Senior Laravel Backend Engineer - APIs, Jobs & Reliability

Jodie Inc.; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Learning budget £2,000

Company laptop

Remote work support for home setup

Pension plan UK

Annual leave 30 days

Job summary

Jodie AI is a UK company building an AI receptionist for busy businesses. We are looking for a backend engineer to own Laravel services, APIs and background jobs, ensuring reliable webhook processing and scalable databases.

You will collaborate with London-based engineers and contribute to customer-facing workflows. A strong track record in Laravel and PHP is essential, along with API design and testing practices.

Qualifications

• 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.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

Production issue investigation

Relational databases

Automated tests

API design

Tools

Laravel

PHP

Job description

Jodie AI is a UK company building an AI receptionist for busy businesses. We are looking for a backend engineer to own Laravel services, APIs and background jobs, ensuring reliable webhook processing and scalable databases.

You will collaborate with London-based engineers and contribute to customer-facing workflows. A strong track record in Laravel and PHP is essential, along with API design and testing practices.