Senior PHP Developer (Laravel)

About the role

Merlion Hospitality Tech is the digital arm of a fast-growing F&B and hospitality group in Singapore. We build and operate POS, online ordering, reservation and loyalty platforms used across our restaurants, cafes and central kitchen operations. Our stack centres on Laravel for backend services, Vue/React for admin interfaces, MySQL and hosted infrastructure on AWS.

This Senior PHP Developer will take ownership of core APIs, lead backend architecture improvements, and work closely with product managers, operations teams and in-house outlets to deliver reliable features that address real hospitality workflows — from cashier flows and kitchen display integrations to promotions and cross-outlet reporting. You'll be expected to maintain high code quality, mentor junior developers, and be part of an on-call rotation for production incidents.

The role is hybrid (office in the CBD) with regular collaboration sessions and occasional site visits to our restaurants and central kitchen. It's an attractive opportunity for someone who wants to shape products used daily by FOH and BOH teams and grow into a technical lead within a hospitality-focused tech team.

About Merlion Hospitality Tech

Merlion Hospitality Tech is the technology division of Merlion Hospitality Group, building digital products for restaurants, cafes and cloud kitchens. We combine hospitality domain expertise with modern software practices to improve service speed, inventory accuracy and guest experience across multiple brands.

What you can expect

• Work directly with live restaurant operations (site visits included)
• Hybrid work with a modern office in the CBD
• Opportunity to design systems used across multiple F&B brands
• Training budget and clear technical progression to Tech Lead
• Employee discounts across group restaurants

Key responsibilities

• Design, develop and maintain backend services and RESTful APIs using Laravel.
• Own features end-to-end: requirements, design, implementation, testing and deployment.
• Integrate with payment gateways (e.g. PayNow, Stripe), POS hardware and third-party services.
• Write and maintain database schemas, migrations and optimized queries for MySQL.
• Implement automated tests, CI/CD pipelines and participate in release processes.
• Perform code reviews, mentor junior developers and improve engineering standards.
• Investigate and resolve production incidents; participate in on-call rotation.
• Collaborate with product, operations and FOH/BOH teams to translate hospitality needs into robust solutions.

Requirements

• 5+ years professional PHP development experience with 3+ years using Laravel in production.
• Strong experience building and consuming REST APIs and service integrations.
• Solid skills with relational databases (MySQL), query optimization and schema design.
• Familiarity with version control (Git), automated testing (PHPUnit) and CI/CD tools.
• Experience deploying and operating applications on AWS (EC2, RDS, S3) or similar cloud hosts.
• Good understanding of authentication/authorization, web security best practices and PCI considerations.
• Able to communicate clearly with non-technical stakeholders and participate in cross-functional teams.
• Flexible to support occasional on-site work, restaurant visits and out-of-hours deployments/incidents.

How to apply

Please send your CV, a short note about your Laravel experience and a link to your GitHub or portfolio to [email protected]. Include 'Senior PHP Developer (Laravel)' in the subject line.