Senior Laravel & PHP Engineer — Hybrid, Flexible & Growth

First Focus AU; Christchurch; Hybrid; NZD 160,000 - 175,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid and flexible working

Up to 10 paid study days per year

Certification exam fees covered

Salary increases for approved certs

Coaching with qualified psychologists

Diverse projects across industries

Job summary

First Focus is seeking an experienced Laravel/PHP Developer to join our Technology team on a 12 month fixed term contract. You’ll contribute across multiple customer engagements and internal initiatives, delivering robust, scalable business applications.

You’ll influence architecture, mentor teammates and stay hands-on while developing with Laravel, Laravel Filament and modern PHP stack.

Qualifications

• Extensive commercial experience with PHP and Laravel.
• Strong experience with Laravel Filament.
• Experience designing and consuming RESTful APIs.
• Excellent SQL skills across MySQL and PostgreSQL.
• Experience with Git, CI/CD and modern development workflows.
• Docker and containerisation experience.
• Exposure to cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure or Google Cloud.
• Solid understanding of software architecture and design patterns.
• Experience with Vue.js or React.
• Experience working within Agile teams.
• Strong communication skills with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• A natural curiosity and genuine enjoyment of solving business problems.

Responsibilities

• Developing, enhancing and maintaining Laravel applications across multiple customer environments and internal platforms.
• Building scalable ERP and CRM solutions.
• Designing and developing RESTful APIs and third-party integrations.
• Building intuitive administration interfaces using Laravel Filament.
• Optimising MySQL and PostgreSQL databases for performance and scalability.
• Contributing to architecture, design decisions and engineering standards.
• Implementing and improving CI/CD pipelines and deployment practices.
• Working with Docker and cloud platforms including AWS, Azure or Google Cloud.
• Exploring AI-assisted development where it delivers genuine customer value.
• Participating in code reviews and sharing knowledge across the engineering team.
• Mentoring developers and contributing to a collaborative engineering culture.

Skills

Laravel & PHP expertise

Laravel Filament

RESTful APIs

SQL (MySQL, PostgreSQL)

Git & CI/CD

Docker

Cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP)

Software architecture

Vue.js or React

Agile team experience

Communication with stakeholders

Curiosity & problem solving

ERP/CRM/financial systems

Tools

Git

CI/CD pipelines

Docker

Job description

First Focus is seeking an experienced Laravel/PHP Developer to join our Technology team on a 12 month fixed term contract. You’ll contribute across multiple customer engagements and internal initiatives, delivering robust, scalable business applications.

You’ll influence architecture, mentor teammates and stay hands-on while developing with Laravel, Laravel Filament and modern PHP stack.