Senior Laravel/Filament Developer

Location: Burleigh Heads, QLD Australia (On-site preferred, remote in GMT with 4hr overlap)

CMD Software builds applications for established businesses, enterprises and private equity firms. We're based on the Gold Coast in the heart of Burleigh Heads - great coffee, beautiful beaches and a thriving creative culture.

We're looking for an exceptional Senior Laravel/Filament Developer to own end-to-end feature development for a scheduling and resource management SaaS project. This is a senior role for someone who has shipped real Laravel applications in production and can take high level requirements, shape solutions and deliver autonomously. You'll work hands on with Laravel and Filament - building UIs, writing clean code, testing thoroughly and helping us ship quality software, fast.

Applicants must be native or bilingual English speakers.

What you'll do

• Architect and build web applications using Filament
• Build and own features using the TALL stack (Tailwind, Alpine.js, Laravel, Livewire)
• Comprehensively test code using Pest
• Collaborate directly with founders and stakeholders to shape and deliver software
• Work autonomously - briefed once, trusted to execute
• Contribute ideas and elevate the way we build

What we're looking for

• 5+ years of experience building and shipping Laravel applications from ideation to production
• Confident architecting and delivering full features independently, end to end
• Product-minded - you care about the why, not just the what
• Self motivated and hungry to do your best work
• Able to thrive in a high trust, high ownership environment

Must haves

• PHP / Laravel
• Filament
• MySQL
• Pest
• Git / GitHub

Nice to haves

• Experience with AWS
• Knowledge of SEO or web performance
• Contributions to open source (share PRs or projects)
• A design eye with knowledge of UI/UX best practices
• Work directly with founders in a fast moving, high trust environment
• Work alongside our venture studio, partnering with a private equity company who have sold software for US$300M
• No red tape - build fast, ship often, iterate quickly
• Your work will be seen, used and valued
• Potential to grow into a leadership role - own what you're best at
• Exceptional culture, high standards, fun atmosphere
• Burleigh lifestyle - flexible hours, coffee downstairs, surf at lunch if you're local
• A brief description of the most substantial Filament + TALL stack application you have built and shipped to production. What was the product, what parts did you own end to end, and what were the key technical decisions you made? Include any links you can share (URL, screenshots, public repo).