DINIVIA is hiring its first engineer to join the founder. Our platform is built on Laravel and PostgreSQL and covered by more than 8,000 automated tests. You will take it into production and keep it fast, secure and dependable as restaurants and diners arrive.

You will report directly to the Founder and CEO and help decide how engineering works at DINIVIA from the start.

About DINIVIA

DINIVIA is a Toronto technology company building the way people come together around food. Our first product, DINIVIA Table, gives diners one place to discover restaurants, book a table, plan group and private dinners, order ahead and split the bill, and join social dinners with new people. For restaurants, it brings reservations, floor and table management, ordering, payments and verified guest reviews together in one platform.

We are preparing to launch in the Greater Toronto Area. Our platform is built and in final testing, our waitlist is open at dinivia.ca, and we are hiring the first team that will take DINIVIA to market.

What you will do

- Own production operations: deployments, monitoring, alerting, backups and incident response.
- Build and ship features across the platform, from database migrations to the screens restaurants and diners use every day.
- Strengthen our payment flows with our payment providers, including webhooks, idempotency and reconciliation.
- Lead application security: access control, secrets management, dependency updates, and preparation for penetration testing and PCI DSS self-assessment.
- Keep the platform fast during busy dinner service through query tuning, caching, queues and real-time updates.
- Maintain and extend our automated test suite and continuous integration pipeline.
- Share on-call duties with the founder once we are live, on a schedule agreed in advance.

Qualifications

- A degree in computer science, software engineering or a related field, or equivalent skilled experience.




- Five or more years of professional software engineering, including at least three years building production applications with Laravel and modern PHP.
- Strong PostgreSQL skills: schema design, migrations, indexing and query tuning.
- Experience running production systems with Docker, Linux, Redis and queue workers on a major cloud provider.
- Experience integrating payment providers or other financial APIs safely.
- Test-driven habits with Pest or PHPUnit.
- Sound security judgment and working knowledge of the OWASP Top 10.
- Clear written communication for remote, asynchronous work.

Preferred qualifications

- Experience with PostGIS or other geospatial data.
- Experience with Livewire, Alpine.js, Tailwind CSS or WebSockets.
- Experience building marketplaces or hospitality software.
- Familiarity with Canadian privacy law, including PIPEDA.
- A cloud certification such as AWS Certified Developer or AWS Certified Solutions Architect.

Our stack PHP 8, Laravel 12, Livewire, Alpine.js, Tailwind CSS, PostgreSQL with PostGIS, Redis, Laravel Horizon and Reverb, Pest, Docker and Sentry.

How we work

- Remote role for candidates who live in Ontario, working Eastern Time hours.
- Occasional in-person working days in Toronto. Business travel expenses are reimbursed.

What we offer

- Salary of $115,000 to $145,000 per year, based on experience.
- Stock options in DINIVIA Inc., so you share in the company you help build.
- Three weeks of paid vacation, plus Ontario public holidays.
- A founding role with direct access to the founder and real ownership of results.

Our hiring process

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The founder reads every application.
2. A 30-minute introductory video call.
3. A paired technical session of about 90 minutes on a realistic Laravel problem. There is no take-home assignment.
4. A final interview with the Founder and CEO, then reference checks.

How to apply Apply through LinkedIn with your résumé and a link to code you are proud of, or a short note about a production problem you solved.

You can also email your résumé and note to [email protected] with “Senior Software Engineer (Laravel)” in the subject line.

We thank all applicants for their interest. Only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

Ontario job posting information

- This posting is for an existing vacancy.
- DINIVIA does not use artificial intelligence to screen, assess or select applicants. A person reviews every application.
- Canadian work experience is not required, and we welcome credentials and experience gained outside Canada. Applicants must be legally entitled to work in Canada.
- We will tell every candidate we interview whether a hiring decision has been made within 45 days of their last interview.
- All compensation in this posting is in Canadian dollars.

Equal opportunity and accommodation DINIVIA is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome applications from people of every background, and we hire on skills, experience and potential. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in any part of the selection process, in line with the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, 2005 and the Ontario Human Rights Code.

To request an accommodation, email [email protected]. What you share will be kept confidential and used only to arrange your accommodation.

Follow DINIVIA

- Website: dinivia.ca
- LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/dinivia
- Instagram: instagram.com/dinivia.ca
- Facebook: facebook.com/dinivia.ca

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📌 Senior Software Engineer (Laravel) (Canada)
🏢 DINIVIA
📍 Canada