Job Description

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.

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

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The role:

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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.

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You'll be responsible for:

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



and QA engineers.
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What we're looking for:

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