Full Stack Developer (Laravel & React)

A South African property development, investment, and strategic facilities management firm that focuses on creating and managing commercial, industrial, residential, and student accommodation properties, as well as inner-city housing, is seeking a Full Stack Developer to join their dynamic team. This role focuses on developing and maintaining high-quality features for the FG Nexus platform, with a strong emphasis on Laravel and React.Minimum Requirements:

• Engineering: Design, develop, and maintain robust web applications using PHP and the Laravel framework.

• Architecture: Build and optimize RESTful APIs; review system flows to validate delivery approaches and mitigate execution risks.

• Code Quality: Write clean, efficient code; conduct unit testing and debugging to ensure high performance and durable fixes.

• Diagnostics: Interpret logs, error traces, and API responses to diagnose and direct fixes across the frontend, backend, and infrastructure.

• Project Ownership: Own the end-to-end delivery cadence, including standups, sprint execution, and release readiness.

• Quality Assurance: Manage the full bug triage and defect lifecycle, ensuring backlogs remain intentional and under control.

• Coordination: Direct developers and QA teams to resolve issues; coordinate testing cycles to minimize regressions.

• Strategic Alignment: Translate market and commercial requirements into actionable delivery plans that align with operational outcomes.

• Collaboration: Work with product, operations, and external stakeholders to meet acceptance criteria and contractual commitments.

• Reporting: Provide high-signal reporting to leadership on delivery health, stability trends, and execution risks.

• Scalability: Ensure all technical execution supports future market expansion and partner integrations without introducing operational debt.

Responsibilities:

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.

• Experience: 5+ years of PHP development experience, specifically focused on Laravel.

• Technical Stack:

  • Proficiency in PHP, MySQL, and Laravel.

  • Strong frontend skills in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and React.

  • Experience with RESTful APIs and Git version control.

  • Familiarity with cloud platforms (Forge, Runcloud) and deployment processes.

• Desired Skills

  • Advanced SQL.

  • Linux-based web server navigation and management.

Benefits:

• Competitive salary based on experience (salary can potentially be more based on experience/skills)