Sandton: full stack software developer posted by raizcorp
Mid-to-senior full stack developer at Raizcorp building and maintaining production features on an established SaaS platform and newer apps, largely remote within South Africa with occasional visits to the Sandton head office. Core stack: PHP 8.3+/Laravel, Vue 3 + TypeScript (Inertia), PostgreSQL, Redis, with PR-based workflow and automated testing.
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Sandton, South Africa
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Not specified
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- Not specified
- Category
- Fullstack
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Solid commercial experience developing applications with PHP and Laravel (Eloquent, queues, authorisation, migrations, automated testing)
- Production experience with Vue 3 and TypeScript, ideally with Inertia.js or similar server-driven architecture
- Good relational database skills, preferably PostgreSQL: schema design, query optimisation, safe production data changes
- Experience writing automated tests with Pest or PHPUnit as part of normal development
- Comfort working in a large existing codebase, following established patterns before making changes
- Experience with Git and pull-request-based development, including reviewing others' work and responding to feedback
- Strong written communication; able to discuss requirements and technical issues with non-technical stakeholders
- Practical approach to development: knowing when to investigate, ask questions, or make a smaller safer change
Nice to have
- Filament v3/v4 and Livewire
- Multi-tenant SaaS architecture and tenant-aware queues/caching
- Tailwind CSS v4, PrimeVue, SurveyJS, CKEditor, AG Grid or similar rich frontend components
- Domain-Driven Design and state-machine based domain models; ability to read F# useful
- Legacy data migration, particularly SQL Server / Microsoft Access to PostgreSQL
- LLM/AI feature integration, including tool-calling agents and prompt design
- Laravel Herd, Laravel Cloud, Laravel Forge and GitHub Actions
- Firebase Authentication, AWS S3, Redis and Laravel Horizon
- Experience in business-development, entrepreneurship or ed-tech software
Full description
Raizcorp is looking for a mid-to-senior full stack software developer to join its growing development team. The role may be remote (within South Africa), although you must be willing to visit Raizcorp’s head office from time to time.
What you’ll do Build and maintain production features across Laravel, Vue 3 and Type Script applications, working across both backend and frontend code where required. Work with Eloquent models, complex relationships, policies, queues, background jobs and database queries, with attention to performance and tenant data isolation. Develop new functionality in both an established Saa S platform and newer applications, following existing architectural patterns rather than introducing unnecessary complexity. Design and implement database changes, including safe migrations and data operations in Postgre SQL, with occasional work involving legacy SQL Server and Microsoft Access data. Write and maintain automated unit, feature and browser tests, and investigate failures as part of normal development rather than treating testing as a separate phase. Work through a PR-based development process: clarify requirements from briefs and PRDs, create focused changes, participate in code review and provide appropriate changelog entries. Produce practical technical documentation, including build notes, architecture decisions and documentation of non-obvious behaviour, so that important system knowledge does not remain only in code. Support client-facing UAT by preparing test scenarios and seeded data, helping explain changes and resolving issues identified during acceptance testing. What you’ll need Solid commercial experience developing applications with PHP and Laravel, including Eloquent, queues, authorisation, migrations and automated testing. Production experience with Vue 3 and Type Script, ideally using Inertia.js or a similar server-driven application architecture. Good relational database skills, preferably Postgre SQL, including schema design, query optimisation and safe production data changes. Experience writing automated tests with Pest or PHPUnit as a normal part of development. Comfort working in a large existing codebase: reading and understanding existing behaviour before making changes, and following established patterns. Experience with Git and pull-request-based development, including reviewing other developers work and responding constructively to review feedback. Strong written communication and the ability to discuss requirements and technical issues clearly with non-technical stakeholders. A practical approach to development: knowing when to investigate further, when to ask questions and when a smaller change is safer than a large refactor. Nice to have Filament v3/v4 and Livewire. Multi-tenant Saa S architecture and tenant-aware queues/caching. Tailwind CSS v4, Prime Vue, Survey JS, CKEditor, AG Grid or similar rich frontend components. Domain-Driven Design and state-machine based domain models; ability to read F# is useful but not required. Legacy data migration, particularly SQL Server / Microsoft Access to Postgre SQL. LLM/AI feature integration, including tool-calling agents and prompt design. Laravel Herd, Laravel Cloud, Laravel Forge and Git Hub Actions. Firebase Authentication, AWS S3, Redis and Laravel Horizon. Experience in business-development, entrepreneurship or ed-tech software. Our stack Backend PHP 8.3+ Laravel 12 / Laravel 13 Eloquent, Policies & Gates Filament v3/v4, Livewire Redis, Horizon, queues Spatie Laravel packages Laravel AI SDK / Open AI PHP client Frontend Vue 3, Composition API,