledge of MySQL, including writing migrations, optimizing query performance, and managing relational databases.
- Comfortable working with Docker-based local development environments and contributing to infrastructure and deployment workflows.
- Experience with AWS services such as ECS, RDS, S3, and deployment pipelines.
- Experienced in designing, building, and maintaining REST APIs.
- Ability to write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code using tools such as Pest and/or PHPUnit to ensure code quality and reliability.
- Confident in diagnosing and resolving production incidents, system failures, and performance issues while minimizing downtime.
- Capable of supporting frontend development work using React and Tailwind CSS.
- Proficient with Git/GitHub, including commits, branches, pull requests, and collaborative development workflows.
- Experience with agile development practices, debugging, testing, and cross-functional collaboration.
- A curious learner who enjoys improving systems, exploring new technologies, and contributing ideas and best practices.
Bonus Skills
- Experience in the travel, hospitality, or hotel booking industry.
- Experience working with third-party supplier integrations and availability systems.
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and automated deployment processes.
- Experience working in high-availability production environments.
Additional Information
LatAm-based candidates are welcome to apply.
Candidates located outside the United States will be engaged under an independent contractor agreement. You will be responsible for managing your own social security and taxes in accordance with the regulations of your home country. Please take this into consideration before applying.