Quick Summary
Seeking a Senior Software Engineer with 5+ years of experience in Laravel and PHP, coupled with strong React skills, to build full-stack features for the Laravel Cloud platform. This remote-first role involves architecting clean Laravel backends, designing database schemas, developing polished Inertia + React UIs, writing comprehensive Pest tests, and upholding high code quality standards across diverse cloud infrastructure domains.
We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Software Engineer with expertise in Laravel and React to join our team. This role focuses on building reliable, well-crafted software across the entire stack, from robust backend architecture to intuitive user interfaces. You will contribute to Laravel Cloud, a fully-managed PaaS trusted by thousands for deploying and scaling Laravel applications.
Join a small, senior, remote-first team that values code quality and impactful delivery. This position requires deep proficiency in PHP and Laravel, strong backend architectural instincts, and the ability to develop polished Inertia + React interfaces. The optimal location for collaboration is between EU West and US East.
What You'll Do
- Design and build full-stack features for the Laravel Cloud platform, encompassing database schemas, Eloquent models, and Inertia-powered React UIs.
- Architect clean, testable Laravel backends, including Actions, Form Requests, queued jobs, event broadcasting, and multi-tenant API endpoints.
- Work across diverse domains such as applications, environments, deployments, databases, caches, filesystems, networking, DNS zones, and observability.
- Write comprehensive Pest tests for all features, covering happy paths, failure modes, and edge cases, ensuring high standards of code coverage and type safety.
- Contribute polished frontend development using React and Inertia.js for dashboards, resource UIs, real-time data, and complex form flows.
- Uphold engineering standards, including PHPStan/Larastan static analysis, 100% type coverage, Pint/Rector formatting, and ESLint.
- Collaborate effectively with product and design teams to deliver technically sound and user-friendly solutions.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience building production applications with Laravel and PHP, demonstrating deep framework knowledge and strong opinions on backend code structure.
- Solid understanding of Eloquent, query optimization, database design, and preventing N+1 problems at scale.
- Proven experience designing and building reliable background job pipelines, event-driven processes, and queued tasks in Laravel.
- Comfortable building clean RESTful or JSON:API-compliant APIs, addressing authentication, rate limiting, multi-tenancy, and versioning.
- Strong React skills, capable of building interactive, accessible, and performant UIs with hooks, real-time data, and robust component structures.
- Experience with Inertia.js or similar hybrid SPA patterns.
- Proficiency with modern frontend tooling, including Vite and Tailwind CSS.
- A strong testing mindset, naturally utilizing Pest, treating tests as first-class code, and prioritizing coverage and type safety.
- Excellent communication skills, including clear writing, constructive code reviews, and effective collaboration within an async remote team.
Bonus Skills
- Familiarity with cloud infrastructure concepts: DNS, TLS, containers, deployments, or managed databases.
- Experience with real-time web technologies: WebSockets, Laravel Echo, event broadcasting.
- Contributions to open source projects within the Laravel ecosystem.
- Familiarity with PHPStan at a high enforcement level.
Why You'll Love Working Here
- Work on a product that developers and teams rely on daily, offering immediate and significant impact.
- Join a small, senior team characterized by high ownership, strong product vision, and a commitment to avoiding accidental complexity.
- Build with modern, well-maintained tools: PHP 8.4, Laravel 12, React 19, Tailwind CSS v4, ensuring no legacy baggage.
- Enjoy a remote-first environment with flexibility and trust.
- If you are passionate about Laravel, dedicated to well-crafted backends, and eager to build a platform that simplifies PHP application deployment, we encourage you to apply.
Benefits
- Small, tight-knit team where every developer's contribution is valued.
- Fully remote and globally distributed working environment.
- Opportunity to attend Laracon conferences worldwide.
- Comprehensive health care plan (Medical, Dental & Vision).
- Generous paid time off (Vacation, Sick & Public holidays).
- Family leave (Maternity, Paternity).
- Pension plans (as locally applicable).
- Performance-based bonus plan.
- Company equity.