Develop and maintain high-performing web applications using PHP and Laravel, focusing on back-end solutions, API performance, and collaboration with team members.
The Company
Cover Genius is a Series E insurtech that protects the global customers of the world’s largest digital companies including Booking Holdings, owner of Priceline, Kayak and Booking.com, Intuit, Uber, Hopper, Ryanair, Turkish Airlines, Descartes ShipRush, Zip and SeatGeek. We’re also available at Amazon, Flipkart, eBay, Wayfair and SE Asia’s largest company, Shopee. Our partners integrate with XCover, our award-winning insurance distribution platform, to embed protection for millions of customers worldwide each year.
Our team and products have been recognized with dozens of awards including by the Financial Times which ranked Cover Genius as the #1 fastest-growing company in APAC in 2020. Our diverse team across 20+ countries and many language groups commit itself to diverse cultural programs, in particular “CG Gives” which makes social entrepreneurs out of us all and funds development initiatives in global communities.
Our People are
Bold, Authentic, Purposeful and Inspired
Our People are not
Perfect, Traditional, Complacent or Cautious
As a Software Engineer specialising in PHP (and preferably with experience in modern Javascript) on our Engineering Team, you will be responsible for developing and maintaining dynamic, high-performing web applications using Laravel, Vue.js and related technologies. This role involves building scalable back-end solutions, ensuring efficient API performance, and collaborating closely with designers, backend engineers, and product teams.
As the Software Engineer you will work on core feature development, performance optimisation - both from the API and database perspective, code reviews, automated testing and API integration as well as metrics and measurements of how well newly released features perform. Regular collaboration with your team and adjacent teams using the platform will be key in ensuring improvements in user-experience, performance and new feature development are achieved.
To drive success in this role, you will have 3+ years backend experience, ideally with recent versions of Laravel, ideally along with 1+ years frontend experience (ideally with Vue.js version 2 or 3). A good eye for detail and strong API design and performance focus, effective problem-solving and communication skills are crucial for success in this role.
This role will be based in our Sydney office and will be a hybrid working role. What does hybrid mean here at CG? Monday, Tuesday and Friday collaboration in office, while you can enjoy plenty of flexibility with the added benefit of one wellness day a month available.
Key Responsibilities:
- Develop high-quality, reusable, and well-tested Laravel components and features for our core platform, contributing to platform growth, having automated testing
- Own the full-stack implementation of key product features, translating high level requirements and design specifications into performant and scalable code, directly impacting the user productivity.
- Optimize existing Laravel applications for maximum speed and scalability, achieving a quicker response time
- Collaborate effectively with other engineers, designers, and product managers throughout the software development lifecycle, ensuring seamless integration and timely delivery of features
- Champion best practices in back-end development, including code reviews, testing, and documentation, and mentoring junior developers (where applicable)
- Maintain and improve current codebase, proactively identifying and addressing areas to improve through refactoring and/or optimisation. Improving code quality metrics.
Skills & Experience:
- To drive success in this role, you will have 3+ years of back-end experience, demonstrating strong PHP proficiency and a deep understanding of Laravel core principles (MVC, Eloquent, Routing, and other framework features) as well as OOP.
- Experience with API development is essential, and front-end experience (preferably VueJS) is a bonus. You should be comfortable with RESTful APIs, Git, Postman, and experience with AI tooling is a plus.
- Experience with unit and integration testing, and excellent problem-solving and communication skills are crucial for success in this role.
- Good eye for detail and strong API design and performance focus
- Bachelor's degree in a relevant field, A postgraduate degree and/or record of academic achievement is also desirable
Why Cover Genius?
Cover Genius not only cares about being the best in our industry, we care about our team. We’re a business that understands life can be fluid and so we flex to ensure we provide the environment to suit that. What does that mean?
• Flexible PTO. Taking time out is important for our teams to enjoy life and stay fresh.
• Employee Stock Options - we want our people to share in our success, we reward them with ownership for their contribution in creating a world-class company.
• Work with like-minded people who are passionate about both the work we're doing and giving back. Our CG Gives programs enables us to all become philanthropists through our peer recognition and rewards system.
• Social Initiatives - pictures speak a thousand words!
* Cover Genius promotes diversity and inclusivity. We don't tolerate discrimination, demeaning treatment of anyone, or harassment due to race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or any other legally protected status.
Top Skills
Git
JavaScript
Laravel
PHP
Postman
Restful Apis
Vue
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