PHP Engineer - Contract — Melbourne, Melbourne Region
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Job Description What if your next contract gave you a seat at the table - not just the keyboard? You’ll be part of a startup-style product team inside a top-tier enterprise, re-architecting the system at the centre of a $100B Australian market. The product is a mission-critical ERP/CRM system automating business processes for the majority of Australia’s strata market - backed by a major financial technology company that’s quietly recruited senior talent from Google, Meta, and Amazon. It’s used every day by businesses that manage millions of homes and billions in funds. We’re hiring Senior Engineers who want to go deep on performance, scale, and security, and build systems that actually matter. You'll help reshape the platform, uplift coding standards, and own meaningful slices of the technical strategy. What’s in it for you? Up to $1,050/day with long-term scope – 12 months initially with strong likelihood to extend Architect-level influence without sacrificing hands-on coding A platform that matters – high-scale, high-stakes, genuinely used by an entire sector Modernisation in motion – replatforming from legacy to modular, secure cloud services Clear growth track – feature or tech leadership (if that’s your thing) Tight-knit engineering team – high trust, high performance, low ego Hybrid flexibility – 3 days in the office, Sydney or Melbourne What you’ll be doing Re-architect a PHP-based platform into clean, scalable modules Write performant, secure, maintainable code that will stand up at scale Optimise MySQL queries, indexes, and performance-critical DB operations Solve tricky problems around data integrity, queue handling, deployment reliability Contribute to automated testing and DevOps uplift (GitHub Actions, AWS CI/CD) Collaborate with senior engineers, product managers, and cloud specialists across multiple squads The stack Back End: PHP 8 (custom framework) Front End: Knockout.js, React (v19), JavaScript (ES6) Cloud & Infra: AWS (EC2, RDS, SQS, CodeDeploy), GitHub Actions Testing: PHPUnit, Karate, load testing (K6, JMeter) Security: Secure coding, OWASP10, CSRF protection, IAM best practices Monitoring: CloudWatch, DataTrace, and performance profiling tools Interested? Apply now or message Jon Holland or Indigo Munro on Linkedin if you’re keen to know more!

Applications close Sunday, 17 August 2025
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