Awesome opportunity for a full-stack web application development Jedi with a focus on Laravel and a passion for software engineering to join a successful and globally respected company. Flexibility to work remotely in Australia, New Zealand, or anywhere within Europe, with a friendly and capable team.
Creative Force is a fast-growing global SaaS company, with our flagship B2B product serving hundreds of clients globally, hundreds of thousands of users, and growing.
Our team is fully remote, distributed worldwide, set-up with all the tools to collaborate effectively across distance and time zones. Our engineering team is in Australia and Europe— we’re currently inviting candidates located anywhere in Asia Pacific region to apply, to work from your home office or coworking space.
Role
We’re looking for an engineer with core strengths in Laravel, database design, and software engineering and architecture. The successful applicant will be a well-rounded engineer, with expertise in server-side technologies and frameworks, as well as experience working with Amazon Web Services, in particular; S3, EC2, RDS and Cloudfront.
You will be provided with project requirements, UX wireframes, UI design and direction, and be able to implement capably and confidently, with help and advice from senior members of the team.
Essentials
- Located in a Asia Pacific/European time zone / You’re located anywhere in Australia, New Zealand, or anywhere within Europe
- 5+ years commercial experience in a software engineering / development role.
- Have worked with Laravel on commercial projects.
- Finesse – attention-to-detail, robust code and pixel perfection. You will be expected to carefully implement complex requirements with a focus on solid architecture, security, and performance.
- Passion – for the internet, open-source, computing, devices, gaming and Star Wars. You’re keen to push the envelope and develop elegant solutions, continuously improving your skills and projects that you work on.
- English fluency is a must.
Experience and capabilities
We’re more interested in enthusiastic, fast learners, eager to continuously learn and improve skills, than somebody that can tick every one of these boxes – ideally you have a mix of many of the following:
- Software engineering and architecture skills in PHP and importantly, Laravel
- Experience with AWS services: S3, EC2, RDS (MySQL) & Cloudfront
- Experience writing unit, integrated and acceptance tests
- Implemented UI’s with clean, semantic HTML5, CSS3, SASS, grid frameworks and responsive web design
- Javascript experience (preferably with Vue JS)
- Linux hosting environment, and shell command line familiarity
- Used to Git, collaborating with other developers and working with other people’s’ code
What we offer
- Full-time permanent role, based remotely
- Competitive salary, indexed to your experience and location
- Friendly, sociable, responsible, collaborative team (a great place to be)
- Lots of training, excellent internal support and coaching (a great place to learn)
- Regular communication with global team via chat and video calls
- Dynamic, young, growing tech company leveraging all the latest tech tools and leading industry trends
- Stable, bootstrapped, independent business (no VCs calling the shots)
- Your birthday is a holiday every year
- 20 days paid annual leave
- 12 days paid public holidays (your local country/region public holidays)
- 38 hour work week, Monday to Friday (your weekends are yours)
- Budget for computer and office equipment (pending 3 month probationary period)
Creative Force is an equal opportunity employer. We are a growing business made up of like-minded, mature individuals who celebrate diversity, work in a discrimination free environment, value continuous improvement and support environmental initiatives.
Creative Force is a European software company, born global, registered in Malta.
We’re 35 people— an international team of 16 nationalities, speaking 15 languages, living in 30 cities across 18 countries. A micro-global business, if you like. We’re a fully remote, distributed, work-from-home team— and believe that remote work is the future for tech companies.
We have no “headquarters”, no expensive office. We’ve been living this future for years already, and know first hand just how powerful this way of work can be. We’re a tightly connected 24/5 global team of professionals, creatively innovating how we do business, and the exceptional SaaS products we make, for our awesome clients.
We’ve become known for 5-star service, and our products known for ease-of-use and great design. Earning clients across Europe east and west, the Middle East, Africa, Asia Pacific and the Americas.
We’re real people— humans. We love work-life balance, nature, animals, culture and communities. This informs our values and the products we make. We love what we do, the software we create and the problems we solve for our clients.
We believe in the power of good, and the power of design. Good design— it’s good for business. We design all-round beautiful products. Good design is not just surface. Beauty and quality go to the core. Performance, integrity, security, stability and scalability— all get our creative good design treatment.
That’s us. We’re a creative force.