Senior Laravel Developer

Senior Laravel Developer - London HQ

Build the dependable backend behind a very human experience. Own the APIs, jobs and integrations that turn a phone conversation into something a business can act on.

• Team: Engineering
• Location: London HQ
• Working arrangement: Office-based
• Commitment: Full-time
• Annual base salary: £120k - £160k GBP

The work matters.

Jodie AI is a UK company building an AI receptionist for busy businesses. Jodie answers calls, captures the important details and helps owners get back to customers, even when they can't pick up themselves.

Work alongside our London team, with direct access to the people building and supporting Jodie.

What you'll own

• Design and ship Laravel services, APIs and background jobs with clear contracts and useful observability.
• Make webhook processing resilient to retries, duplicate events and partial failures.
• Improve database performance, tenant isolation and the reliability of customer-facing workflows.
• Work with voice, web and mobile engineers, reviewing changes and supporting what you ship.

What you'll bring

• Substantial experience shipping and maintaining production Laravel and PHP applications.
• A strong grasp of relational databases, queues, caching and API design.
• Practical experience with automated tests, secure authentication and safe deployments.
• Examples of investigating a production problem and improving the system afterwards.

Useful, but not essential

Redis, subscription billing, event-driven systems and telephony integrations.

You don't need a particular degree or every nice-to-have. Show us the relevant work you've done and how you think.

Your first 90 days

A starting point we'll shape together, with clear priorities and support.

• By day 30: Trace a customer workflow end to end and ship a well-tested improvement.
• By day 60: Own a backend feature from design through release and monitoring.
• By day 90: Improve a measurable reliability or performance problem and document the trade-offs.

Where and when you'll work

Full-time, 37.5 hours a week, Monday to Friday. Work primarily from our London HQ during UK business hours. Discuss any flexibility you need at the first conversation.

Tell us your location and whether you need visa sponsorship when you apply. We will discuss feasibility early; sponsorship and relocation support are not guaranteed.

What you'll earn

• Annual base salary (before tax): £120k - £160k GBP

Where you sit in the range reflects the scope you can own and the relevant skills you bring. We discuss this early, using the published band rather than your previous salary.

The benefits

Pay worth moving for

A published salary range for every role. Sales roles show base pay and on-target earnings separately, so you know exactly what you are considering.

Proper time off

30 days of paid annual leave, plus the public holidays where you work. Time to switch off, come back fresh and have a life outside work.

Keep getting better

A GBP 2,000 annual learning budget, or local-currency equivalent, for useful courses, books and conferences. Build skills you can put to work.

Tools that do the job

A company laptop, the software you need and a suitable workspace setup. Remote roles include support getting your home workspace ready.

Support for your future

A 5% employer pension contribution for UK employees. Regional retirement contributions and benefits are set out in your local offer.

Room to make a difference

Own meaningful work, speak directly with the people making decisions and see your ideas reach customers. Clear priorities and useful feedback.

A clear, practical hiring process

1. A first conversation. Talk about your experience, the work, location and compensation.
2. A look at how you work. Review a small API and queue-processing example, then discuss testing, failure modes and design choices. We'll share the format and expected time beforehand.
3. Meet the team. Discuss the way we'd work together, ask your questions and review next steps.

We use role-related evidence to make decisions. Please don't share confidential work or customer information. Tell us if an adjustment would help you show your strengths.

How to apply

Email your CV or a link to your profile, your location and a short example relevant to this role. A few clear paragraphs are plenty.

What to include: Describe a backend system you owned and one difficult reliability or scaling decision. Public code is welcome, never required.

Jodie AI builds an AI receptionist and AI phone answering service that uses voice AI to answer business calls 24/7. Apply at https://heyjodie.com/en-gb/careers/senior-laravel-developer/