Senior Software Developer - Laravel / PHP - Freelance

Daily rate: €6,500/month

Context

ToldUntold is a SaaS platform that trains retail teams by leveraging the feed and video habits people already have from apps like Netflix and TikTok. The company builds branded mobile and web apps, the tooling that fills them with content, and a set of in-house AI features. Their clients include enterprise and luxury brands in Europe and Mainland China. The team is small and senior, shipping fast with each member owning their work from start to finish. The team is remote, based in Paris and London.

Missions

• Build and ship the Laravel/PHP backend and APIs behind mobile and web apps.
• Own features from technical design through testing, release, and production monitoring.
• Work within a modular Laravel codebase (nwidart/laravel-modules), ensuring clean boundaries as most new work lives in its own module rather than the core.
• Use Claude and coding agents daily, deciding what to automate, review closely, or write manually.
• Maintain testing, security, and performance standards, including compliance with data residency requirements (EU and Mainland China).
• Integrate the platform with other stack components: SSO, third-party services, content and encoding pipelines, and AI features.
• Make sensible trade-offs appropriate for an early-stage company and communicate them clearly.

Tools & Environment

• Laravel 12 and PHP 8.4 backend, organized as a modular monolith.
• Databases: MySQL/MariaDB and PostgreSQL (with pgvector for AI features).
• Redis and Horizon for queues and background jobs.
• REST APIs consumed by Vue 3 / TypeScript web apps and branded iOS and Android builds (Capacitor).
• SSO via Okta, Azure AD, and SAML.
• Self-hosted open-source AI models on company GPUs, with request routing per region.
• Supporting services in Node.js for media encoding.
• Multi-region cloud infrastructure across the EU and Mainland China.

Working Conditions

• Remote position with the team located between Paris and London.
• Full-time, senior-level role reporting to the CTO and CPO.
• Compensation starts at €6,500 per month, with a review scheduled for early 2027.