Senior Full Stack Laravel / VueJS Engineer

Boardroom Appointments; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 900,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Boardroom Appointments is seeking a Senior Full Stack Laravel / VueJS Engineer to join our core development team in Cape Town. You will learn the domain, drive feature development, and mentor junior members while collaborating with support, sales, and management to deliver scalable SaaS solutions.

You will guide architectural decisions, optimize performance, and ensure secure, robust implementations across PHP, Laravel, and Vue.js stacks in a multi-tenant environment.

Qualifications

• Experience in full-stack development using PHP, Laravel and Vue.js.
• Proven track record leading a SaaS team and mentoring juniors.
• Exposure to DevOps practices and production deployments.

Responsibilities

• Part of core development team and learn domain and tech stack.
• Collaborate with support, sales, and management to build features and improve performance.
• Mentor junior developers and guide the team through challenges.
• Lead technical decisions and ensure timely delivery of features.

Skills

Full-stack development

Laravel

Vue.js

PHP

Team leadership

API integration

AWS

Docker

MySQL

English/Afrikaans

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related

Tools

Docker

MySQL

AWS

APIs

Job description

Senior Full Stack Laravel / VueJS Engineer

About the job Senior Full Stack Laravel / VueJS Engineer

Responsibilities:

• You'll be part of our core development team and start with a mission to learn the domain and tech stack and start adding value by assuming key responsibilities.
• You'll liaise with our support, sales, and management teams to define and solve new challenges and build new features, improve existing ones and improve the overall performance of the system.
• You'll assist in guiding, coaching, and mentoring junior developers and new team members.
• You'll use your experience to guide the team when facing challenges.
• You'll liaise with our banking partners to solve hard technical problems and implement innovative solutions.
• You'll have the responsibility to ensure the dev team's features are completed timeously and adhere to best practices.
• You'll help us think strategically about technology decisions and priorities.
• You'll come up with innovative ways to make the solutions better, faster & more secure and drive the implementation of your ideas.

Requirements:

• Native Level proficiency (English or Afrikaans)
• Minimum of 6 + years working with various web technologies
• Minimum of 4 + years as a team & technical lead on a large-scale SaaS solution.
• Experience developing full-stack solutions where you were responsible or involved in the A-Z of the project
• DevOps experience - deploying and maintaining production-level applications
• Experience with multi-tenancy (SaaS) applications
• Interest or experience in finances (FinTech) and accounting.
• Very good understanding of basic accounting principles.
• Interest or experience in the property industry (PropTech).
• Experience building & maintaining third-party integrations and working with APIs.
• Experience leading a team and mentoring junior developers

Technical Experience:

• PHP (Preferred), Java or C# (Object-oriented codebases)
• Laravel and Vue.js Frameworks
• Docker
• MySQL
• AWS
• Flutter / Swift / Android (Beneficial but not required)