Laravel developer job description

About the role
We are hiring a Mid-Level Laravel Engineer to build and maintain product features in a modern PHP application. You will work in a remote engineering team, contribute to planning, and ship well-tested backend work using Laravel, PHP, MySQL or PostgreSQL, Redis, and queues.

What you'll do
- Build Laravel features from scoped requirements through release.
- Write maintainable controllers, Form Requests, policies, jobs, events, and Eloquent queries.
- Add feature and unit tests with Pest or PHPUnit.
- Debug production issues with logs, traces, database queries, and queue tooling.
- Review pull requests and improve code quality with teammates.
- Help maintain CI checks, migrations, seed data, and developer documentation.

What you'll bring
- Professional Laravel experience on production applications.
- Solid PHP skills and comfort with Composer, Git, and SQL.
- Understanding of validation, authorization, queues, caching, and Eloquent performance.
- Ability to communicate clearly in written remote discussions.
- Good judgment about when to ask for help and when to propose a solution.

Nice to have
- Experience with Laravel Horizon, Telescope, Pulse, Reverb, or Octane.
- Familiarity with Docker, GitHub Actions, AWS, or similar platforms.
- Experience integrating payments, notifications, or third-party APIs.

About the role
We are hiring a Senior Laravel Engineer to own complex backend features and improve the reliability, performance, and maintainability of a production Laravel platform. You will work closely with product, design, and engineering leadership to turn ambiguous problems into safe, incremental technical plans.

What you'll do
- Lead design and implementation of high-impact Laravel features.
- Model data, authorization, queues, events, and integrations with long-term maintainability in mind.
- Improve performance using profiling, query analysis, caching, and queue tuning.
- Guide upgrades across Laravel, PHP, and first-party packages.
- Review architecture and pull requests for security, correctness, and operability.
- Mentor mid-level engineers through pairing, design reviews, and practical feedback.
- Help shape deployment, monitoring, incident response, and rollback practices.

What you'll bring
- Deep experience building and operating Laravel applications in production.
- Strong PHP, SQL, Redis, and HTTP API design skills.
- Sound judgment around transactions, idempotency, background jobs, and data integrity.
- Experience diagnosing difficult bugs across application, database, and infrastructure layers.
- Clear written communication and comfort working in a distributed team.

Nice to have
- Experience with modular monoliths, multi-tenant SaaS, billing, or audit-heavy systems.
- Exposure to Horizon, Octane, Pulse, OpenTelemetry, or managed cloud deployment.
- Contributions to internal standards, packages, or engineering playbooks.

About the role
We are hiring a Lead Laravel Engineer to provide technical leadership for a remote product engineering team. This role combines hands-on Laravel development with architecture ownership, delivery planning, mentoring, and cross-functional decision-making. You will help the team ship product work while keeping the platform secure, observable, and adaptable.

What you'll do
- Set technical direction for a Laravel codebase and its supporting services.
- Break large initiatives into milestones, risks, and reviewable implementation plans.
- Lead design discussions covering tenancy, authorization, queues, integrations, data modeling, and performance.
- Establish standards for testing, code review, migrations, incident response, and documentation.
- Coach engineers through pairing, feedback, and pragmatic architecture guidance.
- Partner with product and operations to balance delivery, reliability, and technical debt.
- Stay hands-on with critical code paths, reviews, and production troubleshooting.

What you'll bring
- Extensive Laravel and PHP experience on business-critical applications.
- Proven ability to lead technical decisions without creating unnecessary process.
- Strong knowledge of databases, caching, background processing, security, and observability.
- Experience mentoring engineers and improving team engineering habits.
- Clear communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Nice to have
- Experience leading Laravel upgrades or large refactors.
- Background with SaaS platforms, compliance-sensitive systems, or high-volume APIs.
- Familiarity with AWS, Kubernetes, OpenTelemetry, Laravel Horizon, Pulse, Reverb, or Octane.