Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Lumion is a well-funded startup focused on building the operating system for trade schools. They are seeking a Senior AI-Augmented Laravel Engineer who will leverage AI tools to enhance development workflows and deliver valuable software rapidly.
Responsibilities
- You own problems, not tickets — understanding the customer need, knowing why the work matters, making smart technical calls, testing what you ship, and staying accountable until it's delivering real value in the real world
- You care how customers actually use what you build. You connect technical decisions to the broader product vision and turn customer problems into simple, useful software
- Speed matters, but speed without judgment isn't enough. We're not looking for 'vibe coders' who accept AI output and move on. Use AI to accelerate, then verify, refine, and simplify until the product does exactly what it should
- We work in the open — flag risks early, ask when the 'why' is unclear, and speak up when something doesn't make sense. No surprises, no silent blockers, no unnecessary complexity
- You're joining a high-trust, high-output team — one that's greater than the sum of its parts, because people move faster and build better when they share context openly and take ownership together
- You don’t just 'use ChatGPT sometimes.' AI is not your 'rubbery ducky.' You have a fully developed workflow using tools like Claude Code, Gemini, Codex, etc. to generate, refactor, and debug complex codebases
- You know the framework deeply enough to instantly spot when the AI is hallucinating or using an anti-pattern
- You understand that we are building a mission-critical platform. You can translate complex school workflows into clean technical architecture
- This is the heart of it — you can take a messy, real-world problem and turn it into a clean database structure. You think in schemas: modeling a complex domain into well-normalized tables, knowing exactly when to denormalize for speed, and designing indexes that keep queries fast as tables grow into the millions of rows
- You value outcomes over output. You care about the feature landing in the school administrator's hands, not the purity of the implementation process
Skills
- Agentic Workflow Mastery: You don't just 'use ChatGPT sometimes.' AI is not your 'rubbery ducky.' You have a fully developed workflow using tools like Claude Code, Gemini, Codex, etc. to generate, refactor, and debug complex codebases. You live in the AI tooling so much that you occasionally wonder why you even have an IDE installed. Your workflow should be built around orchestrating AI agents to plan, generate, refactor, test, and ship real production code quickly
- Laravel Expertise: You know the framework deeply enough to instantly spot when the AI is hallucinating or using an anti-pattern. You can guide the AI to use Service Providers, Facades, and Eloquent correctly
- Business Logic Intuition: You understand that we are building a mission-critical platform. You can translate complex school workflows into clean technical architecture
- Database Design & Structure: This is the heart of it — you can take a messy, real-world problem and turn it into a clean database structure. You think in schemas: modeling a complex domain into well-normalized tables, knowing exactly when to denormalize for speed, and designing indexes that keep queries fast as tables grow into the millions of rows. You spot an N+1, a missing index, or a migration that'll lock a production table before it ships
- Shipping Mindset: You value outcomes over output. You care about the feature landing in the school administrator's hands, not the purity of the implementation process
- 5+ Years Experience: In shipping production web applications (SaaS preferred)
Benefits
- Meaningful stock options in a venture-backed startup.
- Quarterly performance-based cash bonuses.
- Unlimited PTO
- 401(k)
- Full Health/Dental/Vision reimbursement up to $537.50/mo
- $200/mo tech stipend
- $100/mo wellness stipend
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