Senior PHP/Laravel Architect — High-Impact Platform

Hammerjack Pty Ltd; Philippines; Hybrid; PHP 1,200,000 - 2,400,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

HMO coverage with free dependent

Work From Home arrangement

20 annual leaves

Gym access with trainer

Career growth opportunities

Job summary

Emapta Philippines is seeking a Senior PHP Laravel Developer to own and strengthen a production education platform with advanced PHP, Laravel, MySQL tuning, and cloud reliability. You will shape architecture and drive secure, scalable solutions.

You will collaborate with Sydney-based leadership and work a hybrid model with on-site for 2 weeks to 1 month, then transition to WFH, aligning with AEST business hours. The role offers growth, mentorship, and global exposure.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience with strong hands-on full-stack development using PHP and Laravel.
• Strong commercial experience building production-grade web applications using PHP and Laravel, with JavaScript and modern JS frameworks.
• Proven end-to-end ownership of production systems across development, deployment, monitoring, maintenance, and troubleshooting.
• Strong SQL skills covering data modeling, schema design, query optimization, indexing, data integrity, and scalability.
• Hands-on AWS and Azure production experience, including deployments, monitoring, backups, and disaster recovery.
• Experience stabilizing and improving complex or poorly documented legacy PHP/Laravel systems.
• Knowledge of OWASP security, authentication, authorization, access control, web vulnerabilities, and secure engineering practices.

Responsibilities

• Own the architecture, maintenance, reliability, and continuous improvement roadmap for the PHP/Laravel and MySQL production platform.
• Manage database architecture, data models, schema design, query performance, indexing, capacity planning, and overall database health.
• Oversee cloud operations across AWS and Azure, including deployments, monitoring, backups, disaster recovery, operational readiness, and on-call rotations.
• Lead application security by managing access control, authentication, authorization, vulnerability prevention, and regular security reviews for student data platforms.
• Implement observability through structured logging and monitoring platforms to accelerate root-cause analysis.
• Establish disciplined release processes with CI/CD, automated testing, and reproducible builds.
• Develop backend services, system integrations, and UI features using modern JS frameworks when required.
• Improve legacy systems by reducing technical debt and documenting codebase.
• Collaborate with Sydney-based technical lead on platform architecture and AI integrations.

Skills

PHP

Laravel

SQL

AWS

Azure

CI/CD

Security

Observability

Full-stack

Leadership

Tools

Docker

Azure App Service

AWS Elastic Beanstalk

Railway

Job description

Emapta Philippines is seeking a Senior PHP Laravel Developer to own and strengthen a production education platform with advanced PHP, Laravel, MySQL tuning, and cloud reliability. You will shape architecture and drive secure, scalable solutions.

You will collaborate with Sydney-based leadership and work a hybrid model with on-site for 2 weeks to 1 month, then transition to WFH, aligning with AEST business hours. The role offers growth, mentorship, and global exposure.