Laravel Developer — We’re Looking for a Unicorn 🦄

We’re looking to onboard our next engineering unicorn. Not the mythical “knows every framework ever created” kind. We’re looking for a Laravel developer who genuinely understands the ecosystem, knows what happens beyond the controller, and isn’t afraid to get their hands dirty when things become complicated. This is a primarily backend-focused role, but we work heavily with the TALL stack — Tailwind CSS, Alpine.js, Laravel and Livewire — so being comfortable moving across the stack is a major advantage. You’ll help build, expand and maintain our gaming, network, marketing and CRM platforms. These are interconnected systems with real users, real transactions, high-frequency queues, real-time events, external integrations and plenty of business logic. In other words: this isn’t a CRUD factory. Our Stack Laravel sits at the heart of what we build, but the interesting part is everything happening around it. Application Laravel / modern PHPLivewireAlpine.jsTailwind CSSLaravel NovaMySQLREST APIs and external integrations Architecture RedisHigh-frequency and high-volume queuesWorkers and asynchronous processingJobs, events and event-driven workflowsWebSockets and real-time applicationsMultiple interconnected applications, APIs and services Infrastructure Laravel CloudDigitalOcean App PlatformAWSCloudflareCloud servers and distributed workers You won’t be isolated inside a controller and a Blade template. You’ll get exposure to the full journey from request to database, queue, Redis, worker, WebSocket, external services, infrastructure and production monitoring. How We Build We like good tooling, automation and anything that lets engineers spend more time solving interesting problems and less time doing repetitive work. Our engineering workflow includes: GitHub Actions for CI/CD and automated checksCodeRabbit for AI-assisted pull request reviewsSonarQube for code quality and maintainabilityPHPStan and static analysis to catch problems before they reach productionSentry / Laravel Nightwatch for application monitoring and debuggingCloudflare across our edge and security infrastructureAI-powered development workflows integrated directly into Slack AI is already part of how we work. We don’t have an AI strategy deck gathering dust somewhere. We actually use it. We’re not looking for developers who replace their thinking with AI. We want people who know how to use it as another engineering tool to move faster, investigate deeper and ship better software. What You’ll Do Build and maintain Laravel features across several interconnected applications.Design and implement functionality for our CRM, gaming, network and marketing platforms.Work with complex business logic involving multiple models, services, jobs, events and integrations.Design and maintain APIs used by our own applications and external systems.Work with high-frequency queues, asynchronous jobs, caching and Redis.Build and maintain real-time functionality using events and WebSockets.Investigate production issues, regressions and unexpected behaviour across the application and infrastructure.Think about performance, scalability and how changes behave when traffic or workload increases.Occasionally go beyond the application layer when something needs investigating across workers, Redis, queues, servers or infrastructure.Understand existing architecture before introducing changes.Write clean, maintainable code that fits naturally into the wider platform.Participate in two-week sprints within a horizontal development team.Work through our review process: automated checks, AI-assisted review, colleague review and final validation with QA.Collaborate closely with developers, QA and product rather than relying only on the initial task description. The Unicorn We’re Looking For 🦄 You take ownership of a feature from the moment you start understanding the requirement until it is running correctly in production. You don’t consider a task finished simply because the happy path works. You think about edge cases, existing behaviour, related models, background jobs, integrations and what might break somewhere else as a result of your change. When something behaves strangely, you investigate. Maybe it’s the code. Maybe it’s Redis. Maybe a worker stopped behaving. Maybe five million jobs decided today was their day. You’re comfortable digging until you understand why. You communicate early, challenge assumptions when something doesn’t make sense and ask questions instead of blindly implementing the initial ticket description. You want to understand why something is being built, not simply what code needs to be written. Most importantly, you enjoy understanding systems — not just writing code inside them. What We’re Looking For Strong professional experience with Laravel and modern PHPStrong understanding of Laravel architecture and common framework patternsExcellent understanding of Eloquent, relational databases and SQLExperience designing and maintaining APIs and complex backend systemsStrong understanding of queues, jobs, events, caching and RedisExperience with asynchronous and event-driven application architectureAbility to investigate unfamiliar codebases and reason about existing behaviour before changing itGood understanding of application performance and scalabilityAbility to diagnose technical issues independentlyClear communication and a strong sense of ownershipComfortable working within an iterative development, review and QA process Nice to Have Strong experience with the complete TALL stackExperience building applications with Livewire, Alpine.js and Tailwind CSSExperience with Laravel NovaExperience with Vue.js or NuxtExperience with WebSockets and real-time systemsExperience operating high-volume queues and workersExperience with Laravel Cloud, DigitalOcean or AWSExperience with observability and production debuggingExperience with gaming, CRM, marketing, fintech or other complex transactional platformsExperience working with systems where performance, reliability and data consistency actually matter Our Hiring Process We like hiring processes the same way we like our code: clear, efficient and without unnecessary layers. Our process is simple: 1. HR introduction A first conversation to get to know each other, understand your background and make sure there’s a good overall fit. 2. Technical test A practical exercise designed to see how you think, structure your code and approach real Laravel problems. No algorithm gymnastics for the sake of it. 3. Team call Meet the people you’d actually be working with, talk through the technical test, discuss the stack and architecture, and make sure the fit works both ways. That’s it. No seven-round interview marathon. No surprise whiteboard ambush. No quest to retrieve three references from a former manager’s manager. We want enough signal to know we’ve found the right unicorn — without making you complete an epic side quest to join us. 🦄 Remuneration Great engineers should be paid like great engineers. We don’t believe in forcing every developer into the same salary bracket regardless of what they bring to the table. Remuneration is aligned with your actual level, experience and technical impact. If you bring deep Laravel knowledge, strong architectural thinking, production experience and the ability to solve the problems others avoid, we’re prepared to recognise that accordingly. In short: The stronger the unicorn, the better the package. 🦄 We’re looking for someone we can trust with important systems, and we believe compensation should reflect that level of trust and responsibility. One Last Thing We’re not looking for someone who wants to spend their days moving buttons three pixels to the left. We’re looking for someone who genuinely enjoys Laravel, likes solving difficult problems, wants to understand the architecture behind the product and is perfectly happy rolling up their sleeves when the answer isn’t immediately obvious. If you like clean code, messy problems, Redis, queues, real-time systems, AI tooling and occasionally wondering why a worker has suddenly developed a personality of its own… You might be the unicorn we’re looking for. 🦄