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Software Developer

The simPRO Group

The simPRO Group

Software Engineering
Auckland, New Zealand
Posted on Jul 9, 2025

First Things First - What We Can Offer You

  • Leave to foster personal connections, health & overall well-being
  • Fantastic Employee Assistance Program
  • Generous Parental Leave Program
  • Home Office Allowance
  • Paid Volunteer Leave Days
  • Public Holiday Exchange Scheme
  • Enjoy up to 4 weeks a year of flexible 'Work from Anywhere' time!
  • Talent Referral Program – get rewarded for referring a friend to join our team!
  • Flexible working environment
  • Casual dress and relaxed office environment
  • Fun team camaraderie and events
  • Opportunities for career progression and development
  • Diverse training & internal networking opportunities across all of our product lines
  • A range of other fantastic benefits!
  • Check out our website for more about working at Simpro Group https://www.simprogroup.com/uk/company/careers#positions

The Job

The Software Developer is a technical hands-on role with an emphasis on delivering quality code as an individual contributor.

What You’ll Do

We're looking for an Intermediate PHP Developer to join one of our feature development teams. This is a web development role focused on building and maintaining features in a large-scale PHP application. You'll be working alongside senior and junior engineers in a collaborative team environment.

You’ll contribute across the full development lifecycle, participate in Scrum ceremonies, and collaborate closely with product and engineering team members to deliver high-quality, well-tested features.

What You’ll Be Doing

Build and enhance product features across a mixed legacy PHP and Symfony codebase, so should be able to comfortably navigate both

Contribute to unit-tested, maintainable, and scalable code

Participate in code reviews, stand-ups, sprint planning, and retrospectives

Help guide junior developers through pair programming, code reviews, and knowledge sharing

Collaborate with product owners, designers, and QA to understand and deliver requirements

Assist in modernizing legacy code and improving system architecture over time

What We’re Looking For

  • Solid experience with PHP and object-oriented programming

  • Strong knowledge of the Symfony framework

  • Proficient with frontend technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript)

  • Good knowledge of PostgreSQL — able to write efficient, performant queries

  • Comfortable working with and refactoring legacy PHP code

  • Good understanding of unit testing and writing testable code

  • Ability to produce high-quality code with minimal guidance

  • Able to participate in technical solution discussions and occasionally own the solution design

  • Regularly contribute to code reviews with a mindset of continuous improvement

  • Experience working in Scrum or Agile development teams

  • Strong communication and collaboration skills — you’ll work closely within a cross-functional team

  • Willingness and ability to mentor junior developers

What You’ll Bring

Experience with Angular or other frontend frameworks

Familiarity with AWS serverless services (e.g., Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, S3)

Familiarity with REST APIs and modern API integration patterns

Knowledge of CI/CD, Docker, or related tooling

Core values required of all Simpro, AroFlo, BigChange & ClockShark employees:

While experience in the above areas will be highly considered, it’s important to note they will be secondary to the person with the right determination, attitude and compatibility. Our culture and core values are very important to us:


We Are One Team

We Are Customer Centric
We Are Growth Minded
We Are Accountable
We Celebrate Success


Simpro, AroFlo, BigChange & ClockShark are equal opportunity employers with a best-of-class onboarding program and supportive team environments. We embrace and support culture diversity and Equal Employment Opportunity. Minority groups are encouraged to apply.

Visit simprogroup.com/au/company/careers to learn more about us and our values.

We would like to take this opportunity to thank all candidates for their application.

*Please note, no agencies will be accepted in the recruitment of this role.