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Connecting food lovers to restaurants for their first table of the night.
Senior Backend Developer
Location
New Zealand
Posted
94 days ago
Salary
0
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Senior Backend Developer
First Table
• Design, develop, and evolve scalable backend services and APIs (PHP-first) • Build and maintain integrations with restaurant reservation systems and third-party partners • Move workflows toward event-driven architecture, improving reliability and performance • Strengthen our AWS platform with infrastructure improvements, automation, and operational excellence (think CI/CD, IaC, containerised workloads) • Improve observability and resilience (queueing, throttling, retries, debouncing, and production support) when it counts • Mentor and uplift the team, contributing to engineering standards and sound technical decisions.
Job Requirements
- 5+ years building backend systems for production web applications
- Strong PHP experience (framework experience helpful, not essential)
- Solid API design + integrations experience
- Strong SQL + database design (MySQL or equivalent)
- Production experience with AWS, and ideally asynchronous/event-driven systems (SQS/SNS, Kafka, etc.)
- An ownership mindset: you care about quality, reliability, and making things better.
Benefits
- Enjoy perks like free First Table bookings
- Referral incentives
- Team recognition
- Regular opportunities to celebrate wins
- Work from one of our hubs, Queenstown HQ (fun office culture, regular social events, 1 WFH day per week)
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