PHP Laravel Developer (On-Site & Remote)

KYC Hospitality is the global technology ecosystem for Hotels, focused on revolutionizing the archaic workflow that has plagued the industry for decades as well as introducing AI-focused systems to enhance every aspect of the Guest experience.

Our team includes Founders and Executives of most of the major Hotel brands including Four Seasons, Fairmont and Intercontinental. We are funded by several of the world’s most iconic investors as well as highly respected Silicon Valley investors.

ROLE OVERVIEW

The Full Stack PHP/JS engineer will be responsible for developing, securing, and scaling our large and complex hotel management platform. This role’s focus will be to develop, maintain, and continually improve our SaaS platform, based on Laravel and Vue.js.

Our Full Stack engineers need to be very detail-oriented, with organizational and problem-solving skills, plus the ability to communicate clearly with all departments, from engineers to the CEO.

Responsibilities

• Develop new features to support our rapidly growing business
• Assume leadership of new projects, from conceptualization to deployment
• Build world-class full-stack enterprise B2B software
• Write secure, documented, maintainable software in a team environment
• Work closely with the development, QA, DevOps, and business teams
• Troubleshoot and fix bugs and other problems
• Continually improve the security, reliability, and scale of the platform
• Continually help improve the development, build, test, and deployment processes
• Maintain high standards for code quality and application design
• Stay updated with current technologies and industry trends

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR

Qualifications

• Proven experience of 5+ years of developing web applications using PHP & Laravel
• Experience building modern SaaS applications
• Strong understanding of software development methodologies and principles
• Great team player and able to work efficiently with minimal supervision
• Understanding of security and scaling aspects for full-stack web applications

Required Skills & Experience

• Minimum 5 years building SaaS software (not Wordpress, Magento, etc.)
• Minimum 5 years experience in backend development in PHP, mostly in Laravel
• Minimum 3 years experience in either Vue.js or React.js
• Unit Testing experience
• Exceptional attention to detail
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills

Helpful Skills & Experience

• Hotel software & operations
• Multi-Tenant Test Data & Scenarios
• Elasticsearch experience
• Mocking services & advanced testing
• Test-Driven Development
• Extensive experience in AWS infrastructure, including Automation & Monitoring
• Experience with logging, monitoring, and APM/RUM platforms such as Datadog
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD systems
• Experience with testing platforms, data, and tooling
• Experience in securing AWS and web applications

Character

We’re a tight-knit team. Every one of us genuinely loves what we do; we love KYC and we’re in this to win for the right reasons- we want to create a happier world through happier travelers and yes, we each have our unique set of life goals that we hope KYC can enable us to achieve. Most importantly, we are a team that places utmost priority on mutual respect, kindness and empathy. We have zero tolerance for disrespectful and inappropriate behavior, crass language, laziness, lack of integrity, racism, ageism, sexism or any other kind of negative -ism you can think of. If you’re looking for the kind of infamous “perks” that come with some Silicon Valley companies like sponsored binge drinking, illicit behavior encouragement, “bro” mentality, cutting corners in your work- we are not the right company for you. We’re searching for decent human beings who believe in good old fashioned hard work and earning success through ethical behavior. We respect people who have strong beliefs but who can communicate their thoughts and ideas respectfully and thoroughly AND are humble enough to admit when they’re wrong or that a colleague’s method may be better.

Passion For Luxury Hotels and Travel

You must have a fundamental grasp of the business of luxury hotels and luxury brands or at the very least, have a huge desire to learn about this and be able to do so quickly by working closely with our CEO. You must love travel (though your position does not require traveling) and understand why travelers are willing to pay exorbitant amounts for certain luxury hotel and travel experiences.

Passion for Food

You must love food. If you don’t have a huge passion for food, you probably won’t get along with any of us.

COMPENSATION & PERKS

• Work from home most of the time and enjoy the flexibility to skip traffic. Our team gathers in person as needed, offering valuable opportunities for collaboration and connection. This might include onboarding (typically 3-5 consecutive days) or important milestones like onboarding a major client or launching critical features.
• On the days we meet, all meals we have together are paid for and we’re serious food lovers so we eat well. Parking (metered or garage) is reimbursed.
• Whenever we have social gatherings, your families (wives, husbands, partners, children, parents) are welcome and encouraged (event appropriate), hosted by us. Our style of “social” means:
• Dinners at restaurants like Narisawa
• Penthouse tours of luxury Hotels
• Afternoon tea at luxury Hotels
• Spa Days at luxury Hotels
• Overnight Trips at luxury Hotels
• Culinary classes
• Afternoon tea at luxury Hotels
• Stay in the world’s most awesome Hotels from mid-tier to luxury.
• One on one time with our CEO monthly so you gain a deeper understanding of the Hotel business; have the opportunity to grow as a leader (if this is of interest to you).
• Arguably the most important perk- genuine respect and caring from the entire team. We jokingly look at ourselves as Ocean’s Eleven; we’re a team of widely differing backgrounds, characters and areas of expertise who all share the vision of growing KYC into a world class behemoth and finding joy every step of the journey. Once you’re hired, you’re part of our family.
• Exposure to world leaders at KYC events