Senior PHP Engineer - Laravel, AWS & APIs

Reapit; Australia; Hybrid; AUD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Reapit, a global proptech brand, is seeking a senior backend engineer to advance its PHP/Laravel services powering real estate workflows. You’ll design and maintain backend systems, APIs (REST and GraphQL), and champion secure, scalable code across MySQL databases and containerised deployments.

Reporting to the Engineering Director, you’ll work with AWS EKS, Docker, Lambda, CI/CD pipelines, and collaborate with Product, QA, DevOps and front-end teams to deliver end-to-end features and reliable

Qualifications

• Senior backend engineer with strong PHP and Laravel experience.
• Deep knowledge of Composer, autoloading, and multi-package setups.
• Extensive MySQL schema design, indexing and migrations.
• Hands-on AWS and containerised development with Docker, EKS and Lambda.
• Experience with automated testing, CI/CD and observability.
• Ability to read architecture diagrams and work independently.
• Excellent collaboration with Product, QA, DevOps and squads.
• Security-conscious with OWASP awareness and handling of secrets.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain PHP backend services and APIs.
• Manage dependencies with Composer; keep services up to date and secure.
• Work with Docker containers deployed to AWS EKS; tune builds and scaling.
• Implement serverless components in AWS Lambda when appropriate.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to refine requirements.
• Own complex tickets end-to-end from spec to production.
• Contribute to CI/CD pipelines and improve deployments.
• Participate in incident response and root-cause analysis.
• Apply security best practices in code and deployments.
• Optionally collaborate with front-end React/TypeScript teams.

Skills

PHP

Laravel

MySQL

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes / EKS

Lambda

REST & GraphQL

CI/CD

Testing (unit/integration)

Security best practices

Git/GitFlow

Team collaboration

Tools

Composer

GitHub / GitFlow

Job description

Reapit, a global proptech brand, is seeking a senior backend engineer to advance its PHP/Laravel services powering real estate workflows. You’ll design and maintain backend systems, APIs (REST and GraphQL), and champion secure, scalable code across MySQL databases and containerised deployments.

Reporting to the Engineering Director, you’ll work with AWS EKS, Docker, Lambda, CI/CD pipelines, and collaborate with Product, QA, DevOps and front-end teams to deliver end-to-end features and reliable