Senior Laravel Engineer

About Us and Why We’re Hiring

We're ChiroCat (), and we build cloud-based chiropractic software that practices across the United States can love and trust. From their first patient interactions with digital intake forms, to the final insurance processing and post-visit communication, our system supports doctors and their staff every step of the way. We're modernizing the chiropractic software space in big ways, but much more importantly, we're bettering the lives of our doctors, their team members, and especially their patients.

Our purpose is simple and drives everything we do: empower caregivers to transform lives through tools they trust. We believe practice management should be made for humans—not the other way around.

The bottom line: we LOVE to help people, who help people. And that's where you come in!

Our engineering team has done incredible things to get the product to where it is today—and we're just getting started. Across the company, we're a close-knit group of people who genuinely like working together. We're looking for an experienced, savvy engineer to join us and help build what's next.

We realize that this role may appeal to people with a wide range of experience, but we're really looking for someone who has experience building a multi-tenant SaaS product in Laravel and has experience working on infrastructure at AWS. Experience with software in the medical space would be a big plus, but it isn't required. To that end, we have a few requirements:

Requirements

• You have at least 4+ years of PHP/Laravel experience 
• You have experience developing across the entire stack from front to back
• You have a deep working knowledge of data, in multiple formats, ETL, relational databases and SQL.
• You are located between the Pacific and Eastern timezones.

Ok, that’s a high-level view of what you’ll be working on, but let’s first talk about life at ChiroCat and then we’ll go deeper on the specifics of what we’re looking for.

How We Work

Work from (Almost) Anywhere

We're based out of southern Utah, but the majority of our team works remotely. While we have some international team members in far-away timezones, for this role in particular, we're only considering candidates based in the following timezones: Pacific, Mountain, Central, and Eastern (outside the U.S. is welcome). (Why those timezones? Because we need to overlap with more of our internal team as well as our customers. Please note: you need to be located in those timezones, not just willing to work in those time zones.)

Balanced Work, Balanced Life

We're big fans of a well-balanced life. And while work is a big part of that life, it shouldn't be everything. Outside of the rare occasion that requires more, we work a 40-hour week. We're also fans of real vacations, where you're not tied to your laptop while away. We're in this for the long-haul and want you rested and focused when at work.

Benefits

For US-based employees, we offer fantastic health, dental, and vision insurance options, and cover 100% of the premium for you, with affordable rates for your dependents. 

We’re in it for the Long Haul

In an industry where the status quo is to be either owned by a big conglomerate or chasing your next round of funding to pay the bills, we're neither of those things. We're privately owned, stable, and can run our business the way we choose to. Maybe that's old-fashioned, but it really helps us build a great place to work.

You’ll Make a Real Impact

This role will have an incredible impact on the lives of our doctors and staff, not to mention the patients they serve. You’ll be instrumental in their success. ChiroCat is the core of their business and their ability to serve patients, so their success with ChiroCat has far-reaching implications.

We're growing, and the road ahead is exciting. You'd be joining at a stage where you can meaningfully shape the product, the engineering culture, and our trajectory. That kind of impact doesn't come along often.

and Do it with Great People

We're firm believers that the foundation of success is building a great team. You'll be joining a team full of truly exceptional people. The kind you'll be excited to work with and learn to care about. People who get stuff done. Who are genuine to their core. Who hold humility and confidence equally well at the same time. Who communicate with care and lean in when things get unclear. Who support each other, run toward problems, and care deeply about our customers. It's a strong culture that's apparent the moment you walk through the [digital] door. And we can't wait to see how you'll make us even better.

If this sounds like your ideal environment, read on because now we'd like to talk about you.

As Our New Senior Software Engineer…

We care … a lot … about the experience our customers have with every part of our platform. That means we need engineers who not only write great code, but also think deeply about the product experience and want to build something that matters.

We're looking for a seasoned PHP/Laravel engineer to join our talented team that's serious about doing high-quality work in a supportive, collaborative environment. You'll help shape the future of our platform, shipping features, maintaining and scaling our infrastructure, and improving our API, all while making sure our quality remains top-shelf.

Depending on where you land on the team, you might be focused on building new features or you might be deep in data migration work and helping new customers bring their existing data into ChiroCat as seamlessly as possible. Either way, you'll be solving meaningful problems, and we value engineers who are energized by both.

We're investing in AI/ML thoughtfully: not as buzzwords, but as tools to create better products, workflows, and customer experiences. We’re looking for engineers with real experience who can separate useful applications from hype.

Here’s a snapshot of our tech stack:

• Laravel + PHP - our core framework for building the app
• MySQL and Redis - for storing and caching data quickly and reliably
• JavaScript and WebSockets -to keep things dynamic and real-time where it matters
• AWS - using services like RDS, S3, ECS, Fargate, Redis, and WAF to help us scale securely and efficiently
• CI/CD -with GitHub Actions, Docker, and CodePipeline keeping our deployments smooth and our feedback loops fast
• AI/ML - exploring and building intelligent features that help practices work smarter

Here’s What You'll be Working on:

• Building the future of chiropractic: shaping a modern, innovative EHR and practice management platform
• Architecting and fine-tuning infrastructure that keeps our systems scalable, stable, and secure
• Keeping our existing products humming, squashing bugs, solving puzzles, and making things better every day
• Exploring and shipping AI-powered features that genuinely help practices thrive in this new digital era
• Building and improving data migration workflows that help new customers bring their historical EHR data into ChiroCat accurately, securely, and with as little friction as possible.
• Collaborating across teams to dream up, design, and launch new features that users love
• Optimizing performance, security, and reliability, so things just work (fast and safely)
• Crafting clean, testable, well-documented Laravel + PHP applications on AWS — the kind your future self (and teammates) will appreciate
• Designing and maintaining rock-solid, secure APIs that drive our ability to integrate with other great systems
• Hunting down and eliminating bugs before they bug anyone else
• Contributing to thoughtful code reviews and giving helpful, constructive feedback
• Making thoughtful UI and UX decisions when full designs aren't available, balancing function, clarity, and simplicity as you build
• Keeping an eye on what's new in tech and bringing back ideas to keep us ahead of the curve
• Jumping in to support our Customer Support team when deeper technical digging is needed, because we're all on the same team when it comes to helping our users

You’re our ideal candidate if:

• You possess deep expertise in the Laravel PHP framework, including its core components, architecture, and established best practices for building robust applications.
• You are an excellent communicator both verbally and in writing. You communicate early, clearly, and with care, and you lean in when things feel unclear rather than letting them fester.
• You're proficient in database management, particularly with SQL databases like MySQL or PostgreSQL, including schema design and query optimization. If the database layer turns out to be the culprit behind an issue, it's not a black box to you.
• You love to write clean, maintainable, efficient and testable PHP code. Your code is easy for other programmers and your future self to understand and use.
• You have an understanding of algorithms and data structures beyond arrays and "for loops". That doesn't mean you have to be a computer science PhD or even that you have to know "Big O" notation, but you should know how to optimize each line of code.
• You have plenty of war stories to tell about the last time you launched a SaaS application, or weathered a massive spike in load, or recovered from an outage.
• You have excellent debugging skills. You know how to find problems, and how to architect apps so that problems are discoverable in the first place.
• You have solid experience with frontend technologies and Javascript frameworks.
• You have a proven ability in designing, developing, and consuming RESTful APIs, along with an understanding of API security principles.
• You're obsessive about the details, while being pragmatic and big-picture focused.
• You're a problem solver and puzzler at heart. You'll dive into the depths of a customer's need and translate that into a working solution.
• You love taking that one little extra step beyond what's expected. You consistently force us to ask you questions like, "How did you know the customer wanted 'x', when they were saying 'y' the whole time?".
• Building authentic relationships comes naturally to you, you're a people person through and through.
• You're undaunted, excited even, at the idea of learning the ins and outs of truly complex things.
• You see feedback as a gift, not a threat, and you volunteer for challenges outside your comfort zone.
• You're great at turning chaos into order and love creating processes and solutions from the ground up, but aren't ignorant to the already available solutions that could be tweaked to achieve a similar or better result.
• You're well-organized, manage your time like a pro, and thrive in a remote work setup.
• You're driven and self-motivated, someone who moves things forward, follows through, and gets things done.
• You're wildly productive and independent, but a team-player at heart.
• You’re intentional about exploring AI/ML and discerning where it can meaningfully improve the product experience.

If this sounds like a fit, we’d love to hear from you!

Ready to Apply?

Heads up! We review applications as they come in, so we might find our perfect fit early!

What to Include:

Your resume (PDF please)

A cover letter (PDF please):

• Page 1: Skip the formal stuff and help us get to know YOU. Introduce yourself and explain why you're interested and why you'd be great. Include the word "momentum" somewhere (we want to make sure you're real and read this whole thing).
• Page 2: Answer this in 1-2 paragraphs: "If you were interviewing a prospective candidate for this position, what would you ask to find out if a candidate really knew their stuff? Now answer it for yourself. "

Tips

• This isn’t your formal cover letter. Be yourself! We want to meet the real you, not an AI version. Seriously, no AI. 
• Don't apply if you live outside of our timezone requirements. You're wasting your time, and ours.
• If you meet our requirements and follow instructions, a real human will review your application.
• Watch for a confirmation email—check your spam folder, if needed

PS: Not interested, but know someone who might be? Please pass it along!