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
- 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:
HOW TO APPLY:
1. Clone github.com/wwwidr/hiring-challenge (don't fork publicly)
2. 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 Respaid
We recover up to 85,000 invoices per day and get 50% paid within 20 days on average.
Respaid uses AI to respectfully collect overdue B2B invoices. Just give us an excel file—no attached invoices needed. We integrate with your stack or work standalone, protecting your brand's reputation while maximizing collections through our AI-powered, respectful approach.
Required skills
Job details
Salary
$42,000 - $70,000
Location
Remote
Experience
6+ years
Funding
Total raised
$3.2M
Last stage
Seed
Investors
Founders
John Banner
LinkedInWhat happens next.
No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.
Confirm the fit
A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.
I pitch you to the company
I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.
A meeting lands on your calendar
If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.