JS Careers is partnering with a leading global financial services group for a hands-on PHP engineering role.This role is responsible for shaping architecture, delivery, and technical leadership while continuing to write production code across an evolving platform.

The ideal candidate has solid PHP engineering credentials and is looking to step into a role that blends technical leadership with influence over platform direction.

The role:

You'll balance technical contribution with architectural leadership on a business-critical platform, acting as a senior engineering voice across complex, cross-functional initiatives as the team drives the next evolution of the platform.

You'll be responsible for:

- Providing end-to-end technical leadership across PHP-based cloud applications.
- Leading design decisions through POCs and high-performance, critical code components.
- Mentoring and leading junior engineers, uplifting technical capability across the team.
- AI-assisted software engineering and embedding AI-enabled practices into day-to-day delivery.
- Collaborating closely with product managers, designers, and QA engineers.





What we're looking for:

- Strong depth of experience building PHP-based applications for the cloud.
- Solid understanding of performant, resilient, decoupled software systems with high standards of code maintainability.
- Proven experience using AI-assisted engineering tools such as Claude Code, Copilot or Gemini CLI.
- Experience designing and evolving service-oriented and microservices architectures.
- Advanced knowledge of database optimisation, indexing, and query performance tuning for MySQL.
- Proven AWS experience (e.g. S3, SQS, SNS, Cognito) and familiarity with cloud-native application development.
- Knowledge of monitoring and observability tools (e.g. AWS CloudWatch, Dynatrace).
- Good understanding of cybersecurity principles, security standards and compliance frameworks (e.g. ISO 27001) is highly regarded.
- Knowledge of secure coding practices is highly regarded (Secure Code Warrior experience a bonus).

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📌 PHP Engineer | Daily Rate Contract (Sydney)
🏢 JS Careers
📍 Sydney