Senior Laravel Developer at ChiroCat

Job Description

A Little About Us and This Role

We’re ChiroCat, and we build the best cloud-based chiropractic software around. Chiropractic offices across the U.S. use our system to provide better care to their patients, operate more effectively, and run better businesses. 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.

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

Our lean but mighty engineering team has done incredible things to get the product to where it is today. And we are looking for an experienced, savvy, Laravel developer to join us!

We love what we’re building, and we want to make sure our customers love their experience using the product. You’ll look forward to each initiative, project, or build because it’s an opportunity to help another practice not only provide a better experience to their patients, but also have a better experience at work themselves.

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 software in Laravel and has experience working on infrastructure at AWS. If you have experience working on software in the medical space, that’s a big plus–but it isn’t required. To that end, we have a couple of 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 relational databases and SQL

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: Central, Mountain, Pacific 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.)

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. With hard and smart work, you can accomplish great things in those 40 hours. 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. Your work on the product will 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 love to empower chiropractors to transform lives. While at the same time providing opportunities for our own team to transform the lives of our customers! You’ll also be joining a small team and will have a big impact on not only the engineering team here, but on our company as a whole.

…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 truly care about. People who work hard, and smart; that are genuine to their core. Who hold humility and confidence equally well at the same time. Who support each other, 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 Laravel Developer…

At ChiroCat, we’re building modern, thoughtfully designed tools that help chiropractic practices thrive. Our goal is simple: create software that’s powerful, beautifully built, and genuinely helpful. And 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 developer to help us do exactly that. You’ll join a small, 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 assuring that our quality remains top-shelf.

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

…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
Championing forward-thinking initiatives (like AI) to help practices thrive in this new digital era
Crafting clean, scalable Laravel + PHP applications—and bringing them to life on AWS
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)
Writing clean, testable, well-documented code that 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’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’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 never met a deadline you didn’t love.
You’re well-organized, manage your time like a pro, and thrive in a remote work setup.
You’re driven and self-motivated, you’re someone who gets things done.
You’re wildly productive and independent, but a team-player at heart.

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

Ready to Apply?

Apply below by 11:59PM on Sunday, June 29, 2025.
Attach a PDF of your cover letter. In your cover letter:

This isn’t your typical formal cover letter–we want to get to know you. Please introduce yourself and explain why you’re interested in this position and why you would be a great fit. Please keep the cover letter to one page.
Please also include the word “alignment” somewhere in your cover letter.
On a separate page of your cover letter, with the answer being no more than 1-2 paragraphs, answer the question: 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.