Senior Full Stack Engineer – React/PHP

2 days ago

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Dipole Group Full time $80,000 - $120,000 per year

Senior Full Stack Engineer – React/PHP

Location:
Sydney, Australia

Overview

We are seeking a highly skilled
Senior Full Stack Engineer
with deep expertise across React, PHP, and modern web technologies. This role plays a key part in driving product and platform development through hands-on engineering, technical leadership, and architectural guidance.

As a senior individual contributor, you will collaborate closely with the Engineering Manager and Technical Lead, setting engineering standards, influencing architectural decisions, and delivering high-quality solutions. Your technical excellence, problem-solving ability, and collaborative approach will help elevate the performance of the entire engineering squad.

Key Responsibilities

  • Lead and deliver end-to-end technical solutions across the product and platform.
  • Plan, design, and execute high-quality development initiatives as a hands-on senior engineer.
  • Set engineering standards and provide leadership on architecture, development practices, documentation, scalability, and application performance.
  • Build modern, scalable, and secure web applications and reusable component libraries.
  • Develop and maintain REST or GraphQL APIs and standalone applications.
  • Drive performance optimisation through caching strategies, database query tuning, profiling, and identifying/solving bottlenecks.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure technical feasibility, quality, and performance outcomes.
  • Contribute to CI/CD, automation, DevOps best practices, and overall platform reliability.
  • Support and guide other engineers through code reviews, knowledge sharing, and technical mentorship.

Required Qualifications & Experience

  • Strong hands-on Full Stack development experience
    with
    PHP
    ,
    WordPress
    , and
    Laravel
    .
  • Proven experience building modern, scalable front-end applications using
    React
    and
    TypeScript
    .
  • Experience developing APIs (REST or GraphQL) and standalone applications using frameworks such as
    Laravel
    and
    Horizon
    .
  • Hands-on experience working with both
    SQL and NoSQL
    databases; proficient using ORMs such as
    Eloquent
    .
  • Exposure to front-end frameworks such as
    Gutenberg
    (advantageous).
  • Familiarity with performance profiling tools such as
    Blackfire
    (highly regarded).
  • Experience developing or maintaining applications with at least one cloud provider (e.g.,
    AWS
    or
    GCP
    ).
  • Practical understanding of
    cloud infrastructure, microservices, distributed systems, and ETL processes
    .
  • Strong grasp of DevOps principles including
    Automation, CI/CD, and Observability
    .
  • Experience building
    high-traffic, secure, scalable, and cost-efficient systems
    , ideally aligned with frameworks such as the
    AWS Well-Architected Framework
    .
  • Demonstrated ability to optimise systems for performance and scalability, including:
  • Implementing caching strategies
  • Optimising database queries
  • Analysing and resolving performance bottlenecks

No work visa sponsorship available- candidate must have full Australian work rights. Due to the volume of application, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted

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