Mid-Level Laravel Engineer

Overview

Our company is deeply committed to driving excellence and empowering our people to make meaningful contributions that impact our business and customers. We believe in bridging skill gaps, creating opportunities for career growth, and fostering a culture where innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement thrive. Joining our team means becoming part of an environment where your expertise is valued, and your development is a priority as we collectively strive for impactful results.

As we continue to grow and expand our capabilities, we are seeking a dedicated Mid-Level Laravel Engineer to join our dynamic Development/TechOps team. Based in Bryanston, Sandton, this role is crucial for enhancing our technological infrastructure and contributing to the robust systems that underpin our operations. The successful candidate will play a vital part in developing and maintaining high-quality applications, ensuring our platforms remain efficient, scalable, and responsive to our evolving business needs.

Duties & Responsibilities

• This role plays a key part in driving the technical direction of our platform
• mentoring a team of talented developers
• working closely with product and design to ship high-quality, scalable features
• You will be an escalation point for the team
• unblocking developers
• reviewing code
• helping own the reliability of our platform
• Build and ship production features in Laravel end-to-end.
• Review PRs from peers and junior engineers.
• Debug live production issues and escalate when needed.
• Respond to alerts, triage, apply fixes, or hand off with context.
• RESTful API development and integration with other APIs and systems.
• design and write major production systems end-to-end as primary author.
• Build robust, performant full-stack features using Laravel (backend) and Vue.js / React / Next.js (frontend).
• Develop and maintain RESTful APIs and GraphQL endpoints consumed by web and mobile clients.
• Write high-quality, well-tested code with a focus on PHPUnit, Pest, and feature/integration testing.
• Optimise database queries (MySQL/MariaDB, BigQuery), caching strategies (Redis), and background job processing (Laravel Queues, Horizon).
• Champion CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and zero-downtime deployments.