Junior Laravel Developer

About the role

Carpool is hiring a Junior Laravel Developer for Pod 3: Platform, Partners & Infrastructure. This is an early-career role for someone with backend fundamentals, curiosity about how systems talk to each other, and the discipline to learn Laravel, Livewire, queues, AWS, and AI-assisted development through mentorship and code review.

What You’ll Do

• Build and maintain Pod 3 platform features across communication services, file and document management, workflow tooling, audit trails, employee management, and partner integrations.
• Add small, well-scoped enhancements to external TMS integrations, including new webhook events, field mapping changes, reconciliation fixes, and API error handling.
• Write Artisan commands and queued jobs for data syncs, scheduled tasks, background processing, retries, and resilient handoffs between internal and external systems.
• Extend Livewire-based admin and operator UIs with columns, filters, forms, inline actions, and simple workflow improvements.
• Write PHPUnit feature and unit tests for the code you ship, including tests that mock external partner APIs and cover failure paths.
• Use Cursor and Codex to scaffold features, jobs, tests, and migrations, then review generated code carefully before it goes into a pull request.
• Work with operations, customer success, IT, and engineering stakeholders to clarify small features before writing code.
• Read existing services, jobs, integrations, and pull requests so you can build a working mental model of the largest engineering surface area at Carpool.

What You Bring

• Solid backend fundamentals: HTTP, REST, JSON, status codes, request lifecycles, sessions, tokens, and basic authentication patterns.
• Some hands-on Laravel or modern web framework experience from coursework, internships, bootcamp work, personal projects, or a first engineering role. PHP is helpful, but Django, Rails, .NET, or Node experience can transfer.
• SQL fundamentals, including SELECT, JOIN, GROUP BY, basic aggregation, and a working understanding of relational databases.
• Curiosity about integrations: REST APIs, webhooks, JSON payloads, API keys, OAuth, retries, idempotency, and how one system safely talks to another.
• Comfort using AI coding tools such as Cursor, Codex, Copilot, ChatGPT, or Claude, plus the patience to verify generated code instead of trusting it blindly.
• Clear communication and learning habits: plain-English explanations, good questions when requirements are vague, useful PR descriptions, and willingness to be new at a stack or domain.
• Bonus points for PHP, Livewire, Alpine.js, Tailwind CSS, Git/GitHub, queues, scheduled jobs, AWS, automated tests, OAuth/SSO, role-based access control, logistics, transportation, supply chain, or B2B SaaS experience.

Compensation

Carpool offers a competitive compensation package: base salary, performance bonus, and comprehensive benefits. We’re a venture-backed company headquartered in Buckhead at Atlanta Tech Village (ATV), a startup community with mentors and advisors built in. Carpool Logistics is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Why Carpool

• Pod 3 is the widest learning surface area in the company. You’ll see how a real production system fits together across integrations, authentication, communications, files, audit logs, reporting, AI services, and the operational tools people use every day.
• Ship production code early, with mentorship, code review, and scoped tickets that grow into larger features as you build confidence.
• Learn how integrations actually work: API design, webhooks, retries, signature verification, async processing, and failure handling in a live business system.
• Grow with a modern Laravel stack: PHP 8.2, Laravel 12, Livewire 3, Blade, Tailwind, Alpine, MySQL, AWS Vapor/S3/SNS/SQS, GitHub Actions, and Pint.
• Join an AI-forward engineering culture where Cursor and Codex are everyday tools, paired with tests, CI, pull requests, and human review.
• Work on meaningful transportation and logistics problems from Atlanta Tech Village, with direct exposure to operators, partners, customer success, IT, and senior engineers who like teaching.