We're hiring a Senior PHP Software Engineer to join one of Australia's most well-resourced engineering organisations, building a next generation platform from the ground up.
This is a rare chance to shape a cloud-native PHP platform from day one, rather than maintaining or extending legacy code.
The organisation processes significant transaction volumes for millions of customers across Australia and is investing heavily in AI as a core part of its engineering workflow, under experienced leadership with a track record of building world-class digital products.
This is a full-ownership role, not a build-and-hand-off position.
You'll own architecture decisions, production quality, observability, and reliability for whatever you ship, designing the platform end to end rather than integrating on top of a system someone else built.
What You'll Be Working On
Designing and building production-grade PHP microservices and cloud-native platform components from scratch
Owning advanced MySQL database design, query optimisation, and performance tuning at scale
Integrating AWS services including S3, SQS, SNS, and Cognito into a modern cloud-native architecture
Using agentic coding tools including Claude Code, Copilot, and Gemini CLI as a day-one engineering requirement, not a nice-to-have
Owning incident response, observability via AWS CloudWatch and Dynatrace, and reliability for everything you ship
Working with real architectural autonomy, shaping technical direction alongside product, design, and QA rather than just executing tickets
The Opportunity
We're hiring a Senior PHP Software Engineer to join one of Australia's most well-resourced engineering organisations, building a next generation platform from the ground up.
This is a rare chance to shape a cloud-native PHP platform from day one, rather than maintaining or extending legacy code.




The organisation processes significant transaction volumes for millions of customers across Australia and is investing heavily in AI as a core part of its engineering workflow, under experienced leadership with a track record of building world-class digital products.
This is a full-ownership role, not a build-and-hand-off position.
You'll own architecture decisions, production quality, observability, and reliability for whatever you ship, designing the platform end to end rather than integrating on top of a system someone else built.
What You'll Be Working On
Designing and building production-grade PHP microservices and cloud-native platform components from scratch
Owning advanced MySQL database design, query optimisation, and performance tuning at scale
Integrating AWS services including S3, SQS, SNS, and Cognito into a modern cloud-native architecture
Using agentic coding tools including Claude Code, Copilot, and Gemini CLI as a day-one engineering requirement, not a nice-to-have
Owning incident response, observability via AWS CloudWatch and Dynatrace, and reliability for everything you ship
Working with real architectural autonomy, shaping technical direction alongside product, design, and QA rather than just executing tickets
This is an chance to genuinely shape both the platform and how it's built and operated.
What We're Looking For
Strong, recent production PHP experience in a cloud-native environment, not agency or WordPress work
Hands-on experience building scalable, decoupled microservices with high standards on code maintainability
Advanced MySQL knowledge including indexing, query performance tuning, and database optimisation at scale
Solid AWS experience and familiarity with cloud-native application development
A track record of owning systems end to end including incident response under real business consequences
Active daily use of agentic coding tools with concrete examples of how they've changed how you work
Genuine enthusiasm for architecting a platform from scratch rather than working within an existing framework
Package Details
Competitive base salary, open for the right candidate
Hybrid, 3 days office-based, Sydney CBD
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📌 Senior Php Developer (New South Wales)
🏢 Preacta Recruitment
📍 New South Wales