Backend Engineer (Laravel) – SaaS Platform

📍 Utrecht (hybrid, around 2 days onsite)

💰 Competitive salary up to €100.000

🚫 No visa sponsorship

🇳🇱 Must live in the Netherlands

At ReduCate, we are consolidating multiple SaaS products into one scalable platform used across Europe.

We are looking for a Backend Engineer with strong Laravel experience who enjoys working in a growing product environment where architecture, scalability and code quality actually matter.

This is not a ticket-driven role. You work on a large Laravel codebase that evolves continuously as new brands and products are onboarded.

What you’ll do

• Build and improve backend features in a Laravel-based SaaS platform
• Work on a growing monolith that supports multiple tenants and products
• Improve performance, reliability and maintainability
• Collaborate closely with Product, QA and other engineers
• Contribute to predictable releases and platform stability
• Support ongoing onboarding of new brands and applications

Tech & environment

• Laravel / PHP 8
• MySQL, Redis, queues and events
• PHPUnit, Pest, Playwright
• SaaS, multi-tenant context
• Increasing use of AI tools in development and testing workflows

What we’re looking for

• Solid experience as a backend or Laravel engineer
• Comfortable working in a larger, evolving codebase
• Understanding of clean code, maintainable architecture and APIs
• Experience with SaaS or platform environments is a plus
• Fluent in English (Dutch is a plus)
• Based in the Netherlands and open to hybrid work

What we offer

• Salary up to €100.000
• Pension scheme
• 26 vacation days
• Hybrid setup (around 2 days per week in Utrecht)
• Direct collaboration with experienced engineering and product leaders
• A central role in scaling a fast-growing European SaaS platform

👉 Interested?

Apply via LinkedIn or reach out directly: [email protected]

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