Senior Software Engineer

Talent Forge Group; Philippines; Remote; PHP 1,200,000 - 2,400,000; Full time

Job summary

Talent Forge Group is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead and contribute hands-on in a SaaS HR/TA platform. You will drive technical direction, own key architecture across job boards, ATS/HRIS integrations, and AWS infra, while collaborating with founders and design leads.

You will code at a senior/lead level in Laravel/Vue 3, shaping AI-powered features and accelerating engineering workflows. This fully remote leadership role offers strong career prospects in a growing Australian-market

Qualifications

• Senior/lead-level coding ability.
• Strong experience with Laravel, MySQL, Vue 3.
• Experience with AWS services (S3, OpenSearch, Redis) and front-end architecture.

Responsibilities

• Define technical direction and architecture across the platform.
• Translate product priorities into scoped delivery plans.
• Hands-on development at senior/lead level (Laravel/Vue 3).
• Identify and drive AI opportunities in product and engineering workflows.
• Collaborate with Head of Infrastructure on AWS infra and reliability.
• Contribute to hiring and growing the dev team as it scales.

Skills

Laravel

Vue 3

MySQL

AWS

AI tooling

Education

Bachelor's in CS or related

Tools

WordPress

OpenSearch

Redis

Job description

Senior Software Engineer - Human Resources Tech / Talent Acquisition (SaaS)

• Australian Market Leader with Tier One Enterprise Clients
• AI-Enabled Recruitment Technology
• Fully Remote Leadership Role — Huge Career Prospects

Our client is hiring a hands-on Head of Engineering to own technical direction and day-to-day delivery for their recruitment technology SaaS platform. This is a senior role — you'll code at a senior/lead level while also owning key stakeholder relationships across product and leadership teams.

Frontend:

Infrastructure:

Web front-end:

You'll Own

• Technical direction and architecture across the platform (job boards, career sites, ATS/HRIS integrations, AWS infrastructure, CMS)
• Translating product priorities (set with the Founder/CEO and Product/Design lead) into a scoped, sequenced delivery plan
• Hands-on development at a senior/lead level alongside the team, primarily in Laravel/Vue 3
• Identifying and driving AI opportunities — both in the product and in how the team builds software
• Working with the Head of Infrastructure, dotted-line, on AWS infrastructure and platform reliability
• Input into hiring and growing the dev team as it scales

You Bring

• Strong product sense — you think about why, not just how
• Solid hands-on experience with Laravel, MySQL, and Vue 3; comfortable with WordPress/Varnish/NGINX front-end architecture and AWS services (S3, OpenSearch, Redis)
• Practical, applied AI experience — both building AI-powered features and using AI tooling to speed up engineering workflows
• Senior/lead-level hands-on coding ability
• Comfortable stepping into an established team and taking ownership of process immediately

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