We're a legal tech company looking for a part-time Laravel developer to help build and maintain our production platform. Remote, flexible hours, US-based.

NotaryDash.com simplifies and secures document signing globally through a network of 260,000+ notaries and legal service providers. Our platform powers remote online notarization, real estate closings, mass tort claimant connection, and corporate legal team workflows.

The Role

We're looking for a part-time Laravel developer to work alongside our lead developer on an existing production application. You'll pick up tickets from a prioritized backlog and ship code independently. This is hands-on feature development and bug fixing — not architecture astronautics.

What You'll Do

• Build and ship features from a prioritized backlog
• Fix bugs and resolve production issues
• Write clean, testable code with proper migrations and documentation
• Collaborate async via pull requests and code review
• Work with third-party API integrations as needed

Dev Experience

• AI-native workflow — unrestricted access to top-tier models, no token limits
• Agentic code review — automated PR analysis so you spend less time on boilerplate
• Ship, don't churn — less grunt work, more building
• Relaxed, but focused — small team, results not lines of code

The Stack
Laravel 10 on PHP 8.1, MySQL 8 with JSON columns, Redis for caching and queues, Vue.js on the frontend with Tailwind. Nothing exotic — just a well-established production app that handles real money and real documents for real people.

You'll touch things like Twilio for SMS, Google Maps for geolocation across 260k+ notary addresses, payment and invoicing workflows, PDF generation, e-signatures, and a bunch of webhook integrations. The kind of stuff that's actually interesting to debug.

Backend

• Laravel 10 on PHP 8.1 — Eloquent, queues, scheduled commands, custom Artisan tooling
• MySQL 8 — complex relational schema with JSON columns, indexed queries at scale
• Redis — caching layer, queue backend, real-time counters
• Laravel Horizon — queue monitoring and job management

• Vue.js — reactive components inside Blade templates
• Tailwind CSS — utility-first styling

• Twilio — SMS notifications and two-factor auth
• Google Maps / Distance Matrix API — geolocation, driving time calculations across 260k+ notary addresses
• Payment processing — invoicing, automated billing workflows
• Document signing — PDF generation, e-signature coordination
• Webhooks — inbound and outbound event-driven integrations

AI & Machine Learning

• MCP Integrations — We're building Model Context Protocol servers for select clients who want AI-powered access to their platform data. These are privacy-first integrations — zero data retention, no LLM training on client data, strict access scoping. Our clients handle sensitive legal and financial documents, and they know it.
• Private AI — For clients who need it, we're exploring fine-tuned models trained exclusively on their own data, running on isolated infrastructure. No shared weights, no commingled training sets, no third-party inference endpoints. Their data stays theirs — full stop.

Infrastructure

• Google Cloud Platform — Compute Engine, Cloud Storage, Cloud Monitoring
• Docker — local dev environment mirroring production
• GitHub & GitHub Actions — all builds sent through our pipeline for CI/CD

Testing & Quality

• PHPUnit — backend test suite, TDD workflow — tests before code
• Playwright — browser-based E2E testing
• Sentry — error tracking and uptime monitoring

What We're Looking For

• 2+ years of production Laravel experience (not just tutorials)
• Comfortable working from a ticket queue with minimal hand-holding
• Solid understanding of Eloquent, migrations, and Laravel's request lifecycle
• Experience with Vue.js for frontend work
• Familiarity with Redis, queues, and job processing
• Clean Git workflow — meaningful commits, PRs, no force-pushing to main
• Strong written communication for async collaboration

Nice to Have

• Experience with Docker-based development environments
• GCP or cloud infrastructure experience
• Background in legal tech, real estate, or notary services
• Familiarity with payment processing or document signing workflows
• Experience with geolocation APIs or mapping integrations
• Playwright or browser automation testing

Logistics

• 10–30 hours per week, flexible scheduling
• $60–$100/hr depending on experience
• Fully remote (US-based / Canadian candidates only)
• Paid trial project to start — we'll give you a real ticket from the backlog
• 1099 contractor position

How to Apply

Send a brief intro and a link to your GitHub or a recent Laravel project you've worked on. Skip the cover letter — we'd rather see your code. Bonus points if you can point to a specific PR or feature you shipped.