Senior Software Engineer - React/PHP, AI-Driven Platform

ELMO; Sydney; On-site; AUD 140,000 - 175,000; Full time

Job summary

ELMO Software is seeking a Senior Software Engineer (React/PHP) to contribute technical excellence across our platform. Reporting to the Technical Team Lead, you will ship high-quality software and mentor teammates in a fast-paced, AI-enabled engineering culture.

You will leverage React, PHP, and AWS to design and implement scalable features, manage technical debt, and collaborate with product management and stakeholders to deliver value to 2,000+ mid-sized organisations across ANZ.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in CS, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of software engineering in Agile/Scrum.
• Experience with design patterns, DDD, API design, microservices, Kafka.
• Hands-on AWS and scalable, concurrent apps.
• PostgreSQL and Git proficiency.
• OWASP Top 10 awareness with observability and debugging.
• Strong analytical and adaptable mindset.

Responsibilities

• Ship maintainable React/PHP software to production.
• Prioritize features and reduce technical debt.
• Mentor engineers and support the team.
• Maintain customer-centric decisions in technical work.
• Drive continuous improvement across the product and team.
• Collaborate with teammates, leads, and stakeholders.

Skills

React

PHP

AWS

DDD

API design

Microservices

Kafka

PostgreSQL

Git

OWASP Top 10

Observability

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience

Tools

AWS

PostgreSQL

Kafka

Git

Job description

ELMO Software is seeking a Senior Software Engineer (React/PHP) to contribute technical excellence across our platform. Reporting to the Technical Team Lead, you will ship high-quality software and mentor teammates in a fast-paced, AI-enabled engineering culture.

You will leverage React, PHP, and AWS to design and implement scalable features, manage technical debt, and collaborate with product management and stakeholders to deliver value to 2,000+ mid-sized organisations across ANZ.