Senior AI-Augmented Laravel Engineer

Location:

Fully Remote (USA) Comp: $110k - $130k + Equity + Performance Bonuses

Lumion is the all-in-one operating system for trade and technical schools. We are the central platform that powers the entire institution—from the first lead generated, to enrollment, tuition payments, compliance reporting, and alumni career tracking.

We are a well-funded, high-velocity startup backed by TTV Capital and Tusk Venture Partners. We are obsessed with helping the next generation of tradespeople launch successful careers, and we are updating our entire stack to be AI-First.

We're hiring a Senior Engineer who is all-in on AI-native workflows. If hand-crafting every line of boilerplate PHP is a badge of honor for you, this isn't the role.

You'll treat AI agents (Claude Code, Gemini, Copilot, Cursor) as your primary toolset — an orchestrator who ships comprehensive features far faster than traditional developers, architecting the automated backbone that lets trade schools scale. You'll work across multiple projects in parallel, using AI to plan, build, test, and iterate without losing sight of quality or outcomes. This is about moving the business forward: getting valuable, working software into customers' hands as fast as possible — not slowly perfecting isolated tickets.

• Outcome ownership. You own problems, not tickets — understanding the customer need, knowing why the work matters, making smart technical calls, testing what you ship, and staying accountable until it's delivering real value in the real world.
• Product thinking. You care how customers actually use what you build. You connect technical decisions to the broader product vision and turn customer problems into simple, useful software. If understanding the "why" and shaping the user experience are among your strengths, you'll thrive here.
• Judgment over vibes. Speed matters, but speed without judgment isn't enough. We're not looking for "vibe coders" who accept AI output and move on. Use AI to accelerate, then verify, refine, and simplify until the product does exactly what it should. The goal is useful software, not more code.
• Open communication. We work in the open — flag risks early, ask when the "why" is unclear, and speak up when something doesn't make sense. No surprises, no silent blockers, no unnecessary complexity.

You're joining a high-trust, high-output team — one that's greater than the sum of its parts, because people move faster and build better when they share context openly and take ownership together. We keep our egos low and take the mission seriously.

But here's the honest part: we love this work. The building, the designing, the debugging, the problem-solving — that isn't the price we pay to get somewhere. It is the fun. We enjoy it so much that it doesn’t feel like a job. So if crafting, building, and chasing down a hard bug is genuinely how you like to spend your time — if that’s what you call fun — then this is the right place.

• Core: PHP 8.4+, Laravel 12+, Livewire, Filament
• AI Tooling (Mandatory):
  You must be proficient with agentic coding tools like Claude Code, Gemini, and Codex.
• Data & AI Infra:
  MySQL, Redis, and vector databases (pgvector/Pinecone) for RAG implementations to make school data accessible via natural language.
• Testing:
  Pest PHP (AI writes the tests; you verify the coverage).

• Agentic Workflow Mastery:
  You don’t just "use ChatGPT sometimes." AI is not your “rubbery ducky.” You have a fully developed workflow using tools like Claude Code, Gemini, Codex, etc. to generate, refactor, and debug complex codebases. You live in the AI tooling so much that you occasionally wonder why you even have an IDE installed. Your workflow should be built around orchestrating AI agents to plan, generate, refactor, test, and ship real production code quickly.
• Laravel Expertise:
  You know the framework deeply enough to instantly spot when the AI is hallucinating or using an anti-pattern. You can guide the AI to use Service Providers, Facades, and Eloquent…