Senior Software Engineer (Laravel + React)

Laravel is seeking a Senior Engineer who takes pride in building reliable, well-crafted software. The role involves designing and building full-stack features across the Laravel Cloud platform and collaborating with product and design teams to ensure a technically sound and user-friendly experience.

Responsibilities:

• Design 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

Requirements:

• 5+ 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
• Familiarity 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