Full Stack Software Engineer (PHP/Laravel)

**About the Role** Evolution Collect is building software that makes debt collection more human, intelligent, and effective. We’re looking for a strong full\-stack PHP/Laravel engineer to help build the next generation of the platform. Our core application stack includes multiple technologies, but we care most about strong engineering fundamentals, product ownership, and the ability to become productive across the stack. You’ll build messaging, workflow and automation tools, integrations, reporting, and customer\-facing features used in real\-world collection operations. The role spans backend and frontend development, API integrations, architecture, deployment, and ongoing product improvement. This is a core product engineering role. AI features are part of our roadmap, and you'll get to build with modern AI models and APIs, but strong Laravel engineering comes first. You’ll work closely with stakeholders to turn business problems into practical technical solutions, make sound engineering decisions, and take ownership of features from initial idea through production and iteration. The role moves fast, with a focus on running quick experiments, testing assumptions, learning from results, and releasing frequently through short, iterative development cycles. **What You'll Do** * Own features end to end: Take projects from discussion through deployment, building backend services, APIs, integrations, and responsive frontend experiences across our application stack. * Ship communication and automation features: Build the texting, email, notification, and workflow automation capabilities our customers use every day, at high volume. * Integrate external services: Connect our platform with communication services, AI models, and other third\-party systems, with a focus on reliability in production. * Build reporting over large datasets: Design efficient queries and data workflows that power reporting and analytics across high\-volume operational data. * Ship reliable production software: Write maintainable, tested code and use logging, monitoring, deployment, and debugging tools to keep features healthy in production. **What We're Looking For** Required * 3\+ years of professional software development experience, including production PHP/Laravel work * Strong PHP and Laravel experience building production backend applications, APIs, and integrations * Solid JavaScript skills and experience with a modern frontend framework (we use Vue.js) * Relational database depth in MySQL, including schema design, query optimization, indexing, and performance tuning with large datasets and reporting workloads * Comfort with queues, background jobs, caching, and other production application patterns * Git and modern development workflows * Automated testing habits and the judgment to know what needs coverage * Ability to translate business needs into practical product and technical decisions, communicate clearly, and work independently **Nice to Have** * Exp