Senior PHP Platform Lead | Laravel/Symfony

Unitrade 745 (Pty) Ltd; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

Unitrade 745 (Pty) Ltd in Cape Town is seeking an experienced PHP Developer to own a mature PHP-based platform within its Revenue Systems division. You will begin with knowledge transfer from an external partner and become the internal technical authority for future enhancements, maintenance and long-term platform development.

The role focuses on maintaining and optimising production systems, delivering new features, building integrations with third-party systems and APIs, and ensuring

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field (CS/IT/SE).
• 5+ years commercial PHP development experience.

Responsibilities

• Take ownership of a mature PHP-based software platform
• Participate in structured knowledge transfer from an external development partner
• Maintain, support, and optimise existing production systems
• Develop new features and enhancements aligned with business requirements
• Build and maintain integrations with third-party systems and APIs
• Ensure software reliability, scalability, and performance
• Contribute to architectural decisions and platform improvements
• Collaborate with stakeholders across technical and operational teams
• Support best practices in software development, testing, and deployment

Skills

PHP

MySQL/PostgreSQL

RESTful APIs

Git & CI/CD

OAuth2/JWT

Agile/Scrum

Laravel/Symfony

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science / IT / Software Engineering

Tools

Git

CI/CD Pipelines

Job description

Unitrade 745 (Pty) Ltd in Cape Town is seeking an experienced PHP Developer to own a mature PHP-based platform within its Revenue Systems division. You will begin with knowledge transfer from an external partner and become the internal technical authority for future enhancements, maintenance and long-term platform development.

The role focuses on maintaining and optimising production systems, delivering new features, building integrations with third-party systems and APIs, and ensuring