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PHP Developer

Syntell|Posted 1 month ago

Skills and experience

Role:Backend engineer
Other roles:Full stack engineer
Experience in role:2+ years
Language proficiency:English
Must-have skills:
    PHP
    Laravel
    MySQL
Nice-to-have skills:
    PostgreSQL
    Git
    Symfony
    RESTful API Design
    CI/CD

Location and salary

Remote policy:Hybrid
Location of job:Claremont, Cape Town, South Africa
Visa requirements:Authorised to work in South Africa With status of citizen/passport holder
Visa sponsorship:Unable to sponsor visa
Employment type:Permanent

Role description

We're offering you the opportunity to become the internal technical authority on a mature PHP platform that powers our Revenue Systems division's consumer-facing and operational products. You'll take ownership of a system currently managed by an external partner, bringing this critical knowledge in-house. This is a significant role where you'll have direct influence over the architecture, reliability, and evolution of a platform deployed across our substantial and growing customer base. You'll lead a structured knowledge transfer, becoming our go-to expert on the entire system. Your day-to-day will involve maintaining platform stability, triaging production incidents, managing updates and security patches, and establishing robust monitoring. As you settle in, you'll move beyond maintenance to actively build new features, working closely with our Product, Project Delivery, and Client Liaison teams to translate business requirements into well-crafted technical solutions. You'll be writing clean, testable PHP code, designing database schemas, and building RESTful API integrations—all while establishing engineering best practices across the codebase. This role offers a clear growth path into technical leadership. As our internal engineering capability expands, you'll contribute to hiring decisions, mentor new team members, and champion engineering excellence across the organisation. You'll play a key part in our strategic objective of owning our core technology platforms and reducing reliance on external partners. We're looking for someone with 5+ years of commercial PHP experience, strong framework knowledge (Laravel or Symfony preferred), and a track record of delivering production systems at scale.

About Syntell

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What we do

Syntell a leading blue chip company provides cutting edge technology based services for Road Safety, Traffic Management and Revenue Collection.

With its pedigree in technology and innovation, Syntell’s roots go back to 1963 with the establishment of Plessey South Africa. Founded in 2003, through a management buy-out, Syntell continues to maintain their industry leading position through provision of practical solutions, balanced with an innovative edge.

As a trusted partner to government, Syntell has maintained effective public-private partnerships with the majority of Metros in South Africa.

As part of the HCI subsidiary, Syntell is a certified level 1 BBBEE contributor and is dedicated to continually improving its scorecard in all respects.

Social Responsibility is a cornerstone value of Syntell. Our aim is to facilitate sustainable community development, aligned to our 4 strategic pillars; Road Safety/ Entrepreneurship, Education, Disaster Relief.

Why Work For Us

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Tech Stack

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