Full-Stack Software Engineer (Laravel)

Job Description

We are looking for a skilled Full-Stack Software Engineer (Laravel) to join Tourlast in Nairobi. The role involves developing, maintaining, and improving our travel technology platforms across the Laravel/PHP backend and Vue/Inertia frontend. The successful candidate will take ownership of features from development and testing through to QA and production, working within a live booking and property management environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain features using Laravel/PHP, Vue, Inertia.js, TypeScript, and Livewire.
• Own features end-to-end, including implementation, testing, debugging, and handover to QA.
• Work on booking flows, availability/inventory systems, and payment integrations such as Paystack and Stripe.
• Develop and maintain background jobs, queues, events, and asynchronous workflows.
• Design and optimize MySQL/PostgreSQL databases, schemas, queries, and Eloquent relationships.
• Debug production issues, including third-party API and payment integration failures.
• Contribute to modernization of legacy systems and migration from Blade to Vue/Inertia.
• Participate in code reviews and architecture discussions.
• Identify and address security vulnerabilities.
• Collaborate closely with QA to deliver stable, production-ready software.
• Work across different Laravel versions, including Laravel 9–13.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field.
• 3+ years of professional experience with Laravel/PHP.
• Strong understanding of Laravel architecture, including middleware, service providers, service container, queues, and events.
• Strong experience with Laravel Jobs, Events/Listeners, queue workers, and Redis/database queue drivers.
• Proficiency in JavaScript, TypeScript, and Vue.
• Experience with Inertia.js; Livewire experience is an advantage.
• Experience integrating Paystack and/or Stripe payment gateways.
• Strong SQL skills, including database design, migrations, and query optimization.
• Good understanding of web security, authentication, authorization, and common vulnerabilities.
• Knowledge of RESTful APIs and third-party API integrations.
• Experience with Git and collaborative pull-request workflows.
• Ability to independently scope, develop, test, and deliver features.
• Ability to work confidently on ambiguous tasks with minimal supervision. 

Added Advantage:
Experience in travel technology/OTA systems, automated testing with PHPUnit or Pest, CI/CD, AWS, or modernizing legacy Laravel applications.

How to Apply

Interested candidates should send their CV  to hiring@tourlast.com. Please use “Full-Stack Software Engineer (Laravel)” as the subject of your email.