Senior Laravel/AI Engineer

$42K - $70K#x2022;Remote Job type Full-time Role Engineering, Full stack Experience 6+ years Visa US citizenship/visa not required Skills Amazon Web Services (AWS), MySQL, PHP, Python, Redis, Machine Learning

About the role

Respaid (YC S23) builds AI agents that recover unpaid invoices for enterprise clients. Hundreds of thousands of AI-powered calls and emails sent. 460 customers, profitable, growing. This is not a normal engineering job. And this is not a normal hiring process.

WHY THIS ROLE IS DIFFERENT

We are an AI-native team. Every engineer uses Claude Code, MCP servers, custom skills, and automated QA pipelines daily. Our CLAUDE.md file is 500+ lines of conventions, and our CI runs AI-powered code review on every PR. You won't just use AI tools. You'll help build the infrastructure that makes the entire team 10x faster. Stack: Laravel 12 (PHP 8.4), MySQL, Redis, Laravel Nova, RetellAI voice agents, Telnyx, Stripe, SendGrid. AWS Elastic Beanstalk.

NO INTERVIEWS. NO TAKE-HOME ASSIGNMENTS.

Our hiring process IS our dev environment:

Fork github.com/wwwidr/hiring-challenge
Read the CLAUDE.md
Pick a ticket from /tickets
Ship a PR with tests, following the repo's conventions
Screen-record your entire session

6. AI reviews your PR automatically. Score >= 8/10 = you talk to the CEO. No leetcode. No whiteboard. We watch your screen recording and read your code.

WHAT YOU'LL WORK ON

Voice agent infrastructure (RetellAI, Telnyx WebRTC)
AI-powered recovery pipelines (sequence orchestration, smart timing)
Enterprise integrations (Fortune 500 dashboards)
Internal tooling (MCP servers, Claude Code skills, automated QA)
Payment processing (Stripe Connect, installment plans)

REQUIREMENTS

5+ years PHP/Laravel
Daily AI tool usage (Claude Code, Cursor, or similar)
Screen recording of your work process
English communication, async-first
Available during EU business hours (UTC to UTC+4)

Contractor. Remote (UTC to UTC+4 timezones). The CEO codes daily and reviews every PR. Zero layers between you and decisions. HOW TO APPLY:

Clone github.com/wwwidr/hiring-challenge (don't fork publicly)
Read CLAUDE.md, pick a ticket, ship it with tests

3. Push to your OWN private repo, add "wwwidr" as a collaborator 4. Reply to this job listing with your repo link + screen recording link That's your application.

About the interview

Fork github.com/wwwidr/hiring-challenge

2. Read CLAUDE.md, pick a ticket, ship a PR with tests and screen recording

We review your PR (score posted as PR comment)
Score >= 8/10: 30-min call with CEO

Offer within 48h. Total time: 2 days, zero wasted time on either side.

About AgentCollect

We're AgentCollect (YC S23). B2B debt collection powered by AI agents. We recover aged B2B debt for Fortune 500 finance teams in weeks, not quarters — replacing offshore BPOs and third-party agencies, all under the customer's brand. Live with Dell, Microsoft, FedEx, Plaid, and Checkr. We ship fast, dogfood our own product, and value people who hold strong opinions across product, AI, and ops. If you've ever thought "manual collections is broken and AI should handle it" come build it with us.