Senior Laravel Developer
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Senior backend developer responsible for building and maintaining the Laravel backend, crafting performant RESTful APIs, processing large data volumes, and collaborating closely with engineering and CX teams to deliver features.
About this role
📣 If Laravel is your tool of choice for building powerful backend systems, we want to meet you! We’re on the lookout for a senior backend developer to join the Trybe team to help us continue to grow the best software in the industry.
🎯 Who is Trybe?
Trybe is a startup that provides modern cloud-based software to clients in the hotel spa and wellness industries. We're on a mission to revolutionise their guest and back-of-house operational experiences. We’re a high performing, energetic team, looking for like-minded, talented individuals who want to embrace the start-up culture and work as a team as we continue to grow and take on new heights. We were founded in 2020 and are proud to list a number of leading spa and leisure operators across the world.
Requirements
⭐️ Who you are
If these points sound like you, we want to hear from you!
- You've got 5 or more years of commercial experience using Laravel.
- You're passionate about technology and you love solving problems.
- You enjoy writing consistent, readable and well tested code.
- You're a self-starter who loves learning and working in a fast-paced environment.
- You're a great communicator who works well in a team.
- We process millions of bookings every year, so you'll have good experience with working with large amounts of data.
- You've got good experience building performant RESTful APIs.
and for bonus points,
- You've got experience using MongoDB with Eloquent.
- You've used Elasticsearch to aggregate data for building reports.
📒 What the role involves
- You'll be working on the Trybe Laravel backend which powers the whole platform. That might be building APIs for our frontend engineers, building integrations to connect Trybe to partners, writing jobs to process large amounts of data, and building internal tooling to streamline operations.
- You'll write tests (we use Pest!) to ensure the highest quality code is shipped.
- You'll be working closely with other members of the engineering team to provide support and guidance.
- The engineering team works closely with the customer experience (CX) team, so you'll collaborate with them to deliver groundbreaking features our clients need to go about their business.
- You'll be involved throughout the product development process and feed your ideas into the features you develop. You'll come up with your own ideas to make sure the feature is the best it can be.
Check out our tech stack here https://stackshare.io/trybe-sofware/trybe-software
Benefits
✨Trybe Benefits
- A competitive salary, £70k - £90k
- The opportunity to have a big impact in a small team.
- A shiny new Apple MacBook Pro.
- Vitality private health insurance (including dental, optical and hearing).
- Central London office right near Holborn station, with coffee machines to fix up your morning brew, regular events and popups, cake Wednesdays and drinks on Thursdays.
- We have 3 fluffy colleagues, Sooty, Hugo and Pax 🐶
- Weekly team lunch.
- Quarterly socials.
- Hybrid working: Monday-Wednesday in the office, Thursday and Friday remote.
- 26 days annual leave plus bank holidays.
Skills
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