Senior PHP Platform Architect - AI-Driven Cloud Engineer

JS Careers; Sydney; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

JS Careers is partnering with a leading global financial services group to hire a hands-on PHP engineer in Sydney. The role blends technical leadership with shaping architecture while continuing to write production code on an evolving platform.

You'll drive end-to-end technical leadership for PHP-based cloud applications, mentor junior engineers, and influence platform direction through architecture decisions and AI-assisted delivery practices.

Qualifications

• Extensive PHP experience for cloud-based apps.
• Proven ability to design decoupled, scalable systems.
• Experience with microservices and service-oriented architectures.
• Familiarity with AWS and cloud-native development.

Responsibilities

• Providing end-to-end technical leadership across PHP-based cloud applications.
• Leading design decisions through POCs and high-performance, critical code components.
• Mentoring and leading junior engineers, uplifting technical capability across the team.
• AI-assisted software engineering and embedding AI-enabled practices into day-to-day delivery.
• Collaborating closely with product managers, designers, and QA engineers.

Skills

PHP engineering

Technical leadership

Architectural design

AI-assisted engineering

Cloud architecture

Tools

AWS

MySQL

CloudWatch

Dynatrace

Claude Code

Copilot

Gemini CLI

Job description

JS Careers is partnering with a leading global financial services group to hire a hands-on PHP engineer in Sydney. The role blends technical leadership with shaping architecture while continuing to write production code on an evolving platform.

You'll drive end-to-end technical leadership for PHP-based cloud applications, mentor junior engineers, and influence platform direction through architecture decisions and AI-assisted delivery practices.