About Smart Working

At Smart Working, we believe your job should not only look right on paper but also feel right every day. This isn’t just another remote opportunity - it’s about finding where you truly belong, no matter where you are. From day one, you’re welcomed into a genuine community that values your growth and well-being.

Our mission is simple: to break down geographic barriers and connect skilled professionals with outstanding global teams and products for full-time, long-term roles. We help you discover meaningful work with teams that invest in your success, where you’re empowered to grow personally and professionally.

Join one of the highest-rated workplaces on Glassdoor and experience what it means to thrive in a truly remote-first world.

About the role

Build reliable applications that scale. At Smart Working, we’re looking for a PHP Developer to join our growing engineering team. In this role, you’ll work with Laravel, Eloquent, and DTOs to deliver maintainable features, integrate APIs, and contribute to quality-first development practices. You’ll collaborate with peers, write clean and tested code, and help us scale services that power global products.

• Deliver production-ready features using PHP, Laravel, Eloquent, and DTO-based designs
• Implement and test RESTful APIs and integrations (including Auth0)
• Write and maintain unit tests, improving overall test coverage
• Contribute to code quality and observability (SonarLint/SonarQube, Datadog logging/metrics)
• Collaborate across teams, sharing knowledge and ensuring alignment with standards
  
  

• 3+ years of experience with PHP and Laravel, developing production-grade web applications
• 2+ years working with Eloquent ORM and DTOs, structuring and managing data across application layers
• Hands-on experience with unit testing (PHPUnit), writing and maintaining reliable test suites
• Proficient in RESTful APIs and integration patterns, including authentication (Auth0) and distributed workflows
• Hands-on with code quality and observability tools, such as SonarLint, SonarQube, or Datadog
  

• AWS cloud exposure (EC2, S3, Lambda)
• Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) and deployment tools (Octopus Deploy)
• Experience with distributed integration patterns such as Saga
  

• You’ll deepen your expertise in Laravel, API integrations, and quality-first coding practices while collaborating with a large technical team (100+ engineers). Expect to grow through mentorship, structured feedback, and exposure to modern DevOps and cloud practices
  

At Smart Working, you’ll never be just another remote hire.

Be a Smart Worker - valued, empowered, and part of a culture that celebrates integrity, excellence, and ambition.

If that sounds like your kind of place, we’d love to hear your story.