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Position Overview: 

As a Senior Software Engineer, you are responsible for driving the design, development, and scalability of our Third Party Risk Management (SaaS) platform built on Laravel (PHP). You play a key role in building new features and complex product capabilities, while ensuring high standards in performance, reliability, security, and maintainability. In this role, you'll lead by example, owning services end-to-end from development to deployment and monitoring, driving architectural discussions, and mentoring others across the team. You'll combine hands-on development with technical leadership; contributing to architectural direction, mentoring engineers, and continuously improving engineering practices. We're looking for someone who is not only passionate about building great software, but also excited to explore how AI can unlock faster ways of working for themselves and their teammates.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design and own secure, scalable services within our Laravel applications, guiding technical decisions and evaluating trade-offs (including AI- driven components) to meet reliability, performance, and cost goals
• Leverage AI tools to accelerate coding, debugging, testing, and prototyping, while rigorously validating outputs to ensure quality and safety
• Advise on appropriate AI use (model concepts, prompt patterns, ethical/privacy considerations), embed monitoring and compliance checks into workflows, and document residual risks and mitigations
• Coach peers on engineering best practices and AI-augmented approaches; partner with Product, Security, DevOps, and other teams to align on features, deployment, and compliance.
• Scout and pilot emerging tools or frameworks (including AI toolchains), integrate automated governance checks into pipelines, and enhance observability and incident response with an eye on productivity, cost, and resilience
• Diagnose and resolve high-impact production issues, performing root cause analysis and implementing long-term fixes
• Contribute to and guide architectural decisions and technical roadmap discussions
• Review code, uphold engineering standards, and improve testing and CI/CD practices
• Mentor and coach engineers (Software Engineer I & II), providing technical guidance and feedback
• Collaborate cross-functionally with product, design, and support teams to deliver high-impact features
• Improve observability, monitoring, and incident response processes
• Drive initiatives that improve developer experience and system health

Required Experience/Skills:

• 5-7 years of professional software engineering in an agile environment, delivering secure, scalable services.
• Deep expertise in PHP and Laravel, with experience delivering and scaling production features
• Strong experience with the TALL stack (Tailwind, Alpine.js, Laravel, Livewire)
• Advanced knowledge of relational databases (MySQL / MariaDB), including performance tuning and data modeling
• Solid understanding of frontend/backend interactions (Vue, React, or Blade)
• Solid experience with AWS or similar cloud platforms
• Understands high-level LLM concepts (e.g., hallucinations, prompt sensitivity) and safe vs. unsafe AI use cases.
• Experienced in using AI tools to accelerate coding, debugging, testing, and prototyping, with critical review of outputs
• Skilled in prompt engineering - designing reusable prompts and coaching peers
• Familiar with ethical/cost risks (bias, privacy, vendor lock-in) and embeds basic compliance checks into workflows.
• Applies security best practices in code and deployments (e.g., IAM, secrets management) and reviews AI- assisted suggestions for safety.
• Proven ability to mentor or guide peers on engineering best practices and AI-augmented workflows
• Strong experience designing scalable APIs and system integrations
• Proficiency with Docker and modern development workflows
• Experience owning features from concept to production

• A fast-growing SaaS company where you can have significant impact by building meaningful product features
• A high-ownership environment with room to shape both product and technical direction
• An inspiring office on the 13th floor of The Social Hub in Amsterdam (including gym, restaurant, and vibrant community events)