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Laravel Developer — The Craftsperson Behind the Experience

100% Remote | Full-Time

Why This Role Matters

Somewhere behind every login screen that loads instantly, every checkout flow that feels effortless, every dashboard that surfaces exactly the right data — there's a developer who cared about the details. The Laravel Developer is the craftsperson behind the experience: the person who turns product ideas into working, tested, production-grade software that real people rely on every day.

We chose Laravel deliberately. It rewards developers who value clarity, convention, and craftsmanship. It punishes cleverness for its own sake. If you've ever refactored a controller just because the old one bothered you — even though nobody asked — you already understand why we use it. We want someone who writes code with the next reader in mind, because the next reader might be you, six months from now.

What Your Days Will Look Like

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    Build features end to end — Take a requirement from conversation to migration to deployment. You'll own the full lifecycle: database design, business logic, API layer, and often the Blade or Livewire frontend that wraps it all together.
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    Write code that earns trust — Write tests. Not because someone told you to, but because you've felt the relief of a green test suite after a risky refactor. PHPUnit, Pest — use what fits. The point is confidence.
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    Design APIs that others enjoy using — Build RESTful endpoints that are consistent, well-documented, and predictable. If a frontend developer can integrate your API without asking you a question, you've done it right.
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    Improve what already exists — Not every day is greenfield. Some days you'll optimize a slow Eloquent query, untangle a messy service class, or tighten a security hole. We value this work equally — maybe more — because it takes discipline.
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    Collaborate with care — Work alongside designers, product owners, and other developers. Translate requirements into technical plans. Push back thoughtfully when something doesn't make sense. Be the teammate who makes the room smarter.

Who We're Looking For

You've built real things with Laravel — not just followed a tutorial. You've wrestled with N+1 queries, debugged a queue that mysteriously stopped processing, and shipped features under a deadline without cutting corners that would haunt you later.

  • • Solid, hands-on experience building applications with Laravel and PHP.
  • • Comfortable with relational databases — writing migrations, designing schemas, optimizing queries, and thinking about data integrity.
  • • Familiar with testing in Laravel (PHPUnit or Pest) and genuinely convinced that tested code is better code.
  • • Experienced with Git and comfortable in a pull-request workflow where code review is collaborative, not adversarial.
  • • Working knowledge of at least one frontend layer — Blade, Livewire, Inertia.js, Vue, or React — enough to be a complete contributor, not just a backend silo.

No degree is required. None. Not even preferred. We explicitly value self-taught talent and practical experience. If you learned Laravel by building client projects, launching your own SaaS, contributing to packages, or simply by reading the documentation cover to cover and writing code until it clicked — that path is not just acceptable, it's admired. Show us what you've built. Your work speaks louder than any credential.

The Kind of Person Who Belongs Here

We hire character first. Elegant code matters, but the person writing it matters more.

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    Honesty in all directions — Give honest estimates, even when they're longer than people want to hear. Write honest code reviews — kind but direct. Flag problems early instead of hoping they resolve themselves. We've built a culture where telling the truth is safe, and we need people who will keep it that way.
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    Loyalty and long-term thinking — We're not filling a seat on a three-month contract. We're looking for someone who wants to grow with us — to see features they built evolve, to mentor the next person who joins, to still be here when the codebase they shaped is serving ten times the users. We invest deeply in our people, and we hope you're looking for that kind of commitment.
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    Outcomes over ego — The best solution is usually the simplest one. We admire restraint — choosing a well-named method over a clever abstraction, choosing readability over brevity. The goal is software that works, that lasts, and that your teammates can understand without a decoder ring.

Submit Your Information

To begin our hiring process, we collect some basic contact information to get in touch with you. This initial submission helps us understand your availability and communication preferences before we send you a personalized assessment.

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After we review your submission, qualified candidates will receive an email with a personalized assessment link. We read every submission personally and we're genuinely interested in getting to know you through the assessment process.

How to Apply

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Submit your information using the button above.

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Our team personally reviews every submission.

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Qualified candidates will receive an email with a personalized assessment link.

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Selected candidates proceed to a conversation about the role, the team, and where you want to go.

We're looking for the next craftsperson on our team. If you take pride in code that's clean, tested, and built to last, we'd love to hear from you.

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