Senior Laravel/AI Engineer

Respaid (YC S23) builds AI agents that recover unpaid invoices for enterprise clients. Hundreds of thousands of AI-powered calls and emails sent. 460 customers, profitable, growing.

This is not a normal engineering job. And this is not a normal hiring process.

WHY THIS ROLE IS DIFFERENT

We are an AI-native team. Every engineer uses Claude Code, MCP servers, custom skills, and automated QA pipelines daily. Our CLAUDE.md file is 500+ lines of conventions, and our CI runs AI-powered code review on every PR.

You won't just use AI tools. You'll help build the infrastructure that makes the entire team 10x faster.

Stack: Laravel 12 (PHP 8.4), MySQL, Redis, Laravel Nova, RetellAI voice agents, Telnyx, Stripe, SendGrid. AWS Elastic Beanstalk.

NO INTERVIEWS. NO TAKE-HOME ASSIGNMENTS.

Our hiring process IS our dev environment:

1. Fork github.com/wwwidr/hiring-challenge
2. Read the CLAUDE.md
3. Pick a ticket from /tickets
4. Ship a PR with tests, following the repo's conventions
5. Screen-record your entire session
6. AI reviews your PR automatically. Score >= 8/10 = you talk to the CEO.

No leetcode. No whiteboard. We watch your screen recording and read your code.

WHAT YOU'LL WORK ON

• Voice agent infrastructure (RetellAI, Telnyx WebRTC)
• AI-powered recovery pipelines (sequence orchestration, smart timing)
• Enterprise integrations (Fortune 500 dashboards)
• Internal tooling (MCP servers, Claude Code skills, automated QA)
• Payment processing (Stripe Connect, installment plans)

REQUIREMENTS

• 5+ years PHP/Laravel
• Daily AI tool usage (Claude Code, Cursor, or similar)
• Screen recording of your work process
• English communication, async-first
• Available during EU business hours (UTC to UTC+4)

Contractor. Remote (UTC to UTC+4 timezones).

The CEO codes daily and reviews every PR. Zero layers between you and decisions.

HOW TO APPLY:

HOW TO APPLY:

1. Clone github.com/wwwidr/hiring-challenge (don't fork publicly)

2. Read CLAUDE.md, pick a ticket, ship it with tests

3. Push to your OWN private repo, add "wwwidr" as a collaborator

4. Reply to this job listing with your repo link + screen recording link

That's your application.