Senior Laravel Backend Engineer — AI-Driven SaaS

Novus Recruitment Solutions; Sydney; On-site; AUD 160,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary + super

Equity or options

Ownership of features

Fast interview feedback

Job summary

Novus Recruitment Solutions is partnering with a Sydney SaaS scaleup to hire a senior backend engineer. The role focuses on the Laravel API, multi-tenant design, and secure, scalable data handling in the cloud. You will own backend features end to end and set coding standards for the team.

You’ll work with frontend, data and AI engineers and help make AI-enabled engineering the default, while shaping architecture, CI/CD, migrations, and security practices across the platform.

Qualifications

• Strong commercial experience with PHP and Laravel
• Relational database design, indexing, migrations on MySQL or Postgres
• Designing REST APIs with versioning, pagination and error handling
• Experience with multi-tenant SaaS architecture
• Security-minded approach beyond happy path
• Strong testing habit and shipping confidence
• AI-assisted engineering tools familiarity (Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot)
• Senior level communication and autonomy

Responsibilities

• Own the Laravel API and services end to end
• Make architectural calls as the platform scales
• Collaborate with frontend, data and AI engineers and Product
• Set coding standards, reviews and technical direction
• Improve reliability, observability, CI/CD, migrations and release processes

Skills

PHP/Laravel

Relational databases (MySQL/PostgreSQL

REST API design

Multi-tenant architecture

Security minded

Testing discipline

AI tooling familiarity

Senior communication

Tools

Docker

AWS (RDS)

CI/CD

Job description

Novus Recruitment Solutions is partnering with a Sydney SaaS scaleup to hire a senior backend engineer. The role focuses on the Laravel API, multi-tenant design, and secure, scalable data handling in the cloud. You will own backend features end to end and set coding standards for the team.

You’ll work with frontend, data and AI engineers and help make AI-enabled engineering the default, while shaping architecture, CI/CD, migrations, and security practices across the platform.