Laravel Engineer (Remote)

Job Description:

About Us
Mettle is a dynamic web development company with a variety of exciting projects on the go. In addition to 4 of our own SaaS products, we also offer Laravel consulting services to a variety of long term clients.

We have been at the forefront of the Laravel community in the UK since its inception. In addition to running Laravel Live (the official Laravel conference for the UK), we also run the Laravel London Meetup.

Role Description
We’re hiring a mid-level Laravel engineer to work on a variety of web applications. As part of the Engineering team, your time will be spent collaborating with other engineers and clients. The ideal candidate has at least 3 years experience working with Laravel, and loves tinkering with technology. You will be able to code out features in PHP, create quality pull requests and help our team stay current with best industry practices.

We have a very relaxed working environment, flexible working hours and a super friendly team. You will learn tons of new things and be exposed to lots of new technologies. Although Laravel is the core competency for this position, we work with a variety of technologies, databases, external services, API's, and much more!

We’re after individuals that are curious about the possibility of technology, are eager to learn, and are diligent and kind. Our teams work well because we place trust in them to succeed. We believe in healthy debate and that great ideas can come from anybody. 

Location
The company has always operated as a fully remote team. As such, you should be comfortable working remotely, be able to manage your own time, and you will have excellent communication skills, which means using video calls and frequent written communication. We would prefer candidates within 3 hours of GMT.

A great candidate will have:

• At least 3 years experience with Laravel
• Good understanding of relational databases (MySQL / Postgres)
• API driven development
• Ability to write tests
• Git + GitHub experience

Some experience of the following would be a bonus:

• Some javascript experience (Vue / React / Livewire)
• Server admin (Ubuntu, ngninx, Forge, Envoyer, Docker)
• AWS, Google Cloud, Digital Ocean
• Elasticsearch, Redis, Memcache
• Unit / integration / acceptance testing

Salary and benefits
Pay is dependant on your experience, skills and impact. For full time employees, we include equipment of your choice, matched company pension contributions, an annual training budget, regular learning days, the freedom to work from wherever you want, and much more.

We welcome candidates from diverse backgrounds.