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 Do • 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. Bonus Skills • 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. Why You'll Love Working Here • Work 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 Originally posted on Himalayas