Senior Laravel Engineer

Work Mode: 100% Remote (United States)

Estimated Salary: 120-150k

Exact compensation may vary based on several factors, including skills, experience level, and education. Benefit packages for this role may include healthcare insurance offerings and paid leave as provided by applicable law.

Required Qualifications

• 4-5+ years of professional Laravel Development experience
• 2+ years of professional experience working with Next.JS
• 4+ years of experience with message, email queues, and/or SMS queues – inbound and outbound experience with messages that need processing and scaling up queues
• 3+ years of queuing experience with Laravel Horizon preferred; Amazon SQS, Redis Queue
• Professional experience working as a developer on a CRM or a Sales Workflow Systems: Salesforce, Microsoft D365 Sales, Oracle Sales Cloud, Hubspot, Zoho, Pipedrive, Monday, Zendesk Sell, Close CRM, Salesflare, Freshsales, Keap, Apptivo, Active Campaign, Salesloft, Outreach, Twilio, Intercom, Zapier or similar; understanding of lead lifecycle, pipelines and opportunities, and sales engagement logic
• Experience with integrations, APIs, and Webhooks
• Eagerness to work at a startup with opportunity to grow, take ownership, but has flexibility from a working hours landscape

Plusses

• Professional Python development experience
• Deep understanding of the Sales Lifecycle
• Start-up experience
• Experience building SaaS products
• Experience building email automation platforms
• Experience with AI powered applications and LLM integrations

Overview

This is a high-impact, 100% remote direct hire opportunity for a Sr. Laravel Engineer. We’re looking for someone with experience developing sales CRM or sales workflow systems, with a strong background in asynchronous processing and queuing. Expertise with Laravel Horizon for managing email, SMS, and message queues is critical. You’ll also work with Laravel, Next.js, APIs, and webhooks, and any exposure to Python or AI is a plus.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design and build core backend systems that power the sales automation platform
• Develop scalable functionality using PHP/Laravel, with a focus on high-volume asynchronous workflows
• Manage background jobs, queues, and event-driven processes supporting email and SMS automation
• Integrate with external systems such as Salesforce and HubSpot via APIs and webhooks
• Architect systems to handle heavy load, including queue strategies, retries, and failure handling
• Partner with technical leadership to improve performance, reduce bottlenecks, and evolve overall architecture
• Contribute to engineering standards and help guide technical decisions across the team