Staff PHP Engineer

- Who we’re looking for: We’re looking for a Staff PHP Engineer to provide technical leadership across Tillo’s platform, reliability, scalability, and engineering enablement capabilities. This role suits someone who combines deep hands-on engineering expertise with strong architectural judgement, practical SRE experience, and real-world experience using AI to improve engineering delivery, operational efficiency, and platform leverage.

You’ll work closely with Engineering Managers, Product, Security, Platform, QA, Data, and engineers across teams to help Tillo scale its systems, engineering practices, and operational maturity as we continue to grow globally. You’ll play a key role in evolving our platform so it can support increasing transaction volumes, more integrations, more markets, and higher customer expectations without operational complexity increasing at the same rate 🌟

- The challenge: Help Tillo scale its platform reliability, engineering effectiveness, and AI-enabled development practices across a growing global engineering organisation. You’ll identify scalability bottlenecks, improve operational resilience, strengthen engineering standards, and create leverage across teams through automation, architectural guidance, mentoring, and practical AI adoption 🚀

- Where you’ll work: This role can be based in either Cape Town or Hove. You’ll work as part of our global engineering organisation, collaborating with teams across the UK, USA, Australia, South Africa, and beyond. Our hybrid approach offers flexibility alongside regular in-person collaboration within our offices 🏢

The Tillo Difference

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