Staff Full Stack Engineer

Jobtailor; Dublin; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor is seeking an experienced software architecture-focused engineer in Dublin to guide the platform’s direction across billing, practice management and clinical workflows. You will own system design discussions, ADRs, and code quality as you refactor legacy PHP/Laravel and MySQL.

You will build end-to-end features, define API contracts, and collaborate with DevOps on CI/CD pipelines while mentoring peers and introducing AI-assisted workflows where valuable.

Qualifications

• Proven production experience with PHP, Laravel and MySQL.
• Frontend experience with React or Vue in production.
• TypeScript and modern JavaScript.
• Solid CSS and SCSS, HTML5, accessibility, and modern build tooling (Vite, Webpack or similar).
• REST API design experience.
• Comfortable with contracts, versioning and error handling.
• Strong system design skills.
• Production experience with AWS or Azure.
• Experience setting up CI/CD flows (GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps or similar).
• Experience mentoring engineers, formally or informally.
• Working knowledge of GDPR and UK GDPR around data handling and access.
• Effective use of AI developer tools (Claude, Codex, Cursor or similar).

Responsibilities

• Help plan the platform's architectural direction across billing, practice management and clinical workflows.
• Drive architecture and system design discussions.
• Write ADRs and run design reviews.
• Refactor legacy PHP/Laravel, MySQL and frontend code.
• Sequence the work so we keep shipping while we improve.
• Define service boundaries, data ownership, API contracts and frontend architecture.
• Build features end to end, from database schema to UI, including UX, accessibility and performance.
• Partner with DevOps on CI/CD pipelines.
• Set up and improve build, test and deploy flows.
• Mentor mid-level and junior engineers through pairing, code review and design feedback.
• Build AI features and LLM‑assisted workflows into the product where they add value.
• Lead during incidents and write the postmortems. Turn lessons into systemic fixes.

Tools

Laravel

MySQL

React

Vue

TypeScript

JavaScript

CSS/SCSS

HTML5

Vite

Webpack

REST APIs

AWS

Azure

CI/CD (GitHub Actions)

Azure DevOps

GDPR/UK GDPR

AI tools (Claude/Codex)

Job description

• Help plan the platform's architectural direction across billing, practice management and clinical workflows.
• Drive architecture and system design discussions.
• Write ADRs and run design reviews.
• Refactor legacy PHP/Laravel, MySQL and frontend code.
• Sequence the work so we keep shipping while we improve.
• Define service boundaries, data ownership, API contracts and frontend architecture.
• Build features end to end, from database schema to UI, including UX, accessibility and performance.
• Partner with DevOps on CI/CD pipelines.
• Set up and improve build, test and deploy flows.
• Mentor mid-level and junior engineers through pairing, code review and design feedback.
• Build AI features and LLM‑assisted workflows into the product where they add value.
• Lead during incidents and write the postmortems. Turn lessons into systemic fixes.

Requirements

• Strong production experience with PHP, Laravel and MySQL.
• Frontend experience with React or Vue in production.
• TypeScript and modern JavaScript.
• Solid CSS and SCSS, HTML5, accessibility, and modern build tooling (Vite, Webpack or similar).
• REST API design experience.
• Comfortable with contracts, versioning and error handling.
• Strong system design skills.
• Production experience with AWS or Azure.
• Experience setting up CI/CD flows (GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps or similar).
• Experience mentoring engineers, formally or informally.
• Working knowledge of GDPR and UK GDPR around data handling and access.
• Effective use of AI developer tools (Claude, Codex, Cursor or similar).