Senior Full Stack Engineer - PHP (Laravel)

Hi, we are Storyteq! 👋🏼

Storyteq helps marketing and creative teams in top brands to scale their creative production and gain control over their marketing campaigns. Through our platform, our clients can streamline campaign workflows, automate their creative production through templates & AI and activate engaging campaigns that go to market faster.

We believe creativity takes time, but creative production shouldn’t. Since 2016 our mission has been to revolutionize the way creative assets are created and used. Magic happens when we let technology empower creativity. Our endless curiosity and relentless commitment to our customers lies at the heart of our problem-solving approach. This shared mission is woven into our values: we dream big, think differently, and are stronger together.

About the job

You will be a part of the domain where we work to enable global enterprises to distribute creative assets to multiple channels, as well as dynamically transform assets to multiple output formats. And working directly with other Developers, UX Designers, Quality Engineers, DevOps Engineers, and Product Owners to deliver the best platform for our users.

Your role will revolve around all the different elements that will bring our product to new heights. This includes implementing new features, scaling existing capabilities, and making our product more amazing every day. The team works with strong goals and a good balance of product & engineering roadmap features. That way we make sure we always keep our technology and product on track!

Key responsibilities:

• Build and ship robust backend services and frontends with real product impact
• Ensure systems are scalable, performant and easy to maintain
• Collaborate across teams to integrate services and deliver end-to-end value
• Model business domains into clean, performant data structures
• Coach and mentor other engineers on best practices to help them grow
• Collaborate with other engineers and lead technical delivery on initiatives within a domain or project
• Lead by example in engineering excellence, pragmatism and shared ownership.

Requirements

Key Requirements:

• 5+ years of hands-on experience delivering full-stack products with TypeScript (and JavaScript) and PHP (Laravel)
• Strong backend development skills with Node.js and PHP (Laravel)
• Have experience with Vue.js (or other front-end frameworks)
• Solid experience designing and integrating REST and/or GraphQL APIs
• Comfortable working in monorepo environments and modular architectures
• Proficient in data modeling and working with SQL/NoSQL databases
• Familiar with testing practices, performance tuning, and scalable design principles
• You’re proactive, result-driven, and excited to work in a fast-growing tech scale-up
• Confident in making architectural decisions and communicating trade-offs
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English

Nice to have:

• Have affinity with rendering technologies (like ffmpeg)
• Have affinity with motion graphics and visual effects software (like After Effects)
• Experience with Gitlab CI/CD, DevOps, public cloud (like GCP).

Benefits

• 📈 Employee stock ownership.
• 📅 27 days of annual leave (Well-being Day and Volunteer Day included).
• 🚆 Travel allowance.
• 🚲 A bicycle lease plan with Hellorider after 1 year of employment.
• 💻 Excellent tools: High-end Laptop, Monitor, and everything in between!
• 📚 We support your continuous improvement with training, courses, conferences, and books.
• 🌦 Mental health and wellbeing support: Access to OpenUp.
• 🥪 Office lunches and endless snacks at the Amsterdam Office.
• 🍻 The best Friday afternoon drinks.
• 👵 A Pension contribution for employees who are based in the Netherlands.
• 🐶 Pet-friendly office, so feel free to bring your furry friend!