Senior Laravel Engineer

We are looking for a rockstar Senior Laravel Engineer with at least 6+ years of solid experience in a web application based environment to join our client-dedicated Team in one of the biggest operators in South Africa.

1. The Role

• Opportunity to work in a high transactional environment with extremely high availability and low tolerance for down-time.
• Opportunity to work with REST APIs and protocols (HTTP/S, SMPP).
• Opportunity to work with and improve CI/CD pipelines for applications.
• Implementing API integrations with mobile networks, partners or 3rd party stakeholders.
• Exposure to highly skilled team members for upskilling in various areas.
• Designing, documenting and building new features in existing applications or new services.
• Conduct maintenance, refactoring and bug fixes.
• Respond to firing alerts and investigate issues in existing applications.
• Opportunity to work with AWS services such as ECS, Redshift, S3, RDS, Athena.
• Provide estimates and manage stakeholder expectations.
• Write ad-hoc SQL reports to assist stakeholders with data-based decision-making.

2. Desired Experience

• Expert knowledge of PHP and Laravel (artisan, RBAC, caching).
• Be familiar with Docker, MySQL, Microservice Environments.
• Advantageous, but not required: Kubernetes, Node.JS, React, GoLang, Java or another strongly typed language.

3. The Ideal Candidate

We are looking for engineers who are passionate about their work and growing their skills.

Some key attributes that we look for:

• Good communication.
• Able to translate business requirements into technical requirements.
• Passionate about best practices.
• Autodidact.
• Time management.
• Intellectual curiosity.
• Attention to detail.
• Self-starter.

4. About Us

Hyve Mobile is a software company based in Cape Town, South Africa. Our world-class Service Delivery Platform (SDP) has been deployed by many of the world’s leading network operators, allowing them to develop, manage, and grow digital service offerings on their networks.

Hyve SDP integrates with core network systems and provides a single platform for digital service providers to accept direct carrier payments for their products, communicate over network channels, and gain insight into service performance with our advanced reporting framework.

Network operators are able to configure and launch new digital services in record time through the SDP’s integrated management dashboard. Customer support is also greatly streamlined through integrated tools and reports.

Our SDP has been built from the ground up to track and analyse billions of transactions to deliver greater insight into customer behaviour and optimise service flows for maximum uptake.

Our digital experts also source and manage a variety of premium digital services, backed by a team of digital marketing experts that manage multi-channel marketing campaigns at scale, delivering unparalleled returns on digital ad spend.

5. Our Culture

Hyve has a dynamic, fun, tech-startup culture. We care deeply about our culture and everyone in the team plays their own unique role towards contributing to it and shaping it. All Hyve team members are given the support and leadership they need to grow and thrive.

In life, people spend a lot of time working. The work environment becomes a second home and the team you work with becomes a second family. We care for and support each other no matter what. We work hard and we play hard, together.

6. Our Year-round Perks

• Flexible Hours: Not an early riser? Adjust the hours that work for you.
• Quarterly Company Events & Socials: Good food, drink and conversation.
• No Dress Code: We are very casual. Work in your pajamas if you like!
• Take a Break: 20 days Annual Leave, PLUS a day of Birthday Leave!
• Reward Loyalty: Each year you will receive a gift on your birthday.
• As your length of service increases, so do the benefits!

Our Hiring Process

It’s quite casual. Once we’ve received your CV, we’ll see if we want you to interview, where we’ll have a grown-up conversation about who we are, who you are, and whether or not we can do some amazing work together. Considering the times we are now living in, some of these interviews will most likely be online, and we may ask you to record some responses to some interview questions. If we both feel that we are a match then we will make an offer and you’re in.

How to Apply

📧 Please email Apply Now to apply.