Senior Software Developer (PropTech)

Location: Australia; onshore role with office-based work

Salary: AUD 130,000–140,000 per annum

Company

Privately owned online media business operating in the property sector across digital classifieds, technology, and content, with a focus on innovation and collaborative decision-making.

What you will do

• Modernise legacy code, tooling, development practices, dependencies, and frameworks.
• Write and review secure, high-quality code and optimise application performance, including queries, caching, and page load times.
• Build and maintain integrations with Salesforce, Mixpanel, and Snowflake.
• Work with the Product team to refine requirements and functionality.
• Develop unit tests for test automation and support user acceptance testing.
• Mentor developers, help run offshore-team standups, and support after-hours deployments during peak periods and product rollouts.

Requirements

• Strong PHP experience with Laravel, Yii2, or another framework.
• Strong JavaScript and React/Next.js experience.
• Strong MySQL skills, including schema design and query optimisation.
• RESTful API design and development experience.
• Strong AWS infrastructure experience with EC2, RDS, S3, and caching.
• Good understanding of Agile methodology and SCRUM practices.
• Understanding of CI/CD, test automation, and test-driven development.
• Secure coding skills, Git experience, and familiarity with code-review workflows.

Nice to have

• Experience with Node.js, React, and AWS.

Culture & Benefits

• Permanent position within a rapidly growing prop-tech company.
• Personal development training budget.
• Relaxed dress code, monthly staff awards, and competitions.
• Free lunch every Friday.
• Work from a new office building with modern technologies.