Software Engineer (PHP)

Nexigen Digital; City of Melbourne; On-site; AUD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Weekly meals in on-site kitchen

Fully-stocked snack bar

Drinks fridge on-site

On-site gym with training sessions

Wellness centre with gaming stadium

On-site barber and hairdresser

Job summary

Nexigen Digital, based in Melbourne, is seeking a Software Engineer to join a close, agile team delivering updates to internal and customer-facing systems. The role focuses on secure, scalable PHP development using Laravel and related tech, with opportunities to work across core billing, CRM, and registrar platforms.

The successful candidate will have 3+ years of PHP experience, strong MVC knowledge, and familiarity with Linux and MySQL/MariaDB.

Qualifications

• Three or more years of PHP development experience.
• Strong understanding of PHP and MVC design patterns.
• Experience with PHP frameworks Laravel, Symfony and Phalcon.
• Comfort with Linux environments.
• Relational databases with MySQL/MariaDB; database schema design.
• Experience integrating external APIs.
• Git version control and GitHub usage.

Responsibilities

• Build secure, reliable, and scalable code across platforms.
• Work with PHP technologies such as Laravel 12 and PHP 8.4.
• Maintain and improve core billing and CRM systems, registrar platforms, and new projects.
• Collaborate with product managers and engineers to scope, build, test, and deploy features.
• Solve complex integration scenarios with external providers.
• Commit to learning new skills and improving code quality.

Skills

PHP development

MVC pattern

Laravel

Symfony

Phalcon

Linux

MySQL / MariaDB

Git

Team collaboration

PER Coding Style

Testing

Tools

GitHub

Job description

We are Australia’s largest privately-owned group of online service providers, which includes brands such as VentraIP, Synergy Wholesale and Intaserve.

Every day our all-Australian team delivers exceptional service and outstanding support to our 200,000+ customers who choose us for their domain names, website hosting and digital marketing.

Over the past fifteen years, we have been constant game-changers, industry innovators, award winners, and community leaders - and now is your chance to join our team.

The Position

As a Software Engineer at Nexigen Digital, you will work with a close, agile team to deliver new projects and continuous improvements to our internal and customer facing systems. We're looking for someone who is passionate, proactive, goal oriented and posses excellent problem solving skills.

We know first hand that brilliant software engineers come from a variety of backgrounds and experiences, in fact, some of our developers started out on our own customer service help desk. We pride ourselves on maintaining a team culture that provides provides opportunities through collaboration, knowledge sharing and continuous learning and development, and as such are able to provide opportunities to a range of developers with different skillsets and experience.

An average day may include any or all of the following tasks:

• Building secure, reliable and scalable code that can be used across our platforms
• Working with the latest PHP web technologies such as Laravel 12 and PHP 8.4
• Maintaining and improving our core billing and CRM systems, domain registrar platforms and our new projects in the pipeline, with opportunities to work across projects and teams
• Work with our product managers and fellow software engineers to scope, build, test and deploy new features and fixes across our projects and products
• Solving complex integration scenarios with external providers and suppliers
• Learning something new

The right person (is it you?)

• Has three or more years' experience in PHP development (we'll take personal & self taught experience into consideration as well)
• Has a strong understanding of PHP and common web application design patterns, such as MVC
• Has experience using PHP frameworks such as Laravel, Symfony, and Phalcon
• Knows their way around a command line and has an understanding of Linux environments
• Has a good understanding of relational databases using MySQL/MariaDB and is familiar with designing database schemas
• Has previously worked with external API providers and integrated them into existing projects
• Knows their way around git and git hosting platforms such as GitHub, with a strong understanding of version control systems
• Is able to work collaboratively within a team environment and follow established standard processes
• Can follow and maintain PER Coding Style guidelines
• Maintains a great attention to detail and able to throughly test their own work to ensure a high quality hand over

Handy things to have (or are able to learn)

• Experience with the React.js framework
• Have an understanding regarding implementation of good UI/UX in web development
• Familiar with semantic versioning and changelogs
• Knowledge of the Domain Name and Web Hosting (cPanel, WHM, Plesk, etc.) industry is valuable
• Experience and know how to work with Perl and Python languages
• Experience with Agile Methodology

The Benefits of Working With the Nexigen Digital Team

Aside from being awarded “Employer of Choice” in the Australian Business Awards, we are often referred to as the Google of south-east Melbourne thanks to our unique facilities and team culture, and a top-down mandate to take care of the people who take care of our customers.

Some of the office perks include:

• A weekly selection of delicious meals prepared in our on-site kitchen for breakfast and lunch.
• A fully-stocked snack bar featuring an assortment of chips, chocolates, nuts, protein bars and fresh fruit.
• A drink fridge loaded with an assortment of soft drinks, juices and water.
• A fully equipped private gym with weekly on-site personal training sessions.
• A team wellness centre with a sound-proof gaming stadium featuring an 85” 4K TV, racing car simulator, pinball machine, arcade machine, and air hockey table.
• An on-site salon where our resident barber and stylist provide free haircuts on a regular basis.

We actively encourage training and upskilling for personal development and will fund courses that have a beneficial impact on the business.

Please note that due to strict security requirements the successful applicant will be required to complete a National Police Check as a condition of employment.