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Full-time Remote — US & Canada 6+ yrs Laravel + React

Senior Full-Stack Engineer (Laravel + React)

Own a product surface at Bytown and ship it end to end — Laravel on the back end, React and TypeScript on the front — at the AI marketing platform that drafts complete ad campaigns in 5 minutes. No ticket factory.

About the role

You'll own a product surface — onboarding, dashboards, campaign review or billing — and ship it end to end. The app runs on Laravel (PHP 8.4) with Inertia, React and TypeScript, Postgres, and Redis queues on Horizon. Our AI agents stream their work over Server-Sent Events, we integrate with the Google Ads, Meta, LinkedIn, Microsoft and ChatGPT Ads APIs, and billing runs on Stripe.

Haven't written Laravel? That's fine. Strong engineers from Python, TypeScript, Ruby or Go pick it up fast here. We care that you've shipped real software, not which framework it was in.

This isn't a sprint-ceremony job. No backlog grooming, no Jira status dance. You pick a surface, talk to customers, decide what to ship, ship it and move on. The founders will push back on scope, not hand you a spec.

What you'll do

  • Build and ship features end to end: database, API, UI, billing and analytics.
  • Own a product surface — onboarding, dashboards, campaign review or billing.
  • Integrate with the Google Ads, Meta, LinkedIn, Microsoft and ChatGPT Ads APIs.
  • Build the queued jobs and streaming UI that carry our agents' work to the customer.
  • Write tests, review code and keep CI green. Small team, high bar.
  • Own what you ship in production — you ship it, you watch it.
  • Cut scope. Know what not to build.
  • Work directly with customers and the founders.

What we're looking for

  • 6+ years shipping production web software.
  • Deep experience in one backend framework — Laravel, Rails, Django, FastAPI or similar — and in React with TypeScript.
  • Solid Postgres: schema design, migrations and query performance.
  • Shipped something end to end — not just a feature in a big monolith.
  • Fluent with AI coding tools like Claude Code or Cursor, and the judgement to review what they write.
  • Product instinct: you push back on the spec, not just build it.
  • Comfort in a small remote team with few processes.

Nice to have

  • Laravel, Inertia or modern PHP.
  • Hands-on with the Google Ads, Meta or LinkedIn Ads APIs.
  • Streaming UIs, WebSockets or LLM-powered products.
  • Stripe subscriptions and webhooks.
  • Side projects we can look at.

Compensation & benefits

  • Competitive salary + meaningful equity.
  • Remote — US & Canada.
  • Budget for tools, hardware, and the ad spend you'll need to dogfood the product.
  • Direct access to customers, founders and roadmap.

How we hire

  1. Apply with your video, portfolio and LinkedIn. We watch every video.
  2. A 30-minute call with a founder.
  3. A short work sample drawn from real Bytown work.
  4. Meet the team, then an offer.

How to apply

No résumé. No cover letter. Those days are over. Email hello@bytown.co with three things:

  1. A video, 5 minutes max. Loom or similar — an unlisted link is fine. Introduce yourself and tell us why you want to work at Bytown.
  2. Your portfolio. GitHub, or something you shipped that we can use or read.
  3. Your LinkedIn profile.

If recording a video doesn't work for you, say so in your email and we'll set up an alternative.

Apply with a video

Bytown is an equal-opportunity employer. We welcome applicants of every background, identity and ability, and we'll make reasonable accommodations at any step — just ask.

Skip the résumé. Send a 5-minute video.

Tell us who you are and why Bytown. Add your portfolio and your LinkedIn. We watch every video.

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