Senior Full-Stack Engineer

Sodali & Co is a recognized global capital markets stakeholder advisory firm, serving over 2,000 clients in more than 65 countries. The Firm advises a diverse and global client base including many of the world’s largest companies. Formed by the mergers of several market-leading capital markets stakeholder engagement consultancies, Sodali is the largest global shareholder services firm in the world. The Firm operates out of three global headquarters in New York, London, and Sydney and is supported by 12 regional offices in major financial capitals around the world.

Sodali provides a full suite of shareholder, sustainability, and strategic communications advisory services that, together, enable the Firm to deliver clients differentiated insights, integrated expertise, and bespoke advice to address complex interconnected issues, identify and capitalize on strategic opportunities, and drive successful business outcomes.

Sodali’s services include:

• Shareholder Advisory services include M&A Advisory, Activism Preparation and Defense, Board Governance Services, Corporate Governance Advisory, Proxy Solicitation, Capital Markets Intelligence, Global Debt and Bondholder Services, and Stakeholder Research.
• Sustainability services include ESG Assessment, Strategy & Implementation, and Communications Advisory.
• Strategic Communications services include Corporate Communications, Financial and Transaction Communications, Investor Relations, Public Affairs and Campaigns, Crisis and Special Situations, and Research.

The Opportunity 

The candidate will join the Global Debt Services technology team and contribute to the development and ongoing evolution of the software platforms supporting the GDS business globally.

The GDS technology estate includes established production applications, internal operational systems, client-facing platforms and new applications under active development, including bondholder identification tools, transaction and tender-offer websites and internal deal operations systems. These systems support teams operating across EMEA, APAC and the Americas and form an important part of the infrastructure used to deliver complex debt and liability management transactions.

We are looking for a highly experienced Senior Full-Stack Engineer with at least 10 years of professional software development experience and strong hands-on expertise in PHP, Laravel and modern web application development.

This is a senior engineering role rather than a narrowly defined backend or frontend position. The successful candidate will be expected to work comfortably across the application stack, understand existing systems, contribute to architectural decisions, deliver new functionality, improve mature applications and take engineering tasks through their complete lifecycle.

The candidate will work as part of a distributed engineering team and will collaborate closely with other developers, technology leadership and members of the wider Global Debt Services business.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain Laravel applications used across the Global Debt Services business.
• Take engineering tasks from requirements through implementation, testing, pull request, review and deployment.
• Work effectively with developers and GDS colleagues across different regions and time zones.
• Clarify requirements, identify edge cases and raise technical or business concerns where necessary.
• Build new functionality across backend and frontend systems using the most appropriate technologies for the problem.
• Maintain and improve mature production applications, including refactoring legacy code where appropriate.
• Produce clean, maintainable and appropriately tested code.
• Submit clear, reviewable pull requests and participate actively in code review.
• Investigate and resolve production issues, considering root cause, performance, security and data integrity.
• Contribute to architectural decisions, technical standards and engineering practices across the team.
• Mentor less experienced engineers and share technical knowledge.
• Use AI-assisted development tools such as OpenAI Codex and Claude Code for codebase exploration, implementation, testing, debugging and refactoring.
• Work comfortably with agentic coding workflows while retaining responsibility for validating generated code, architecture and behaviour.
• Communicate progress, risks and blockers clearly and take ownership of work through to completion.

Required Qualifications:

• 10+ years of professional software development experience.
• Deep experience with PHP and Laravel across multiple major framework versions.
• Strong knowledge of modern Laravel architecture, including services, actions, jobs, queues, events, listeners, policies, form requests, API resources, notifications, caching and Eloquent.
• Strong experience with MySQL and/or PostgreSQL, including schema design, indexing and query optimization.
• Experience building REST APIs, authentication and permission systems.
• Strong experience with both React and Vue.js.
• Working familiarity with Inertia.js and Livewire.
• Experience with Blade components and modern Laravel frontend development.
• Good judgement on when to use Blade, Livewire, Inertia or API-driven frontend architectures.
• Strong testing experience using Pest and/or PHPUnit.
• Experience deploying and supporting Laravel applications in production.
• Sound understanding of secure coding practices (e.g. OWASP Top 10) and of handling sensitive financial and client data.
• Strong written and spoken English.
• Experience working effectively within a geographically distributed engineering team.
• Ability to understand and improve existing systems without assuming that every problem requires a rewrite.
• An active interest in modern development practices, including AI-assisted and agentic software development.
• Ability to work standard APAC business hours, with flexibility to collaborate with colleagues in other time zones when required.

Advantageous:

• Experience with TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, responsive design, Vite and modern JavaScript tooling.
• Experience with Linux, Nginx, Redis, queues, schedulers, logging, monitoring and CI/CD pipelines.
• Familiarity with Laravel tooling such as Horizon, Telescope, Pulse, Reverb, Forge, Envoyer or Vapor.
• Experience with Filament, Backpack or similar admin frameworks.
• Experience in financial services or capital markets.

The ideal candidate is a senior engineer who understands the Laravel way of building applications: productive, practical, maintainable and appropriately simple.

They should be highly competent in Laravel, React and Vue.js, familiar with Inertia.js and Livewire, and have the experience to choose the right tool for the job rather than overcomplicating the stack.

Hybrid office attendance - applicants must be able to come into the office 3 days a week.

Sodali & Co is proud to be an Equal Opportunities Employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone feels valued and respected. We welcome applications from all qualified individuals regardless of race, color, religion, sex (including sexual orientation, gender identity, and pregnancy), national origin, age, disability, or veteran status. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to support candidates with disabilities or access needs throughout the recruitment process.