or call Mieke Van Tonder on:This company is looking for a Senior PHP Full Stack Developer to join its development team and contribute to the evolution of a Laravel-based platform.
This role is suited to someone who enjoys solving complex technical problems, improving system architecture, and working across both backend and frontend layers of a modern, containerised application.
You will work within a small, focused office-based team, taking ownership of core service logic, background processing, and third-party integrations. The position offers a high level of ownership and the opportunity to influence technical direction.
Please note - This is a fully office based role.
Key Responsibilities
Design and develop backend services that are scalable, testable, and maintainable within a modern Laravel environment
Take ownership of service-layer logic, addressing existing gaps and implementing clean, modular solutions to support integrations and business operations
Collaborate with the team to improve queue job handling, reliability, traceability, and error management across asynchronous processes
Work closely with DevOps and QA to support CI/CD pipelines and ensure automated testing and deployments meet quality standards
Maintain and optimise local development and Docker-based environments, including queue workers and supporting services
Proactively identify and resolve technical debt, contributing to platform stability and production readiness
Support system integrations with third-party services and internal APIs
Contribute to code quality through peer reviews, consistent development patterns, and knowledge sharing
Assist with improvements to frontend tooling and workflows, contributing to UI components built with Livewire, TailwindCSS, and Vite
Stay up to date with developments across the Laravel ecosystem and contribute to ongoing technical improvements
Skills & Experience
Strong commercial experience with PHP (8.0+) and Laravel (10+), building robust and maintainable applications
Comfortable working across the full stack, including Blade, Livewire, and modern frontend tooling such as Vite, TailwindCSS, and Node
Solid understanding of database design and optimisation, ideally with MySQL, and experience using Redis for caching and queues
Experience working in containerised environments such as Docker and docker-compose
Hands-on experience with background job processing and queue-based workflows
Familiarity with Git-based workflows, pull requests, and peer code reviews
Clear communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively across teams
Pragmatic approach to testing and quality assurance, ideally with exposure to PHPUnit and CI practices
Ability to work independently on larger tasks while contributing to overall technical direction.
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