Senior Backend PHP Developer

LexisNexis South Africa|Posted 9 days ago

Skills and experience

Role:Full stack engineer

Other roles:Backend engineer

Experience in role:7+ years

Language proficiency:English

Must-have skills:

PHP

API Design

Laravel

Nice-to-have skills:

Symfony

Location and salary

Remote policy:Hybrid

Location of job:Cape Town, South Africa

Visa requirements:No specific requirements

Visa sponsorship:Unable to sponsor visa

Employment type:Permanent

Role description

Join LexisNexis Legal & Professional as a Senior Backend PHP Developer and shape digital innovation in the legal tech industry. You'll be part of a global team, designing and developing complex software solutions that transform the practice of law. Our company is at the forefront of deploying ethical AI and advanced technologies in the legal market.

In this role, you'll collaborate with international teams, provide expertise on architectural choices, and actively participate in Agile processes. You'll implement new features, maintain existing applications, and ensure our backend code is resilient and performant. We're looking for someone with solid experience in PHP Symfony or Laravel, a passion for clean code, and a pragmatic, rigorous approach.

We offer a flexible work environment that promotes work-life balance, including flexible hours and numerous wellbeing initiatives. You'll benefit from medical aid, a retirement plan with risk benefits, modern family benefits, and study leave. Join us and be part of a company that's driving innovation and advancing the rule of law around the world.

About LexisNexis South Africa

1000+ employees

LexisNexis South Africa is a leading provider of content and technology solutions, and part of RELX, a major publisher and information provider that serves customers in more than 175 countries with more than 30,000 employees worldwide. Our purpose is to advance the rule of law around the world. Publishing laws and enabling access to justice is at our core.

In November 2015 LexisNexis® South Africa established itself as a leader in conveyancing solutions in the South African legal market with its acquisition of a 100% stake in Korbitec (Pty) Ltd, a provider of content-enabled workflow solutions for South African property professionals. Korbitec’s offering includes two industry leaders, GhostConvey and Windeed.

The most important part of our business is its people, who are diverse in culture and possess unique skills that help drive our projects from one success to another.

At the core of our information technology operation is a team of software engineers, who constitute a third of our total staff complement. They carry out software research and development that keeps LexisNexis at the cutting edge of IT innovation, building the products that support our operations in South Africa as well as internationally.