Senior PHP Laravel Full-Stack Engineer — Scale Global Apps

Storyteq; South Africa; On-site; ZAR 1,397,000 - 2,236,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

27 days of annual leave

Travel allowance

Bicycle lease plan

Excellent tools: Laptop & Monitor

Training, courses & books

Mental health support

Office lunches and snacks

Friday drinks

Pension contributions (NL)

Pet-friendly office

Job summary

Storyteq is seeking a senior full-stack engineer to join our Amsterdam-based team, building robust backend services and frontend features with real product impact. You will collaborate across product, design, DevOps to scale our platform, implement new features, and maintain high performance.

The role emphasizes engineering excellence, shared ownership, and mentoring colleagues in best practices. You will help deliver end-to-end value for global enterprises, shaping the platform's future.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on experience delivering full-stack products with PHP (Laravel).
• Experience with Vue.js (or other front-end frameworks).
• Solid experience designing and integrating REST and/or GraphQL APIs.
• Proficient in data modeling and working with SQL/NoSQL databases.
• Familiar with testing practices, performance tuning, and scalable design principles.
• You're proactive, result-driven, and excited to work in a fast-growing tech scale-up.
• Confident in making architectural decisions and communicating trade-offs.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.

Responsibilities

• Build and ship robust backend services and frontends with real product impact.
• Ensure systems are scalable, performant and easy to maintain.
• Collaborate across teams to integrate services and deliver end-to-end value.
• Model business domains into clean, performant data structures.
• Coach and mentor other engineers on best practices to help them grow.
• Collaborate with other engineers and lead technical delivery on initiatives within a domain or project.
• Lead by example in engineering excellence, pragmatism and shared ownership.

Skills

PHP

Laravel

Vue.js

REST API

GraphQL

Monorepo

SQL/NoSQL

Testing

Architectural decisions

English communication

Tools

GitLab CI/CD

DevOps

Public Cloud (GCP)

Job description

Storyteq is seeking a senior full-stack engineer to join our Amsterdam-based team, building robust backend services and frontend features with real product impact. You will collaborate across product, design, DevOps to scale our platform, implement new features, and maintain high performance.

The role emphasizes engineering excellence, shared ownership, and mentoring colleagues in best practices. You will help deliver end-to-end value for global enterprises, shaping the platform's future.