Laravel Engineer — Scale a Fintech Platform

Superhero; Sydney; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Modern CBD office with perks

Paid parental leave on top of gov. IFS

Training and professional development

Employee Assistance Program

Job summary

Superhero is an award-winning Australian investment platform seeking a Laravel Engineer to join our high-performing engineering team. You will design, ship features, optimise performance at scale, and maintain code quality across the Laravel stack. AI coding tools are part of how we work, and you will know when to override them.

If you're technically strong and care about production quality, your work will reach hundreds of thousands of real investors and contribute to democratising investing.

Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years of hands-on Laravel development experience.
• Fluency with the modern Laravel ecosystem (Laravel 11/12, Eloquent, Queues, Events, Jobs) and PHP 8.2+ features.
• Experience with relational databases (MySQL or PostgreSQL) including schema design, query optimisation and migrations at scale.
• Practical experience incorporating AI coding assistants (Claude Code, GitHub Copilot) into daily workflows with discipline to validate/refactor/override AI output.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities with an innovative mindset.
• Attention to detail in code and project management with a customer-centric approach.
• Ability to thrive in a dynamic environment and adapt to changing priorities.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills across teams.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable features for Superhero's Laravel applications.
• Actively leverage AI coding tools to accelerate feature delivery with rigorous testing and code review.
• Conduct thorough peer code reviews to ensure performance, security, and maintainability.
• Collaborate with frontend, SRE, and QA engineers to foster a positive team environment.
• Develop critical features and modules with timely delivery of high-quality software.
• Diagnose and optimise performance bottlenecks in MariaDB/MySQL, Redis, and application layers.
• Implement monitoring and logging to proactively identify issues and ensure reliability.
• Maintain up-to-date documentation of the codebase.
• Evaluate and adopt emerging Laravel/PHP technologies to drive efficiency.
• Write comprehensive unit and integration tests for financial workflows.
• Implement robust security practices in line with industry standards.
• Drive continuous improvement in development processes.

Skills

Laravel

PHP 8.2+

MySQL

PostgreSQL

AI tool usage

Tools

Claude Code

GitHub Copilot

Redis

AWS

Job description

Superhero is an award-winning Australian investment platform seeking a Laravel Engineer to join our high-performing engineering team. You will design, ship features, optimise performance at scale, and maintain code quality across the Laravel stack. AI coding tools are part of how we work, and you will know when to override them.

If you're technically strong and care about production quality, your work will reach hundreds of thousands of real investors and contribute to democratising investing.