Senior Software Engineer (Laravel + React)

We're looking for a Senior Engineer who takes pride in building reliable, well-crafted software at every layer. From a carefully modeled Eloquent relationship to a UI that makes complex infrastructure feel simple.We make software development enjoyable, batteries-included, and productive. Laravel Cloud is a fully-managed PaaS trusted by thousands of developers and teams to ship and scale Laravel applications in production. You'd be joining a small, senior team that cares as much about how code is written as what it ships.This is a role for someone who is deeply at home in PHP and Laravel, has strong instincts for backend architecture, and can cross the stack to ship a polished Inertia + React interface when the feature calls for it.Location: Between EU West and US East for optimal collaboration with the team.What You'll DoDesign and build full-stack features across the Laravel Cloud platform — from database schema and Eloquent models through to Inertia-powered React UIs.Architect clean, testable Laravel backends: Actions, Form Requests, queued jobs, event broadcasting, and multi-tenant API endpoints.Work across a rich domain: applications, environments, deployments, databases, caches, filesystems, networking, DNS zones and observability.Write comprehensive Pest tests for every feature — happy paths, failure modes, and edge cases — and hold the codebase to a high standard of coverage and type safety.Contribute polished frontend work using React and Inertia.js — dashboards, resource UIs, real-time data, and complex form flows.Uphold engineering standards: PHPStan/Larastan static analysis, 100% type coverage, Pint/Rector formatting, ESLint.Collaborate with product and design to ship work that's both technically sound and feels great to use.Requirements5+ years of experience building production applications with Laravel and PHP — you have deep framework knowledge and strong opinions about how to structure backend code.Solid understanding of Eloquent, query optimization, database design, and preventing N+1 problems at scale.Experience designing and building reliable background job pipelines, event-driven processes, and queued tasks in Laravel.Comfort building clean RESTful or JSON:API-compliant APIs — including auth, rate limiting, multi-tenancy, and versioning concerns.Strong React skills — you can build interactive, accessible, and performant UIs with hooks, real-time data, and solid component structure.Experience with Inertia.js or similar hybrid SPA patterns.Proficiency with modern frontend tooling (Vite, Tailwind CSS).A testing mindset — you reach for Pest naturally, treat tests as first-class code, and care about coverage and type safety.Strong communication skills — you write clearly, give useful code reviews, and collaborate well in an async remote team.Bonus SkillsFamiliarity with cloud infrastructure concepts: DNS, TLS, containers, deployments, or managed databases.Real-time web experience: WebSockets, Laravel Echo, event broadcasting.Contributions to open source in the Laravel ecosystem.Familiarity with PHPStan at a high enforcement level.Why You'll Love Working HereWork on a product developers and teams depend on every day — your work has real and immediate impact.Join a small, senior team with high ownership, strong product taste, and no tolerance for accidental complexity.Build with modern, well-maintained tools: PHP 8.4, Laravel 12, React 19, Tailwind CSS v4 — no legacy baggage.Remote-first with flexibility and trust.If you love Laravel, care about well-crafted backends, and want to help build the platform that makes deploying PHP applications effortless — we'd love to hear from you.Benefits Small tight-knit team where every developer counts Fully remote and globally distributed working environment Option to attend Laracon conferences around the world Health care plan (Medical, Dental & Vision) Paid time off (Vacation, Sick & Public holidays) Family leave (Maternity, Paternity) Pension plans (As locally applicable) Performance based bonus plan Company equity

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