PHP Developer (Mid-level)

About the Role

The organization is an integrated full-service telecommunications provider offering a full suite of solutions to Residential, Business, Enterprise & Government and Wholesale customers. We pride ourselves on our deep technical expertise combined with relentless focus on customer experience. We’re building something big. Don’t let those shiny awards fool you, we aren’t done yet. Aussie is bringing on the best of the best to create a game-changing team that’s disrupting the land of telco. Our values are embedded in everything we do; they are how we do business. If you want to join our amazing team, they must be part of how you work too. Don’t be ordinary, be awesome. This is one fast-paced place, we need to be agile in our thinking as well as our ways of working and want to be that one stop shop for our customers.

Responsibilities

• Building end-to-end solutions across a variety of channels (e.g. internal tools and apps, customer-facing websites and apps), utilising industry best practices and leveraging the latest technologies where possible
• Build scalable applications and services using modern PHP development practices and frameworks.
• Collaborate with stakeholders throughout the software development lifecycle to deliver business value.
• Develop and maintain APIs and integrations that support system interoperability.
• Automate business processes to improve operational efficiency and user experience.
• Contribute to sprint planning, estimation, development, testing and deployment activities.
• Write clean, maintainable and well-tested code aligned with engineering standards.
• Identify and resolve technical, performance and architectural challenges.
• Participate in code reviews and continuous improvement initiatives to enhance engineering capability.
• Support the ongoing reliability, security and performance of software platforms.
• Maintain effective communication and collaboration across teams and business functions.
• Contribute to special projects and other reasonable duties as required

Qualifications

• Demonstrated commercial experience (5+ years) developing software applications using PHP and modern MVC frameworks.
• Understanding of HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript.
• Experience building and integrating RESTful APIs and web services.
• Strong knowledge of relational databases, schema design and query optimisation.
• Experience with modern software development practices, including version control (Git).
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced and evolving environment.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Ability to work autonomously and collaboratively within a remote or distributed team environment.

Highly desirable

• Exposure to Python development is highly regarded, including experience building scalable applications, APIs, automation solutions, and data processing workflows.
• Laravel experience highly regarded
• CI/CD experience highly regarded
• An understanding of the telco industry
• A willingness for self-directed learning
• Ability to design and implement complex software solutions
• Background in iOS and Android app development highly regarded