Some engineers love frontend. Some love infrastructure. Some are happiest designing clean APIs, building reliable backend services, and making complex systems feel simple.
If that's you, keep reading.
At Whip Around we're investing heavily in product and engineering following a recent majority investment from Accel-KKR (AKKR). We're looking for a Backend Engineer who enjoys building and evolving the APIs that power our platform.
What you'll be doing
You'll spend most of your time:
- Designing and building RESTful APIs
- Modelling data and designing database structures
- Creating integrations and backend services
- Improving performance, reliability and scalability
- Working closely with mobile engineers on API contracts
- Building secure, well-tested systems that customers rely on every day
This isn't a role where you'll spend your week tweaking CSS or debating button colours.
It's backend engineering in its purest form.
Requirements
What we're looking for
- Commercial experience building APIs
- Strong understanding of REST principles
- Experience with PHP and Laravel (or the ability to ramp up quickly)
- Solid SQL and database design skills
- Experience working with authentication, authorization and security concepts
- A testing mindset and pride in writing maintainable code
- Familiarity with modern AI-assisted development tools
Bonus points for: - AWS experience
- Postgres experience
- SaaS product experience
- Personal projects or open-source contributions
Benefits
Why Whip Around?
We're a Kiwi SaaS success story with customers across North America and beyond.
You'll join an engineering team that values pragmatism, collaboration and continuous improvement, while working on software that solves genuine operational problems for thousands of users.
Plus:
- Hybrid flexibility
- Southern Cross health insurance
- Birthday leave
- Additional paid parental leave
- Monthly team lunches
- Free parking
Sound familiar?
If you've ever found yourself debating API design decisions for fun, optimising database queries that nobody asked you to optimise, or taking pride in creating endpoints that other developers genuinely enjoy consuming, we'd love to hear from you.
Skills Required
- Commercial experience building APIs
- Strong understanding of REST principles
- Experience with PHP and Laravel (or ability to ramp up quickly)
- Solid SQL and database design skills
- Experience with authentication, authorization and security concepts
- A testing mindset and pride in writing maintainable code
- Familiarity with modern AI-assisted development tools
- AWS experience
- Postgres experience
- SaaS product experience
- Personal projects or open-source contributions
What We Do
Whip Around is an award winning, easy to use fleet maintenance software company that connects drivers, mechanics and fleet managers to improve the uptime of vehicles and equipment. Founded in 2016, we are on a mission to keep the world’s fleets moving. We are committed to living and breathing our core values everyday. Our values are at the forefront of everything we do and are what is driving our success forward. Be the Best You We aim to be consistently better through accountability and positivity. Be the Driver We put ourselves in the drivers seat. We drive change through constant innovation and we are driven to succeed. Provide Clarity We use simple technology, transparent communication and focus on the essentials. Manaakitanga We embrace diversity, we do our part for the community and value each other. Don't Drop the Trophy Celebrate successes and don't lose focus. We have a winner's mindset. We have a great team culture and are always on the look out for our next Whip Arounder! Whip Around’s career pages can be found here: https://apply.workable.com/whiparound/?lng=en
.png)
