Senior Backend Engineer - Scalable APIs & Impact

Ppg; Sydney; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

BambooHR is seeking a Senior Software Engineer/Developer with experience in PHP, Perl, Python or Ruby to contribute to the next generation of our APP. You will work on multiple projects to keep us the #1 HR software for SMBs.

Join a team that loves solving problems and building world‑class software. You will write backend code, research new technologies, and help optimize performance while collaborating with frontend developers and UI designers.

Qualifications

• 5+ years experience in web development
• Experience in PHP, HTML, XML, JavaScript, CSS
• Object Oriented development
• MySQL - both SQL query language and database structure/design
• Version control software, preferably Mercurial or Git

Responsibilities

• Write code for backend processes, RESTful public web API's, and, of course, our industry leading website.
• Research technologies and engineer complete solutions to problems.
• Propose and implement performance optimizations and scaling strategies.
• Work with the rest of the team to integrate your projects into the application.
• Contribute to the ongoing improvement of our systems and processes.
• Come to work, do great things, then go home!

Skills

Web development

PHP

JavaScript

MySQL

OO programming

Tools

Mercurial

Git

Job description

BambooHR is seeking a Senior Software Engineer/Developer with experience in PHP, Perl, Python or Ruby to contribute to the next generation of our APP. You will work on multiple projects to keep us the #1 HR software for SMBs.

Join a team that loves solving problems and building world‑class software. You will write backend code, research new technologies, and help optimize performance while collaborating with frontend developers and UI designers.