_{05th February, 2026}

If you're a senior Laravel engineer who loves solving the hard problems (scaling, performance, reliability, messy edge cases)... you're going to enjoy this.
 
foundU is a mature product company with a seriously broad customer base — and they're now entering a major 21-month delivery runway across two big work streams:

• Quality of Life (QoL) uplift - performance, maintainability, platform improvements
• Internal user management integration - aligning authentication + interoperability with a broader product suite

They're building a contractor squad to deliver this - and they're looking for a Senior Backend Developer (Laravel) who can come in, get across the codebase quickly, and ship meaningful improvements at pace (without sacrificing quality).
 
The role
 
This is a hands-on senior backend role where you'll work across:

• Laravel feature development and platform uplift
• API development (REST)
• MySQL optimisation (query performance + reliability improvements)
• troubleshooting complex production issues
• supporting AWS environments and services
• contributing to architectural and system-level improvements

Tech stack

• Laravel / PHP
• MySQL
• REST APIs
• AWS (EC2, Aurora, ElastiCache, WAF, ALB, ECS, Lambda etc.)

You'll thrive here if you're...

• a confident senior Laravel engineer who can own backend delivery end-to-end
• experienced in scaling SaaS systems (and not afraid of legacy + refactoring)
• pragmatic, calm, and solutions-focused
• the kind of person who improves the codebase as you go (not just "close tickets")

Contract details

• Fixed term contract: 21 months
• Hybrid: 1 day in office (Milton)

If you're looking for a long runway contract where you'll actually have influence and impact - not just churn tickets - this one is well worth a look.

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