Senior Full-Stack Engineer
Senior full-stack engineer joining Sodali & Co's Global Debt Services technology team in Manila (hybrid, 3 days/week on-site), building and maintaining Laravel platforms — bondholder identification tools, tender-offer sites, and deal operations systems — for debt and liability management transactions. Core stack: PHP/Laravel, MySQL/PostgreSQL, React, Vue.js, plus AI-assisted coding tools like Code
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Manila
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Senior
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- 10+ years
- Category
- Fullstack
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- 10+ years of professional software development experience
- Deep experience with PHP and Laravel across multiple major framework versions
- Strong knowledge of modern Laravel architecture (services, actions, jobs, queues, events, listeners, policies, form requests, API resources, notifications, caching, Eloquent)
- Strong experience with MySQL and/or PostgreSQL, including schema design, indexing and query optimization
- Experience building REST APIs, authentication and permission systems
- Strong experience with both React and Vue.js
- Working familiarity with Inertia.js and Livewire
- Experience with Blade components and modern Laravel frontend development
- Good judgement on when to use Blade, Livewire, Inertia or API-driven frontend architectures
- Strong testing experience using Pest and/or PHPUnit
- Experience deploying and supporting Laravel applications in production
- Sound understanding of secure coding practices (e.g. OWASP Top 10) and handling sensitive financial and client data
- Strong written and spoken English
- Experience working effectively within a geographically distributed engineering team
- Ability to understand and improve existing systems without assuming every problem requires a rewrite
- Active interest in modern development practices, including AI-assisted and agentic software development
- Ability to work standard APAC business hours, with flexibility to collaborate with colleagues in other time zones
- Able to attend the office 3 days a week (hybrid)
Nice to have
- Experience with TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, responsive design, Vite and modern JavaScript tooling
- Experience with Linux, Nginx, Redis, queues, schedulers, logging, monitoring and CI/CD pipelines
- Familiarity with Laravel tooling such as Horizon, Telescope, Pulse, Reverb, Forge, Envoyer or Vapor
- Experience with Filament, Backpack or similar admin frameworks
- Experience in financial services or capital markets
Full description
Sodali & Co is a recognized global capital markets stakeholder advisory firm, serving over 2,000 clients in more than 65 countries. The Firm advises a diverse and global client base including many of the world’s largest companies. Formed by the mergers of several market-leading capital markets stakeholder engagement consultancies, Sodali is the largest global shareholder services firm in the world. The Firm operates out of three global headquarters in New York, London, and Sydney and is supported by 12 regional offices in major financial capitals around the world.
Sodali provides a full suite of shareholder, sustainability, and strategic communications advisory services that, together, enable the Firm to deliver clients differentiated insights, integrated expertise, and bespoke advice to address complex interconnected issues, identify and capitalize on strategic opportunities, and drive successful business outcomes.
Sodali’s services include:
- Shareholder Advisory services include M&A Advisory, Activism Preparation and Defense, Board Governance Services, Corporate Governance Advisory, Proxy Solicitation, Capital Markets Intelligence, Global Debt and Bondholder Services, and Stakeholder Research.
- Sustainability services include ESG Assessment, Strategy & Implementation, and Communications Advisory.
- Strategic Communications services include Corporate Communications, Financial and Transaction Communications, Investor Relations, Public Affairs and Campaigns, Crisis and Special Situations, and Research.
**The Opportunity
The candidate will join the Global Debt Services technology team and contribute to the development and ongoing evolution of the software platforms supporting the GDS business globally.
The GDS technology estate includes established production applications, internal operational systems, client-facing platforms and new applications under active development, including bondholder identification tools, transaction and tender-offer websites and internal deal operations systems. These systems support teams operating across EMEA, APAC and the Americas and form an important part of the infrastructure used to deliver complex debt and liability management transactions.
We are looking for a highly experienced Senior Full-Stack Engineer with at least 10 years of professional software development experience and strong hands-on expertise in PHP, Laravel and modern web application development.
This is a senior engineering role rather than a narrowly defined backend or frontend position. The successful candidate will be expected to work comfortably across the application stack, understand existing systems, contribute to architectural decisions, deliver new functionality, improve mature applications and take engineering tasks through their complete lifecycle.