Design, develop, and evolve scalable backend services and APIs (PHP-first)
Build and maintain integrations with restaurant reservation systems and third-party partners
Move workflows toward event-driven architecture, improving reliability and performance
Strengthen our AWS platform with infrastructure improvements, automation, and operational excellence (think CI/CD, IaC, containerised workloads)
Improve observability and resilience (queueing, throttling, retries, debouncing, and production support) when it counts
Mentor and uplift the team, contributing to engineering standards and sound technical decisions.

5+ years building backend systems for production web applications
Strong PHP experience (framework experience helpful, not essential)
Solid API design + integrations experience
Strong SQL + database design (MySQL or equivalent)
Production experience with AWS, and ideally asynchronous/event-driven systems (SQS/SNS, Kafka, etc.)
An ownership mindset: you care about quality, reliability, and making things better.

Enjoy perks like free First Table bookings
Referral incentives
Team recognition
Regular opportunities to celebrate wins
Work from one of our hubs, Queenstown HQ (fun office culture, regular social events, 1 WFH day per week)

Senior Backend Developer

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